Mountain · Northern Territory

Kata Tjuta

1,069 m3,507 ft

Prominence: 490 m1,609 ft
Isolation: 44 km
Tonight: 12°CFair · Wind 35 km/h S

Kata Tjuta is a 1,069 m (3,507 ft) mountain in Northern Territory, Australia.

All facts

Elevation: 1,069 m · 3,507 ft
Nearest higher peak: Mount Woodroffe (1,435 m)
Region: Northern Territory, Australia
Protected area: Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park
Spanish name: Kata Tjuṯa
Coordinates: 25.3032° S, 130.7388° E

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3D map

Kata Tjuta 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Kata Tjuta topographic map

20 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 100 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.

Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGKata Tjuta satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-01-20.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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

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Route

Trails toward Kata Tjuta

Mapped trails from the road get to 400 m below the summit, typically a pass, lake or camp. The top itself is a mountaineering climb with no mapped route.

From Walpa Gorge (parking)

Distance: 1.3 kmone way
Climb: +42 m(138 ft up)
Time up: about 0.5 h
Difficulty: Grade not mapped

Kata Tjuta elevation profile

Ends 400 m below the summit.

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

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

Weather

Kata Tjuta weather

Today · Partly cloudy · 12 / 32°C (54 / 90°F) · 0.3 mm · Wind 35 km/h S

Kata Tjuta forecast for the summit, about 1,069 m.

Today12°32°0.3 mm35 km/h S
Sun11°22°–37 km/h S
Mon11°27°1.0 mm32 km/h SE
Tue16°27°0.7 mm31 km/h E
Wed17°25°18.6 mm21 km/h NE
Thu18°25°1.2 mm26 km/h N
Fri15°27°–17 km/h SE
Sat17°29°–21 km/h E
Sun18°31°1.8 mm20 km/h NE
Mon23°28°2.0 mm21 km/h NW

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 Kata Tjuta

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

Nearest parking
Walpa Gorge
1.6 km W · +2 more within 2.4 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Parking	1.6 km W
Walpa GorgeParking	1.6 km W
Valley Of The WindsParking	2.4 km NNW

Slope

How steep is the route to Kata Tjuta?

The easiest mapped route, 1.3 km from 595 m to 640 m. Steepest stretch: 17°.

0 km · 595 m1.3 km · 640 m

0–15°1.3 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Shrubland 59.4%Grassland 19.9%Bare rock / sparse 12.6%Trees 8.0%

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

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 247 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Pink Mulla Mulla129
Hairy mulla mulla79
Centralian Earless Dragon75
Zebra Finch74
Spearbush68
Isotropis centralis51

Where it sits

Where Kata Tjuta sits

Ranked in 1

#7 Treks and hikes in Australia

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Mount ZeilPeak · 1,531 m269 km NE

Accuracy

How accurate is this?

26 m low This 3D map reads 1,043 m at the summit; the official height is 1,069 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 36 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	1,069 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	1,043 m	-26 m
Copernicus GLO-90	1,033 m	-36 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 2026-01-20)
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

Kata Tjuta

West → east through the summit

From Walpa Gorge (parking)

Nearest parking

Data sources