Sweden observation tower
Kaknästornet
You can see 30 km from here, looking west.
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 30 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).
- 30 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 26 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 May 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-west10 min before the sea-level sunset11%
- Febsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset14%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Julnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Augnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Novsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset13%
- Decsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset12%
- 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
Kaknästornet.
TV- and radio-tower in Stockholm, Sweden
Kaknästornet is an observation tower in Sweden, 26 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 30 km away, looking west.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Hökarängstoppen (102 m), 10 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from May to July.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.Official site↗
- Tantolundens husbilscampingcampsite · 4.8 km · 10 within 10 km
- Villa Källhagenplace to stay · 0.9 km · 241 within 10 km
- Östermalmnearest town · 2.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in ÖstermalmBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Stockholm-Bromma Airport (BMA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 11 km in a straight lineCar hire at ARN airport (Stockholm)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
- 112other viewpoints within 5 kmFatburen, Årstablick and 110 more
- 16named peaks within 5 kmObservatoriekullen, Stora Lappkärrsberget, Hammarbytoppen and 13 more
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmBergbanan
- 17marked trails within 3 kmLidingöloppet 30 km, Lidingöloppet 15 km, Näsbyparkstråket and 14 more
- 81shelters and huts within 5 kmKoltorp and 80 more
- 462car parks within 3 km
- 9visitor centres within 5 kmCity Sightseeing, Stockholm Tourist Center, KTH Information center and 6 more
- 549restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 10campsites within 10 kmTantolundens husbilscamping, Långholmens husbilscamping, Askrike Camping and 7 more
- 241places to stay within 10 kmVilla Källhagen, Strand, Scandic Klara and 238 more
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 Kaknästornet, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas24 mountains within 25 km
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Lakeyas26 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas22 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Kaknästornet
Sweden
- 48Viewyas Score
- 30 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 26 mAltitude
Strandstuvikens nya fågeltorn
Sweden · 91 km
- 46Viewyas Score
- 23 kmFarthest ridge
- —Peaks in view
- 15 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1721899) · 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, Forestyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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