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Puijo tower

You can see 73 km from here, looking west.

56Viewyas Score

TowerSunset360°

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 73 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.

56out of 100

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).

  • 73 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 3Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 233 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 3 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.

Koli347 m · 111 km · eastVanuvuori212 m · 12 km · south

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.

  1. Jansouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  2. Febsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  3. Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  4. Aprnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  5. Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  6. Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon32%
  7. Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  8. Augnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  9. Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  10. Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset17%
  11. Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset12%
  12. Decsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset17%
  • 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

Puijo tower.

Observation tower in Kuopio, Finland

Puijo tower is an observation tower in Finland, 233 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 73 km away, looking west.

3 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Koli (347 m), 111 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from May to August.

Puijo tower
Tiia Monto · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Puijo towerGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Puijo towerBooking.comSee prices Car hire at JOE airport (Joensuu)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Puijo tower seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 7other viewpoints within 5 kmNeulamäen näkötorni, Puijonnokka, Taivaanpankon näköalapaikka and 4 more
  • 8named peaks within 5 kmPuijo, Huuhanmäki, Kellomäki and 5 more
  • 1marked trails within 3 kmPuijon Polku
  • 31shelters and huts within 5 kmUnholanniemen huvimaja, Peräniemen huvimaja, Rönönsalmen kallion huvimaja and 28 more
  • 1,085car parks within 3 km
  • 1visitor centres within 5 kmKuopio-info
  • 93restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmMatkailukeskus Rauhalahti
  • 24places to stay within 10 kmHotel Savonia, Lapland Hotels Kuopio, Bar & Cafe Asema and 21 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 Puijo tower, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Puijo232 m · this placeSuuri Neulamäki · 4.2 kmVanuvuori212 m · 12 kmVuorimäki · 18 km
Lakeyas9 lakes within 15 km
Kolmisoppi0.3 km² · 5.1 kmKaislanen0.3 km² · 10 kmIso-Jälä7.2 km² · 13 kmHonka-Jälä0.6 km² · 13 kmIso-Petäinen1.0 km² · 13 kmRytky1.4 km² · 13 kmRäimäjärvi1.2 km² · 14 kmVääräjärvi0.8 km² · 15 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

Puijo (2008-06-11) All Hills (2)
Mac Dreamstate · CC BY-SA 4.0
Puijon mäki
Soaj at Finnish Wikipedia · Public domain
Näkötorni Puijo Kuopio
Onkivesj · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

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  • 56Viewyas Score
  • 73 kmFarthest ridge
  • 3Peaks in view
  • 233 mAltitude

Vesilinna

Finland · 123 km

  • 48Viewyas Score
  • 37 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
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See the guide

Saraakallio

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  • 40Viewyas Score
  • 23 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
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Haukkavuori observation tower

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  • 59Viewyas Score
  • 49 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 25 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q15735566) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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