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Village in Sola Municipality, Norway · Rogaland

Tananger

Tananger is a large village and urban area in Sola Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.

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The place

Tananger is a large village and urban area in Sola Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The urban area is located on the west side of the Stavanger Peninsula between the North Sea and the Hafrsfjorden. It lies about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of the city centre of Stavanger. Tananger Chapel and Tananger Church are both located here.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tananger

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Sunde Church

    Sunde Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in the southern part of the large Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Sunde in the borough of Madla in the western part of the city of Stavanger.

    3.8 km · church building in Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tananger Chapel

    Tananger Chapel is a historic parish church of the Church of Norway in Sola Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Tananger.

    1.4 km · church building in Sola, Rogaland, Norway · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tananger Church

    Tananger Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sola Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Tananger.

    1.6 km · church building in Sola, Rogaland, Norway · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Flatholmen Lighthouse

    Fladholmen Lighthouse is a coastal lighthouse in Sola Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The lighthouse is located on a small, flat islet located just west of the village of Tananger.

    1.9 km · lighthouse in Norway · Wikipedia

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Getting to Tananger

Airports
Stavanger, Sola (SVG), 8 km · Bergen, Flesland (BGO), 152 km · Kristiansand (KRS), 167 km
  • Bergen → Tananger
    163 km · quickest by ferry, 8h 14m · kr335–1,244
  • Kristiansand(Kjevik) → Tananger
    166 km · quickest by road, 4h 15m · kr285–385
  • Sandefjord(Torp) → Tananger
    261 km · quickest by air, 3h 37m · kr1,250–1,950
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tananger

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tananger. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in[https://flyhau.no/en/ Haugesund Airport, Karmøy () (occasionally referred to as Helganes by Haugesund locals) is served by some charter flights and seasonal Norwegian flights from a couple of international destinations, as well as domestic flights from Oslo and Bergen.
  • Get inThere is a ferry crossing on the way, charging 172 kr if you bring a private vehicle up to 6 m.
  • Get inFerries on the route are included in the bus ticket where applicable.
  • Get inPassengers will sit on the bus for boarding and deboarding, but are usually required to leave the bus and stay on passenger decks during ferry crossings.
  • Get inFjord Line operates a daily overnight cruise ferry from Hirtshals in Denmark to Stavanger, and onwards to Bergen.

From Wikivoyage: Stavanger, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Yell, Unst and the North IslesGB

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    417 km
  2. 02
    Kirkwall and the Orkney IslandsGB

    9 ways of moving, 35 sources

    489 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    533 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    631 km
  5. 05
    Isle of SkyeGB

    12 ways of moving, 18 sources

    717 km

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Around it

Next door to Tananger

  • Sundeneighborhood of Stavanger, Norway3.7 km
  • Kvernevikneighbourhood in the city of Stravanger, Norway3.4 km