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Mont Thabor
- Easiest route
- 8.3 km+1,441 m · about 4.5 h · T3
- Prominence
- 97 m318 ft
- Tonight
- -12°CLight snow · Wind 15 km/h NW
Mont Thabor is a 3,178 m (10,427 ft) mountain in the Gruppo del Monte Tabor, canton of Briançon-Nord, France.
All facts
- Elevation
- 3,178 m · 10,427 ft
- Range
- Gruppo del Monte Tabor
- Region
- canton of Briançon-Nord, France
- Coordinates
- 45.1140° N, 6.5651° E
How to get to the top of Mont Thabor
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 6.9 km SE of Mont Thabor
- Distance
- 8.3 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,441 m−14 m (4,728 ft up)
- Time up
- about 4.5 h
- Difficulty
- T3Demanding: exposed spots, some easy scrambling
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mont Thabor 3D map
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Mont Thabor terrain and contours
50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Mont Thabor weather
Tonight · Light snow · -12°C (10°F) · 0.8 mm · Wind 15 km/h NW
Mont Thabor forecast for the summit, about 3,178 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,744 m.
- Tonight-12°0.8 mm15 km/h NWBase -3°
- Today-12°-9°3.4 mm12 km/h NWBase -3 / 0°
- Sun-14°-3°10.6 mm11 km/h NWBase -5 / 6°
- Mon-9°1°–8 km/h NWBase -1 / 10°
- Tue-6°7°–6 km/h NWBase 3 / 16°
- Wed-8°3°–7 km/h NWBase 0 / 11°
- Thu-7°4°–5 km/h NWBase 2 / 13°
- Fri-7°2°–10 km/h NWBase 1 / 10°
- Sat-7°-1°0.5 mm10 km/h NWBase 1 / 8°
- Sun-11°-2°0.3 mm9 km/h NWBase -2 / 7°
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.
Camping & parking near Mont Thabor
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mont Thabor, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Spot bivouac
Nearest hut
Refuge du Mont Thabor
Nearest parking
3.8 km ENE
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Campsite | 2.0 km ESE |
| Spot bivouacCampsite | 2.1 km ESE |
| Campsite | 2.1 km ESE |
| Refuge du Mont ThaborHut | 2.9 km ENE |
| Parking | 3.8 km ENE |
| Local hors gardiennage du refuge de Terre RougeHut | 4.6 km WNW |
| Refuge de Terre RougeHut | 4.6 km WNW |
| Parking | 6.5 km NE |
| Parking | 6.6 km NE |
How steep is the route to Mont Thabor?
The easiest mapped route, 8.3 km from 1,744 m to 3,178 m. Steepest stretch: 27°.
- 0–15°6.3 km
- 15–30°1.9 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.
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 Thabor summit.
Summit list 7
- 1Pic de Thabor3,207 m 0.6 km NNW
- 2Roc de Valmeinier3,002 m 1.0 km SSW
- 3le Cheval Blanc3,020 m 1.3 km NE
- 4Pointe de Terre Rouge3,080 m 1.6 km NW
- 5Roche du Chardonnet2,950 m 1.9 km SW
- 6Roche de la Pelle2,993 m 2.3 km NNW
- 7Rochers de l'Aigle2,943 m 2.6 km SSW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 159 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Cynthia's Fritillary24
- Glacier Crowfoot14
- Alpine Toadflax11
- Mountain Burnet11
- European Common Frog9
- Hoary Groundsel8
Where Mont Thabor sits
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Col du FréjusPass · 2,540 m↑8.8 km ENE
Maurienne1,200 m↑12 km NE
Col du TélégraphePass · 1,566 m↑14 km NW
Col du LautaretPass · 2,057 m↑15 km SW
Col du GranonPass · 2,413 m↑17 km SSE
More in the Chaberton-Tabor-Galibier Group 1
Mont Thabor downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 3,173 m at the summit; the official height is 3,178 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 3,178 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 3,173 m | -5 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 3,167 m | -11 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 2026-07-22)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, 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