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Grand Chavalard
- Prominence
- 446 m1,462 ft
- Isolation
- 3.4 km
- Tonight
- -11°CPartly cloudy · Wind 6 km/h NW
Grand Chavalard is a 2,901 m (9,518 ft) mountain in the Vaud Alps, Canton of Valais, Switzerland.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,901 m · 9,518 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Dent Favre (2,917 m)
- Range
- Vaud Alps
- Region
- Canton of Valais, Switzerland
- Coordinates
- 46.1785° N, 7.1132° E
Grand Chavalard 3D map
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Grand Chavalard 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.
Grand Chavalard elevation profile
West → east through the summit
Grand Chavalard weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · -11°C (12°F) · 2.5 mm · Wind 6 km/h NW
Grand Chavalard forecast for the summit, about 2,901 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 460 m.
- Tonight-11°2.5 mm6 km/h NWBase 4°
- Today-10°-8°11.2 mm8 km/h EBase 4 / 7°
- Sun-13°-3°14.9 mm6 km/h NEBase 1 / 12°
- Mon-13°0°–5 km/h NEBase 2 / 15°
- Tue-5°8°–2 km/h NEBase 9 / 22°
- Wed-5°4°0.1 mm4 km/h NWBase 10 / 18°
- Thu-8°3°–3 km/h NWBase 7 / 18°
- Fri-8°4°–5 km/h NWBase 7 / 19°
- Sat-8°2°0.6 mm5 km/h NWBase 6 / 17°
- Sun-7°-3°3.4 mm5 km/h NWBase 7 / 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.
Camping & parking near Grand Chavalard
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Grand Chavalard, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
L'Erié
Nearest hut
Cabane du Fénestral
Nearest caravan site
3.6 km SE
Nearest campsite
Camping de la Sarvaz
All mapped places 11
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| L'EriéParking | 1.5 km ESE |
| Cabane du FénestralHut | 1.5 km NW |
| Cabane de SorniotHut | 1.7 km SW |
| Les GarettesParking | 2.2 km SSW |
| Parking | 2.4 km SE |
| Cabane du DemècreHut | 2.4 km WSW |
| Caravan site | 3.6 km SE |
| Camping de la SarvazCampsite | 4.7 km ESE |
| La ChataigneraieCampsite | 5.9 km W |
| Camping La ChâtaigneraieCampsite | 6.0 km W |
| Bains de SaillonCaravan site | 6.3 km E |
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.
- Steeper than 30°
- 55.4% of the 36 km² view
- Relief in view
- 2,470 m low point 460 m
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 3 km, measured from the Grand Chavalard summit.
Summit list 6
- 1Six du Doe2,722 m 1.1 km NNW
- 2Le Petit Château2,575 m 1.2 km N
- 3Six Tremble2,701 m 2.4 km WNW
- 4Tête du Petit Cor2,670 m 2.7 km WNW
- 5Tita Sèri2,850 m 2.7 km NNW
- 6Pointe de la Grande Vire2,790 m 2.8 km WNW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 431 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Green-winged orchid169
- Pale-flowered Orchid24
- Willow Beauty19
- Provençal short-tailed blue18
- Alpine Ibex13
- Alpine Marmot13
Where Grand Chavalard sits
- Range
- Alps751Western Alps353Northwestern Alps309Bernese Alps65Vaud Alps5
- Region
- Canton of Valais117Switzerland432Europe2,143
Nearby places
Dents de MorclesPeak · 2,969 m↑3.7 km NW
Grand MuveranPeak · 3,051 m↑6.6 km N
Haut de CryPeak · 2,969 m↑9.3 km NE
Pierre AvoiPeak · 2,473 m↑9.5 km SE
Le CatognePeak · 2,598 m↑14 km S
More in the Vaud Alps 2
Grand Chavalard downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
34 m low This 3D map reads 2,867 m at the summit; the official height is 2,901 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 47 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,901 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,867 m | -34 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,854 m | -47 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 2026-09-22)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- 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