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Mountain · North Cascades · British Columbia

Cheam Peak

2,104 m6,903 ft
Prominence
335 m1,098 ft
Isolation
1.5 km
Tonight
-6°CPartly cloudy · Wind 5 km/h SE

Cheam Peak is a 2,104 m (6,903 ft) mountain in the North Cascades, British Columbia, Canada.

All facts
Elevation
2,104 m · 6,903 ft
Nearest higher peak
Lady Peak (2,178 m)
Range
North Cascades
Region
British Columbia, Canada
Coordinates
49.1860° N, 121.6824° W
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3D map

Cheam Peak 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Cheam Peak 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

Cheam Peak elevation profile

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.
Weather

Cheam Peak weather

Today · Fair · -6 / -2°C (21 / 28°F) · Wind 5 km/h SE

Cheam Peak forecast for the summit, about 2,104 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 12 m.

  • Today-6°-2°–5 km/h SEBase 6 / 11°
  • Sat-6°-3°8.0 mm8 km/h EBase 7 / 10°
  • Sun-4°0°3.8 mm9 km/h NEBase 8 / 13°
  • Mon-5°0°1.2 mm5 km/h EBase 7 / 13°
  • Tue-5°-1°13.3 mm3 km/h SEBase 8 / 11°
  • Wed-8°-4°16.6 mm2 km/h NWBase 5 / 9°
  • Thu-10°-5°6.1 mm4 km/h NBase 3 / 8°
  • Fri-12°-6°3.1 mm5 km/h SEBase 0 / 6°
  • Sat-8°-6°0.2 mm2 km/h SEBase 5 / 6°
  • Sun-5°-1°0.3 mm4 km/h SEBase 7 / 12°

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.

Slope

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 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°
12.4%
Moderate, 15–30°
30.4%
Steep, 30–45°
44.8%
Cliffs, 45° and over
12.4%
Steeper than 30°
57.2% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view
2,180 m low point 12 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 73.8%Grassland 16.5%Bare rock / sparse 5.6%Snow & ice 1.9%Moss & lichen 1.5%

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 3 km; 207 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Hydaspe Fritillary28
  • Mormon Fritillary26
  • Glacier Lily25
  • Green false hellebore25
  • Hoary Comma22
  • Sitka valerian22
Where it sits

Where Cheam Peak sits

Range
American Cordillera467North American Cordillera271Pacific Coast Ranges119Cascade Range35North Cascades9
Region
British Columbia115Canada331North America1,313
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
More in the North Cascades 6
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Downloads

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

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

30 m low This 3D map reads 2,074 m at the summit; the official height is 2,104 m.Official 2,104 m90 m model 2,066 mThis map 2,074 m

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 38 m.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)2,104 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)2,074 m-30 m
Copernicus GLO-902,066 m-38 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 2026-08-07)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
Summits
© OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
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