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Hochgolling
- Prominence
- 1,123 m3,683 ft
- Isolation
- 26 km
- Tonight
- -8°CHeavy snow · Wind 9 km/h N
Hochgolling is a 2,862 m (9,390 ft) mountain in the Schladming Tauern, Styria, Austria.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,862 m · 9,390 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Koppenkarstein (2,863 m)
- Range
- Schladming Tauern
- Region
- Styria, Austria
- Coordinates
- 47.2662° N, 13.7607° E
Hochgolling 3D map
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Hochgolling topographic map
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.
Hochgolling elevation profile
West → east through the summit
Hochgolling downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Hochgolling weather
Tonight · Heavy snow · -8°C (18°F) · 1.9 mm · Wind 9 km/h N
Hochgolling forecast for the summit, about 2,862 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,201 m.
- Tonight-8°1.9 mm9 km/h NBase 2°
- Today-13°-7°1.7 mm11 km/h NWBase -3 / 3°
- Sun-10°-4°6.3 mm22 km/h NWBase 0 / 6°
- Mon-10°-5°0.3 mm14 km/h NWBase 0 / 5°
- Tue-5°0°0.5 mm5 km/h NWBase 5 / 10°
- Wed-6°-1°3.1 mm8 km/h NBase 4 / 9°
- Thu-9°-3°–7 km/h NWBase 1 / 7°
- Fri-8°-1°–7 km/h NBase 2 / 9°
- Sat-10°-5°2.1 mm6 km/h NWBase 0 / 5°
- Sun-8°-4°1.7 mm9 km/h WBase 2 / 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, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Hochgolling
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Hochgolling, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Gollinghütte
Nearest parking
4.2 km SE
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| GollinghütteHut | 2.3 km NNE |
| LandawirseehütteHut | 2.7 km W |
| Goral HutteHut | 2.7 km E |
| Parking | 4.2 km SE |
| Parking | 4.2 km SE |
| Parking | 5.1 km SE |
Slope
Share of the 8.4 × 8.4 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.
- Steeper than 30°
- 66.0% of the 71 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,632 m low point 1,201 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.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 4.2 km, measured from the Hochgolling summit.
Summit list 8
- 1Steinkarlegg2,637 m 1.4 km SSE
- 2Zwerfenberg2,642 m 1.6 km NW
- 3Weißhöhe2,659 m 1.9 km S
- 4Pfeifer2,627 m 2.2 km NNW
- 5Elendberg2,672 m 2.3 km NNW
- 6Geinkel2,623 m 2.6 km NNW
- 7Kasereck2,740 m 3.3 km SSE
- 8Greifenberg2,618 m 3.3 km NE
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4.2 km; 212 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Alpine Salamander15
- Dwarf Soapwort12
- Mossy saxifrage9
- Moss Campion7
- European Common Frog6
- Bearded Bellflower6
Where Hochgolling sits
- Range
- Alps751Eastern Alps350Central Eastern Alps140Lower Tauern5
Nearby places
PlanaiPeak · 1,906 m↑12 km NNW
Radstädter Tauern Pass1,738 m↑15 km W
Sölk Pass1,788 m↑24 km E
Katschberg Pass1,641 m↑26 km SSW
GrimmingPeak · 2,351 m↑34 km NE
More in the Lower Tauern 1
How accurate is this?
29 m low This 3D map reads 2,833 m at the summit; the official height is 2,862 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 38 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,862 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,833 m | -29 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,824 m | -38 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)
- 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