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Grand Muveran
- Easiest route
- 4.6 km+1,049 m · about 3 h · T5
- Prominence
- 1,012 m3,320 ft
- Isolation
- 8.3 km
- Tonight
- -11°CSnow · Wind 9 km/h NW
Grand Muveran is a 3,051 m (10,010 ft) mountain in the Vaud Alps, Canton of Valais, Switzerland.
All facts
- Elevation
- 3,051 m · 10,010 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Diablerets (3,216 m)
- Range
- Vaud Alps
- Region
- Canton of Valais, Switzerland
- Coordinates
- 46.2365° N, 7.1260° E
How to get to the top of Grand Muveran
3 mapped routes from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.
Easiest route: from Parking, 3.2 km ESE of Grand Muveran
- Distance
- 4.6 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,049 m−34 m (3,442 ft up)
- Time up
- about 3 h
- Difficulty
- T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Grand Muveran 3D map
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Grand Muveran 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
Grand Muveran weather
Tonight · Snow · -11°C (12°F) · 3.4 mm · Wind 9 km/h NW
Grand Muveran forecast for the summit, about 3,051 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,911 m.
- Tonight-11°3.4 mm9 km/h NWBase -5°
- Today-11°-9°12.4 mm8 km/h EBase -5 / -2°
- Sun-14°-4°12.6 mm7 km/h NWBase -6 / 3°
- Mon-13°1°–5 km/h NEBase -5 / 7°
- Tue-6°7°–2 km/h NEBase 1 / 13°
- Wed-6°3°0.1 mm4 km/h NWBase 1 / 10°
- Thu-9°3°–3 km/h NWBase -1 / 10°
- Fri-9°3°–5 km/h NWBase 0 / 11°
- Sat-9°1°0.6 mm5 km/h NWBase -1 / 9°
- Sun-8°-4°3.4 mm5 km/h NWBase -1 / 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, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Grand Muveran
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Grand Muveran, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Cabane Rambert
Nearest parking
2.1 km NW
Nearest campsite
Frassettes
Nearest caravan site
Stellplatz Gryon
All mapped places 8
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Cabane RambertHut | 0.9 km SE |
| Auberge et Restaurant du Pont de NantHut | 2.1 km NW |
| Parking | 2.1 km NW |
| Parking | 2.1 km NNW |
| Cabane de Plan NévéHut | 2.2 km NE |
| Parking | 3.2 km ESE |
| FrassettesCampsite | 6.4 km NW |
| Stellplatz GryonCaravan site | 6.7 km NW |
How steep is the route to Grand Muveran?
The easiest mapped route, 4.6 km from 1,911 m to 3,051 m. Steepest stretch: 31°.
- 0–15°3.1 km
- 15–30°1.3 km
- 30–45°0.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 50 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 km, measured from the Grand Muveran summit.
Summit list 7
- 1Petit Muveran2,810 m 1.5 km SSW
- 2Tête aux Veillon2,846 m 1.5 km ENE
- 3Le Pacheu2,798 m 2.1 km ENE
- 4Tête à Pierre Grept2,904 m 2.9 km NE
- 5Dent Favre2,917 m 3.3 km SSW
- 6Pierre q'Abotse2,735 m 3.4 km NE
- 7Pointe de Paneirosse2,839 m 3.5 km NE
Where Grand Muveran sits
- Range
- Alps751Western Alps353Northwestern Alps309Bernese Alps65Vaud Alps5
- Region
- Canton of Valais117Switzerland432Europe2,143
Nearby places
Grand Muveran downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
119 m low This 3D map reads 2,932 m at the summit; the official height is 3,051 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 126 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 3,051 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,932 m | -119 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,925 m | -126 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)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- 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