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Großer Feldberg

879 m2,884 ft

Prominence: 668 m2,191 ft
Isolation: 101 km
Tonight: 2°CCloudy · Wind 27 km/h SW

Großer Feldberg is an 879 m (2,884 ft) mountain in the Taunus, Hesse, Germany.

All facts

Elevation: 879 m · 2,884 ft
Nearest higher peak: Dammersfeldkuppe (928 m)
Range: Taunus
Region: Hesse, Germany
Coordinates: 50.2321° N, 8.4577° E

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3D map

Großer Feldberg 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Großer Feldberg terrain and contours

20 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.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the summit

Großer Feldberg elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Großer Feldberg weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 2°C (36°F) · 3.2 mm · Wind 27 km/h SW

Großer Feldberg forecast for the summit, about 879 m.

Tonight2°3.2 mm27 km/h SW
Today1°7°24.3 mm33 km/h S
Sun2°9°7.5 mm28 km/h W
Mon2°8°1.4 mm18 km/h SW
Tue5°10°0.2 mm13 km/h S
Wed2°9°–10 km/h NW
Thu2°9°–5 km/h N
Fri1°7°0.1 mm5 km/h N
Sat1°5°–8 km/h E
Sun1°4°2.7 mm10 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 23, 23:19 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 6.6 × 6.6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 74% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

73.6%

Moderate, 15–30°

25.8%

Steep, 30–45°

0.7%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.7% of the 44 km² view
Relief in view: 463 m low point 422 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 91.8%Grassland 6.4%Built-up 1.8%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3.3 km, measured from the Großer Feldberg summit.

Summit list 7

1Kleiner Feldberg825 m 1.4 km SW
2Dillenberg682 m 1.7 km NNW
3Weilsberg701 m 2.0 km W
4Altkönig798 m 2.8 km SE
5Weißeberg660 m 2.9 km NE
6Kolbenberg684 m 3.0 km ENE
7Sängelberg665 m 3.0 km NNW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.3 km; 741 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Orange hawkweed30
Fly Agaric25
Purple foxglove24
Small Tortoiseshell18
Wood horsetail17
Silver-washed Fritillary17

Where it sits

Where Großer Feldberg sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Moselle Valley98 km W

Großer Feldberg downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGGroßer Feldberg satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-13.

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 885 m at the summit; the official height is 879 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	879 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	885 m	+6 m
Copernicus GLO-90	879 m	0 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)
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