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Norway Norway scenic viewpoint

Utsikten

You can see 13 km from here, looking north-east.

26Viewyas Score

Viewpoint

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 13 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.

26out 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).

  • 13 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
  • 79%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 756 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 February, from April to May and in September.

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. Jansouth200 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  2. Febsouth284 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  3. Marsouth-west92 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  4. Aprwest134 min before the sea-level sunset21%
  5. Maywest176 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  6. Junwest204 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  7. Julwest190 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  8. Augwest154 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  9. Sepwest108 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  10. Octsouth288 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  11. Novsouth202 min before the sea-level sunset18%
  12. Decsouth158 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  • 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

Utsikten.

Observation deck

Utsikten is a scenic viewpoint in Norway, 756 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 13 km away, looking north-east.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 79% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in February, from April to May and in September.

Gaularfjellet tunliweb 1
Svein-Magne Tunli - tunliweb.no · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for UtsiktenGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near UtsiktenBooking.comSee prices Car hire at FRO airport (Florø)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.

Utsikten 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

  • 1other viewpoints within 5 kmUtsikten
  • 4named peaks within 5 kmHøgefjellet, Tuftanovi, Gottopphesten and 1 more
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • campsites within 10 km
  • places to stay 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 Utsikten, and what is near.

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

Peakyas962 mountains within 25 km
Harevollnipa1,212 m · 6.9 kmBrekkenipa1,160 m · 8.3 kmPendlebakknipa1,390 m · 8.4 kmGeitebotsfjellet1,359 m · 14 kmRyssebotnrana1,604 m · 15 kmNystølsfjellet1,236 m · 18 kmFremsta Ryssenipa1,684 m · 22 kmTuftanovi1,643 m · 25 km
Lakeyas15 lakes within 15 km
Nystølsvatnet1.2 km² · 1.7 kmSkarvedalsvatnet1.5 km² · 3.9 kmNorddalsvatnet0.8 km² · 4.6 kmHolmevatnet0.3 km² · 6.7 kmRisbotnvatnet0.9 km² · 9.2 kmByttevatnet0.5 km² · 9.4 kmMyravatnet1.0 km² · 12 kmHaukedalsvatnet10 km² · 15 km
Cascadyas17 waterfalls within 15 km
Slåkedalsfossen · 1.9 kmKviteforklefossen · 6.0 kmØvstefossen · 6.2 kmHestaskredfossen · 12 kmSauerisfossen · 12 kmTyfossa · 12 kmLikholefossen · 13 kmHovsfossen · 14 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.

Gaularfjellsvegen sightseeing spot Utsikten in Bårddalen, Sogndal, Vestland, Norway, 2025 June
Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Utsikten

Norway

  • 26Viewyas Score
  • 13 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 756 mAltitude

Galdhøpiggen

Norway · 100 km

  • 74Viewyas Score
  • 148 kmFarthest ridge
  • 343Peaks in view
  • 2,423 mAltitude

See the guide

Troll Wall

Norway · 141 km

  • 65Viewyas Score
  • 153 kmFarthest ridge
  • 61Peaks in view
  • 1,582 mAltitude

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Stegastein

Norway · 62 km

  • 36Viewyas Score
  • 30 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 669 mAltitude

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q64847793) · 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, Cascadyas

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.

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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