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Mont Blanc

4,806 m15,766 ft

Easiest route: 12.8 km+3,187 m · about 8.5 h · T5
Prominence: 4,692 m15,394 ft
Isolation: at least 200 km
Tonight: -23°CSnow · Wind 9 km/h W

Mont Blanc is a 4,806 m (15,766 ft) mountain in the Mont Blanc massif, Aosta Valley, Italy.

All facts

Elevation: 4,806 m · 15,766 ft
Range: Mont Blanc massif
Region: Aosta Valley, Italy
Protected area: Mont Blanc - site d'exception
Coordinates: 45.8326° N, 6.8649° E

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Route

How to get to the top of Mont Blanc

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

Easiest route: from Road end near Le Planet

Distance: 12.8 kmone way
Climb: +3,187 m−177 m (10,456 ft up)
Time up: about 8.5 husually 2 days, night at Refuge du Goûter
Difficulty: T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier

Mont Blanc elevation profile

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Other routes 2

Road end, 6.3 km S of Mont Blanc13.0 km · +2,945 m · about 8 h
T6GPX KML
Road end near Miage d'en Haut13.7 km · +3,708 m · about 9.5 h
T6GPX KML

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

3D map

Mont Blanc 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mont Blanc terrain and contours

200 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one, from Le Planet. 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

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mont Blanc weather

Tonight · Snow · -23°C (-9°F) · 5.4 mm · Wind 9 km/h W

Mont Blanc forecast for the summit, about 4,806 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,798 m.

Tonight-23°5.4 mm9 km/h WBase -5°
Sat-24°-21°16.2 mm9 km/h NWBase -5 / -1°
Sun-26°-14°18.4 mm10 km/h NWBase -7 / 5°
Mon-20°-10°–5 km/h NWBase -4 / 8°
Tue-16°-6°–3 km/h NWBase 3 / 13°
Wed-18°-11°–3 km/h NWBase 1 / 8°
Thu-19°-10°–2 km/h WBase 0 / 9°
Fri-21°-11°–3 km/h NWBase -1 / 8°
Sat-21°-13°2.5 mm3 km/h WBase -1 / 7°
Sun-24°-15°1.3 mm5 km/h WBase -3 / 3°

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 Mont Blanc

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

Nearest hut
Refuge Vallot
1.2 km NW · +2 more within 3.4 km
Directions Map
Nearest campsite
Camping de Tête Rousse
4.4 km NW · +2 more within 5.8 km
Directions Map
Nearest parking
5.6 km SE
+2 more within 5.7 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 9

Place	Distance
Refuge VallotHut	1.2 km NW
Rifugio Francesco GonellaHut	2.9 km WSW
Refuge du GoûterHut	3.4 km NW
Camping de Tête RousseCampsite	4.4 km NW
Montebianco La SorgenteCampsite	5.5 km ESE
Parking	5.6 km SE
Parking	5.7 km SE
Parking	5.7 km SE
Hobo CampingCampsite	5.8 km SE

Slope

How steep is the route to Mont Blanc?

The easiest mapped route, 12.8 km from 1,798 m to 4,806 m. Steepest stretch: 38°.

0 km · 1,798 m12.8 km · 4,806 m

0–15°7.5 km
15–30°4.7 km
30–45°0.6 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 140 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Snow & ice 30.4%Trees 24.9%Grassland 18.7%Bare rock / sparse 18.7%Moss & lichen 5.7%Built-up 1.2%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 10 km, measured from the Mont Blanc summit.

Summit list 9

1Rocher de la Tournette4,677 m 0.4 km W
2Monte Bianco di Courmayeur4,748 m 0.6 km SE
3Petite Bosse4,547 m 0.8 km WNW
4Grande Bosse4,513 m 0.9 km WNW
5Picco Luigi Amedeo4,469 m 1.2 km S
6Mont Maudit4,465 m 1.9 km NNE
7Dôme du Goûter4,304 m 2.0 km WNW
8Pointe Mieulet4,287 m 2.0 km NNE
9Pointe Bayeux4,258 m 2.3 km NW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 1,311 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Yellow-billed Chough250
Fireweed137
Alpine Marmot111
Alpine Ibex96
Rusty-leaved Alpenrose86
Martagon Lily75

Where it sits

Where Mont Blanc sits

Ranked in 3

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Tour RondePeak · 3,792 m3.5 km ENE

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

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Print & wall

JPGMont Blanc satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-07-24.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXMont Blanc 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 4,811 m at the summit; the official height is 4,806 m.

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

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	4,806 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	4,811 m	+5 m
Copernicus GLO-90	4,793 m	-13 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)
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

Mont Blanc

Easiest route: from Road end near Le Planet

West → east through the summit

Nearest hut

Nearest campsite

Nearest parking

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