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Cime du Gélas

3,143 m10,312 ft

Prominence: 672 m2,204 ft
Isolation: 8.5 km
Tonight: -7°CFair · Wind 4 km/h N

Cime du Gélas is a 3,143 m (10,312 ft) mountain in the Gruppo Gelas-Grand Capelet, Piedmont, Italy.

All facts

Elevation: 3,143 m · 10,312 ft
Nearest higher peak: Cima Genova (3,191 m)
Range: Gruppo Gelas-Grand Capelet
Region: Piedmont, Italy
Protected area: Parco naturale delle Alpi Marittime
Spanish name: Monte Gelas
Coordinates: 44.1224° N, 7.3846° E

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3D map

Cime du Gélas 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Cime du Gélas 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

Cime du Gélas elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Cime du Gélas weather

Tonight · Fair · -7°C (19°F) · Wind 4 km/h N

Cime du Gélas forecast for the summit, about 3,143 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,445 m.

Tonight-7°–4 km/h NBase 3°
Today-8°-2°–9 km/h SWBase 3 / 9°
Sun-6°4°–9 km/h SWBase 5 / 14°
Mon-3°5°–8 km/h SBase 7 / 15°
Tue-3°7°–6 km/h SBase 8 / 17°
Wed-4°6°–7 km/h NEBase 6 / 17°
Thu-4°2°0.2 mm5 km/h SBase 6 / 13°
Fri-4°1°0.4 mm5 km/h SBase 6 / 11°
Sat-6°0°–6 km/h SBase 5 / 10°
Sun-6°0°0.4 mm7 km/h SBase 4 / 10°

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, 23:19 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Cime du Gélas

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

Nearest hut
Bivacco Moncalieri
1.0 km NNE · +2 more within 2.4 km
Directions Map
Nearest parking
3.8 km SW
+2 more within 5.2 km
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Nearest campsite
Camping Sotto il Faggio
6.2 km N
Directions Map

All mapped places 7

Place	Distance
Bivacco MoncalieriHut	1.0 km NNE
Rifugio PagarìHut	1.8 km E
C.A.F.Hut	2.4 km SSE
Parking	3.8 km SW
Parking	3.9 km SW
Parking	5.2 km SW
Camping Sotto il FaggioCampsite	6.2 km N

Slope

Share of the 6.6 × 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°

8.3%

Moderate, 15–30°

33.9%

Steep, 30–45°

45.2%

Cliffs, 45° and over

12.6%

Steeper than 30°: 57.8% of the 44 km² view
Relief in view: 1,631 m low point 1,445 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 58.4%Bare rock / sparse 34.5%Trees 5.9%Water 0.7%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3.3 km, measured from the Cime du Gélas summit.

Summit list 7

1Cime Borello2,985 m 0.8 km ENE
2Cima Maledia3,061 m 1.1 km E
3Caïre Cabret2,938 m 1.1 km SSE
4Caire del Muraion2,973 m 1.2 km ENE
5Cime de Peïrabroc2,947 m 2.2 km E
6Monte Clapier3,045 m 2.9 km ESE
7Cime Asquasciati3,010 m 3.1 km ESE

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.3 km; 254 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Northern Chamois132
Alpine Ibex121
Alpine Marmot25
Peacock-eye Pink15
Alpes-Maritime Mountain Grasshopper14
Mercantour Alpine Bush-cricket14

Where it sits

Where Cime du Gélas sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Col de la LombardePass · 2,350 m21 km WNW

Downloads

Cime du Gélas downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGCime du Gélas satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-10.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

67 m low This 3D map reads 3,076 m at the summit; the official height is 3,143 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 70 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	3,143 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	3,076 m	-67 m
Copernicus GLO-90	3,073 m	-70 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 2026-08-10)
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 · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Cime du Gélas

West → east through the summit

Nearest hut

Nearest parking

Nearest campsite

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