Visibility in mountains and hills

pasta_paul

Is the visibility better to west than east? I was on one mountain in the west and could not see the one far in the east, not even close. The guy who was in one mountain the east, said he saw the mountain in the west. The distance is about 60 miles, 100 km. So it came to debate if visibility is generally better to the west than east,...?

Originally asked by Alex J. on Stack Exchange (outdoors) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

There is no visible or measurable variation in visibility that is based on whether you are looking west or east. There will be innumerable reasons why at a particular time on a particular day one person may have had better visibility than someone else, but that would be a long list of conditions including position of the sun, location, time, weather, local conditions, eye health of individuals, and so on.

Full answer by Rory Alsop: https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/a/29314 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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