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Monte Solaro

589 m1,932 ft
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
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Route

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
Monte Solaro elevation profile
35040045050055001.0 kmMonte Solaro

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Other routes 1
  • Road end near Anacapri1.1 km · +241 m · about 0.5 h
    T3GPXKML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

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

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

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.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.
Weather

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

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.

All mapped places 6
PlaceDistance
Campsite0.4 km ENE
Campsite0.5 km ENE
Parking0.6 km WNW
Parking0.7 km NW
Parking0.7 km NW
wild campingCampsite2.1 km WNW
Slope

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 km · 336 m1.0 km · 589 m
  • 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

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 75.8%Trees 18.1%Built-up 3.9%Grassland 1.5%

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

Wildlife

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 it sits

Where Monte Solaro sits

Range
Apennines54
Region
Campania11Italy316Europe2,143
Ranked in 1
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
More in the Apennines 6
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Downloads

Monte Solaro downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Free to use with credit: see the data sources

Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 583 m at the summit; the official height is 589 m.Official 589 m90 m model 566 mThis map 583 m

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

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)589 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)583 m-6 m
Copernicus GLO-90566 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