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Mont Maudit

4,465 m14,649 ft

Prominence: 162 m531 ft
Isolation: at least 200 km
Tonight: -21°CSnow · Wind 9 km/h W

Mont Maudit is a 4,465 m (14,649 ft) mountain in the Mont Blanc massif, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

All facts

Elevation: 4,465 m · 14,649 ft
Nearest higher peak: rocher de la Tournette (4,677 m)
Range: Mont Blanc massif
Region: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Protected area: Mont Blanc - site d'exception
Coordinates: 45.8393° N, 6.8693° E

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3D map

Mont Maudit 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mont Maudit terrain and contours

100 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 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

Mont Maudit elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mont Maudit weather

Tonight · Snow · -21°C (-6°F) · 4.7 mm · Wind 9 km/h W

Mont Maudit forecast for the summit, about 4,465 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 2,448 m.

Tonight-21°4.7 mm9 km/h WBase -9°
Today-21°-19°16.2 mm9 km/h NWBase -9 / -6°
Sun-24°-12°18.4 mm10 km/h NWBase -11 / 1°
Mon-18°-8°–5 km/h NWBase -6 / 4°
Tue-14°-4°–3 km/h NWBase -1 / 8°
Wed-16°-9°–3 km/h NWBase -4 / 4°
Thu-17°-8°–2 km/h WBase -4 / 5°
Fri-19°-9°–3 km/h NWBase -6 / 3°
Sat-19°-11°2.5 mm3 km/h WBase -6 / 2°
Sun-22°-13°1.3 mm5 km/h WBase -9 / 0°

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.

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.

Gentle, 0–15°

10.8%

Moderate, 15–30°

28.6%

Steep, 30–45°

33.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

27.0%

Steeper than 30°: 60.6% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 2,363 m low point 2,448 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Snow & ice 84.9%Bare rock / sparse 14.2%Moss & lichen 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 Mont Maudit summit.

Summit list 9

1Mont Blanc4,806 m 0.8 km SSW
2Rocher de la Tournette4,677 m 1.0 km SW
3Petite Bosse4,547 m 1.1 km WSW
4Grande Bosse4,513 m 1.2 km WSW
5Monte Bianco di Courmayeur4,748 m 1.2 km S
6Pointe Mieulet4,287 m 1.2 km NNE
7Picco Luigi Amedeo4,469 m 2.0 km S
8Dôme du Goûter4,304 m 2.0 km W
9Pointe Bayeux4,258 m 2.2 km WNW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 47 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Yellow-billed Chough10
Alpine Ibex5
Alpine Marmot4
Eurasian Griffon2
Asp2
Fly Agaric2

Where it sits

Where Mont Maudit sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Tour RondePeak · 3,792 m3.0 km E

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Print & wall

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

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 4,462 m at the summit; the official height is 4,465 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal. The 90 m model misses by 72 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	4,465 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	4,462 m	-3 m
Copernicus GLO-90	4,393 m	-72 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