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Mount Benson

1,023 m3,356 ft

Prominence: 655 m2,150 ft
Isolation: 11 km
Tonight: -1°CCloudy · Wind 6 km/h SW

Mount Benson is a 1,023 m (3,356 ft) mountain in the Vancouver Island Ranges, British Columbia, Canada.

All facts

Elevation: 1,023 m · 3,356 ft
Nearest higher peak: Mount Arrowsmith (1,819 m)
Range: Vancouver Island Ranges
Region: British Columbia, Canada
Coordinates: 49.1496° N, 124.0507° W

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3D map

Mount Benson 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mount Benson 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 Benson elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mount Benson weather

Tonight · Cloudy · -1°C (30°F) · Wind 6 km/h SW

Mount Benson forecast for the summit, about 1,023 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 92 m.

Tonight-1°–6 km/h SWBase 4°
Sat0°2°29.1 mm16 km/h EBase 6 / 8°
Sun2°5°2.7 mm18 km/h EBase 8 / 11°
Mon-1°7°0.5 mm10 km/h WBase 5 / 13°
Tue2°5°7.9 mm4 km/h SBase 7 / 11°
Wed-1°3°12.0 mm8 km/h SWBase 5 / 9°
Thu-5°-1°5.3 mm9 km/h SWBase 1 / 5°
Fri-5°1°2.3 mm5 km/h SWBase 0 / 6°
Sat-1°0°1.6 mm6 km/h SEBase 5 / 6°
Sun1°3°2.7 mm8 km/h SEBase 7 / 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 24, 01:17 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 6.6 × 6.6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 63% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

62.6%

Moderate, 15–30°

32.0%

Steep, 30–45°

5.3%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.2%

Steeper than 30°: 5.5% of the 44 km² view
Relief in view: 927 m low point 92 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 86.3%Grassland 12.9%

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 3.3 km; 429 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Yellow-spotted Millipede83
Canada Jay41
Hairy manzanita26
Pacific stonecrop25
Western Rattlesnake Plantain23
Salal22

Where it sits

Where Mount Benson sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Sproat Lake73 km W

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Print & wall

JPGMount Benson satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-05.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 1,019 m at the summit; the official height is 1,023 m.

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

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	1,023 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	1,019 m	-4 m
Copernicus GLO-90	1,012 m	-11 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 2026-08-05)
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, 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