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Aiguille du Midi
- Easiest route
- 22.1 km+4,084 m · about 3 days · T6
- Prominence
- 322 m1,058 ft
- Isolation
- 1.7 km
- Tonight
- -18°CHeavy snow · Wind 7 km/h SW
Aiguille du Midi is a 3,842 m (12,605 ft) mountain in the Mont Blanc massif, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
All facts
- Elevation
- 3,842 m · 12,605 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mont Blanc du Tacul (4,248 m)
- Range
- Mont Blanc massif
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Protected area
- Mont Blanc - site d'exception
- Coordinates
- 45.8790° N, 6.8893° E
How to get to the top of Aiguille du Midi
2 mapped routes from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.
Easiest route: from Road end near Les Chavaux
- Distance
- 22.1 kmone way
- Climb
- +4,084 m−1,667 m (13,399 ft up)
- Time up
- about 3 days
- Difficulty
- T6Difficult alpine: glacier and climbing skills required
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Aiguille du Midi 3D map
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Aiguille du Midi terrain and contours
200 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one, from Les Chavaux. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Aiguille du Midi weather
Tonight · Heavy snow · -18°C (0°F) · 2.6 mm · Wind 7 km/h SW
Aiguille du Midi forecast for the summit, about 3,842 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,269 m.
- Tonight-18°2.6 mm7 km/h SWBase -2°
- Today-18°-14°14.5 mm9 km/h SWBase -2 / 2°
- Sun-18°-7°17.9 mm10 km/h WBase -4 / 9°
- Mon-15°-4°–5 km/h NBase -1 / 12°
- Tue-9°0°–2 km/h SWBase 6 / 16°
- Wed-12°-5°–2 km/h NBase 4 / 11°
- Thu-12°-4°–1 km/h NEBase 3 / 12°
- Fri-13°-5°–2 km/h NWBase 2 / 11°
- Sat-13°-6°3.3 mm2 km/h NWBase 2 / 10°
- Sun-15°-9°1.6 mm3 km/h WBase 1 / 6°
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Aiguille du Midi
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Aiguille du Midi, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Refuge des Cosmiques
Nearest campsite
2.6 km N
Nearest parking
3.3 km NW
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Refuge des CosmiquesHut | 0.7 km SSW |
| Campsite | 2.6 km N |
| Refuge des Grands MuletsHut | 2.6 km WSW |
| Refuge du Plan de L'AiguilleHut | 3.0 km N |
| Parking | 3.3 km NW |
| Parking | 3.4 km NW |
| Parking | 3.4 km NW |
| Camping Les ArollesCampsite | 4.3 km NNW |
| Camping GCU de Chamonix-Les BossonsCampsite | 4.5 km NW |
How steep is the route to Aiguille du Midi?
The easiest mapped route, 22.1 km from 1,269 m to 3,842 m. Steepest stretch: 36°.
- 0–15°13.5 km
- 15–30°7.6 km
- 30–45°1.0 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 230 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Aiguille du Midi summit.
Summit list 7
- 1Triangle du Tacul3,970 m 2.0 km S
- 2Mont Blanc du Tacul4,248 m 2.5 km S
- 3L'Isolée4,114 m 2.7 km S
- 4Pointe Carmen4,109 m 2.7 km S
- 5Pointe Médiane4,097 m 2.7 km S
- 6Pointe Chaubert4,074 m 2.8 km S
- 7Corne du Diable4,064 m 2.8 km S
Where Aiguille du Midi sits
- Range
- Alps751Western Alps353Northwestern Alps309Graian Alps31Northern Graian Alps20Mont Blanc Alps19Mont Blanc massif19
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes44France176Europe2,143
- Protected area
- Mont Blanc - site d'exception7
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Bossons Glacier↑1.8 km WNW
Mont MauditPeak · 4,465 m↑3.7 km SSW
Tour RondePeak · 3,792 m↑4.1 km SSE
Pointe HelbronnerPeak · 3,462 m↑4.9 km SE
Col du GéantPass · 3,341 m↑5.0 km SE
More in the Mont Blanc massif 6
Aiguille du Midi downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
144 m low This 3D map reads 3,698 m at the summit; the official height is 3,842 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 157 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 3,842 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 3,698 m | -144 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 3,685 m | -157 m |
Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-07-24)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Accuracy comparison, Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia