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Mount Hotham
- Prominence
- 121 m397 ft
- Isolation
- 3.1 km
- Tonight
- 9°CLight rain showers · Wind 23 km/h N
Mount Hotham is a 1,861 m (6,106 ft) mountain in the Victorian Alps, Victoria, Australia.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,861 m · 6,106 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Loch (1,865 m)
- Range
- Victorian Alps
- Region
- Victoria, Australia
- Spanish name
- Monte Hotham
- Coordinates
- 36.9754° S, 147.1282° E
Mount Hotham 3D map
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Mount Hotham topographic map
50 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.
West → east through the summit
Mount Hotham downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How to get to the top of Mount Hotham
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 0.5 km ESE of Mount Hotham
- Distance
- 0.5 kmone way
- Climb
- +12 m(39 ft up)
- Time up
- about 0.5 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Hotham weather
Today · Light rain showers at night · 9 / 16°C (48 / 61°F) · 3.5 mm · Wind 23 km/h N
Mount Hotham forecast for the summit, about 1,861 m.
- Today9°16°3.5 mm23 km/h N
- Sun-3°11°66.1 mm30 km/h N
- Mon-2°7°2.8 mm16 km/h W
- Tue-4°4°0.2 mm13 km/h W
- Wed1°8°–14 km/h NW
- Thu4°12°0.3 mm13 km/h NW
- Fri4°8°11.7 mm21 km/h N
- Sat0°9°6.7 mm14 km/h W
- Sun-4°5°0.2 mm14 km/h S
- Mon5°10°–14 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 near Mount Hotham
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Hotham, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.4 km E
Nearest hut
Diamantina Hut
Nearest campsite
Dibbins Hut free camping area
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.4 km E |
| Parking | 0.4 km E |
| Parking | 0.6 km W |
| Diamantina HutHut | 0.6 km WSW |
| Blowhard HutHut | 2.2 km SW |
| Silver Brumby HutHut | 2.9 km ESE |
| Dibbins Hut free camping areaCampsite | 5.7 km ENE |
| Dibbins HutCampsite | 6.0 km ENE |
| Campsite | 6.6 km SW |
How steep is the route to Mount Hotham?
The easiest mapped route, 0.6 km from 1,847 m to 1,861 m. Steepest stretch: 6°.
- 0–15°0.6 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Mount Hotham summit.
Summit list 3
- 1Little Mount Baldy1,728 m 1.4 km SW
- 2Mount Higginbotham1,814 m 1.8 km SE
- 3Mount Blowhard1,714 m 2.7 km SSW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 286 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Mountain celery60
- Alpine Everlasting59
- Alpine Everlasting56
- Bogong daisy-bush49
- Australian Edelweiss45
- Kunzea muelleri44
Where Mount Hotham sits
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Mount FeathertopPeak · 1,922 m↑9.1 km N
Mount BogongPeak · 1,986 m↑31 km NNE
The HornPeak · 1,723 m↑39 km NW
Mount HowittPeak · 1,742 m↑48 km WSW
Lake Tali Karng846 m↑70 km SSW
More in the Victorian Alps 1
How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 1,860 m at the summit; the official height is 1,861 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,861 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,860 m | -1 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,856 m | -5 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)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- 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 · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia