Sweden scenic viewpoint
Björnerödspiggen
You can see 25 km from here, looking south.
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 25 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).
- 25 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 95%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 145 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 April to 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-west36 min before the sea-level sunset17%
- Febsouth-west46 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Marwest62 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Aprwest66 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Maynorth-west76 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west80 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west76 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Augwest68 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Sepwest64 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Octsouth-west54 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Novsouth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Decsouth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- 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
Björnerödspiggen.
Mountain
Björnerödspiggen is a scenic viewpoint in Sweden, 145 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 25 km away, looking south.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Geiteryggen (259 m), 13 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 95% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to July.
Get there and stay
- Bakke Campingcampsite · 2.8 km · 4 within 10 km
- Haldennearest town · 14 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in HaldenBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Sandefjord Airport, Torp (TRF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 69 km in a straight lineCar hire at TRF airport (Sandefjord)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
- 1named peaks within 5 kmBjörnerödspiggen
- 8marked trails within 3 kmKyststien i Østfold, Galärleden, Krokstrand-Ramberget and 5 more
- 4shelters and huts within 5 kmBjörnerödspiggen vindskydd, Gapahuk and 2 more
- 3car parks within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmBakke Camping, Langholmen Turist- og Fritidssenter, Buerskogen and 1 more
- 1places to stay within 10 km
- other viewpoints within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés 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 Björnerödspiggen, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas436 mountains within 25 km
Coastya2 beaches within 10 km
Lakeyas23 lakes within 15 km
Cascadyas2 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.
Björnerödspiggen
Sweden
- 43Viewyas Score
- 25 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 145 mAltitude
Kongens utsikt
Norway · 132 km
- 69Viewyas Score
- 118 kmFarthest ridge
- 33Peaks in view
- 470 mAltitude
Kronprinsens utsikt
Norway · 132 km
- 62Viewyas Score
- 89 kmFarthest ridge
- 36Peaks in view
- 417 mAltitude
Dronningens utsikt
Norway · 132 km
- 61Viewyas Score
- 91 kmFarthest ridge
- 22Peaks in view
- 398 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q879776) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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