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sky100 Hong Kong Visibility Today: Is It Worth Going Up?
Hong Kong's highest indoor deck — across the harbour from the Peak, and rarely in the same weather.
For today · 2026-09-27
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Closed for a major renovation; the operator has not announced a reopening date.
Tickets are not recommended while sky100 Hong Kong is closed. Closed for a major renovation; the operator has not announced a reopening date.
Conditions at the deck · 27 Sept 2026, 22:00
- Temperature
- 25°C
- Cloud
- 6% · low 6%
- Wind
- 12 km/h · gusts 27
- Visibility
- 13 km
- Air quality
- AQI 71
Open-Meteo (forecast + air quality)
Altitude & cloud
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Why
- Closed for a major renovation; the operator has not announced a reopening date.
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Deck facts
- 100/F Observation Deck
- 388 m above ground · 393 m ASL · Indoor
- Local timezone
- Asia/Hong_Kong
Is it worth visiting on a cloudy day?
sky100 sits at 393 m above sea level on the Kowloon side of the harbour, and its whole case rests on a comparison: Victoria Peak's terrace is 428 m, but 396 m of that is mountain. Hong Kong's cloud base regularly settles below 400 m, and when it does the Peak is inside the layer while sky100, thirty-five metres lower on flat reclaimed land, can be looking out under it in clear air. It is also enclosed throughout, so rain and the wind that funnels through the harbour stay outside the glass — the opposite of the open terrace across the water.
When is the best time to go up?
Autumn and early winter bring Hong Kong's driest, cleanest air and the longest views over to the Island; spring is the season most prone to sea fog, and summer combines humidity haze with the typhoon season. Because the deck is indoor throughout, the hour is about the sky rather than comfort: the harbour after dark is what most people come for, and the nightly light show is visible from here in a way it never is from inside it.
Common questions about sky100 Hong Kong
- sky100 or Victoria Peak?
- They fail in different weather, which is the whole reason to check before choosing. Victoria Peak's Sky Terrace is 428 m above sea level but only 32 m of that is building — the rest is the mountain, so when Hong Kong's cloud base drops below about 400 m the summit is in fog while the streets below are clear. sky100 is 393 m up a tower on flat harbourfront land, and enclosed, so it holds up on days the Peak does not. The Peak looks down at the harbour from the south; sky100 looks across it from the north. On a clear day that is a taste question, and on a doubtful one it is not.
- How high is sky100?
- The observation deck is on the 100th floor of the International Commerce Centre, 387.8 m above the building’s own ground and about 393 m above sea level. The tower continues to 484 m, but no ticket goes higher than floor 100 — Sky Dining 101 above it is a restaurant floor, not a viewing level.
- Is sky100 worth it on a cloudy day?
- It depends on where the cloud sits, and Hong Kong makes that question unusually live. A layer whose top is below 393 m leaves the deck looking out over it; a deep overcast reaching well above puts the windows in grey. What tilts things in sky100’s favour is that it is fully enclosed and on flat ground, so it is unaffected by the rain and wind that reach an open terrace, and it is not subject to the hill fog that forms on the Peak on days the harbour itself is clear.
- Is sky100 indoors?
- Entirely. It is a glazed 360-degree floor with no open-air section, which is why weather at street level barely reaches the visit — comfort is weighted at a quarter of its usual value for an enclosed deck like this one. The trade is that everything is seen through glass, which matters for photographs in a way it does not for the view itself.
- Can you see Victoria Peak from sky100?
- On a clear day, yes — it stands directly across Victoria Harbour, roughly 4 km south, and the two are effectively each other’s view. It is a short sightline, so it survives ordinary haze that would erase a distant mountain, and it fails mainly when the Peak itself is capped by the low cloud that this site exists to warn about.
Updated · Sources: Open-Meteo (forecast + air quality), ViewOrSkip published-hours calendar (Tier 1, day-level, no live feed)
Updated · Sources: Open-Meteo (forecast + air quality)