Herðubreið
- Prominence
- 1,009 m3,311 ft
- Isolation
- 55 km
- Tonight
- -16°CPartly cloudy · Wind 9 km/h SW
Herðubreið is a 1,682 m (5,518 ft) mountain in Northeastern Region, Iceland.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,682 m · 5,518 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Snæfell (1,833 m)
- Region
- Northeastern Region, Iceland
- Coordinates
- 65.1746° N, 16.3481° W
Herðubreið 3D map
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Herðubreið terrain and contours
50 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.
Herðubreið elevation profile
West → east through the summit
Herðubreið weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · -16°C (3°F) · Wind 9 km/h SW
Herðubreið forecast for the summit, about 1,682 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 488 m.
- Tonight-16°–9 km/h SWBase -9°
- Sat-15°-11°0.9 mm26 km/h NWBase -8 / -4°
- Sun-9°-8°19.3 mm27 km/h NWBase -2 / -1°
- Mon-10°-8°3.6 mm13 km/h WBase -2 / -1°
- Tue-7°-7°7.9 mm13 km/h WBase 0 / 0°
- Wed-13°-7°0.3 mm25 km/h SEBase -6 / 0°
- Thu-4°-2°16.8 mm38 km/h SEBase 4 / 5°
- Fri-12°-6°–24 km/h SEBase -5 / 2°
- Sat-11°-5°1.8 mm14 km/h SEBase -4 / 2°
- Sun-15°-7°–6 km/h SWBase -8 / 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, 23:18 UTC.
Slope
Share of the 8 × 8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 74% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 7.7% of the 64 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,088 m low point 488 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.
Where Herðubreið sits
- Region
- Northeastern Region8Iceland45Europe2,143
Nearby places
ÖskjuvatnLake · 1,053 m↑25 km SW
TrölladyngjaPeak · 1,468 m↑52 km SW
MývatnLake · 277 m↑56 km NNW
NámaskarðPass · 410 m↑57 km NNW
KraflaPeak · 818 m↑63 km NNW
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Herðubreið downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
106 m low This 3D map reads 1,576 m at the summit; the official height is 1,682 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 124 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,682 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,576 m | -106 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,558 m | -124 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 2026-08-25)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- 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