Mountain · Western Region

Kirkjufell

463 m1,519 ft

Mapped trail: 3.1 km+35 m · about 1 hEnds 410 m below the summit.
Prominence: 448 m1,470 ft
Isolation: 2.3 km
Tonight: -5°CFair · Wind 18 km/h NE

Kirkjufell is a 463 m (1,519 ft) mountain in Western Region, Iceland.

All facts

Elevation: 463 m · 1,519 ft
Nearest higher peak: Helgrindur (986 m)
Region: Western Region, Iceland
Coordinates: 64.9404° N, 23.3069° W

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Route

Trails toward Kirkjufell

Mapped trails from the road get to 410 m below the summit, typically a pass, lake or camp. The top itself is a mountaineering climb with no mapped route.

From Parking, 1.1 km SSW of Kirkjufell

Distance: 3.1 kmone way
Climb: +35 m−24 m (115 ft up)
Time up: about 1 h
Difficulty: Grade not mapped

Kirkjufell elevation profile

Ends 410 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.

3D map

Kirkjufell 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Kirkjufell terrain and contours

50 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 250 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

Kirkjufell weather

Tonight · Fair · -5°C (23°F) · Wind 18 km/h NE

Kirkjufell forecast for the summit, about 463 m.

Tonight-5°–18 km/h NE
Sat-5°0°0.4 mm28 km/h NE
Sun-3°-1°–18 km/h SW
Mon-2°1°0.2 mm17 km/h S
Tue-2°0°1.1 mm6 km/h W
Wed1°1°32.6 mm33 km/h SE
Thu1°7°14.7 mm43 km/h SE
Fri-1°2°18.4 mm19 km/h S
Sat-2°1°0.2 mm5 km/h SE
Sun-1°-1°0.4 mm10 km/h SE

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.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Kirkjufell

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

Nearest parking
1.3 km SSW
+2 more within 1.4 km
Directions Map
Nearest caravan site
3.1 km SE
Directions Map
Nearest campsite
Grundarfjörður
3.2 km SE
Directions Map

All mapped places 5

Place	Distance
Parking	1.3 km SSW
Parking	1.4 km SSW
Parking	1.4 km SSW
Caravan site	3.1 km SE
GrundarfjörðurCampsite	3.2 km SE

Slope

How steep is the route to Kirkjufell?

The easiest mapped route, 3.1 km from 14 m to 22 m. Steepest stretch: 9°.

0 km · 14 m3.1 km · 22 m

0–15°3.1 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 40 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 47.6%Grassland 45.7%Moss & lichen 2.3%Trees 1.2%Wetland 1.0%Cropland 0.9%Built-up 0.7%Bare rock / sparse 0.5%

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

Where it sits

Where Kirkjufell sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

ÚlfarsfellPeak · 296 m116 km SE

Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGKirkjufell satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-08.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXKirkjufell 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?

33 m low This 3D map reads 430 m at the summit; the official height is 463 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 42 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	463 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	430 m	-33 m
Copernicus GLO-90	421 m	-42 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 2026-09-08)
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 · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Kirkjufell

From Parking, 1.1 km SSW of Kirkjufell

West → east through the summit

Nearest parking

Nearest caravan site

Nearest campsite

Data sources