Norway observation tower
Valbergtårnet
You can see 102 km from here, looking north-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 102 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).
- 102 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 41Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 13 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 41 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 in 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.
- Jansouth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset12%
- Febsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Marwest14 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Aprwest18 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Maynorth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Augnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Sepwest16 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Octwest16 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Novsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Decsouth-west20 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
Valbergtårnet.
Tower in Stavanger, Norway
Valbergtårnet is an observation tower in Norway.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 102 km away, looking north-east.
41 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mehammarsåto (749 m), 104 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in May.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Stavanger Camping Mosvangencampsite · 2.4 km · 10 within 10 km
- Home Againplace to stay · 0.0 km · 37 within 10 km
- Stavangernearest town · 0.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in StavangerBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Stavanger Airport, Sola (SVG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 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
- 19other viewpoints within 5 kmVålandspibå, Valbergtårnet, Madlatuå and 16 more
- 16named peaks within 5 kmVålandspibå, Buøy, Byhaugen and 13 more
- 47shelters and huts within 5 kmSpeidermarka, Danger, Madlaleiren (A) and 44 more
- 602car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmStavanger Turistkontor, Stavanger Turistforening
- 148restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 10campsites within 10 kmStavanger Camping Mosvangen, Sokn Camping & Marina, Gramstad and 7 more
- 37places to stay within 10 kmHome Again, The Heart of Stavanger, Victoria Hotel and 34 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 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 Valbergtårnet, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas1,010 mountains within 25 km
Coastya21 beaches within 10 km
Lakeyas7 lakes within 15 km
Cascadyas1 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.
Valbergtårnet
Norway
- 66Viewyas Score
- 102 kmFarthest ridge
- 41Peaks in view
- 13 mAltitude
Preikestolen
Norway · 26 km
- 62Viewyas Score
- 99 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 666 mAltitude
Kongens utsikt
Norway · 285 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 118 kmFarthest ridge
- 33Peaks in view
- 470 mAltitude
Kronprinsens utsikt
Norway · 286 km
- 62Viewyas Score
- 89 kmFarthest ridge
- 36Peaks in view
- 417 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q12719304) · 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, Coastya, Lakeyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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