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Great St Bernard Pass

2,449 m8,035 ft

Connects: La Tuette – L'Hospitalet
Tonight: -8°CSnow · Wind 9 km/h NW

Great St Bernard Pass is a mountain pass at 2,449 m in Aosta Valley, Italy. It links La Tuette and L'Hospitalet.

All facts

Saddle: 2,449 m
Lowest point: 1,830 m / 2,133 m

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Great St Bernard Pass 3D map

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Surface

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Topographic map

Great St Bernard Pass topographic map

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Great St Bernard Pass elevation profile

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Print & wall

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

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GIS & GPS

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Pass

Great St Bernard Pass: the climb from each side

Crossed by: 21

Distances are straight lines from the saddle to the lowest ground on each side; the road is longer.

Weather

Great St Bernard Pass weather

Tonight · Snow · -8°C (18°F) · 1.8 mm · Wind 9 km/h NW

Great St Bernard Pass forecast for about 2,449 m.

Tonight-8°1.8 mm9 km/h NW
Today-9°-7°10.5 mm9 km/h NW
Sun-10°1°15.6 mm10 km/h N
Mon-5°4°–6 km/h N
Tue1°8°–5 km/h N
Wed-4°4°–5 km/h N
Thu-4°5°–3 km/h N
Fri-4°4°–5 km/h N
Sat-4°3°2.8 mm6 km/h N
Sun-5°1°1.8 mm4 km/h NW

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

Camping & parking near Great St Bernard Pass

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Great St Bernard Pass, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest hut
Hospice du Grand Saint-Bernard
0.0 km SE · +2 more within 5.6 km
Directions Map
Nearest parking
0.0 km S
+2 more within 0.0 km
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Nearest campsite
Camping Pineta
6.0 km SSE · +2 more within 7.3 km
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All mapped places 9

Place	Distance
Hospice du Grand Saint-BernardHut	0.0 km SE
Parking	0.0 km S
Parking	0.0 km NNW
Parking	0.0 km WNW
Cabane du Plan du JeuHut	4.6 km NE
La PeuleHut	5.6 km NW
Camping PinetaCampsite	6.0 km SSE
Camping del MulinoCampsite	6.1 km SSE
Camping Tunnel InternationalCampsite	7.3 km SE

Slope

Share of the 8 × 8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

12.1%

Moderate, 15–30°

44.9%

Steep, 30–45°

38.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

4.4%

Steeper than 30°: 43.0% of the 64 km² view
Relief in view: 1,454 m low point 1,573 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 54.1%Bare rock / sparse 19.8%Moss & lichen 11.2%Trees 9.7%Snow & ice 4.2%Shrubland 0.6%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4 km; 425 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Chestnut-coloured Carpet62
Purple Gentian43
Epipsilia grisescens38
Scotch Annulet34
Yellow-ringed Carpet28
Alpine Clover27

Where it sits

Where Great St Bernard Pass sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Valpelline13 km ESE

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
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 · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Great St Bernard Pass

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