How to pick the perfect window seat: the complete guide
Left or right, front or back, over the wing or behind it - everything that decides whether your window seat delivers a view or a blank wall of wing.
Window seat guides
Everything we know about getting the best view from a plane window - the geometry, the booking tactics, and the routes that are worth pressing your face to the glass for. All written for this site, based on the same flight-path engine that powers our left-or-right verdicts.
Left or right? The simple geometry that decides your view
Why the best side of the plane is a compass problem: headings, bearings, and how the sun's path across the sky picks your window for you.
Chasing sunrise and sunset from a plane window
How to catch a sunrise or sunset in flight: which departures work, why golden hour lasts longer at altitude, and which side to sit on by direction of travel.
How to avoid sun glare on a flight (and why it matters)
Glare ruins naps, screens and photos. Here's how to predict which side the sun will hammer, and when the 'wrong' side of the plane is the right choice.
Seat letters decoded: which letter is the left window?
A is left, but what's the right-side window - F, K or L? How seat lettering works across narrow-bodies and wide-bodies, and how to book the side you want.
The world's most scenic flight routes (and where to sit)
From Mt. Fuji to the Himalayas to the Norwegian fjords: commercial routes with genuinely spectacular window views, with the correct side for each.
What you can actually see on a night flight
City lights, thunderstorms from above, the Milky Way and - if you're lucky - the aurora. How to get the most from a window seat after dark.
How whichsidetosit works: the method behind the verdict
Great-circle paths, sun azimuths, DST-aware timezones and 15,000 landmarks: exactly how we compute which window wins on your flight.