Monte Cinto
- Easiest route
- 3.9 km+1,140 m · about 3 h · T4
- Isolation
- at least 200 km
- Tonight
- -4°CFog · Wind 27 km/h SW
Monte Cinto is a 2,706 m (8,878 ft) mountain in the Monte Cinto massif, Corsica, France.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,706 m · 8,878 ft
- Prominence
- 2,706 m · 8,878 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mont Bégo (2,872 m)
- Range
- Monte Cinto massif
- Region
- Corsica, France
- Coordinates
- 42.3790° N, 8.9460° E
How to get to the top of Monte Cinto
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 3.2 km SE of Monte Cinto
- Distance
- 3.9 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,140 m−61 m (3,740 ft up)
- Time up
- about 3 h
- Difficulty
- T4Alpine: faint path, hands needed in places
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Monte Cinto 3D map
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Monte Cinto terrain and contours
100 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
Monte Cinto weather
Tonight · Fog · -4°C (25°F) · Wind 27 km/h SW
Monte Cinto forecast for the summit, about 2,706 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,367 m.
- Tonight-4°–27 km/h SWBase 5°
- Today-4°2°0.6 mm24 km/h SWBase 5 / 10°
- Sun-3°2°0.7 mm27 km/h SWBase 6 / 10°
- Mon0°7°0.3 mm8 km/h NWBase 9 / 16°
- Tue0°6°0.3 mm4 km/h NBase 8 / 15°
- Wed0°5°0.2 mm4 km/h NWBase 8 / 14°
- Thu-3°6°0.4 mm4 km/h NBase 6 / 15°
- Fri-3°3°1.7 mm3 km/h NWBase 6 / 12°
- Sat-3°3°1.1 mm6 km/h WBase 6 / 11°
- Sun-4°3°1.1 mm6 km/h WBase 4 / 12°
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 near Monte Cinto
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Monte Cinto, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Refuge de l'Erco
Nearest parking
2.9 km NW
Nearest campsite
Bivouac Haut-Asco
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Refuge de l'ErcoHut | 1.7 km SE |
| Parking | 2.9 km NW |
| Refuge d'Ascu-StagnuHut | 3.3 km NW |
| Parking | 3.3 km NW |
| Parking | 3.3 km NW |
| Bivouac Haut-AscoCampsite | 3.3 km NW |
| RefugeHut | 3.6 km WSW |
| Bivouac de TighiettuCampsite | 3.6 km WSW |
| Camping Monte CintoCampsite | 4.0 km N |
How steep is the route to Monte Cinto?
The easiest mapped route, 3.9 km from 1,582 m to 2,706 m. Steepest stretch: 37°.
- 0–15°1.9 km
- 15–30°1.4 km
- 30–45°0.6 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 50 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 7.4 km, measured from the Monte Cinto summit.
Summit list 9
- 1Capu Ciuntrone2,660 m 0.6 km NE
- 2Pointe des Éboulis2,607 m 0.8 km WSW
- 3Capu Falu2,540 m 1.7 km SW
- 4Capu Larghia2,475 m 1.9 km WSW
- 5Capu Rossu2,498 m 2.4 km WSW
- 6Punta Minuta2,556 m 2.7 km W
- 7Capo al Berdato2,583 m 3.1 km ENE
- 8Capo Bianco2,562 m 4.4 km NE
- 9Paglia Orba2,525 m 6.8 km SW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 7.4 km; 615 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Domestic Sheep155
- Tyrrhenian Wall Lizard86
- Bedriaga's Rock Lizard44
- Black pine37
- Corsican Butterwort32
- Narrow-leaved Helleborine31
Where Monte Cinto sits
Nearby places
Monte Cinto downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
36 m low This 3D map reads 2,670 m at the summit; the official height is 2,706 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 46 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,706 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,670 m | -36 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,660 m | -46 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 2026-08-23)
- 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