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Gauri Sankar

7,134 m23,406 ft

Prominence: 1,625 m5,331 ft
Isolation: 9.1 km
Tonight: -23°CLight snow showers · Wind 13 km/h S

Gauri Sankar is a 7,134 m (23,406 ft) mountain in the Himalayas, Bagmati Province, Nepal.

All facts

Elevation: 7,134 m · 23,406 ft
Nearest higher peak: Nangpai Gosum (7,350 m)
Range: Himalayas
Region: Bagmati Province, Nepal
Protected area: Gaurishankar Conservation Area
Spanish name: Gaurishankar
Coordinates: 27.9560° N, 86.3368° E

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3D map

Gauri Sankar 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Gauri Sankar terrain and contours

200 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 1,000 mShowing west → east through the summit

Gauri Sankar elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Gauri Sankar weather

Today · Light snow showers · -23 / -12°C (-9 / 10°F) · 1.8 mm · Wind 13 km/h S

Gauri Sankar forecast for the summit, about 7,134 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 3,107 m.

Today-23°-12°1.8 mm13 km/h SBase 1 / 12°
Sun-24°-11°0.2 mm13 km/h SBase 0 / 13°
Mon-22°-10°–13 km/h SBase 2 / 14°
Tue-21°-9°–8 km/h SBase 3 / 15°
Wed-22°-9°–9 km/h SBase 2 / 15°
Thu-17°-14°26.1 mm3 km/h SWBase 7 / 10°
Fri-17°-15°86.3 mm1 km/h WBase 7 / 9°
Sat-24°-13°9.6 mm4 km/h SBase 0 / 12°
Sun-26°-11°0.1 mm5 km/h SBase -2 / 13°
Mon-26°-12°0.1 mm5 km/h SBase -2 / 13°

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

Camping & parking near Gauri Sankar

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

Nearest campsite
5.9 km S
+1 more within 7.0 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 2

Place	Distance
Campsite	5.9 km S
Campsite	7.0 km SW

Slope

Share of the 10.8 × 10.8 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°

6.2%

Moderate, 15–30°

25.8%

Steep, 30–45°

43.4%

Cliffs, 45° and over

24.6%

Steeper than 30°: 68.0% of the 117 km² view
Relief in view: 3,803 m low point 3,107 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Snow & ice 34.0%Grassland 28.5%Bare rock / sparse 23.2%Moss & lichen 12.1%Trees 1.9%

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

Where it sits

Where Gauri Sankar sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

CholatsePeak · 6,440 m42 km E

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

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Print & wall

JPGGauri Sankar satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-12-17.

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

225 m low This 3D map reads 6,909 m at the summit; the official height is 7,134 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 233 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	7,134 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	6,909 m	-225 m
Copernicus GLO-90	6,901 m	-233 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 2025 (scene 2025-12-17)
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

Gauri Sankar

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

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