Also on the map ofUri Alps ‹ Alps

Tödi · 3,612 m · 27 km ESE

Mountain · Uri Alps · Canton of Uri

Gitschen

2,513 m8,245 ft

Prominence: 90 m294 ft
Isolation: 1.0 km
Tonight: -8°CHeavy snow showers · Wind 8 km/h NW

Gitschen is a 2,513 m (8,245 ft) mountain in the Uri Alps, Canton of Uri, Switzerland.

All facts

Elevation: 2,513 m · 8,245 ft
Nearest higher peak: Uri-Rotstock (2,928 m)
Range: Uri Alps
Region: Canton of Uri, Switzerland
Coordinates: 46.8704° N, 8.5668° E

Open the 3D view

3D map

Gitschen 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 6 × 6 km

Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Gitschen terrain and contours

100 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 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

Gitschen elevation profile

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

Gitschen weather

Tonight · Heavy snow showers · -8°C (18°F) · 2.5 mm · Wind 8 km/h NW

Gitschen forecast for the summit, about 2,513 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 433 m.

Tonight-8°2.5 mm8 km/h NWBase 5°
Today-7°-4°9.4 mm11 km/h SEBase 5 / 8°
Sun-6°0°17.3 mm13 km/h SEBase 6 / 13°
Mon-7°3°–8 km/h SEBase 5 / 15°
Tue-2°10°–5 km/h SEBase 10 / 22°
Wed-1°2°1.7 mm6 km/h NWBase 11 / 15°
Thu-5°2°–7 km/h NWBase 8 / 15°
Fri-7°3°–4 km/h NBase 6 / 15°
Sat-8°2°0.7 mm6 km/h NWBase 5 / 15°
Sun-5°-1°15.4 mm6 km/h NBase 8 / 12°

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.

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 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°

11.1%

Moderate, 15–30°

29.2%

Steep, 30–45°

40.7%

Cliffs, 45° and over

18.9%

Steeper than 30°: 59.6% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 2,451 m low point 433 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 41.6%Trees 30.2%Bare rock / sparse 17.1%Snow & ice 7.4%Water 2.1%Moss & lichen 1.1%

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 Gitschen summit.

Summit list 8

1Gross Horn1,970 m 1.2 km ENE
2Rot Gitschen2,673 m 1.2 km SSW
3Wiss Horn1,959 m 1.2 km ENE
4Chli Schlieren2,156 m 2.5 km WNW
5Schlieren2,830 m 2.5 km W
6Uri-Rotstock2,928 m 2.6 km WSW
7Gitschenhöreli2,907 m 2.7 km SSW
8Brunnistock2,952 m 2.8 km SSW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 35 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Alpine Salamander5
Fox Moth3
European Globeflower2
Roman Snail2
Mount Cenis Bellflower2
Alpine Bluegrass2

Where it sits

Where Gitschen sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

SeewliseeLake · 2,026 m13 km ESE

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

Free files made in your browser from this page's terrain data. No sign-up; credit the sources below.

Print & wall

JPGGitschen satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-07-24.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

</>Embed this mapPaste this into your site to show the interactive 3D terrain, with a credit link back here.

<iframe src="https://topolu.com/embed/gitschen" width="100%" height="480" style="border:0" loading="lazy" allowfullscreen title="3D terrain of Gitschen"></iframe>
<p><a href="https://topolu.com/gitschen" rel="nofollow">Topolu</a></p>

Free to use with credit: see the data sources

Accuracy

How accurate is this?

11 m low This 3D map reads 2,502 m at the summit; the official height is 2,513 m.

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

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	2,513 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	2,502 m	-11 m
Copernicus GLO-90	2,494 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 2026-07-24)
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