Finland observation tower
Näsinneula tower
You can see 47 km from here, looking north.
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 47 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).
- 47 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 113 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 August.
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-west22 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Febsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Marwest10 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Junnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Julnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Octwest14 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Novsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset13%
- Decsouth-west24 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- 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
Näsinneula tower.
Observation tower in Tampere, Finland
Näsinneula tower is an observation tower in Finland, 113 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 47 km away, looking north.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Sappeenvuori (195 m), 43 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from May to August.

Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Härmälän leirintäaluecampsite · 3.6 km · 5 within 10 km
- Forenom Serviced Apartments Tampere Pyynikkiplace to stay · 0.8 km · 31 within 10 km
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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
- 34other viewpoints within 5 kmNimikallio, Haulinkallio and 32 more
- 14named peaks within 5 kmSulkavuori, Isomäki, Karkunvuori and 11 more
- 3marked trails within 3 kmTampere Parkrun, Viikinsaaren luontopolku, Viikinsaaren meditaatiopolku
- 208shelters and huts within 5 km
- 921car parks within 3 km
- 3visitor centres within 5 kmVastaanotto, Tampereen palvelupiste, Info | Särkänniemen huvipuisto
- 359restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmHärmälän leirintäalue, Tampere Camping Härmälä, Harmala and 2 more
- 31places to stay within 10 kmForenom Serviced Apartments Tampere Pyynikki, Tredun Helmi, Tampere Suites and 28 more
- cable car and funicular stations 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 Näsinneula tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
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.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1190334) · 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, Forestyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
The family
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