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Montpelier Hill

383 m1,257 ft

Prominence: 58 m190 ft
Isolation: 1.0 km
Tonight: 5°CCloudy · Wind 20 km/h SW

Montpelier Hill is a 383 m (1,257 ft) mountain in the Wicklow Mountains, Leinster, Ireland.

All facts

Elevation: 383 m · 1,257 ft
Nearest higher peak: Tibradden Mountain (467 m)
Range: Wicklow Mountains
Region: Leinster, Ireland
Coordinates: 53.2510° N, 6.3306° W

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3D map

Montpelier Hill 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Montpelier Hill terrain and contours

20 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 100 mShowing west → east through the summit

Montpelier Hill elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Montpelier Hill weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 5°C (41°F) · 0.9 mm · Wind 20 km/h SW

Montpelier Hill forecast for the summit, about 383 m.

Tonight5°0.9 mm20 km/h SW
Today6°12°8.1 mm43 km/h W
Sun6°9°2.2 mm43 km/h W
Mon8°15°5.8 mm37 km/h SE
Tue8°9°1.1 mm30 km/h SW
Wed7°12°0.2 mm24 km/h SW
Thu5°11°2.7 mm21 km/h SE
Fri9°11°13.6 mm22 km/h SE
Sat3°8°0.4 mm16 km/h W
Sun2°6°0.1 mm17 km/h W

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 90% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

90.2%

Moderate, 15–30°

9.6%

Steep, 30–45°

0.2%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.2% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 499 m low point 84 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 60.4%Trees 29.7%Built-up 9.0%Water 0.7%

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 Montpelier Hill summit.

Summit list 3

1Spinkeen418 m 1.5 km SW
2Killakee Mountain529 m 2.9 km SSE
3Cruagh Mountain516 m 2.9 km SE

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 409 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Western Honey Bee19
Small Tortoiseshell15
Common Carder Bumble Bee15
Speckled Wood13
Common Drone Fly13
Gorse10

Where it sits

Where Montpelier Hill sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Blessington Street BasinLake12 km NNE

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Print & wall

JPGMontpelier Hill satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2024-09-06.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

13 m high This 3D map reads 396 m at the summit; the official height is 383 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model measures the surface, snow, ice and trees included, and official heights can come from older surveys.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	383 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	396 m	+13 m
Copernicus GLO-90	393 m	+10 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 2024 (scene 2024-09-06)
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: 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 · Wikipedia