Barun Valley
- Depth
- 1,650 m
- Rim
- 5,568 m
- Length
- 20.7 km
- Tonight
- -13°CLight snow showers · Wind 11 km/h SE
Barun Valley is up to 1,650 m deep: the rim reaches 5,568 m and the floor 2,454 m, along 20.7 km.
All facts
- Floor
- 2,454 m
Depth of Barun Valley
Up to 1,650 m deep (typically 1,157 m) along the 20.7 km in view.
Rim = the lower side's highest point within 6 km. Centreline follows the river (no mapped valley line).
Barun Valley 3D map
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Barun Valley terrain and contours
200 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.
Barun Valley elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Barun Valley weather
Today · Light snow showers · -13 / -7°C (9 / 19°F) · 1.9 mm · Wind 11 km/h SE
Barun Valley forecast for about 5,568 m.
- Today-13°-7°1.9 mm11 km/h SE
- Sun-14°-6°1.0 mm12 km/h SE
- Mon-14°-5°0.3 mm9 km/h SE
- Tue-13°-4°–9 km/h S
- Wed-15°-4°0.1 mm8 km/h SE
- Thu-9°-6°46.7 mm3 km/h NW
- Fri-7°-6°136.8 mm4 km/h SW
- Sat-9°-6°3.5 mm6 km/h S
- Sun-9°-5°0.3 mm4 km/h SE
- Mon-12°-5°0.3 mm4 km/h NW
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 near Barun Valley
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Barun Valley, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Langmale Kharka Teahouse
All mapped places 2
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Langmale Kharka TeahouseHut | 4.1 km NW |
| Phematang Tea HouseHut | 4.7 km SE |
Slope
Share of the 14.8 × 14.8 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.
- Steeper than 30°
- 57.8% of the 219 km² view
- Relief in view
- 3,935 m low point 2,367 m
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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 7.4 km; 97 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Bistorta vacciniifolia9
- Satin poppy8
- Blue Poppy7
- Himalayan snowberry7
- Cyananthus lobatus6
- Drooping juniper5
Where Barun Valley sits
Nearby places
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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 2025 (scene 2025-12-17)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- 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)