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Grand Ballon
- Easiest route
- 0.6 km+66 m · about 0.5 h · T1
- Prominence
- 1,072 m3,516 ft
- Isolation
- 67 km
- Tonight
- -2°CSnow · Wind 26 km/h W
Grand Ballon is a 1,424 m (4,672 ft) mountain in the Higher Vosges, Grand Est, France.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,424 m · 4,672 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Feldberg (1,494 m)
- Range
- Higher Vosges
- Region
- Grand Est, France
- Spanish name
- Gran Ballon
- Coordinates
- 47.9010° N, 7.0985° E
How to get to the top of Grand Ballon
2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 0.5 km NE of Grand Ballon
- Distance
- 0.6 kmone way
- Climb
- +66 m(217 ft up)
- Time up
- about 0.5 h
- Difficulty
- T1Easy trail, trainers are fine
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Grand Ballon 3D map
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Grand Ballon terrain and contours
50 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
Grand Ballon weather
Tonight · Snow · -2°C (28°F) · 1.8 mm · Wind 26 km/h W
Grand Ballon forecast for the summit, about 1,424 m.
- Tonight-2°1.8 mm26 km/h W
- Today-1°2°16.7 mm31 km/h SW
- Sun-1°5°19.0 mm32 km/h SW
- Mon-1°5°–12 km/h W
- Tue2°13°0.4 mm8 km/h W
- Wed0°8°0.1 mm5 km/h N
- Thu0°7°–7 km/h NE
- Fri-1°7°–4 km/h SE
- Sat-1°5°3.7 mm4 km/h SE
- Sun-2°4°2.5 mm13 km/h W
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.
Camping & parking near Grand Ballon
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Grand Ballon, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.3 km E
Nearest caravan site
Aire de camping-car du Grand Ballon
Nearest hut
Abri Oberer-Sattel
Nearest campsite
Natur'camp
All mapped places 12
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.3 km E |
| Parking | 0.5 km SE |
| Parking | 0.5 km NE |
| Aire de camping-car du Grand BallonCaravan site | 0.6 km NE |
| Abri Oberer-SattelHut | 0.7 km SSW |
| Refuge du RoedelenHut | 1.3 km NNE |
| Refuge du StorkenkopfHut | 1.9 km W |
| Natur'campCampsite | 3.7 km SW |
| Aire de Services MurbachCaravan site | 5.2 km ENE |
| Aire de camping car LinthalCaravan site | 5.4 km NNE |
| Campsite | 5.4 km WNW |
| Campsite | 5.4 km WNW |
How steep is the route to Grand Ballon?
The easiest mapped route, 0.6 km from 1,354 m to 1,424 m. Steepest stretch: 22°.
- 0–15°0.6 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 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 4.2 km, measured from the Grand Ballon summit.
Summit list 8
- 1Sattefels1,169 m 0.8 km SSW
- 2Storkenkopf1,366 m 1.3 km WNW
- 3Rennenbachfels1,068 m 1.3 km SSW
- 4Judenhut1,250 m 1.6 km NE
- 5Bessayfels1,044 m 2.4 km WSW
- 6Lochbochkopf981 m 2.7 km ENE
- 7Le Hundskopf1,238 m 2.9 km WNW
- 8Sudelkopf1,012 m 2.9 km SE
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4.2 km; 508 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Mountain Pansy35
- Fireweed22
- Purple foxglove16
- Great Yellow Gentian16
- Perennial Cornflower15
- Winged Broom13
Where Grand Ballon sits
- Range
- Vosges Mountains7
Nearby places
HartmannswillerkopfPeak · 957 m↑6.5 km SE
Col de BussangPass · 731 m↑15 km W
HohneckPeak · 1,363 m↑16 km NNW
Col de la SchluchtPass · 1,139 m↑19 km NNW
Lac BlancLake · 1,055 m↑25 km N
More in the Vosges Mountains 1
Grand Ballon downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 1,423 m at the summit; the official height is 1,424 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,424 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,423 m | -1 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,418 m | -6 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 2026-08-13)
- 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
- 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