Súgandisey Cliff
Súgandisey Cliff is a landscape in West Iceland, Iceland — about 173 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
Scenic Cliff. A walk up Súgandisey cliff for unbeatable views of the harbor and the North Atlantic.
As a photography stop, Súgandisey Cliff is a landscape in West Iceland, roughly 173 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.
Súgandisey Cliff sits inside all 62 landscape viewpoints, alongside the other spots worth routing a day around.
Notes on this location
Compiled from published sources rather than a visit. Sources are listed below.
A basalt island by Stykkishólmur harbour, joined to land by a road and sheltering the town from the northern wind. Stairs climb the cliff to a lighthouse and a grand view across Breiðafjörður.
- What it is
- A basalt island by the harbour, sheltering the town from the northern wind
- Access
- Connected to land by a road at the harbour — walk or drive across
- The climb
- Stairs up the cliff, then further stairs to a bench with a high view over Stykkishólmur
- The lighthouse
- Once stood at Grótta in Seltjarnarnes, in the Greater Reykjavík area, and was moved here
- The view
- Grand, across Breiðafjörður
- Not in the source
- The cited page gives no height for the island and no construction date for the lighthouse
The lighthouse here used to stand at Grótta, which is one of the nine locations in this catalog with written field notes — so the same structure appears at two of our pins, in different decades. Worth knowing before assuming a photograph taken at one is of the other. A road onto the island also makes this a rare high viewpoint reachable without a walk, and the stairs are the only effort involved.
Light & aurora at this spot
Calculated from this location’s coordinates (65.080, -22.725). Iceland stays on UTC year-round, so these are local times.
- Summer
- 22 h of daylight in June and the sun barely sets, dipping only 1.6° below the horizon — effectively continuous golden light through the small hours.
- Winter
- December: only 3.6 h of daylight (11:37–15:15), but the sun never climbs above 1.6° — the entire day is golden hour. Sunrise bears SSE, sunset SSW.
- Aurora
- Aurora-grade darkness Sep–Mar, peaking at 13 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
Súgandisey Cliff is a landscape in West Iceland, Iceland, approximately 173 km from Reykjavik. Exact GPS coordinates are included in the downloadable Landscape map.
The recommended season for Súgandisey Cliff 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.
Súgandisey Cliff is best visited during Summer. Outside that window, expect limited access, weather closures, or significantly different photographic conditions.