Cavehill
- Prominence
- 97 m319 ft
- Isolation
- 2.0 km
- Tonight
- 3°CCloudy · Wind 19 km/h S
Cavehill is a 370 m (1,214 ft) mountain in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
All facts
- Elevation
- 370 m · 1,214 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Black Mountain (389 m)
- Region
- Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- Coordinates
- 54.6482° N, 5.9506° W
Cavehill 3D map
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Cavehill topographic map
20 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.
West → east through the summit
Cavehill downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How to get to the top of Cavehill
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 0.1 km ESE of Cavehill
- Distance
- 0.9 kmone way
- Climb
- +54 m−47 m (177 ft up)
- Time up
- about 0.5 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Cavehill weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 3°C (37°F) · 0.2 mm · Wind 19 km/h S
Cavehill forecast for the summit, about 370 m.
- Tonight3°0.2 mm19 km/h S
- Today4°10°14.8 mm53 km/h SW
- Sun4°8°0.6 mm44 km/h W
- Mon5°10°11.3 mm33 km/h SE
- Tue6°8°1.6 mm33 km/h SW
- Wed6°10°2.5 mm21 km/h W
- Thu7°11°3.2 mm21 km/h SE
- Fri10°10°18.7 mm22 km/h SE
- Sat5°8°2.3 mm20 km/h W
- Sun3°6°0.7 mm21 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, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Cavehill
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Cavehill, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.8 km SE
Nearest caravan site
Jordanstown Loughshore Caravan Park
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.8 km SE |
| Parking | 0.8 km SE |
| Parking | 0.8 km SE |
| Jordanstown Loughshore Caravan ParkCaravan site | 5.6 km NE |
| Standing Stones Lodge Caravan ParkCaravan site | 8.0 km SW |
How steep is the route to Cavehill?
The easiest mapped route, 0.9 km from 353 m to 370 m. Steepest stretch: 17°.
- 0–15°0.9 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
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.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 5 km, measured from the Cavehill summit.
Summit list 3
- 1Collinward360 m 0.8 km NW
- 2Squires Hill374 m 2.1 km WSW
- 3Carnmoney Hill232 m 3.5 km NNE
Where Cavehill sits
- Region
- Northern Ireland6United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Lagan Valley↑13 km S
Portmore LoughLake↑23 km WSW
SlemishPeak · 437 m↑28 km NNW
Lough NeaghLake · 16 m↑29 km W
Slieve DonardPeak · 849 m↑52 km S
More 1
How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 365 m at the summit; the official height is 370 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 370 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 365 m | -5 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 362 m | -8 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 2026-08-24)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Accuracy comparison
- 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