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Makalu

8,485 m27,838 ft

Prominence: 2,393 m7,851 ft
Isolation: 17 km
Tonight: -31°CPartly cloudy · Wind 6 km/h W

Makalu is an 8,485 m (27,838 ft) mountain in the Mahalangur Himal, Eastern Development Region, China.

All facts

Elevation: 8,485 m · 27,838 ft
Nearest higher peak: Lhotse (8,516 m)
Range: Mahalangur Himal
Region: Eastern Development Region, China
Coordinates: 27.8912° N, 87.0887° E

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3D map

Makalu 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 13.6 × 13.6 km

Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Makalu 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

Makalu elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Makalu weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · -31°C (-24°F) · Wind 6 km/h W

Makalu forecast for the summit, about 8,485 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 4,206 m.

Tonight-31°–6 km/h WBase -5°
Today-32°-24°0.2 mm10 km/h WBase -6 / 2°
Sun-34°-24°–9 km/h WBase -9 / 2°
Mon-35°-22°–8 km/h WBase -9 / 3°
Tue-33°-23°–5 km/h WBase -7 / 3°
Wed-35°-22°0.1 mm5 km/h NWBase -10 / 3°
Thu-27°-23°38.5 mm3 km/h NWBase -2 / 3°
Fri-22°-22°155.1 mm4 km/h SBase 3 / 4°
Sat-26°-20°1.0 mm5 km/h WBase 0 / 5°
Sun-27°-22°–4 km/h WBase -2 / 4°
Mon-32°-24°0.1 mm5 km/h NWBase -6 / 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, 23:19 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Makalu

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

Nearest campsite
4.9 km SW
+1 more within 6.3 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 2

Place	Distance
Campsite	4.9 km SW
Makalu Base CampCampsite	6.3 km S

Slope

Share of the 13.6 × 13.6 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°

21.1%

Moderate, 15–30°

25.6%

Steep, 30–45°

28.4%

Cliffs, 45° and over

24.9%

Steeper than 30°: 53.3% of the 185 km² view
Relief in view: 4,037 m low point 4,206 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Snow & ice 88.9%Bare rock / sparse 8.0%Moss & lichen 1.7%Grassland 0.5%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 6.8 km, measured from the Makalu summit.

Summit list 7

1Makalu East7,950 m 1.1 km E
2Makalu Southeast7,860 m 1.7 km SE
3Kangchungtse7,678 m 2.7 km NNW
4Sherson Northwest6,682 m 4.4 km SSE
5Chomo Lonzo7,804 m 4.7 km NNE
6Chago6,893 m 5.2 km NW
7Lhamalangcho7,565 m 6.0 km N

Where it sits

Where Makalu sits

Ranked in 1

#5 Eight-thousanders

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

LhotsePeak · 8,516 m17 km WNW

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

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Print & wall

JPGMakalu satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-10-13.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

242 m low This 3D map reads 8,243 m at the summit; the official height is 8,485 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 245 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	8,485 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	8,243 m	-242 m
Copernicus GLO-90	8,240 m	-245 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 2026-10-13)
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

Makalu

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

Data sources