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Mountain · Schwyzer Voralpen · Canton of Schwyz

Fronalpstock

1,920 m6,299 ft

Easiest route: 2.9 km+480 m · about 1.5 h · T2
Prominence: 190 m623 ft
Isolation: 3.0 km
Tonight: -3°CSnow · Wind 15 km/h W

Fronalpstock is a 1,920 m (6,299 ft) mountain in the Schwyzer Voralpen, Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland.

All facts

Elevation: 1,920 m · 6,299 ft
Nearest higher peak: Chlingenstock (1,935 m)
Range: Schwyzer Voralpen
Region: Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland
Coordinates: 46.9679° N, 8.6374° E

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Route

How to get to the top of Fronalpstock

3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

Easiest route: from Road end near Stoos

Distance: 2.9 kmone way
Climb: +480 m(1,575 ft up)
Time up: about 1.5 h
Difficulty: T2Mountain trail, sure footing needed

Fronalpstock elevation profile

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Other routes 2

Road end near Stoos4.1 km · +628 m · about 2 h
T2GPX KML
Road end, 2.1 km N of Fronalpstock4.2 km · +1,165 m · about 3 h
T4GPX KML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Fronalpstock 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Fronalpstock terrain and contours

50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one, from Stoos. 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 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

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

Fronalpstock weather

Tonight · Snow · -3°C (27°F) · 0.6 mm · Wind 15 km/h W

Fronalpstock forecast for the summit, about 1,920 m.

Tonight-3°0.6 mm15 km/h W
Today-3°0°9.6 mm14 km/h SE
Sun-1°5°11.4 mm21 km/h NW
Mon-2°5°–8 km/h SE
Tue1°11°–5 km/h NW
Wed2°4°1.0 mm6 km/h NW
Thu-1°5°–7 km/h NW
Fri-2°5°–4 km/h NW
Sat-2°4°0.4 mm5 km/h NW
Sun-2°2°14.2 mm4 km/h N

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.

Slope

How steep is the route to Fronalpstock?

The easiest mapped route, 2.9 km from 1,429 m to 1,920 m. Steepest stretch: 31°.

0 km · 1,429 m2.9 km · 1,920 m

0–15°2.5 km
15–30°0.4 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 30 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 44.6%Grassland 33.3%Water 20.4%Built-up 1.3%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Fronalpstock summit.

Summit list 4

1Charenstöckli1,811 m 0.8 km NE
2Huser Stock1,904 m 1.2 km SE
3Firenstöckli1,715 m 2.1 km E
4Rot Turm1,893 m 2.6 km ESE

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 346 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Perennial Cornflower20
Silver Thistle18
Bladder campion14
Old World Swallowtail14
European Globeflower13
Clustered bellflower12

Where it sits

Where Fronalpstock sits

Ranked in 2

Nearby

Nearby places

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

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Print & wall

JPGFronalpstock satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-25.

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

10 m low This 3D map reads 1,910 m at the summit; the official height is 1,920 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	1,920 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	1,910 m	-10 m
Copernicus GLO-90	1,903 m	-17 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 2026-09-25)
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