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Damavand
- Easiest route
- 5.0 km+1,998 m · about 4.5 h · T5
- Prominence
- 4,667 m15,312 ft
- Isolation
- at least 200 km
- Tonight
- -14°CPartly cloudy · Wind 2 km/h W
Damavand is a 5,610 m (18,406 ft) stratovolcano in the Alborz, Mazandaran Province, Iran.
All facts
- Elevation
- 5,610 m · 18,406 ft
- Range
- Alborz
- Region
- Mazandaran Province, Iran
- Coordinates
- 35.9543° N, 52.1107° E
How to get to the top of Damavand
3 mapped routes from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.
Easiest route: from Road end, 4.5 km SW of Damavand
- Distance
- 5.0 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,998 m(6,555 ft up)
- Time up
- about 4.5 h
- Difficulty
- T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Damavand 3D map
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Damavand 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
Damavand weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · -14°C (7°F) · Wind 2 km/h W
Damavand forecast for the summit, about 5,610 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 3,394 m.
- Tonight-14°–2 km/h WBase -1°
- Today-16°-8°6.9 mm16 km/h SBase -3 / 6°
- Sun-17°-8°2.4 mm13 km/h SWBase -3 / 5°
- Mon-16°-10°1.4 mm13 km/h SWBase -3 / 4°
- Tue-18°-10°3.0 mm5 km/h EBase -4 / 3°
- Wed-15°-10°0.3 mm4 km/h EBase -2 / 4°
- Thu-16°-8°0.8 mm5 km/h WBase -2 / 5°
- Fri-15°-8°0.1 mm5 km/h WBase -2 / 5°
- Sat-15°-7°0.3 mm6 km/h SWBase -1 / 6°
- Sun-15°-6°0.5 mm5 km/h SWBase -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 near Damavand
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Damavand, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
1.5 km NNE
Nearest hut
بارگاه سوم
Nearest parking
پارکینگ غربی
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Campsite | 1.5 km NNE |
| اردوگاه محیط زیست پیشرفته دماوندCampsite | 2.5 km NE |
| Campsite | 2.5 km W |
| بارگاه سومHut | 2.6 km S |
| پارکینگ غربیParking | 5.4 km W |
| Parking | 5.9 km S |
| Parking | 7.2 km WSW |
How steep is the route to Damavand?
The easiest mapped route, 5.0 km from 3,595 m to 5,610 m. Steepest stretch: 37°.
- 0–15°1.1 km
- 15–30°3.2 km
- 30–45°0.7 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 10 km, measured from the Damavand summit.
Summit list 6
- 1Dagh4,164 m 2.6 km NW
- 2Maziar4,150 m 2.7 km ENE
- 3Karna4,212 m 3.1 km SSE
- 4منار3,750 m 6.5 km ENE
- 5Laroosar3,730 m 9.0 km NNW
- 6Enar3,782 m 9.8 km NW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 90 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Bracteate Oriental Poppy17
- Horned sainfoin10
- Horned Lark7
- Erebia iranica7
- Gerhard's Black Hairstreak7
- Northern Wheatear6
Where Damavand sits
- Range
- Alborz4
- Region
- Mazandaran Province3Iran16Asia964
Nearby places
TochalPeak · 3,964 m↑63 km W
Chitgar Lake↑84 km WSW
Alam-KuhPeak · 4,848 m↑114 km WNW
Alma Gol Lake↑272 km NE
More in the Alborz 1
Damavand downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
11 m low This 3D map reads 5,599 m at the summit; the official height is 5,610 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 5,610 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 5,599 m | -11 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 5,591 m | -19 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 2026-09-23)
- 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