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Saraakallio

You can see 23 km from here, looking south.

40Viewyas Score

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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 23 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.

40out 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).

  • 23 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
  • 93%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 108 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

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 in March and from June 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-west16 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  2. Febsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset22%
  3. Marwest14 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  4. Aprwest18 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  5. Maynorth-west46 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  6. Junnorth-west72 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  7. Julnorth-west58 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  8. Augnorth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset31%
  9. Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  10. Octwest12 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  11. Novsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset11%
  12. Decsouth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset15%
  • 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

Saraakallio.

Cliff in Laukaa, Finland

Saraakallio is a cliff in Finland, 108 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 23 km away, looking south.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 93% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in March and from June to August.

Saraakallio from the lake 1
Antti Leppänen · CC BY 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for SaraakallioGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near SaraakallioBooking.comSee prices Car hire in KuopioDiscover 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.

Saraakallio 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

  • 2other viewpoints within 5 kmSaraakallio
  • 2named peaks within 5 kmPörrinmäki, Kalliolanmäki
  • 10shelters and huts within 5 kmKuhaniemen laavu, Kalliolanmäen laavu, Kirkkoniemen laavu and 7 more
  • 41car parks within 3 km
  • 8restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 4places to stay within 10 kmHotelli Vuolake, Tupaswilla, Villa Voimala and 1 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Saraakallio, and what is near.

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

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Hyyppäänvuori · 15 kmKoskenvuori · 19 kmKanavuori198 m · 20 kmTaulumäki · 22 kmLaajavuori · 24 km
Lakeyas21 lakes within 15 km
Iso Kuhajärvi1.3 km² · 6.4 kmNurminen2.0 km² · 7.8 kmLankajärvi1.9 km² · 8.8 kmLake Peurunka6.4 km² · 9.0 kmPyhtäänjärvi3.9 km² · 11 kmLake Uurainen13 km² · 11 kmIso-Kuukkanen1.8 km² · 11 kmLievestuoreenjärvi41 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Rihlaperä ObservatoryBortle 8 · 26 kmNyrölä ObservatoryBortle 4 · 26 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.

Saraakallio from the lake 2
Antti Leppänen · CC BY 4.0
Saraakallio
Tiia Monto · CC BY 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Saraakallio

Finland

  • 40Viewyas Score
  • 23 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 108 mAltitude

Vesilinna

Finland · 24 km

  • 48Viewyas Score
  • 37 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
  • 146 mAltitude

See the guide

Puijo tower

Finland · 101 km

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

See the guide

Pyynikki observation tower

Finland · 157 km

  • 52Viewyas Score
  • 54 kmFarthest ridge
  • 2Peaks in view
  • 153 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q140936868) · 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, Darkskyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.You are here
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.Visit