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Azhdahak

3,598 m11,804 ft

Easiest route: 3.9 km+497 m · about 2 h
Prominence: 1,296 m4,253 ft
Isolation: 69 km
Tonight: -6°CClear · Wind 4 km/h W

Azhdahak is a 3,598 m (11,804 ft) volcano in the Gegham mountains, Kotayk Province, Armenia.

All facts

Elevation: 3,598 m · 11,804 ft
Nearest higher peak: Mount Aragats (4,090 m)
Range: Gegham mountains
Region: Kotayk Province, Armenia
Coordinates: 40.2246° N, 44.9504° E

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Route

How to get to the top of Azhdahak

3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

Easiest route: from Road end, 3.4 km W of Azhdahak

Distance: 3.9 kmone way
Climb: +497 m−10 m (1,631 ft up)
Time up: about 2 h
Difficulty: Grade not mapped

Azhdahak elevation profile

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Other routes 2

Road end, 5.0 km SE of Azhdahak6.8 km · +536 m · about 2.5 h
Grade not mappedGPX KML
Road end, 5.0 km WSW of Azhdahak5.8 km · +703 m · about 2.5 h
Grade not mappedGPX KML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Azhdahak 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Azhdahak terrain and contours

50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-90 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.

Weather

Azhdahak weather

Tonight · Clear · -6°C (21°F) · Wind 4 km/h W

Azhdahak forecast for the summit, about 3,598 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 3,094 m.

Tonight-6°–4 km/h WBase -2°
Today-6°2°0.3 mm10 km/h SWBase -2 / 4°
Sun-7°0°0.8 mm10 km/h WBase -2 / 2°
Mon-6°1°–14 km/h WBase -2 / 4°
Tue-4°3°–5 km/h WBase 0 / 5°
Wed-2°4°0.4 mm8 km/h SBase 2 / 6°
Thu-4°-1°7.0 mm8 km/h SEBase -1 / 3°
Fri-4°0°5.5 mm10 km/h SBase -1 / 3°
Sat-7°-2°–8 km/h WBase -3 / 1°
Sun-5°-1°0.7 mm6 km/h SWBase -1 / 2°

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, 23:19 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Azhdahak

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Azhdahak, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest campsite
1.2 km SE
+2 more within 1.4 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Campsite	1.2 km SE
Campsite	1.3 km NNW
Campsite	1.4 km NNW

Slope

How steep is the route to Azhdahak?

The easiest mapped route, 3.9 km from 3,094 m to 3,598 m. Steepest stretch: 25°.

0 km · 3,094 m3.9 km · 3,598 m

0–15°3.3 km
15–30°0.6 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 50 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 84.9%Bare rock / sparse 10.1%Moss & lichen 4.7%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 4.6 km, measured from the Azhdahak summit.

Summit list 8

1Red Ridge3,530 m 1.1 km SW
2Dimatsler3,307 m 2.2 km WNW
3Geloyisar3,132 m 2.6 km NE
4Nazeli3,312 m 3.1 km SE
5Western Aghusar3,458 m 3.2 km NNW
6Eastern Aghusar3,434 m 3.3 km N
7Paytasar3,177 m 3.6 km SW
8Agusar3,335 m 4.1 km NNW

Where it sits

Where Azhdahak sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Lake Kari3,188 m71 km WNW

Azhdahak downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGAzhdahak satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-05.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXAzhdahak GPX / KML route downloadIn the route section. Mapped route for GPS apps and Google Earth, under the ODbL.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

12 m low This 3D map reads 3,586 m at the summit; the official height is 3,598 m.

Why: a 90 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	3,598 m	—
Copernicus GLO-90 (used on this page)	3,586 m	-12 m

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using 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.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-05)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Azhdahak

Easiest route: from Road end, 3.4 km W of Azhdahak

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

Data sources