Finland scenic viewpoint
Pikku-Malla
You can see 58 km from here, looking south-east.
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 58 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).
- 58 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 9Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 732 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 9 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 January to February and from April to May.
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.
- Jansouth68 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Febsouth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Marwest24 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Aprnorth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Maynorth-westsets on an open horizon21%
- Jun——sets on an open horizon16%
- Jul——sets on an open horizon20%
- Augnorth-west46 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Sepwest20 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Octsouth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Novsouth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Decsouth-2 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- 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
Pikku-Malla.
Mountain in Finland
Pikku-Malla is a scenic viewpoint in Finland, 732 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 58 km away, looking south-east.
9 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Vassdalsfjellet (1,576 m), 33 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from January to February and from April to May.
Get there and stay
- Kilpisjärven Retkeilykeskuscampsite · 2.4 km · 3 within 10 km
- Kilpisjärven retkeilykeskusplace to stay · 2.3 km · 11 within 10 km
- Sørkjosen Airport (SOJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 82 km in a straight lineCar hire at TOS airport (Tromsø)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
- 2other viewpoints within 5 kmSaana 747 näköalatasanne 2
- 4named peaks within 5 kmSaana, Jiehkkáš, Pikku-Malla and 1 more
- 9marked trails within 3 kmEuropean Long distance path E1 - Finland, Saanan luontopolku, Saana kesäreitti and 6 more
- 1shelters and huts within 5 kmSaanan kota
- 11car parks within 3 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmKilpisjärven Retkeilykeskus, Kilpisjärven Lomakeskus Tundrea
- 11places to stay within 10 kmKilpisjärven retkeilykeskus, Saanaloma, Arctic Polar Holiday Village and 8 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres 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 Pikku-Malla, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas139 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas21 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Pikku-Malla
Finland
- 55Viewyas Score
- 58 kmFarthest ridge
- 9Peaks in view
- 732 mAltitude
Ritničohkka
Finland · 35 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 153 kmFarthest ridge
- 60Peaks in view
- 1,309 mAltitude
Kebnekaise
Sweden · 158 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 193 kmFarthest ridge
- 142Peaks in view
- 2,075 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q24317997) · 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, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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