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Bishorn

4,149 m13,612 ft

Easiest route: 12.5 km+2,496 m · about 7.5 h · T5
Prominence: 106 m349 ft
Isolation: 0.8 km
Tonight: -20°CSnow · Wind 11 km/h NW

Bishorn is a 4,149 m (13,612 ft) mountain in the Pennine Alps, Canton of Valais, Switzerland.

All facts

Elevation: 4,149 m · 13,612 ft
Nearest higher peak: Grand Gendarme (4,331 m)
Range: Pennine Alps
Region: Canton of Valais, Switzerland
Coordinates: 46.1176° N, 7.7149° E

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Route

How to get to the top of Bishorn

2 mapped routes from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.

Easiest route: from Parking, 6.8 km WNW of Bishorn

Distance: 12.5 kmone way
Climb: +2,496 m−174 m (8,189 ft up)
Time up: about 7.5 h
Difficulty: T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier

Bishorn elevation profile

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Other routes 1

Parking, 5.2 km ESE of Bishorn11.7 km · +3,208 m · about 8.5 h
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Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Bishorn 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Bishorn terrain and contours

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

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Bishorn weather

Tonight · Snow · -20°C (-4°F) · 1.2 mm · Wind 11 km/h NW

Bishorn forecast for the summit, about 4,149 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,421 m.

Tonight-20°1.2 mm11 km/h NWBase -4°
Today-19°-16°9.9 mm8 km/h NWBase -3 / 0°
Sun-23°-7°11.8 mm12 km/h NWBase -7 / 9°
Mon-17°-7°–7 km/h SBase -1 / 9°
Tue-11°-2°–1 km/h SBase 4 / 14°
Wed-14°-7°–2 km/h WBase 1 / 9°
Thu-15°-6°–1 km/h NWBase 1 / 9°
Fri-18°-8°–2 km/h WBase -2 / 8°
Sat-18°-10°3.2 mm3 km/h WBase -3 / 6°
Sun-18°-10°0.5 mm3 km/h NWBase -1 / 7°

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

Camping & parking near Bishorn

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

Nearest hut
Schalijochbiwak
2.7 km S · +2 more within 3.3 km
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Nearest parking
5.3 km ESE
+2 more within 5.5 km
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Nearest caravan site
Stellplatz Wildi
5.7 km ESE · +1 more within 7.5 km
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Nearest campsite
Attermenzen
6.3 km SE · +2 more within 7.5 km
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All mapped places 11

Place	Distance
SchalijochbiwakHut	2.7 km S
Cabane de Tracuit CASHut	3.1 km WNW
Cabane d'ArpitettazHut	3.3 km SW
Parking	5.3 km ESE
Parking	5.3 km ESE
Parking	5.5 km ESE
Stellplatz WildiCaravan site	5.7 km ESE
AttermenzenCampsite	6.3 km SE
Relais de la TzoucdanaCampsite	6.5 km W
AlphubelCampsite	7.5 km SE
Stellplatz ZinalCaravan site	7.5 km WNW

Slope

How steep is the route to Bishorn?

The easiest mapped route, 12.5 km from 1,793 m to 4,149 m. Steepest stretch: 26°.

0 km · 1,793 m12.5 km · 4,149 m

0–15°8.6 km
15–30°4.0 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 130 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Snow & ice 76.6%Bare rock / sparse 21.0%Moss & lichen 1.8%

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 Bishorn summit.

Summit list 6

1Grand Gendarme4,329 m 1.2 km SSW
2Weisshorn4,505 m 1.8 km S
3Tête de Milon3,693 m 1.9 km W
4Stier3,507 m 2.4 km NW
5Brunegghorn3,833 m 2.6 km ENE
6Schöllihorn3,500 m 2.9 km NE

Where it sits

Where Bishorn sits

Ranked in 2

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Zinal Glacier8.6 km SW

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

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Print & wall

JPGBishorn satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-27.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXBishorn 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?

26 m low This 3D map reads 4,123 m at the summit; the official height is 4,149 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 43 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	4,149 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	4,123 m	-26 m
Copernicus GLO-90	4,106 m	-43 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 2026-09-27)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
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

Bishorn

Easiest route: from Parking, 6.8 km WNW of Bishorn

West → east through the summit

Nearest hut

Nearest parking

Nearest caravan site

Nearest campsite

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