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Mondscheinspitze
- Prominence
- 461 m1,513 ft
- Isolation
- 3.5 km
- Tonight
- -4°CFog · Wind 9 km/h NW
Mondscheinspitze is a 2,106 m (6,909 ft) mountain in the Vorkarwendel, Tyrol, Austria.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,106 m · 6,909 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Bettlerkarspitze (2,268 m)
- Range
- Vorkarwendel
- Region
- Tyrol, Austria
- Coordinates
- 47.4660° N, 11.6129° E
Mondscheinspitze 3D map
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Mondscheinspitze terrain and contours
50 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.
Mondscheinspitze elevation profile
West → east through the summit
Mondscheinspitze weather
Tonight · Fog · -4°C (25°F) · 0.2 mm · Wind 9 km/h NW
Mondscheinspitze forecast for the summit, about 2,106 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,026 m.
- Tonight-4°0.2 mm9 km/h NWBase 2°
- Today-6°-1°2.5 mm15 km/h WBase 0 / 6°
- Sun-4°3°12.6 mm19 km/h WBase 3 / 10°
- Mon-4°4°0.1 mm6 km/h NWBase 3 / 11°
- Tue4°12°–5 km/h NWBase 10 / 18°
- Wed-1°3°3.2 mm7 km/h NWBase 5 / 10°
- Thu-3°4°–5 km/h NEBase 3 / 11°
- Fri-4°5°–5 km/h NBase 2 / 12°
- Sat-4°3°–6 km/h NWBase 2 / 9°
- Sun-4°1°3.1 mm5 km/h WBase 3 / 8°
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Mondscheinspitze
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mondscheinspitze, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Plumsjoch-Hütte
Nearest parking
2.3 km SE
Nearest campsite
Achensee Camping Schwarzenau
All mapped places 8
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Plumsjoch-HütteHut | 2.1 km S |
| Parking | 2.3 km SE |
| Sennhütte GernalmHut | 2.3 km SE |
| Parkplatz Feilalm / PletzachalmParking | 3.0 km ESE |
| Parking | 3.0 km ESE |
| GütenbergalmHut | 3.5 km SE |
| Achensee Camping SchwarzenauCampsite | 7.6 km E |
| Alpen Caravan Park AchenseeCampsite | 7.9 km ENE |
Slope
Share of the 6 × 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.
- Steeper than 30°
- 55.8% of the 36 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,065 m low point 1,026 m
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 Mondscheinspitze summit.
Summit list 7
- 1Plumsjoch1,921 m 1.0 km S
- 2Der Mantschen1,825 m 1.3 km NNE
- 3Der Kotzen1,779 m 1.6 km NNW
- 4Satteljoch1,935 m 1.8 km SSW
- 5Kompar2,011 m 2.4 km WSW
- 6Heimjoch (Eiskönigspitze)1,871 m 2.6 km WNW
- 7Schleimsjoch1,806 m 2.7 km ENE
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 75 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Northern Chamois5
- Silver Thistle5
- Alpine Ibex2
- Fly Orchid2
- Norway spruce2
- Common Kidney-Vetch2
Where Mondscheinspitze sits
Nearby places
SonnjochPeak · 2,457 m↑6.0 km S
AchenseeLake · 929 m↑8.6 km ESE
HochissPeak · 2,299 m↑11 km E
BirkkarspitzePeak · 2,749 m↑15 km WSW
Großer BettelwurfPeak · 2,726 m↑15 km SSW
More in the Karwendel 2
Mondscheinspitze downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
14 m low This 3D map reads 2,092 m at the summit; the official height is 2,106 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 51 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,106 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,092 m | -14 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,055 m | -51 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 2026-07-24)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- 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