Some seats, yes. For a typical July 1:10 PM day game at Turf Moor, roughly 36% of the seating bowl is shaded on average across the event. Shade grows through the late afternoon; by 6:00 PM about 58% of seats are out of the sun.
Check YOUR seat for YOUR event →Typical July afternoon highs at Turf Moor are around 67°F. Heat is usually manageable, but afternoon sun can still be intense.
No. Turf Moor is open air.
Turf Moor (Burnley, UK) is oriented 96° from true north. We compute the sun's exact position for your date and start time and run it against the seating geometry, plus live schedules and an hour-by-hour forecast on the interactive site.
Interactive shade map for Turf Moor · Satellite shadow view
Burnley have played at Turf Moor since 1883, which makes it one of the oldest grounds in continuous use in English football. It is also, by our data, one of the coolest places in the Premier League to watch a summer match, July afternoons in Burnley average just 67°F, the mildest figure in this entire batch of stadiums. Shade here is about comfort and glare, never about escaping heat.
Turf Moor sits on an east-pointing axis, so the pitch runs roughly east to west and the two long stands face each other across a north–south divide. At a 1:10 PM kickoff in high summer the sun stands due south at 58 degrees, high enough that the overall shade figure lands at 36%, almost all of it under rooflines and upper-deck overhangs.
The engine's most-shaded list is entirely club level: sections 211 through 216 each hold 50% shade across an afternoon match. The sunniest seats are down low, sections 124 and 125 at 28% shaded, section 105 at 27%, and section 106 the most exposed in the ground at 21%. With an east–west pitch, the side facing the southern sun takes it for most of the afternoon, so the gap between the best and worst lower-tier seats is real.
Burnley's northern latitude buys long summer days: the July sun doesn't set until 9:31 PM. By 7 PM it has swung around to due west and dropped to 19 degrees of altitude, sliding low across the moors and straight into any seat that faces it.
From 6 PM onward the ground is 58% shaded, the lowest evening figure among the Premier League grounds we've measured, a consequence of that east–west layout keeping one flank open to the setting sun. It's still a big improvement over the afternoon, but if you're at an evening fixture in a west-facing seat, expect the low sun in your eyes deep into the first half.
For an afternoon match at Turf Moor, club sections 211–216 are the shade play, and lower sections 105, 106, 124, and 125 are the sun-trap seats to skip if glare bothers you. For evening games, favor anything with its back to the west. And in a town where 67°F counts as a hot July day, none of this requires more preparation than sunglasses, by September, with highs at 60°F, the sun question at Turf Moor is fully retired for the season.
Check the interactive shade map to see the shadow line for your seat at any kickoff time on any date.
Upcoming events at Turf Moor are ticketed on TixBit. Check the shade map first, then grab a seat on the shady side.