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Hochfrottspitze

2,649 m8,691 ft
Prominence
206 m675 ft
Isolation
1.4 km
Tonight
-8°CPartly cloudy · Wind 15 km/h W

Hochfrottspitze is a 2,649 m (8,691 ft) mountain in the Allgäu Alps, Tyrol, Austria.

All facts
Elevation
2,649 m · 8,691 ft
Nearest higher peak
Hohes Licht (2,651 m)
Range
Allgäu Alps
Region
Tyrol, Austria
Coordinates
47.2921° N, 10.2876° E
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3D map

Hochfrottspitze 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Hochfrottspitze terrain and contours

100 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 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

Hochfrottspitze elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Hochfrottspitze weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · -8°C (18°F) · 0.5 mm · Wind 15 km/h W

Hochfrottspitze forecast for the summit, about 2,649 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,072 m.

  • Tonight-8°0.5 mm15 km/h WBase 1°
  • Today-9°-6°4.4 mm14 km/h WBase 0 / 4°
  • Sun-8°3°15.7 mm17 km/h WBase 2 / 13°
  • Mon-8°1°–7 km/h WBase 1 / 10°
  • Tue-2°9°–4 km/h SBase 8 / 19°
  • Wed-3°3°3.9 mm7 km/h NWBase 7 / 12°
  • Thu-6°3°–5 km/h NEBase 3 / 12°
  • Fri-7°2°–9 km/h NWBase 3 / 12°
  • Sat-7°0°0.2 mm9 km/h NWBase 2 / 10°
  • Sun-6°-4°6.3 mm5 km/h NWBase 3 / 6°

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

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.

Gentle, 0–15°
6.6%
Moderate, 15–30°
29.9%
Steep, 30–45°
48.2%
Cliffs, 45° and over
15.3%
Steeper than 30°
63.5% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view
1,551 m low point 1,072 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 58.8%Bare rock / sparse 19.0%Trees 15.2%Moss & lichen 4.4%Snow & ice 1.9%Water 0.7%

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

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Hochfrottspitze summit.

NESW1 km3 km123456789
Summit list 9
  1. 1Wilder Mann2,577 m 0.8 km SW
  2. 2Steinschartenkopf2,615 m 1.0 km SSW
  3. 3Mädelegabel2,644 m 1.1 km NE
  4. 4Trettachspitze2,595 m 1.4 km NNE
  5. 5Hohes Licht2,651 m 1.6 km SSW
  6. 6Rotgundspitze2,485 m 1.7 km WSW
  7. 7Wildmahdspitze2,489 m 2.2 km SSE
  8. 8Peischelspitze2,512 m 2.4 km SSW
  9. 9Wilder Kasten2,542 m 2.5 km S
Where it sits

Where Hochfrottspitze sits

Range
Alps751Eastern Alps350Northern Eastern Alps68Bavarian Alps17Allgäu Alps8
Region
Austria205Bavaria48Germany118Europe2,143
Nearby

Nearby places

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Downloads

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

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

53 m low This 3D map reads 2,596 m at the summit; the official height is 2,649 m.Official 2,649 m90 m model 2,578 mThis map 2,596 m

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 71 m.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)2,649 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)2,596 m-53 m
Copernicus GLO-902,578 m-71 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 2026-07-24)
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, 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