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Mountain · catena Écrins-Grande Ruine-Agneaux · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Barre des Écrins

4,102 m13,458 ft

Prominence: 2,044 m6,706 ft
Isolation: 107 km
Tonight: -19°CFog · Wind 13 km/h W

Barre des Écrins is a 4,102 m (13,458 ft) mountain in the catena Écrins-Grande Ruine-Agneaux, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

All facts

Elevation: 4,102 m · 13,458 ft
Nearest higher peak: Picco Luigi Amedeo (4,469 m)
Range: catena Écrins-Grande Ruine-Agneaux
Region: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Protected area: Écrins National Park
Coordinates: 44.9224° N, 6.3582° E

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3D map

Barre des Écrins 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Barre des Écrins terrain and contours

100 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. 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 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

Barre des Écrins elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Barre des Écrins weather

Tonight · Fog · -19°C (-2°F) · Wind 13 km/h W

Barre des Écrins forecast for the summit, about 4,102 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,578 m.

Tonight-19°–13 km/h WBase -4°
Today-19°-14°1.3 mm12 km/h WBase -4 / 2°
Sun-15°-9°9.0 mm10 km/h WBase 1 / 6°
Mon-13°-5°–6 km/h NWBase 2 / 10°
Tue-11°-2°–4 km/h NWBase 5 / 13°
Wed-13°-5°–4 km/h NWBase 2 / 10°
Thu-13°-5°–2 km/h NWBase 2 / 10°
Fri-13°-6°–3 km/h NWBase 2 / 10°
Sat-13°-7°0.2 mm4 km/h NWBase 2 / 8°
Sun-15°-7°–4 km/h WBase 0 / 8°

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.

Slope

Share of the 12.2 × 12.2 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.

Gentle, 0–15°

10.1%

Moderate, 15–30°

26.5%

Steep, 30–45°

39.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

24.5%

Steeper than 30°: 63.5% of the 149 km² view
Relief in view: 2,443 m low point 1,578 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 65.8%Snow & ice 16.2%Grassland 10.9%Trees 3.4%Moss & lichen 3.1%Water 0.6%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 6.1 km, measured from the Barre des Écrins summit.

Summit list 8

1Clocher des Écrins3,808 m 0.8 km W
2Pic Sans Nom3,913 m 3.8 km SSE
3L'Ailefroide Centrale3,927 m 3.8 km S
4Ailefroide Pointe Fourastier3,908 m 3.8 km S
5Ailefroide Orientale3,847 m 3.9 km SSE
6Mont Pelvoux - Pointe Puiseux3,943 m 4.1 km SE
7L'Ailefroide Occidentale3,953 m 4.2 km S
8Mont Pelvoux - Pointe Durand3,932 m 4.3 km SE

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 6.1 km; 555 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Alpine Marmot57
Cobweb Houseleek42
Alpine willowherb40
Yellow-billed Chough39
Adenostyles leucophylla38
Creeping avens31

Where it sits

Where Barre des Écrins sits

Nearby

Nearby places

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Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGBarre des Écrins satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-22.

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

81 m low This 3D map reads 4,021 m at the summit; the official height is 4,102 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 87 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	4,102 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	4,021 m	-81 m
Copernicus GLO-90	4,015 m	-87 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 2026-09-22)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
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