Mountain · Baden-Württemberg

Hohentwiel

696 m2,283 ft

Prominence: 174 m571 ft
Isolation: 5.2 km
Tonight: 3°CPartly cloudy · Wind 22 km/h SW

Hohentwiel is a 696 m (2,283 ft) mountain in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

All facts

Elevation: 696 m · 2,283 ft
Nearest higher peak: Hegau (867 m)
Region: Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Protected area: Hohentwiel
Coordinates: 47.7643° N, 8.8185° E

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3D map

Hohentwiel 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Hohentwiel terrain and contours

10 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 50 mShowing west → east through the summit

Hohentwiel elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Hohentwiel weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 3°C (37°F) · 0.7 mm · Wind 22 km/h SW

Hohentwiel forecast for the summit, about 696 m.

Tonight3°0.7 mm22 km/h SW
Today2°7°8.2 mm24 km/h SW
Sun3°10°7.7 mm32 km/h SW
Mon2°10°–9 km/h SW
Tue6°15°0.1 mm6 km/h W
Wed5°11°3.2 mm12 km/h N
Thu3°11°–12 km/h NE
Fri2°10°–9 km/h NE
Sat0°8°0.5 mm6 km/h E
Sun1°8°2.1 mm15 km/h SW

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 89% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

89.2%

Moderate, 15–30°

9.6%

Steep, 30–45°

1.1%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.1%

Steeper than 30°: 1.2% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 279 m low point 418 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 40.2%Cropland 20.7%Grassland 20.1%Built-up 18.9%

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

Nearby summits

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

Summit list 3

1Staufen593 m 1.4 km NW
2Plören575 m 1.5 km SW
3Buchhalde615 m 3.0 km NNW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 427 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Common Wall Lizard35
Red Kite13
Black Redstart13
Italian locust13
Eurasian Kestrel11
Marbled White10

Where it sits

Where Hohentwiel sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

PfäffikerseeLake · 537 m46 km S

Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGHohentwiel satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-13.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 697 m at the summit; the official height is 696 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	696 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	697 m	+1 m
Copernicus GLO-90	685 m	-11 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 2026-08-13)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Accuracy comparison: 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