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Stratovolcano · Sicily

Mount Etna

3,357 m11,014 ft
Prominence
at least 3,133 m10,280 ft
Isolation
at least 200 km
Tonight
-6°CPartly cloudy · Wind 8 km/h W

Mount Etna is a 3,357 m (11,014 ft) stratovolcano in Sicily, Italy.

All facts
Elevation
3,357 m · 11,014 ft
Region
Sicily, Italy
Protected area
Etna Park
Spanish name
Monte Etna
Coordinates
37.7549° N, 14.9954° E
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3D map

Mount Etna 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 16.6 × 16.6 km

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Mount Etna topographic map

100 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 500 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.
Downloads

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

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Route

How to get to the top of Mount Etna

3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

Easiest route: from Road end, 0.6 km W of Mount Etna

Distance
1.0 kmone way
Climb
+173 m−6 m (568 ft up)
Time up
about 0.5 h
Difficulty
T3Demanding: exposed spots, some easy scrambling
Mount Etna elevation profile
3,1003,1503,2003,25001.0 kmMount Etna

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Other routes 2
  • Road end, 1.1 km WSW of Mount Etna1.9 km · +238 m · about 1 h
    T3GPXKML
  • Road end, 1.0 km N of Mount Etna1.7 km · +300 m · about 1 h
    T3GPXKML

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

Weather

Mount Etna weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · -6°C (21°F) · Wind 8 km/h W

Mount Etna forecast for the summit, about 3,357 m.

  • Tonight-6°–8 km/h W
  • Today-6°3°1.2 mm17 km/h NW
  • Sun-7°-1°–22 km/h NW
  • Mon-5°2°1.6 mm12 km/h N
  • Tue-7°3°–6 km/h N
  • Wed-6°3°–8 km/h N
  • Thu-6°1°–9 km/h N
  • Fri-7°1°1.4 mm4 km/h N
  • Sat-7°1°0.9 mm6 km/h NW
  • Sun-8°1°2.2 mm4 km/h N

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 Mount Etna

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

All mapped places 7
PlaceDistance
Parking2.3 km SSE
Rifugio di Monte PalestraHut3.9 km WSW
Rifugio Monte ScavoHut4.3 km WNW
Rifugio della GalvarinaHut4.7 km WSW
Parking5.7 km E
Parking5.8 km NE
Caravan site6.2 km S
Slope

How steep is the route to Mount Etna?

The easiest mapped route, 1.0 km from 3,099 m to 3,357 m. Steepest stretch: 35°.

0 km · 3,099 m1.0 km · 3,357 m
  • 0–15°0.8 km
  • 15–30°0.2 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.

Trees 39.4%Bare rock / sparse 35.3%Grassland 24.9%

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

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 8.3 km, measured from the Mount Etna summit.

NESW2 km5 km12345678
Summit list 8
  1. 1Bocca Nuova3,380 m 0.6 km SSW
  2. 2South East Crater3,294 m 0.8 km SSE
  3. 3New South East Crater3,290 m 1.1 km SSE
  4. 4Punta Lucia2,932 m 1.4 km NW
  5. 5Pizzi Dèneri2,845 m 2.2 km ENE
  6. 6Monte Frumento Supino2,845 m 2.5 km S
  7. 7Cratere Piano del Lago o Escrivà2,672 m 3.7 km SSE
  8. 8Montagnola2,648 m 4.2 km SSE
Where it sits

Where Mount Etna sits

Region
Sicily9Italy316Europe2,143
Ranked in 1
Nearby

Nearby places

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

33 m low This 3D map reads 3,324 m at the summit; the official height is 3,357 m.Official 3,357 m90 m model 3,311 mThis map 3,324 m

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 46 m.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)3,357 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)3,324 m-33 m
Copernicus GLO-903,311 m-46 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 2026-08-31)
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)
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
Official website · Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia