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Kreuzspitze
- Easiest route
- 3.0 km+930 m · about 2.5 h · T3
- Prominence
- 245 m803 ft
- Isolation
- 4.4 km
- Tonight
- -16°CFog · Wind 8 km/h NW
Kreuzspitze is a 3,455 m (11,335 ft) mountain in the Ötztal Alps, Tyrol, Austria.
All facts
- Elevation
- 3,455 m · 11,335 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mutmalspitze (3,522 m)
- Range
- Ötztal Alps
- Region
- Tyrol, Austria
- Coordinates
- 46.8160° N, 10.8704° E
How to get to the top of Kreuzspitze
The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
From Road end, 2.1 km SE of Kreuzspitze
- Distance
- 3.0 kmone way
- Climb
- +930 m(3,051 ft up)
- Time up
- about 2.5 h
- Difficulty
- T3Demanding: exposed spots, some easy scrambling
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Kreuzspitze 3D map
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Kreuzspitze 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.
West → east through the summit
Kreuzspitze weather
Tonight · Fog · -16°C (3°F) · 0.2 mm · Wind 8 km/h NW
Kreuzspitze forecast for the summit, about 3,455 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 2,505 m.
- Tonight-16°0.2 mm8 km/h NWBase -10°
- Today-18°-13°3.2 mm13 km/h NWBase -13 / -7°
- Sun-16°-5°3.7 mm12 km/h SWBase -10 / 0°
- Mon-14°-7°0.8 mm9 km/h NWBase -8 / -2°
- Tue-6°0°–6 km/h NWBase -1 / 5°
- Wed-11°-4°–5 km/h NWBase -5 / 2°
- Thu-13°-6°–5 km/h NWBase -7 / 0°
- Fri-15°-6°–5 km/h NWBase -9 / 0°
- Sat-17°-9°–8 km/h NWBase -12 / -4°
- Sun-16°-8°3.5 mm6 km/h NWBase -11 / -2°
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 Kreuzspitze
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Kreuzspitze, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Martin-Busch-Hütte
Nearest parking
5.7 km NE
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Martin-Busch-HütteHut | 2.1 km SE |
| Hochjoch-HospizHut | 3.0 km WNW |
| Similaunhütte - Rifugio SimilaunHut | 5.0 km SSW |
| Parking | 5.7 km NE |
| Parking | 5.9 km NE |
| Parking | 5.9 km NE |
How steep is the route to Kreuzspitze?
The easiest mapped route, 3.0 km from 2,505 m to 3,455 m. Steepest stretch: 35°.
- 0–15°1.3 km
- 15–30°1.7 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.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Kreuzspitze summit.
Summit list 5
- 1Kreuzkogel3,338 m 0.9 km SW
- 2Sennkogel3,398 m 1.7 km SW
- 3Eiskögel3,114 m 1.7 km N
- 4Talleitspitze3,406 m 2.3 km NNE
- 5Seikogel3,355 m 2.4 km SW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 73 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Moss Campion7
- Alpine Marmot6
- Little grapefern5
- Monk's-hood5
- Pinnate-leaved Ragwort5
- Mountain Burnet3
Where Kreuzspitze sits
- Range
- Alps751Eastern Alps350Central Eastern Alps140Eastern Rhaetian Alps26Ötztal Alps13
Nearby places
FineilspitzePeak · 3,514 m↑4.9 km SW
Hintere SchwärzePeak · 3,624 m↑5.8 km SE
SimilaunPeak · 3,597 m↑5.9 km S
HochjochPass · 2,861 m↑6.2 km WSW
WildspitzePeak · 3,768 m↑7.7 km N
More in the Ötztal Alps 6
Kreuzspitze downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
16 m low This 3D map reads 3,439 m at the summit; the official height is 3,455 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) | 3,455 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 3,439 m | -16 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 3,419 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 2026-09-04)
- 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 · GeoNames · Wikipedia