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Popocatépetl · 5,452 m · 17 km S

Stratovolcano · Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt · State of Mexico

Iztaccihuatl

5,230 m17,159 ft

Easiest route: 5.8 km+1,319 m · about 3.5 h · T5
Prominence: 1,550 m5,084 ft
Isolation: 17 km
Tonight: -6°CCloudy · Wind 13 km/h E

Iztaccihuatl is a 5,230 m (17,159 ft) stratovolcano in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, State of Mexico, Mexico.

All facts

Elevation: 5,230 m · 17,159 ft
Nearest higher peak: Popocatépetl (5,452 m)
Range: Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
Region: State of Mexico, Mexico
Spanish name: Iztaccíhuatl
Coordinates: 19.1760° N, 98.6407° W

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Route

How to get to the top of Iztaccihuatl

3 mapped routes from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.

Easiest route: from Parking de la Joyita (parking)

Distance: 5.8 kmone way
Climb: +1,319 m−80 m (4,327 ft up)
Time up: about 3.5 h
Difficulty: T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier

Iztaccihuatl elevation profile

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Other routes 2

Road end, 3.8 km WSW of Iztaccihuatl5.3 km · +1,458 m · about 4 h
T5GPX KML
Road end, 5.2 km NNW of Iztaccihuatl7.2 km · +1,389 m · about 4 h
T5GPX KML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Iztaccihuatl 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Iztaccihuatl terrain and contours

100 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. 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

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.

Weather

Iztaccihuatl weather

Today · Partly cloudy · -6 / -2°C (21 / 28°F) · Wind 13 km/h E

Iztaccihuatl forecast for the summit, about 5,230 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 3,764 m.

Today-6°-2°–13 km/h EBase 2 / 6°
Sat-6°3°–10 km/h NEBase 3 / 11°
Sun-7°1°0.5 mm10 km/h EBase 2 / 10°
Mon-7°2°1.7 mm8 km/h EBase 2 / 8°
Tue-6°1°5.6 mm6 km/h EBase 2 / 9°
Wed-6°1°15.3 mm6 km/h NEBase 2 / 11°
Thu-6°-1°13.6 mm5 km/h EBase 2 / 7°
Fri-5°1°2.0 mm7 km/h NEBase 3 / 9°
Sat-5°4°–10 km/h NEBase 3 / 13°
Sun-5°5°0.1 mm10 km/h NEBase 2 / 13°

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 Iztaccihuatl

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Iztaccihuatl, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest hut
Refugio Otis McAllister
1.2 km SSW · +2 more within 2.7 km
Directions Map
Nearest parking
Parking de la Joyita
4.9 km SSW · +1 more within 6.3 km
Directions Map
Nearest campsite
national Park
6.8 km NNW
Directions Map

All mapped places 6

Place	Distance
Refugio Otis McAllisterHut	1.2 km SSW
Refugio ChalchopanHut	1.5 km WNW
Refugio del TéyotlHut	2.7 km NNW
Parking de la JoyitaParking	4.9 km SSW
Parking	6.3 km SSW
national ParkCampsite	6.8 km NNW

Slope

How steep is the route to Iztaccihuatl?

The easiest mapped route, 5.8 km from 3,967 m to 5,230 m. Steepest stretch: 33°.

0 km · 3,967 m5.8 km · 5,230 m

0–15°3.1 km
15–30°2.6 km
30–45°0.1 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 70 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 52.0%Grassland 33.2%Bare rock / sparse 14.4%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 5.1 km, measured from the Iztaccihuatl summit.

Summit list 4

1Monte de Venus Iztaccíhuatl5,108 m 1.1 km SSE
2Segunda Rodilla Iztaccíhuatl5,074 m 1.3 km S
3Primera Rodilla Iztaccíhuatl5,047 m 1.6 km SSE
4Cerro Tehuicocone4,400 m 3.6 km N

Where it sits

Where Iztaccihuatl sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

XítlePeak · 3,105 m62 km W

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Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGIztaccihuatl satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-03-01.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXIztaccihuatl GPX / KML route downloadIn the route section. Mapped route for GPS apps and Google Earth, under the ODbL.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

22 m low This 3D map reads 5,208 m at the summit; the official height is 5,230 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	5,230 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	5,208 m	-22 m
Copernicus GLO-90	5,201 m	-29 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 2026-03-01)
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 · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Iztaccihuatl

Easiest route: from Parking de la Joyita (parking)

West → east through the summit

Nearest hut

Nearest parking

Nearest campsite

Data sources