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Hochgolling

2,862 m9,390 ft
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
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3D map

Hochgolling 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 8.4 × 8.4 km

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Vertical scale
Topographic map

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.

Index contours every 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

Hochgolling elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

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

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

    2.3 km NNE · +2 more within 2.7 km

  • Nearest parking

    4.2 km SE

    +2 more within 5.1 km

All mapped places 6
PlaceDistance
GollinghütteHut2.3 km NNE
LandawirseehütteHut2.7 km W
Goral HutteHut2.7 km E
Parking4.2 km SE
Parking4.2 km SE
Parking5.1 km SE
Slope

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.

Gentle, 0–15°
8.4%
Moderate, 15–30°
25.6%
Steep, 30–45°
45.9%
Cliffs, 45° and over
20.1%
Steeper than 30°
66.0% of the 71 km² view
Relief in view
1,632 m low point 1,201 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 50.4%Trees 24.6%Moss & lichen 16.7%Bare rock / sparse 6.4%Snow & ice 1.1%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 4.2 km, measured from the Hochgolling summit.

NESW2 km5 km12345678
Summit list 8
  1. 1Steinkarlegg2,637 m 1.4 km SSE
  2. 2Zwerfenberg2,642 m 1.6 km NW
  3. 3Weißhöhe2,659 m 1.9 km S
  4. 4Pfeifer2,627 m 2.2 km NNW
  5. 5Elendberg2,672 m 2.3 km NNW
  6. 6Geinkel2,623 m 2.6 km NNW
  7. 7Kasereck2,740 m 3.3 km SSE
  8. 8Greifenberg2,618 m 3.3 km NE
Wildlife

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 it sits

Where Hochgolling sits

Range
Alps751Eastern Alps350Central Eastern Alps140Lower Tauern5
Region
Styria18Austria205Europe2,143
Nearby

Nearby places

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

29 m low This 3D map reads 2,833 m at the summit; the official height is 2,862 m.Official 2,862 m90 m model 2,824 mThis map 2,833 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.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)2,862 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)2,833 m-29 m
Copernicus GLO-902,824 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