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Mount Everest

8,849 m29,032 ft
Isolation
at least 200 km
Tonight
-39°CFog · Wind 11 km/h E

Mount Everest is an 8,849 m (29,032 ft) mountain in the Mahalangur Himal, Koshi Province, Nepal.

All facts
Elevation
8,849 m · 29,032 ft
Prominence
8,849 m · 29,032 ft
Range
Mahalangur Himal
Region
Koshi Province, Nepal
Protected area
Sagarmatha National Park
Spanish name
Everest
Coordinates
27.9890° N, 86.9257° E
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Mount Everest 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Mount Everest terrain and contours

200 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 1,000 mShowing west → east through the summit

Mount Everest elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mount Everest weather

Tonight · Fog · -39°C (-38°F) · Wind 11 km/h E

Mount Everest forecast for the summit, about 8,849 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 4,472 m.

  • Tonight-39°–11 km/h EBase -12°
  • Today-38°-29°–13 km/h SBase -12 / -3°
  • Sun-38°-29°–14 km/h SBase -12 / -3°
  • Mon-38°-26°–10 km/h EBase -12 / 0°
  • Tue-37°-27°–10 km/h SWBase -11 / -1°
  • Wed-37°-26°0.4 mm6 km/h SWBase -10 / 0°
  • Thu-30°-25°26.5 mm3 km/h SBase -4 / 2°
  • Fri-25°-24°91.9 mm7 km/h SBase 1 / 2°
  • Sat-32°-25°0.7 mm9 km/h SBase -6 / 2°
  • Sun-35°-26°0.1 mm4 km/h EBase -9 / 0°
  • Mon-38°-29°0.4 mm4 km/h SBase -12 / -2°

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 Everest

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

  • Nearest campsite

    三号营地

    1.3 km NNE · +2 more within 2.0 km

All mapped places 3
PlaceDistance
三号营地Campsite1.3 km NNE
Camp 4S South ColCampsite1.8 km SSE
二号营地Campsite2.0 km NNE
Slope

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

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

Gentle, 0–15°
28.9%
Moderate, 15–30°
23.3%
Steep, 30–45°
29.8%
Cliffs, 45° and over
18.0%
Steeper than 30°
47.8% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view
4,266 m low point 4,472 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Snow & ice 77.5%Bare rock / sparse 16.8%Moss & lichen 3.8%Grassland 1.6%

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

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 10 km, measured from the Mount Everest summit.

NESW2 km5 km123456789
Summit list 9
  1. 1South Summit8,749 m 0.4 km S
  2. 2Lhotse North II8,117 m 2.4 km SSE
  3. 3Lhotse North I8,275 m 2.8 km SSE
  4. 4Lhotse8,516 m 3.1 km SSE
  5. 5Lhotse Nup I8,415 m 3.2 km S
  6. 6Lhotse Nup II7,942 m 3.3 km S
  7. 7Lhotse Middle8,410 m 3.4 km SSE
  8. 8Lhotse Middle II8,372 m 3.5 km SSE
  9. 9Lhotse Shar8,382 m 3.8 km SSE
Where it sits

Where Mount Everest sits

Range
Himalayas121Mahalangur Himal12
Region
China121Koshi Province5Nepal73Asia964
Protected area
Sagarmatha National Park12
Ranked in 3
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
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Downloads

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

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

111 m low This 3D map reads 8,738 m at the summit; the official height is 8,849 m.Official 8,849 m90 m model 8,726 mThis map 8,738 m

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 123 m.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)8,849 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)8,738 m-111 m
Copernicus GLO-908,726 m-123 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 2026-02-05)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
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
Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia