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Kanchenjunga

8,586 m28,169 ft

Prominence: 3,922 m12,867 ft
Isolation: 124 km
Tonight: -37°CClear · Wind 11 km/h N

Kanchenjunga is an 8,586 m (28,169 ft) mountain in the Himalayas, Sikkim, India.

All facts

Elevation: 8,586 m · 28,169 ft
Nearest higher peak: South Summit (8,749 m)
Range: Himalayas
Region: Sikkim, India
Protected area: Kanchenjunga Conservation Area
Coordinates: 27.7026° N, 88.1476° E

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3D map

Kanchenjunga 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Kanchenjunga terrain and contours

200 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 1,000 mShowing west → east through the summit

Kanchenjunga elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Kanchenjunga weather

Tonight · Clear · -37°C (-35°F) · Wind 11 km/h N

Kanchenjunga forecast for the summit, about 8,586 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 3,791 m.

Tonight-37°–11 km/h NBase -8°
Today-37°-26°–11 km/h NWBase -8 / 3°
Sun-36°-26°–11 km/h WBase -7 / 3°
Mon-35°-24°–10 km/h WBase -7 / 5°
Tue-35°-25°–9 km/h SWBase -7 / 4°
Wed-35°-24°0.2 mm8 km/h WBase -6 / 5°
Thu-29°-24°28.0 mm4 km/h SBase 0 / 5°
Fri-23°-23°120.4 mm8 km/h SBase 5 / 6°
Sat-29°-22°4.6 mm9 km/h SWBase 0 / 7°
Sun-31°-24°–4 km/h NWBase -2 / 4°
Mon-32°-26°–4 km/h NWBase -3 / 3°

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

Share of the 19.6 × 19.6 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°

22.5%

Moderate, 15–30°

22.2%

Steep, 30–45°

28.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

27.3%

Steeper than 30°: 55.3% of the 384 km² view
Relief in view: 4,773 m low point 3,791 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Snow & ice 87.6%Bare rock / sparse 9.3%Moss & lichen 2.0%Grassland 0.6%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 9.8 km, measured from the Kanchenjunga summit.

Summit list 9

1Kangchenjunga Central8,473 m 0.8 km SSE
2Kanchenjunga West8,505 m 1.0 km WNW
3Kangchenjunga South8,476 m 1.3 km SSE
4Zemu Gap Peak7,780 m 3.1 km ESE
5Kangbachen7,903 m 4.0 km WNW
6Gimmigela Chuli7,350 m 4.4 km NNE
7Kabru7,412 m 8.1 km SSW
8Kumbhakarna East7,460 m 8.8 km W
9Kabru Central7,353 m 9.7 km SSW

Where it sits

Where Kanchenjunga sits

Ranked in 2

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

South Lhonak Lake5,225 m24 km NNE

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

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Print & wall

JPGKanchenjunga satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-12-17.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

22 m low This 3D map reads 8,564 m at the summit; the official height is 8,586 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 43 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	8,586 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	8,564 m	-22 m
Copernicus GLO-90	8,543 m	-43 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 2025 (scene 2025-12-17)
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, 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