Isle of Skye, Scotland

Old Man of Storr

Skye's most famous pinnacle is a fifty-metre finger of basalt leaning out of a landslip amphitheatre, and the path up from the Storr car park takes barely ninety minutes return.

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Approx. flying time~10h 05m from Los Angeles
Nearest airportBalivanich (BEB)

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About this place

The higher you climb, the stranger it gets — spires, hollows and the Sound of Raasay glittering below. Dawn is the classic move: sunrise light on the rock, an empty car park and the whole eerie place to yourself before the tour buses roll up from Portree.

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When to go

Daytime highs run from about 4°C in January to 13°C in August. Driest in April; wettest in January, with rain on about 24 days.

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August13° · rain 17 daysCool and often wet.

Monthly figures averaged from daily records for 2020–2024 at this location (ERA5 reanalysis).

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