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Hochkalter

2,607 m8,553 ft

Prominence: 655 m2,148 ft
Isolation: 4.4 km
Tonight: -6°CLight snow · Wind 5 km/h S

Hochkalter is a 2,607 m (8,553 ft) mountain in the Alpi Centro-occidentali di Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany.

All facts

Elevation: 2,607 m · 8,553 ft
Nearest higher peak: Schönfeldspitze (2,653 m)
Range: Alpi Centro-occidentali di Berchtesgaden
Region: Bavaria, Germany
Protected area: Berchtesgaden National Park
Coordinates: 47.5687° N, 12.8651° E

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3D map

Hochkalter 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Hochkalter 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

Hochkalter elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Hochkalter weather

Tonight · Light snow · -6°C (21°F) · 2.6 mm · Wind 5 km/h S

Hochkalter forecast for the summit, about 2,607 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 758 m.

Tonight-6°2.6 mm5 km/h SBase 5°
Today-10°-4°1.1 mm14 km/h WBase 1 / 7°
Sun-6°1°11.2 mm20 km/h NWBase 5 / 13°
Mon-7°-1°0.3 mm14 km/h WBase 4 / 10°
Tue-2°7°–4 km/h SBase 9 / 18°
Wed-4°1°8.9 mm5 km/h NWBase 7 / 12°
Thu-7°0°–5 km/h NBase 4 / 11°
Fri-7°1°–6 km/h NBase 4 / 12°
Sat-9°-4°2.7 mm4 km/h NBase 2 / 7°
Sun-6°-2°3.5 mm2 km/h SWBase 5 / 10°

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 6.4 × 6.4 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°

14.0%

Moderate, 15–30°

24.6%

Steep, 30–45°

40.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

20.8%

Steeper than 30°: 61.4% of the 41 km² view
Relief in view: 1,750 m low point 758 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 42.1%Grassland 31.1%Bare rock / sparse 24.3%Moss & lichen 1.2%Snow & ice 1.2%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3.2 km, measured from the Hochkalter summit.

Summit list 4

1Ofentalhörnl2,513 m 0.7 km SSW
2Ofentalhörndl2,513 m 0.7 km SSW
3Hinterberghorn2,493 m 2.8 km SW
4Hocheisspitze2,523 m 3.0 km SW

Where it sits

Where Hochkalter sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

SchönfeldspitzePeak · 2,653 m13 km SSE

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

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Print & wall

JPGHochkalter satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-15.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

99 m low This 3D map reads 2,508 m at the summit; the official height is 2,607 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 103 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	2,607 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	2,508 m	-99 m
Copernicus GLO-90	2,504 m	-103 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)
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