52% chance of a view, in and out of it all day.
The summit sits about 227 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?
The hill
- Lists
- Wainwright, Birkett, Fellranger
- Height
- 762 m (14 m of drop)
- Area
- Southern Fells
- County
- Cumberland, England
- Grid ref
- NY209050
- OS Landranger
- 89, 90
- Summit
- small cairn on rocky tor
Sun
- Sunrise
- 06:43 ESE
- Sunset
- 17:13 WSW
- Daylight
- 10.49 hours
About Slight Side
Slight Side is a fell in the English Lake District it stands 25 kilometres east southeast of the town of Whitehaven and reaches a height of 762 metres (2,499 ft). Slight Side lies at the south western edge of the Scafell Massif, a four-kilometre-long crescent of high ground which includes the highest ground in England. The fells names derives from the Old Norse language and means "The mountain shieling with the level pastures", it is a combination of the Norse words "sletta" and "saetr". With a shieling meaning a shepherds hut or a mountain pasture used in the summer.
Hour by hour, Friday 16 October
| Hour | View | Cloud base | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06:00 | 41% | 433 m | 3.9° | 16 WNW |
| 08:00 | 31% | 379 m | 3.9° | 15 NW |
| 10:00 | 48% | 457 m | 4.2° | 15 WNW |
| 12:00 | 47% | 535 m | 4.3° | 14 WNW |
| 14:00 | 69% | 851 m | 4.3° | 17 WNW |
| 16:00 | 54% | 536 m | 4.2° | 15 NW |
| 18:00 | 57% | 614 m | 4.2° | 17 NNW |
| 20:00 | 44% | 476 m | 4.0° | 16 NNW |
Nearby
Scafell · Scafell Pike · Lingmell · Hard Knott · Esk Pike · Bowfell
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