Mountain · British Columbia

Big White Mountain

2,315 m7,595 ft

Prominence: 1,108 m3,635 ft
Isolation: 24 km
Tonight: -10°CPartly cloudy · Wind 9 km/h NW

Big White Mountain is a 2,315 m (7,595 ft) mountain in British Columbia, Canada.

All facts

Elevation: 2,315 m · 7,595 ft
Nearest higher peak: Lucifer Peak (2,726 m)
Region: British Columbia, Canada
Coordinates: 49.7440° N, 118.9349° W

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3D map

Big White Mountain 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Big White Mountain terrain and contours

50 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 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

Big White Mountain elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Big White Mountain weather

Today · Clear · -10 / -5°C (14 / 23°F) · Wind 9 km/h NW

Big White Mountain forecast for the summit, about 2,315 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,409 m.

Today-10°-5°–9 km/h NWBase -5 / 0°
Sat-8°-2°0.1 mm8 km/h SBase -2 / 4°
Sun-8°3°–10 km/h SEBase -2 / 8°
Mon-7°2°2.0 mm5 km/h NBase -2 / 7°
Tue-5°-3°5.8 mm6 km/h SWBase 0 / 3°
Wed-8°-4°6.2 mm5 km/h SBase -2 / 1°
Thu-9°-5°9.5 mm6 km/h SBase -3 / 0°
Fri-18°-6°1.0 mm4 km/h SWBase -12 / 0°
Sat-15°-7°–1 km/h SBase -9 / -2°
Sun-11°-5°–5 km/h SBase -6 / 1°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Big White Mountain

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

Nearest parking
2.7 km SE
+2 more within 3.1 km
Directions Map
Nearest hut
White House Cabin
3.7 km NE
Directions Map

All mapped places 4

Place	Distance
Parking	2.7 km SE
Parking	3.1 km S
Parking	3.1 km SSE
White House CabinHut	3.7 km NE

Slope

Share of the 8.4 × 8.4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 72% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

72.2%

Moderate, 15–30°

25.7%

Steep, 30–45°

2.1%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 2.1% of the 71 km² view
Relief in view: 904 m low point 1,409 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 88.2%Grassland 7.6%Moss & lichen 1.7%Bare rock / sparse 1.7%Built-up 0.7%

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

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4.2 km; 248 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

White pasqueflower88
Pink mountainheath61
Green false hellebore52
Creeping sibbaldia48
Sitka valerian48
Subalpine fir47

Where it sits

Where Big White Mountain sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Osoyoos Lake277 m91 km SSW

Downloads

Big White Mountain downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGBig White Mountain satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-18.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 2,313 m at the summit; the official height is 2,315 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	2,315 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	2,313 m	-2 m
Copernicus GLO-90	2,311 m	-4 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 2026-09-18)
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 · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Big White Mountain

West → east through the summit

Nearest parking

Nearest hut

Data sources