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Hochvogel

2,592 m8,504 ft
Prominence
571 m1,873 ft
Isolation
5.4 km
Tonight
-8°CPartly cloudy · Wind 19 km/h W

Hochvogel is a 2,592 m (8,504 ft) mountain in the Allgäu Alps, Tyrol, Austria.

All facts
Elevation
2,592 m · 8,504 ft
Nearest higher peak
Bretterspitze (2,608 m)
Range
Allgäu Alps
Region
Tyrol, Austria
Coordinates
47.3801° N, 10.4371° E
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3D map

Hochvogel 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 6.2 × 6.2 km

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Hochvogel 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.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

Hochvogel elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Hochvogel weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · -8°C (18°F) · 0.5 mm · Wind 19 km/h W

Hochvogel forecast for the summit, about 2,592 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,054 m.

  • Tonight-8°0.5 mm19 km/h WBase 1°
  • Today-9°-5°6.2 mm19 km/h WBase 1 / 4°
  • Sun-7°4°15.0 mm24 km/h WBase 3 / 14°
  • Mon-6°2°0.1 mm9 km/h SWBase 3 / 11°
  • Tue0°10°–5 km/h NWBase 9 / 20°
  • Wed-3°2°3.0 mm6 km/h NWBase 6 / 11°
  • Thu-7°3°–6 km/h NBase 2 / 12°
  • Fri-7°2°–8 km/h NBase 2 / 12°
  • Sat-8°0°–6 km/h NWBase 1 / 10°
  • Sun-6°-4°5.1 mm5 km/h SWBase 3 / 5°

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 6.2 × 6.2 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°
6.1%
Moderate, 15–30°
30.6%
Steep, 30–45°
50.4%
Cliffs, 45° and over
12.9%
Steeper than 30°
63.3% of the 38 km² view
Relief in view
1,458 m low point 1,054 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 44.1%Trees 40.6%Bare rock / sparse 11.9%Snow & ice 2.3%Moss & lichen 1.0%

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

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3.1 km, measured from the Hochvogel summit.

NESW1 km3 km12345678
Summit list 8
  1. 1Kreuzspitze2,367 m 0.6 km NW
  2. 2Southern Balkenspitze2,324 m 0.7 km NW
  3. 3Central Balkenspitze2,315 m 0.8 km NNW
  4. 4Weittalkopf2,289 m 1.0 km WNW
  5. 5Fuchskarspitze2,314 m 1.4 km NNW
  6. 6Kluppenkarkopf2,355 m 2.5 km ENE
  7. 7Großer Rosszahn2,356 m 2.6 km ENE
  8. 8Jochumkopf2,339 m 2.9 km E
Where it sits

Where Hochvogel sits

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

Nearby places

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Downloads

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

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

80 m low This 3D map reads 2,512 m at the summit; the official height is 2,592 m.Official 2,592 m90 m model 2,503 mThis map 2,512 m

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 89 m.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)2,592 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)2,512 m-80 m
Copernicus GLO-902,503 m-89 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