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Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
- Prominence
- 3,198 m10,492 ft
- Isolation
- 140 km
- Tonight
- -8°CClear · Wind 16 km/h W
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is a 5,596 m (18,360 ft) mountain in the Yunling Mountains, Yunnan, China.
All facts
- Elevation
- 5,596 m · 18,360 ft
- Range
- Yunling Mountains
- Region
- Yunnan, China
- Spanish name
- Montaña Nevada Dragón de Jade
- Coordinates
- 27.0985° N, 100.1762° E
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain 3D map
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Jade Dragon Snow Mountain topographic map
200 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.
West → east through the summit
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Trails toward Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
Mapped trails from the road get to 1,660 m below the summit, typically a pass, lake or camp. The top itself is a mountaineering climb with no mapped route.
Easiest route: from Road end, 5.4 km ESE of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
- Distance
- 4.9 kmone way
- Climb
- +514 m−6 m (1,686 ft up)
- Time up
- about 2 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
Ends 1,660 m below the summit.
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain weather
Today · Clear · -8 / 2°C (18 / 36°F) · Wind 16 km/h W
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain forecast for the summit, about 5,596 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 3,273 m.
- Today-8°2°–16 km/h WBase 6 / 16°
- Sun-7°4°–16 km/h WBase 6 / 17°
- Mon-7°4°–15 km/h SWBase 6 / 18°
- Tue-7°3°–8 km/h SWBase 7 / 17°
- Wed-6°3°–9 km/h WBase 8 / 17°
- Thu-7°2°–7 km/h WBase 7 / 16°
- Fri-7°3°–8 km/h WBase 7 / 17°
- Sat-7°2°–9 km/h WBase 7 / 16°
- Sun-7°2°–7 km/h WBase 6 / 16°
- Mon-8°2°–7 km/h SWBase 6 / 16°
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 near Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
4.9 km ENE
How steep is the route to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain?
The easiest mapped route, 4.9 km from 3,273 m to 3,781 m. Steepest stretch: 19°.
- 0–15°4.6 km
- 15–30°0.3 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 50 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 8.4 km; 231 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Red-crested Pochard26
- Plumbeous Water Redstart22
- Chinese Stellera11
- Alpine Accentor10
- Chestnut-vented Nuthatch10
- Paeonia delavayi9
Where Jade Dragon Snow Mountain sits
- Range
- Hengduan Mountains3
Nearby places
More in the Hengduan Mountains 1
How accurate is this?
151 m low This 3D map reads 5,445 m at the summit; the official height is 5,596 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 157 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 5,596 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 5,445 m | -151 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 5,439 m | -157 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 2026-10-18)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, 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 · Wikipedia