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Stratovolcano · Armenian Highlands · Ağrı Province

Mount Ararat

5,137 m16,854 ft

Easiest route: 11.4 km+2,928 m · about 7.5 h · T4
Prominence: 3,611 m11,847 ft
Isolation: at least 200 km
Tonight: -12°CClear · Wind 2 km/h NE

Mount Ararat is a 5,137 m (16,854 ft) stratovolcano in the Armenian Highlands, Ağrı Province, Turkey.

All facts

Elevation: 5,137 m · 16,854 ft
Nearest higher peak: Greater Ararat (5,165 m)
Range: Armenian Highlands
Region: Ağrı Province, Turkey
Spanish name: Monte Ararat
Coordinates: 39.7013° N, 44.2988° E

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Route

How to get to the top of Mount Ararat

The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

From Parking, 8.2 km SW of Mount Ararat

Distance: 11.4 kmone way
Climb: +2,928 m−26 m (9,606 ft up)
Time up: about 7.5 h
Difficulty: T4Alpine: faint path, hands needed in places

Mount Ararat elevation profile

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

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

3D map

Mount Ararat 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 18.4 × 18.4 km

Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mount Ararat terrain and contours

200 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-90 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 1,000 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

Mount Ararat weather

Tonight · Clear · -12°C (10°F) · Wind 2 km/h NE

Mount Ararat forecast for the summit, about 5,137 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 2,193 m.

Tonight-12°–2 km/h NEBase 5°
Today-13°-6°0.1 mm9 km/h SWBase 4 / 12°
Sun-13°-8°0.8 mm8 km/h SWBase 4 / 10°
Mon-13°-6°–12 km/h WBase 4 / 12°
Tue-10°-6°0.1 mm3 km/h SWBase 6 / 12°
Wed-10°-6°2.8 mm4 km/h SBase 7 / 13°
Thu-13°-10°9.5 mm4 km/h SEBase 4 / 8°
Fri-12°-8°2.4 mm5 km/h SBase 5 / 11°
Sat-14°-9°0.6 mm5 km/h SWBase 3 / 9°
Sun-12°-9°1.2 mm3 km/h SBase 5 / 9°

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

Camping & parking near Mount Ararat

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Ararat, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest campsite
Camp 2
1.8 km SW · +2 more within 2.2 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Camp 2Campsite	1.8 km SW
Zeki Guide's Camp 2Campsite	1.8 km SW
Campsite	2.2 km SW

Slope

How steep is the route to Mount Ararat?

The easiest mapped route, 11.4 km from 2,193 m to 5,137 m. Steepest stretch: 31°.

0 km · 2,193 m11.4 km · 5,137 m

0–15°7.0 km
15–30°4.2 km
30–45°0.1 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 120 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 79.6%Bare rock / sparse 18.8%Snow & ice 1.0%

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 9.2 km; 104 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Caucasian Agama10
Alpine Accentor6
Eurasian Linnet4
Lamium tomentosum4
Green Toad4
Northern Wheatear3

Where it sits

Where Mount Ararat sits

Ranked in 1

#17 Country high points

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Mount AragatsPeak · 4,090 m92 km N

Downloads

Mount Ararat downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGMount Ararat satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-23.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXMount Ararat GPX / KML route downloadIn the route section. Mapped route for GPS apps and Google Earth, under the ODbL.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

30 m low This 3D map reads 5,107 m at the summit; the official height is 5,137 m.

Why: a 90 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	5,137 m	—
Copernicus GLO-90 (used on this page)	5,107 m	-30 m

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using 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.
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)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Mount Ararat

From Parking, 8.2 km SW of Mount Ararat

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

Data sources