Norway cliff
Preikestolen
You can see 99 km from here, looking west.
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 99 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).
- 99 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 93%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 4%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 11Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 666 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 11 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 May to August.
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.
- Jansouth218 min before the sea-level sunset13%
- Febsouth-west152 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Marsouth-west96 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Junnorth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Julnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Augnorth-westsets on an open horizon23%
- Sepwest78 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Octsouth-west126 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Novsouth200 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Decsouth182 min before the sea-level sunset13%
- 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
Preikestolen.
Steep cliff in Norway
Preikestolen is a cliff in Norway, 666 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 99 km away, looking west.
11 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Hustveitsåta (1,187 m), 66 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 93% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from May to August.
Get there and stay
- Hikers nestscampsite · 2.8 km · 16 within 10 km
- Preikestolhyttaplace to stay · 2.9 km · 9 within 10 km
- Jørpelandnearest town · 9.3 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in JørpelandBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Stavanger Airport, Sola (SVG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 34 km in a straight lineCar hire at SVG airport (Stavanger)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
- 40other viewpoints within 5 kmSollifjellet, Moslifjellet and 38 more
- 21named peaks within 5 kmNeverdalsfjell, Moslifjellet, Gryteknuten and 18 more
- 12marked trails within 3 kmRevsvatnet, Preikestolen Roundtrip, Signatur Lysefjorden rundt and 9 more
- 28shelters and huts within 5 kmVeslebu, cave, Emergency shelter Preikestolen nødbu and 25 more
- 7car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 16campsites within 10 kmHikers nests, Preikestolen Camping, Wohnmobil-Stellplatz and 13 more
- 9places to stay within 10 kmPreikestolhytta, Preikestolen Fjellstue, Vatnegården and 6 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Preikestolen, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas1,117 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas33 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas2 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.
Preikestolen
Norway
- 62Viewyas Score
- 99 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 666 mAltitude
Valbergtårnet
Norway · 26 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 102 kmFarthest ridge
- 41Peaks in view
- 13 mAltitude
Kongens utsikt
Norway · 261 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 118 kmFarthest ridge
- 33Peaks in view
- 470 mAltitude
Kronprinsens utsikt
Norway · 262 km
- 62Viewyas Score
- 89 kmFarthest ridge
- 36Peaks in view
- 417 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q746223) · 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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