Kálfshamarsviti
Kálfshamarsviti is a landscape in North Iceland, Iceland — about 287 km from Reykjavik and reached by a drive to the trailhead and a short walk in (footwear and weather check). Shoot it during the summer window, when light, road status, and crowd levels line up for photography, then use the GPS coordinates, parking notes, and nearby waypoints below to fold this stop into a longer photography route.
Overview
This is a modern lighthouse in the northwestern part of Skagi Peninsula.
As a photography stop, Kálfshamarsviti is a landscape in North Iceland, roughly 287 km from Reykjavik, reached by a drive to the trailhead and a short walk in (footwear and weather check). Plan the shoot during the summer window, when light, road status, and crowd levels line up for photography. The downloadable Landscape map pins exact GPS coordinates, parking, and nearby waypoints so you can fold it into a wider route instead of hunting for the pull-off on arrival.
Kálfshamarsviti is one waypoint of many — you can load all 62 landscape viewpoints before you leave signal.
Notes on this location
Compiled from published sources rather than a visit. Sources are listed below.
An art deco lighthouse of 1940 above a cove of hexagonal basalt columns on the Skagi peninsula, with the ruins of an abandoned fishing hamlet around it.
- The columns
- Hexagonal basalt, formed as thick lava flows cooled, contracted and cracked into geometric shapes — regular enough to look carved
- The lighthouse
- Art deco, erected 1940
- The hamlet
- An old fishing station; the ruins of the abandoned settlement can be walked
- Where
- The Skagi peninsula, north Iceland
- Getting there
- 24 km north of Skagaströnd — about 25 minutes on Route 745 along Húnaflói bay
- Not in the source
- The cited page gives no age for the columns and does not describe the orientation of their layering, both of which circulate elsewhere
An art deco tower above hexagonal columns is an unusual pairing — hard geometry in the architecture answering hard geometry in the rock, which is a stronger relationship than most lighthouse-and-cliff subjects offer. The abandoned hamlet gives a third element and a reason to walk rather than shoot from the car park.
Light & aurora at this spot
Calculated from this location’s coordinates (66.017, -20.433). Iceland stays on UTC year-round, so these are local times.
- Summer
- Midnight sun in June — the sun does not set, so golden light runs for hours either side of midnight.
- Winter
- December: only 2.9 h of daylight (11:49–14:44), but the sun never climbs above 0.7° — the entire day is golden hour. Sunrise bears SSE, sunset SSW.
- Aurora
- Aurora-grade darkness Sep–Mar, peaking at 13.1 h a night in December. Not possible Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug — the sky never gets dark enough.
Bar height is daylight hours. Months marked • have enough astronomical darkness for aurora; the rest do not.
Questions & answers
Kálfshamarsviti is a landscape in North Iceland, Iceland, approximately 287 km from Reykjavik. Exact GPS coordinates are included in the downloadable Landscape map.
The recommended season for Kálfshamarsviti is Summer. For light, plan around blue hour and the first hour after sunrise; Iceland's long shoulder-season twilight extends usable conditions on either side.
Drive/Hike access. Bring weather-appropriate footwear and check conditions before setting out. The downloadable GPS map puts the waypoint on your phone; your own app routes you to it from wherever you are.
Kálfshamarsviti is best visited during Summer. Outside that window, expect limited access, weather closures, or significantly different photographic conditions.