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Giant's Castle

3,315 m10,876 ft

Prominence: 217 m711 ft
Isolation: 3.8 km
Tonight: 2°CFog · Wind 12 km/h NW

Giant's Castle is a 3,315 m (10,876 ft) mountain in the Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

All facts

Elevation: 3,315 m · 10,876 ft
Nearest higher peak: Popple Peak (3,331 m)
Range: Drakensberg
Region: KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Coordinates: 29.3462° S, 29.4829° E

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3D map

Giant's Castle 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Giant's Castle topographic map

50 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 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

Giant's Castle elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Downloads

Giant's Castle downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGGiant's Castle satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-03-11.

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GIS & GPS

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Weather

Giant's Castle weather

Tonight · Fog · 2°C (36°F) · Wind 12 km/h NW

Giant's Castle forecast for the summit, about 3,315 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,967 m.

Tonight2°–12 km/h NWBase 10°
Today3°10°0.3 mm16 km/h NEBase 11 / 19°
Sun5°16°2.5 mm22 km/h NWBase 13 / 24°
Mon5°14°5.8 mm24 km/h NWBase 14 / 22°
Tue1°11°1.6 mm18 km/h SBase 9 / 19°
Wed3°10°–8 km/h EBase 11 / 18°
Thu4°11°0.3 mm6 km/h EBase 12 / 19°
Fri6°13°–7 km/h EBase 15 / 21°
Sat8°18°–16 km/h SEBase 16 / 26°
Sun5°12°10.2 mm8 km/h EBase 13 / 20°

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.

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

18.1%

Moderate, 15–30°

43.3%

Steep, 30–45°

31.2%

Cliffs, 45° and over

7.4%

Steeper than 30°: 38.6% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 1,328 m low point 1,967 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 97.4%Shrubland 1.9%

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 Giant's Castle summit.

Summit list 3

1The Gable2,979 m 2.2 km E
2Long Wall3,260 m 2.3 km W
3The Needle2,645 m 2.9 km E

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 70 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Bearded Vulture8
Jackal Buzzard7
Greater Double-collared Sunbird7
Buff-streaked Chat7
Cape Griffon5
White-necked Raven5

Where it sits

Where Giant's Castle sits

Nearby

Nearby places

Accuracy

How accurate is this?

20 m low This 3D map reads 3,295 m at the summit; the official height is 3,315 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 35 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	3,315 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	3,295 m	-20 m
Copernicus GLO-90	3,280 m	-35 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 2026-03-11)
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