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Gran Paradiso
- Easiest route
- 8.1 km+2,006 m · about 5.5 h · T6
- Prominence
- 1,890 m6,202 ft
- Isolation
- 44 km
- Tonight
- -18°CLight snow · Wind 20 km/h NW
Gran Paradiso is a 4,061 m (13,323 ft) mountain in the Gran Paradiso massif, Aosta Valley, Italy.
All facts
- Elevation
- 4,061 m · 13,323 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Grandes Jorasses (4,208 m)
- Range
- Gran Paradiso massif
- Region
- Aosta Valley, Italy
- Protected area
- Gran Paradiso National Park
- Coordinates
- 45.5179° N, 7.2676° E
How to get to the top of Gran Paradiso
2 mapped routes from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.
Easiest route: from Road end, 4.8 km W of Gran Paradiso
- Distance
- 8.1 kmone way
- Climb
- +2,006 m−15 m (6,581 ft up)
- Time up
- about 5.5 h
- Difficulty
- T6Difficult alpine: glacier and climbing skills required
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Gran Paradiso 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 11.6 × 11.6 km
Gran Paradiso terrain and contours
100 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
Gran Paradiso weather
Tonight · Light snow · -18°C (0°F) · 0.2 mm · Wind 20 km/h NW
Gran Paradiso forecast for the summit, about 4,061 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 2,005 m.
- Tonight-18°0.2 mm20 km/h NWBase -5°
- Today-19°-15°3.7 mm13 km/h NWBase -6 / -3°
- Sun-20°-8°8.0 mm16 km/h NWBase -9 / 5°
- Mon-16°-6°–9 km/h NWBase -5 / 5°
- Tue-11°-1°–5 km/h NWBase 0 / 10°
- Wed-12°-4°–4 km/h NWBase -1 / 7°
- Thu-14°-6°–2 km/h SBase -2 / 7°
- Fri-16°-6°–4 km/h NWBase -5 / 6°
- Sat-16°-7°0.2 mm5 km/h NWBase -5 / 4°
- Sun-19°-8°0.4 mm5 km/h WBase -9 / 3°
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.
Camping & parking near Gran Paradiso
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Gran Paradiso, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Rifugio Vittorio Emanuele II Nuovo
Nearest parking
5.2 km WNW
Nearest campsite
Pont Breuil
Nearest trailhead
7.9 km SSE
All mapped places 10
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Rifugio Vittorio Emanuele II NuovoHut | 3.0 km W |
| Rifugio Federico ChabodHut | 3.3 km NW |
| Locale invernale Rifugio ChabodHut | 3.3 km NW |
| Parking | 5.2 km WNW |
| Parking | 5.2 km W |
| Parking | 5.2 km NW |
| Pont BreuilCampsite | 5.2 km W |
| Camping Gran ParadisoCampsite | 5.4 km NW |
| Campsite | 7.7 km NW |
| Trailhead | 7.9 km SSE |
How steep is the route to Gran Paradiso?
The easiest mapped route, 8.1 km from 2,005 m to 4,061 m. Steepest stretch: 25°.
- 0–15°4.4 km
- 15–30°3.7 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 90 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 5.8 km, measured from the Gran Paradiso summit.
Summit list 7
- 1Becca di Moncorvè3,875 m 0.7 km S
- 2Cresta Gastaldi3,894 m 0.7 km SE
- 3Punta Frassy3,924 m 0.8 km N
- 4Punta Farrar3,921 m 1.0 km N
- 5Punta Vaccarone3,886 m 1.1 km N
- 6Becca di Montandayné3,838 m 1.6 km N
- 7Herbétet3,778 m 3.0 km N
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 5.8 km; 631 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Alpine Ibex140
- Northern Chamois117
- Bearded Vulture114
- Alpine Marmot77
- Scarce Copper41
- Red Fox40
Where Gran Paradiso sits
- Range
- Alps751Gran Paradiso massif3
- Region
- Aosta Valley15Italy316Europe2,143
Nearby places
Gran Paradiso downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
57 m low This 3D map reads 4,004 m at the summit; the official height is 4,061 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 64 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 4,061 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 4,004 m | -57 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 3,997 m | -64 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)
- 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