Victoria Peak Hong Kong - views in all types of weather
Awesome and stunning weather views from Victoria Peak
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The Number 1 place to visit in Hong Kong | Victoria Peak
I have a thing about Victoria Peak or the Peak as it is known in Hong Kong, I have lived in Hong Kong for 52 years and have been to the Peak over 6,000 times since 1972. That I guess makes me uniquely qualified to talk about Victoria Peak.
The Lugard Road Lookout, Victoria Peak - Views in all types of weather.
I want to set the record straight about taking stunning panoramic images of Hong Kong from my spot at the Peak which has recently been named The Lugard Road Lookout, which is not nearly as snappy as Jamie’s spot at the Peak.
Over the years I have fielded many questions from guests about Hong Kong weather and read many negative reviews on Tripadvisor on how bad weather ruined their excursion to Victoria Peak and I decided to trawl through my images and post 18 images of the view from my spot at the Peak taken in all types of weather.
Let me be clear, I have no control over the weather but after visiting Victoria Peak (The Peak) over 6,000 times since 1972 I am quite familiar with weather and how it is not nearly as cut and dried as you might think.
My basic advice to anyone is simply look up at the Peak, it dominates Hong Kong Island, if you can see it then get there as soon as possible but you might also want to check the weather report for the day, in today’s smart phone culture it is not difficult to find a weather forecast.
What I will say is that it is a very rare day that the weather is so bad that the Peak is completely socked in with no views available, yes it happens but very infrequently.
Somewhat foggy days sometimes happen but I have had days when the Peak Tower building is completely socked in, but my spot which is a 20 minute walk away is quite clear, I have no expertise in geography or climate studies but it happens, I have heard that because the Peak Tower building sits in a place called Victoria Gap, conditions mean fog settles and does not dissipate for a long time but at my spot, it quickly vanishes.
We have plenty of days when it is simply cloudy, a little misty or haze is an issue, that is never an issue with me, the views are simply magnificent in these conditions
Sometimes you have lovely sunny weather and a storm rolls in turning day into night, that makes for some interesting views
Typhoons are great as it can be windy but very clear
In the Winter the temperatures are quite cool and humidity is quite low and so on a cloudy days it can seem crystal clear.
Variable weather during the day - if it is cloudy in the morning, it quite often really clears up in the early afternoon!
If you are only in Hong Kong for a day then sometimes you have no opportunity to see the stunning views but if you are here for 2 - 3 days then you should be fine.
All the images below are my own taken over the past 10 years 2014 - 2024 and are taken all at the same place.
Image No. 1 | Probably my favourite image taken at my spot at the Peak - not cloudless but nice and sunny, life would be wonderful if every day was like this and I consider this to be my benchmark image.
Image No. 2 | A hazy day, it just did not clear up, so my guests made the best of it.
Image No. 3 | A foggy, gloomy, Winters day and it did not clear up much
Image No. 4 | A windy day, no rain but it would clear up and then 30 minutes later the clouds rolled in again
Image No. 5 | Almost perfect weather! but in the space of 30 minutes it was cloudy, sunny and we had rain showers
Image No. 6 | A cold, cloudy Winters day but you could see for many miles, lovely
Image No. 7 | A typhoon was approaching and clouds rolled in, vanished and rolled in again and then it started to rain, I should point out that there was for a couple of minutes at a time a break in the cloud cover allowing for some very moody images!
Image No. 8 | A squally day with sunny periods
Image No. 9 | Another cloudy day with a few squalls, the rain actually never came near us, quite odd actually
Image No. 10 | Hong Kong is 430 sq miles and weather patterns can mean it rains in Kowloon but Hong Kong Island remains dry!
Image No. 11 | A late March Spring day, just lovely, low humidity and crystal clear.
Image No. 12 | I remember this one, it was before 9am in the morning and it got darker and darker but no rain… it was a little scary for a while, it was very Blade Runner 2049
Image No. 13 | Mid afternoon and a storm was rolling in and day almost turned to night for a while and yes, it rained very hard!
Image No. 14 | Another Winters day image, cloudy and overcast but very clear as you can see from the hills in the background
Image No. 15 | Despite the black clouds there was no rain, thunder, lightning or an Alien invasion, we stood our ground and the weather turned sunny after an hour
Image No. 16 | This was a real odd one, the suns rays came through an opening in the clouds and turned the Victoria Harbour water green, very biblical
Image No. 17 | Yes, another squally thunderstorm rolled in at lunchtime….. but cleared up for a few hours later
Image No. 18 | The night view, amazingly at night time it is quite often very, very clear, I love this image another one of my benchmark shots.
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