Finland scenic viewpoint
Viewpoint Maahisenkierros
You can see 32 km from here, looking north-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 32 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).
- 32 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 8Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 96 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 8 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 and from July 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-west8 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Febsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Junnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset15%
- Decsouth-west10 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
Viewpoint Maahisenkierros.
Wooden view platform, Nuuksio, Vanha-Espoo, Finland
Viewpoint Maahisenkierros is a scenic viewpoint in Finland, 96 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 32 km away, looking north-west.
8 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mustakorvenkallio (114 m), 4 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in May and from July to August.
Get there and stay
- Urjan telttailualuecampsite · 1.7 km · 23 within 10 km
- Haltia Lake Lodgeplace to stay · 0.9 km · 91 within 10 km
- Vanha-Nuuksio-Nupurinearest town · 5.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Vanha-Nuuksio-NupuriBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Helsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 22 km in a straight lineCar hire at HEL airport (Helsinki)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
- 13other viewpoints within 5 kmMaahisenkierroksen näköalatasanne, Hyppykallio and 11 more
- 24named peaks within 5 kmMustakorvenkallio, Myrskymäki, Brunniberg and 21 more
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 9marked trails within 3 kmReitti 2000, Haukankierros, Punarinnankierros and 6 more
- 15shelters and huts within 5 kmKattilajärven keittokatos, Kattilan torppa, Mustalammen pieni keittokatos and 12 more
- 29car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmHaukkalammen luontotupa
- 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 23campsites within 10 kmUrjan telttailualue, Valkialammen telttailualue, Kolmoislammen varaustelttailualue ja -tulentekopaikka and 20 more
- 91places to stay within 10 kmHaltia Lake Lodge, OK 77:n seuramaja, Villa Kanttarellin hirsitalo, Nuuksion kansallispuisto and 88 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 Viewpoint Maahisenkierros, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas14 mountains within 25 km
Coastya18 beaches within 10 km
Lakeyas35 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 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.
Viewpoint Maahisenkierros
Finland
- 54Viewyas Score
- 32 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 96 mAltitude
SkyWheel Helsinki
Finland · 26 km
- 67Viewyas Score
- 36 kmFarthest ridge
- 11Peaks in view
- 6 mAltitude
Turist Information Centre Kauppatori
Finland · 25 km
- 44Viewyas Score
- 14 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 12 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q114207754) · 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, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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