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Grossglockner
- Prominence
- 2,426 m7,958 ft
- Isolation
- 140 km
- Tonight
- -13°CSnow · Wind 6 km/h N
Grossglockner is a 3,798 m (12,461 ft) mountain in the Glockner Group, Carinthia, Austria.
All facts
- Elevation
- 3,798 m · 12,461 ft
- Range
- Glockner Group
- Region
- Carinthia, Austria
- Protected area
- Hohe Tauern National Park
- Coordinates
- 47.0799° N, 12.6862° E
Grossglockner 3D map
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Grossglockner topographic map
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
Grossglockner downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How to get to the top of Grossglockner
3 mapped routes from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.
Easiest route: from Road end, 4.4 km S of Grossglockner
- Distance
- 5.4 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,411 m−21 m (4,629 ft up)
- Time up
- about 3.5 h
- Difficulty
- T6Difficult alpine: glacier and climbing skills required
The mapped trail ends 40 m below the summit. Above that there is no mapped path: expect glacier, scrambling or open ground, and go with a guide if you have no route-finding experience.
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Grossglockner weather
Tonight · Snow · -13°C (9°F) · 3.2 mm · Wind 6 km/h N
Grossglockner forecast for the summit, about 3,798 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 2,249 m.
- Tonight-13°3.2 mm6 km/h NBase -4°
- Today-21°-13°1.3 mm9 km/h SBase -10 / -3°
- Sun-15°-8°10.3 mm10 km/h SBase -6 / 0°
- Mon-16°-11°0.7 mm7 km/h NBase -5 / 0°
- Tue-8°-5°–6 km/h NBase 1 / 6°
- Wed-11°-7°2.5 mm7 km/h NBase -1 / 3°
- Thu-17°-10°–5 km/h NBase -6 / 1°
- Fri-16°-9°–5 km/h NBase -6 / 2°
- Sat-18°-11°0.1 mm6 km/h NWBase -7 / 0°
- Sun-15°-10°1.9 mm6 km/h SWBase -6 / 0°
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.
Camping & parking near Grossglockner
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Grossglockner, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Erzherzog-Johann-Hütte
Nearest parking
Franz-Josefs-Höhe
Nearest campsite
Nationalpark Camping Kals
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Erzherzog-Johann-HütteHut | 1.6 km SE |
| StüdlhütteHut | 2.8 km S |
| OberwalderhütteHut | 3.6 km NE |
| Franz-Josefs-HöheParking | 5.0 km E |
| P4Parking | 5.0 km E |
| Parking | 5.0 km E |
| Nationalpark Camping KalsCampsite | 7.8 km SSW |
How steep is the route to Grossglockner?
The easiest mapped route, 5.4 km from 2,249 m to 3,639 m. Steepest stretch: 43°.
- 0–15°3.4 km
- 15–30°1.7 km
- 30–45°0.3 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 60 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 6.9 km, measured from the Grossglockner summit.
Summit list 6
- 1Teufelshorn3,680 m 0.5 km SE
- 2Grögerschneid3,660 m 0.6 km SE
- 3Kleinglockner3,770 m 0.9 km SE
- 4Teufelskamp3,511 m 0.9 km NW
- 5Romariswandköpfe3,511 m 1.9 km NW
- 6Romariswandkopf-Nordwestgipfel3,491 m 2.0 km NW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 6.9 km; 884 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Alpine Marmot358
- Yellow Saxifrage169
- Purple Saxifrage146
- Edelweiss127
- Yellow-billed Chough125
- Moss Campion124
Where Grossglockner sits
- Protected area
- Hohe Tauern National Park7
Nearby places
How accurate is this?
124 m low This 3D map reads 3,674 m at the summit; the official height is 3,798 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 130 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 3,798 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 3,674 m | -124 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 3,668 m | -130 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 2026-08-15)
- 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, 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