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Mountain · Pennine Alps · Canton of Valais

Mettelhorn

3,406 m11,175 ft

Easiest route: 8.8 km+1,857 m · about 5.5 h · T5
Prominence: 266 m873 ft
Isolation: 1.6 km
Tonight: -15°CSnow · Wind 11 km/h NW

Mettelhorn is a 3,406 m (11,175 ft) mountain in the Pennine Alps, Canton of Valais, Switzerland.

All facts

Elevation: 3,406 m · 11,175 ft
Nearest higher peak: Äschhorn (3,668 m)
Range: Pennine Alps
Region: Canton of Valais, Switzerland
Coordinates: 46.0554° N, 7.7412° E

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Route

How to get to the top of Mettelhorn

3 mapped routes from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.

Easiest route: from Parking Kiosk URANIA (parking)

Distance: 8.8 kmone way
Climb: +1,857 m−103 m (6,093 ft up)
Time up: about 5.5 h
Difficulty: T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier

Mettelhorn elevation profile

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Other routes 2

Road end, 7.8 km SW of Mettelhorn11.8 km · +1,471 m · about 5.5 h
T5GPX KML
Road end near Stafel13.3 km · +1,811 m · about 6.5 h
T5GPX KML

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

3D map

Mettelhorn 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mettelhorn terrain and contours

100 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one, from Parking Kiosk URANIA. 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

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Weather

Mettelhorn weather

Tonight · Snow · -15°C (5°F) · 1.2 mm · Wind 11 km/h NW

Mettelhorn forecast for the summit, about 3,406 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,608 m.

Tonight-15°1.2 mm11 km/h NWBase -5°
Today-15°-11°9.9 mm8 km/h NWBase -5 / -3°
Sun-19°-3°11.8 mm12 km/h NWBase -10 / 8°
Mon-13°-3°–7 km/h SBase -4 / 7°
Tue-7°2°–1 km/h SBase 2 / 12°
Wed-10°-2°–2 km/h WBase -2 / 8°
Thu-11°-2°–1 km/h NWBase -2 / 8°
Fri-13°-3°–2 km/h WBase -5 / 7°
Sat-14°-5°3.2 mm3 km/h WBase -6 / 4°
Sun-13°-5°0.5 mm3 km/h NWBase -4 / 6°

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 Mettelhorn

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

Nearest campsite
Alphubel
2.8 km ENE · +2 more within 4.6 km
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Nearest parking
Täscherhof
2.9 km ENE · +2 more within 2.9 km
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Nearest hut
Berggasthaus Trift
3.2 km SSW · +2 more within 3.5 km
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Nearest caravan site
Stellplatz Wildi
5.2 km NE
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All mapped places 10

Place	Distance
Parking	2.5 km SE
AlphubelCampsite	2.8 km ENE
TäscherhofParking	2.9 km ENE
Parking	2.9 km ENE
Berggasthaus TriftHut	3.2 km SSW
Camping ZermattCampsite	3.3 km SSE
Weisshornhütte SACHut	3.4 km N
RothornhütteHut	3.5 km WSW
AttermenzenCampsite	4.6 km NE
Stellplatz WildiCaravan site	5.2 km NE

Slope

How steep is the route to Mettelhorn?

The easiest mapped route, 8.8 km from 1,608 m to 3,406 m. Steepest stretch: 28°.

0 km · 1,608 m8.8 km · 3,406 m

0–15°6.1 km
15–30°2.7 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 90 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 29.9%Snow & ice 23.0%Bare rock / sparse 20.2%Trees 17.4%Moss & lichen 8.6%Built-up 0.8%

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 Mettelhorn summit.

Summit list 5

1Getschung2,863 m 1.3 km NE
2Furgghorn3,391 m 1.5 km W
3Unter Äschhorn3,617 m 2.1 km W
4Wisshorn2,936 m 2.1 km SSW
5Ober Äschhorn3,668 m 2.7 km WNW

Where it sits

Where Mettelhorn sits

Ranked in 2

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Ober GabelhornPeak · 4,063 m6.0 km WSW

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

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Print & wall

JPGMettelhorn satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-27.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXMettelhorn 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?

32 m low This 3D map reads 3,374 m at the summit; the official height is 3,406 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 59 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	3,406 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	3,374 m	-32 m
Copernicus GLO-90	3,347 m	-59 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 2026-09-27)
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

Mettelhorn

Easiest route: from Parking Kiosk URANIA (parking)

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

Nearest parking

Nearest hut

Nearest caravan site

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