Norway observation deck
Ørnesvingen
You can see 14 km from here, looking south.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 14 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 14 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 76%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 2Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 488 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 2 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are from April to July.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth192 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Febsouth-west44 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Marwest60 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Aprwest100 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Maywest120 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Junnorth-west168 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Julnorth-west144 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Augwest78 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Sepwest80 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Octsouth-west40 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Novsouth196 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Decsouth150 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Ørnesvingen.
Ørnesvingen is an observation deck in Norway, 488 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 14 km away, looking south.
2 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Dalsnibba (1,476 m), 10 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 76% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to July.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Grande Hytteutleige og Campingcampsite · 1.4 km · 7 within 10 km
- Grande Fjord Hotelplace to stay · 1.4 km · 20 within 10 km
- Strandanearest town · 24 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in StrandaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Ørsta-Volda Airport, Hovden (HOV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 57 km in a straight lineCar hire at HOV airport (Ørsta)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 27other viewpoints within 5 kmØrnesvingen, Flydalsjuvet, Vesteråsfjellet and 24 more
- 17named peaks within 5 kmGeitshorn, Turrvasshornet, Laushornet and 14 more
- 3marked trails within 3 km
- 18car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmVisit Geiranger: Tours & Activities
- 5restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 7campsites within 10 kmGrande Hytteutleige og Camping, Geirangerfjorden Feriesenter, Solhaug Camping and 4 more
- 20places to stay within 10 kmGrande Fjord Hotel, Homlong Camping Hytter, Havila Hotel Geiranger and 17 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- shelters and huts within 5 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Ørnesvingen, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas758 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas16 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas19 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Ørnesvingen
Norway
- 26Viewyas Score
- 14 kmFarthest ridge
- 2Peaks in view
- 488 mAltitude
Troll Wall
Norway · 49 km
- 65Viewyas Score
- 153 kmFarthest ridge
- 61Peaks in view
- 1,582 mAltitude
Galdhøpiggen
Norway · 81 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 148 kmFarthest ridge
- 343Peaks in view
- 2,423 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q18689760) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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