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Cho Oyu
- Mapped trail
- 4.4 km+280 m · about 1.5 h · T2Ends 2,490 m below the summit.
- Prominence
- 2,349 m7,706 ft
- Isolation
- 28 km
- Tonight
- -35°CFog · Wind 14 km/h SW
Cho Oyu is an 8,188 m (26,864 ft) mountain in the Mahalangur Himal, Eastern Development Region, Nepal.
All facts
- Elevation
- 8,188 m · 26,864 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Everest (8,849 m)
- Range
- Mahalangur Himal
- Region
- Eastern Development Region, Nepal
- Protected area
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Coordinates
- 28.0968° N, 86.6604° E
Trails toward Cho Oyu
Mapped trails from the road get to 2,490 m below the summit, typically a pass, lake or camp. The top itself is a mountaineering climb with no mapped route.
From Road end, 8.3 km NW of Cho Oyu
- Distance
- 4.4 kmone way
- Climb
- +280 m−112 m (919 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1.5 h
- Difficulty
- T2Mountain trail, sure footing needed
Ends 2,490 m below the summit.
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Cho Oyu 3D map
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Cho Oyu terrain and contours
200 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
Cho Oyu weather
Tonight · Fog · -35°C (-31°F) · Wind 14 km/h SW
Cho Oyu forecast for the summit, about 8,188 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 5,491 m.
- Tonight-35°–14 km/h SWBase -18°
- Today-35°-24°0.1 mm20 km/h SBase -17 / -7°
- Sun-33°-24°–21 km/h SBase -16 / -7°
- Mon-33°-22°0.2 mm18 km/h SBase -15 / -5°
- Tue-33°-24°–12 km/h SBase -15 / -6°
- Wed-33°-23°0.5 mm8 km/h SBase -15 / -5°
- Thu-28°-22°33.3 mm6 km/h SBase -10 / -5°
- Fri-22°-21°107.4 mm9 km/h SBase -5 / -4°
- Sat-27°-20°5.3 mm13 km/h SBase -11 / -4°
- Sun-29°-22°–6 km/h SBase -12 / -5°
- Mon-30°-24°0.1 mm8 km/h SBase -14 / -6°
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 Cho Oyu
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Cho Oyu, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
7.7 km SSE
All mapped places 1
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Campsite | 7.7 km SSE |
How steep is the route to Cho Oyu?
The easiest mapped route, 4.4 km from 5,491 m to 5,660 m. Steepest stretch: 20°.
- 0–15°4.3 km
- 15–30°0.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 50 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 6.7 km, measured from the Cho Oyu summit.
Summit list 9
- 1Ngozumpa Kang I7,916 m 2.6 km ENE
- 2Chamar7,287 m 2.7 km SSW
- 3Cho Aui II7,321 m 3.8 km SW
- 4Palung Ri7,022 m 3.9 km NNW
- 5Ngojumba Kang II7,743 m 4.5 km ENE
- 6Nangpai Gosum7,350 m 5.4 km WSW
- 7Ngozumpa Kang III7,664 m 5.4 km ENE
- 8China - Nepal Friendship Peak6,592 m 5.7 km W
- 9Siguang7,309 m 6.2 km NNE
Where Cho Oyu sits
- Range
- Himalayas121Mahalangur Himal12
- Region
- China121Eastern Development Region10Nepal73Asia964
- Protected area
- Sagarmatha National Park12
Nearby places
Lunag RiPeak · 6,895 m↑12 km WSW
Gokyo RiPeak · 5,357 m↑15 km S
Cho LaPass · 5,420 m↑18 km SSE
PumoriPeak · 7,161 m↑19 km ESE
Kala PattharPeak · 5,645 m↑20 km SE
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How accurate is this?
35 m low This 3D map reads 8,153 m at the summit; the official height is 8,188 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 41 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 8,188 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 8,153 m | -35 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 8,147 m | -41 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 2026-09-28)
- 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)
- 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 · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia