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Drachenfels
- Easiest route
- 0.7 km+124 m · about 0.5 h · T1
- Prominence
- 74 m243 ft
- Isolation
- 1.7 km
- Tonight
- 5°CCloudy · Wind 27 km/h SW
Drachenfels is a 321 m (1,052 ft) extinct volcano in the Siebengebirge, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
All facts
- Elevation
- 321 m · 1,052 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Geisberg (324 m)
- Range
- Siebengebirge
- Region
- North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Coordinates
- 50.6651° N, 7.2106° E
How to get to the top of Drachenfels
2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 0.4 km NNW of Drachenfels
- Distance
- 0.7 kmone way
- Climb
- +124 m−22 m (407 ft up)
- Time up
- about 0.5 h
- Difficulty
- T1Easy trail, trainers are fine
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Drachenfels 3D map
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Drachenfels terrain and contours
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
Drachenfels weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 5°C (41°F) · 3.6 mm · Wind 27 km/h SW
Drachenfels forecast for the summit, about 321 m.
- Tonight5°3.6 mm27 km/h SW
- Today6°11°20.8 mm39 km/h S
- Sun7°13°0.2 mm31 km/h W
- Mon7°12°3.1 mm19 km/h S
- Tue10°16°0.3 mm14 km/h S
- Wed6°12°–13 km/h W
- Thu4°13°–5 km/h SE
- Fri3°11°–5 km/h SE
- Sat3°9°–9 km/h SE
- Sun3°8°3.5 mm9 km/h SW
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.
Camping & parking near Drachenfels
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Drachenfels, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Ziepchensplatz
Nearest campsite
Campingplatz Genienau
Nearest caravan site
1.9 km NW
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.5 km SSW |
| Parking | 0.5 km SSW |
| ZiepchensplatzParking | 0.6 km SSE |
| Campingplatz GenienauCampsite | 1.3 km SSW |
| Caravan site | 1.9 km NW |
| Rheincamping SiebengebirgsblickCampsite | 2.0 km S |
| RheinschlafenCampsite | 2.4 km S |
| Wohnmobilstellplatz Sportplatz KönigswinterCaravan site | 4.4 km NW |
| Wohnmobilstellplatz SiebengebirgsblickCaravan site | 4.9 km SSE |
How steep is the route to Drachenfels?
The easiest mapped route, 0.7 km from 208 m to 321 m. Steepest stretch: 42°.
- 0–15°0.4 km
- 15–30°0.2 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 10 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 Drachenfels summit.
Summit list 8
- 1Erpelntalskopf383 m 2.5 km ENE
- 2Merkenshöhe390 m 2.8 km E
- 3Lohrberg432 m 2.8 km ENE
- 4Löwenburg455 m 2.8 km E
- 5Trenkeberg430 m 3.0 km E
- 6Poßberg375 m 3.1 km E
- 7Großer Ölberg460 m 3.3 km NE
- 8Scheerkopf385 m 3.3 km E
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 5 km; 1,507 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Eurasian Blue Tit128
- Great Tit85
- Eurasian Blackbird84
- Common Wall Lizard75
- European holly65
- Common Buzzard58
Where Drachenfels sits
- Range
- Rhenish Massif6
- Region
- North Rhine-Westphalia5Germany118Europe2,143
Nearby places
Ahr Valley↑18 km SW
Laacher SeeLake · 275 m↑28 km S
PulvermaarLake · 411 m↑63 km SSW
Moselle Valley↑63 km S
LoreleyPeak · 109 m↑69 km SSE
More in the Rhenish Massif 4
Drachenfels downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 313 m at the summit; the official height is 321 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 321 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 313 m | -8 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 303 m | -18 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 2026-08-13)
- 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