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Top of the Rock Visibility Today: Is It Worth Going Up?

The classic Midtown panorama, Empire State included in the view.

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88/100

Go up today — 19:00–21:00 is the window worth booking. Clear skies with little cloud.

Conditions at the deck · 17:00

Temperature
28°C
Cloud
0% · low 0%
Wind
10 km/h · gusts 19
Visibility
52 km
Cloud base
9153 m ASL
Air quality
AQI 91

Open-Meteo (forecast + air quality) + METAR KLGA (New York/La Guardia Arpt, NY, US)

Altitude & cloud

Live· 17:00

Top of the Rock altitude columnTop of the Rock's 70th Floor deck at 279 m has a low cloud layer measured near 9153 m, but cover is too scattered (0%) to draw as a stratum.279 m · 70th Floor
Top of the Rock's 70th Floor deck at 279 m has a low cloud layer measured near 9153 m, but cover is too scattered (0%) to draw as a stratum.

Best window today19:00–21:00America/New_York

Why

  • Clear skies with little cloud
  • Long, clean sightlines to the horizon
  • Blue hour just after sunset
  • Little chance of rain
  • Calm on the terrace
  • Operating status unconfirmed

Outlook · America/New_York

  • WedVIEW88
  • ThuVIEW84
  • FriVIEW86
  • SatVIEW87
  • SunVIEW80

Deck facts

70th Floor
259 m above ground · 279 m ASL · Indoor & outdoor
Local timezone
America/New_York

Is it worth visiting on a cloudy day?

Top of the Rock's 70th-floor terrace sits at 279 m above sea level — squarely inside the altitude band Manhattan's low cloud layers most often occupy. There's no higher ticketed level to retreat to, so when a stratus deck settles over the city this is one of the first decks to lose its view entirely. A cloudy day here is a genuine coin flip, worth checking against the day's actual verdict rather than assuming the classic Midtown panorama will be there.

When is the best time to go up?

Because the outcome depends on exactly where the cloud base happens to sit that day, picking a day with a high base or a clearing trend matters more than picking an hour — check the best window above before you buy. On a clear day, late afternoon into golden hour gives the Empire State Building silhouette its best light, which is most of what people come here to photograph.

Updated · Sources: Open-Meteo (forecast + air quality) + METAR KLGA (New York/La Guardia Arpt, NY, US), ViewOrSkip published-hours calendar (Tier 1, day-level, no live feed), Open-Meteo (forecast + air quality) + METAR KLGA (New York/La Guardia Arpt, NY, US)