55% chance of a view, in and out of it all day.
The summit sits about 268 m inside the layer.
Forecast for Friday 16 October, built 2026-10-16 16:22 UTC and rebuilt twice a day. A high number is close to reliable, a low one is barely better than a shrug: how reliable is this?
Fri 16 Oct
55%
in and out of it all day
Sat 17 Oct
93%
clear of the cloud
Sun 18 Oct
94%
clear of the cloud
The hill
- Lists
- Hewitt, Nuttall, Wainwright, Birkett, Marilyn, Fellranger
- Height
- 868 m (461 m of drop)
- Area
- Northern Fells
- County
- Westmorland and Furness, England
- Grid ref
- NY323277
- OS Landranger
- 90
- Summit
- rock 1m N of trig point
Sun
- Sunrise
- 06:43 ESE
- Sunset
- 17:12 WSW
- Daylight
- 10.48 hours
About Blencathra - Hallsfell Top
Blencathra, also known as Saddleback, is one of the most northerly of the Cumbrian Mountains, in the English Lake District. It has six separate fell tops, of which the highest is the Hallsfell Top at 2,848 feet.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Hour by hour, Friday 16 October
| Hour | View | Cloud base | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06:00 | 47% | 453 m | 3.0° | 22 WNW |
| 08:00 | 48% | 464 m | 3.0° | 20 WNW |
| 10:00 | 50% | 521 m | 3.2° | 17 WNW |
| 12:00 | 41% | 600 m | 3.5° | 19 WNW |
| 14:00 | 73% | 875 m | 3.5° | 23 WNW |
| 16:00 | 67% | 767 m | 3.7° | 22 NW |
| 18:00 | 66% | 661 m | 3.9° | 24 NW |
| 20:00 | 71% | 563 m | 3.7° | 23 NNW |
Nearby
Bannerdale Crags · Mungrisdale Common · Bowscale Fell · Souther Fell · Lonscale Fell · Great Calva
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