Finland summit
Aavasaksa
You can see 69 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 69 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).
- 69 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 237 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1 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 March to May and in July.
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-west12 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Febsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maynorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Jun——sets on an open horizon29%
- Jul——sets on an open horizon32%
- Augnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Novsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth20 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- 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
Aavasaksa.
Hill in Ylitornio, Finnish Lapland
Aavasaksa is a summit in Finland, 237 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 69 km away, looking north-east.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Luppioberget (192 m), 11 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from March to May and in July.
Get there and stay
- Aavasaksa experiencecampsite · 3.0 km · 2 within 10 km
- Tornedalens Bed & Breakfastplace to stay · 3.0 km · 44 within 10 km
- Övertorneånearest town · 3.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ÖvertorneåBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Kemi-Tornio Airport (KEM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 79 km in a straight lineCar hire at KEM airport (Kemi / Tornio)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
- 1other viewpoints within 5 km
- 4named peaks within 5 kmAavasaksa, Särkivaara, Käyrävaara and 1 more
- 12shelters and huts within 5 kmAavasaksa laavu, Kota, Laavu and 9 more
- 23car parks within 3 km
- 5restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmAavasaksa experience, Övertorneå Camping
- 44places to stay within 10 kmTornedalens Bed & Breakfast, The Friendly Moose, Jokivarren Majatalo ja Mökit and 41 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- visitor centres 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 Aavasaksa, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas7 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas10 lakes within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Aavasaksa
Finland
- 53Viewyas Score
- 69 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 237 mAltitude
Kebnekaise
Sweden · 278 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 193 kmFarthest ridge
- 142Peaks in view
- 2,075 mAltitude
Ritničohkka
Finland · 336 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 153 kmFarthest ridge
- 60Peaks in view
- 1,309 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q303806) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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