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Mountain · monts toulonnais · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Mont Faron

584 m1,916 ft

Prominence: 372 m1,221 ft
Isolation: 4.0 km
Tonight: 9°CPartly cloudy · Wind 51 km/h W

Mont Faron is a 584 m (1,916 ft) mountain in the monts toulonnais, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

All facts

Elevation: 584 m · 1,916 ft
Nearest higher peak: Mont Coudon (702 m)
Range: monts toulonnais
Region: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Coordinates: 43.1496° N, 5.9501° E

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3D map

Mont Faron 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mont Faron 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.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

Mont Faron elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mont Faron weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 9°C (48°F) · Wind 51 km/h W

Mont Faron forecast for the summit, about 584 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about -0 m.

Tonight9°–51 km/h WBase 12°
Today9°13°–45 km/h NWBase 12 / 16°
Sun9°15°–47 km/h WBase 12 / 19°
Mon8°15°–30 km/h WBase 11 / 18°
Tue10°16°–12 km/h SEBase 13 / 19°
Wed10°16°–7 km/h NEBase 13 / 20°
Thu8°16°–7 km/h NBase 12 / 19°
Fri8°16°–9 km/h WBase 11 / 19°
Sat7°13°–8 km/h SWBase 11 / 17°
Sun6°16°–18 km/h WBase 9 / 19°

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.

Slope

Share of the 10 × 10 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 65% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

65.2%

Moderate, 15–30°

29.8%

Steep, 30–45°

4.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.5%

Steeper than 30°: 5.1% of the 100 km² view
Relief in view: 794 m low point -0 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 52.5%Built-up 30.5%Shrubland 8.8%Water 5.6%Grassland 2.0%Bare rock / sparse 0.5%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 5 km, measured from the Mont Faron summit.

Summit list 4

1La Vieille Valette469 m 2.3 km NNE
2Mont Combe535 m 2.5 km N
3Mont Coudon702 m 4.9 km ENE
4Cap Gros577 m 4.9 km WNW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 5 km; 1,397 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Giant orchid46
Moorish Gecko39
Red Valerian30
Sombre Bee-orchid30
Common Cicada30
Striped Millipede29

Where it sits

Where Mont Faron sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Col des ChampsPass · 2,089 m130 km NNE

Downloads

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Print & wall

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

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 578 m at the summit; the official height is 584 m.

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

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	584 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	578 m	-6 m
Copernicus GLO-90	567 m	-17 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