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Monte Solaro
- Easiest route
- 1.0 km+240 m · about 0.5 h · T3
- Isolation
- 20 km
- Tonight
- 17°CCloudy · Wind 24 km/h SW
Monte Solaro is a 589 m (1,932 ft) mountain in the Apennines, Campania, Italy.
All facts
- Elevation
- 589 m · 1,932 ft
- Prominence
- 589 m · 1,932 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Monte Faito (1,131 m)
- Range
- Apennines
- Region
- Campania, Italy
- Coordinates
- 40.5451° N, 14.2235° E
How to get to the top of Monte Solaro
2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 0.5 km W of Monte Solaro
- Distance
- 1.0 kmone way
- Climb
- +240 m(787 ft up)
- Time up
- about 0.5 h
- Difficulty
- T3Demanding: exposed spots, some easy scrambling
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Monte Solaro 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 6.4 × 6.4 km
Monte Solaro terrain and contours
20 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 Solaro weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 17°C (63°F) · 0.5 mm · Wind 24 km/h SW
Monte Solaro forecast for the summit, about 589 m.
- Tonight17°0.5 mm24 km/h SW
- Today14°18°0.3 mm38 km/h NW
- Sun13°15°–18 km/h N
- Mon15°16°–20 km/h N
- Tue15°15°–23 km/h NW
- Wed14°16°–17 km/h NE
- Thu15°15°0.1 mm19 km/h NE
- Fri14°14°–8 km/h NW
- Sat14°15°–9 km/h NE
- Sun14°15°–6 km/h E
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 Monte Solaro
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Monte Solaro, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
0.4 km ENE
Nearest parking
0.6 km WNW
How steep is the route to Monte Solaro?
The easiest mapped route, 1.0 km from 336 m to 589 m. Steepest stretch: 45°.
- 0–15°0.6 km
- 15–30°0.4 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.2 km; 548 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Italian Wall Lizard183
- Yellow-legged Gull128
- Domestic Cat62
- Naked-man Orchid36
- Italian Bellflower31
- Mastic29
Where Monte Solaro sits
- Range
- Apennines54
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
SolfataraPeak · 458 m↑32 km NNW
Mount EpomeoPeak · 787 m↑35 km NW
Mount BarbaroPeak · 331 m↑35 km NNW
Lake Avernus↑35 km NNW
Mount VesuviusPeak · 1,281 m↑35 km NNE
More in the Apennines 6
Monte Solaro downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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3D printing & 3D apps
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 583 m at the summit; the official height is 589 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 589 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 583 m | -6 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 566 m | -23 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 2026-09-26)
- 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