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Mountain · Waputik Mountains · British Columbia

Mount Baker

3,180 m10,433 ft
Prominence
496 m1,626 ft
Isolation
9.3 km
Tonight
-21°CPartly cloudy · Wind 5 km/h NW

Mount Baker is a 3,180 m (10,433 ft) mountain in the Waputik Mountains, British Columbia, Canada.

All facts
Elevation
3,180 m · 10,433 ft
Nearest higher peak
Mount Patterson (3,197 m)
Range
Waputik Mountains
Region
British Columbia, Canada
Coordinates
51.6651° N, 116.5981° W
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3D map

Mount Baker 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Mount Baker terrain and contours

50 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 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

Mount Baker elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mount Baker weather

Today · Clear · -21 / -13°C (-6 / 9°F) · Wind 5 km/h NW

Mount Baker forecast for the summit, about 3,180 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,880 m.

  • Today-21°-13°–5 km/h NWBase -13 / -5°
  • Sat-18°-11°3.9 mm6 km/h NEBase -11 / -3°
  • Sun-16°-9°–8 km/h SEBase -8 / -1°
  • Mon-12°-5°–2 km/h SBase -5 / 3°
  • Tue-12°-8°0.9 mm4 km/h SWBase -4 / 0°
  • Wed-14°-9°8.8 mm4 km/h EBase -6 / -2°
  • Thu-23°-11°0.4 mm5 km/h SWBase -15 / -3°
  • Fri-18°-14°0.8 mm3 km/h SWBase -10 / -6°
  • Sat-16°-14°0.9 mm6 km/h SWBase -8 / -7°
  • Sun-16°-12°–6 km/h SWBase -9 / -4°

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.

Slope

Slope

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

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°
32.7%
Moderate, 15–30°
36.8%
Steep, 30–45°
23.9%
Cliffs, 45° and over
6.6%
Steeper than 30°
30.5% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view
1,292 m low point 1,880 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Snow & ice 45.4%Bare rock / sparse 41.4%Trees 9.0%Moss & lichen 2.9%Water 0.8%Grassland 0.6%

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

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Mount Baker summit.

NESW1 km3 km12345
Summit list 5
  1. 1Tilley Peak2,944 m 0.9 km NE
  2. 2Trapper Peak2,984 m 1.5 km NNE
  3. 3Nexus Peak2,853 m 2.0 km WNW
  4. 4Mount Habel3,073 m 2.4 km SE
  5. 5Ayesha Peak3,065 m 2.9 km S
Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 16 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Dwarf Fireweed7
  • Yellow Saxifrage5
  • Fringed Grass of Parnassus2
  • Purple Saxifrage2
  • Brown Bear1
  • Common Drone Fly1
Where it sits

Where Mount Baker sits

Range
American Cordillera467North American Cordillera271Rocky Mountains104Canadian Rockies32
Region
British Columbia115Canada331North America1,313
Nearby

Nearby places

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Downloads

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

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 3,171 m at the summit; the official height is 3,180 m.Official 3,180 m90 m model 3,149 mThis map 3,171 m

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal. The 90 m model misses by 31 m.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)3,180 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)3,171 m-9 m
Copernicus GLO-903,149 m-31 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 2026-08-21)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
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 · GeoNames · Wikipedia