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Malinche

4,420 m14,501 ft

Easiest route: 5.0 km+1,160 m · about 3 h
Prominence: 1,911 m6,269 ft
Isolation: 63 km
Tonight: -2°CCloudy · Wind 19 km/h NE

Malinche is a 4,420 m (14,501 ft) volcano in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Tlaxcala, Mexico.

All facts

Elevation: 4,420 m · 14,501 ft
Nearest higher peak: Iztaccihuatl (5,230 m)
Range: Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
Region: Tlaxcala, Mexico
Coordinates: 19.2310° N, 98.0318° W

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Route

How to get to the top of Malinche

3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

Easiest route: from Road end, 4.1 km SW of Malinche

Distance: 5.0 kmone way
Climb: +1,160 m−14 m (3,806 ft up)
Time up: about 3 h
Difficulty: Grade not mapped

Malinche elevation profile

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Other routes 2

Road end, 6.3 km SW of Malinche7.9 km · +1,427 m · about 4.5 h
Grade not mappedGPX KML
Road end, 7.0 km SE of Malinche8.8 km · +1,440 m · about 4.5 h
Grade not mappedGPX KML

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

3D map

Malinche 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 11.6 × 11.6 km

Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Malinche terrain and contours

100 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 500 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

Malinche weather

Today · Cloudy · -2 / 4°C (28 / 39°F) · Wind 19 km/h NE

Malinche forecast for the summit, about 4,420 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 3,269 m.

Today-2°4°–19 km/h NEBase 4 / 11°
Sat-2°8°–18 km/h NEBase 5 / 14°
Sun-3°7°–18 km/h EBase 3 / 14°
Mon-1°8°–8 km/h SBase 6 / 13°
Tue-1°8°4.1 mm9 km/h SBase 6 / 14°
Wed-1°5°19.0 mm5 km/h SEBase 6 / 10°
Thu-1°6°3.3 mm6 km/h EBase 7 / 13°
Fri0°8°0.9 mm5 km/h SBase 7 / 14°
Sat0°9°–6 km/h EBase 6 / 15°
Sun0°10°0.2 mm7 km/h EBase 6 / 16°

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 Malinche

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

Nearest campsite
5.6 km NNW
Directions Map

All mapped places 1

Place	Distance
Campsite	5.6 km NNW

Slope

How steep is the route to Malinche?

The easiest mapped route, 5.0 km from 3,269 m to 4,420 m. Steepest stretch: 37°.

0 km · 3,269 m5.0 km · 4,420 m

0–15°3.8 km
15–30°1.0 km
30–45°0.2 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 50 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 91.4%Grassland 6.0%Cropland 1.6%Bare rock / sparse 0.7%

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

Where it sits

Where Malinche sits

Nearby

Nearby places

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Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGMalinche satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-04-30.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXMalinche 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?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 4,420 m at the summit; the official height is 4,420 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	4,420 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	4,420 m	-0 m
Copernicus GLO-90	4,399 m	-21 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 2026-04-30)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
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 · Wikipedia

Malinche

Easiest route: from Road end, 4.1 km SW of Malinche

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

Data sources