Mountain · Gangdise Shan · Tibet Autonomous Region

Mount Kailash

6,638 m21,778 ft

Mapped trail: 6.8 km+872 m · about 3 hEnds 590 m below the summit.
Prominence: 1,319 m4,327 ft
Isolation: 66 km
Tonight: -27°CClear · Wind 14 km/h SW

Mount Kailash is a 6,638 m (21,778 ft) mountain in the Gangdise Shan, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

All facts

Elevation: 6,638 m · 21,778 ft
Nearest higher peak: Gurla Mandhata (7,694 m)
Range: Gangdise Shan
Region: Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Spanish name: Kailash
Coordinates: 31.0663° N, 81.3110° E

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Route

Trails toward Mount Kailash

Mapped trails from the road get to 590 m below the summit, typically a pass, lake or camp. The top itself is a mountaineering climb with no mapped route.

From Road end, 6.9 km SSW of Mount Kailash

Distance: 6.8 kmone way
Climb: +872 m−13 m (2,861 ft up)
Time up: about 3 h
Difficulty: Grade not mapped

Mount Kailash elevation profile

Ends 590 m below the summit.

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

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

3D map

Mount Kailash 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 9.2 × 9.2 km

Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mount Kailash terrain and contours

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.

Weather

Mount Kailash weather

Tonight · Clear · -27°C (-17°F) · Wind 14 km/h SW

Mount Kailash forecast for the summit, about 6,638 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 5,001 m.

Tonight-27°–14 km/h SWBase -14°
Today-28°-15°–29 km/h SWBase -14 / -3°
Sun-31°-15°–22 km/h SWBase -18 / -4°
Mon-31°-14°–22 km/h SBase -18 / -2°
Tue-26°-15°–17 km/h SBase -13 / -2°
Wed-24°-14°–17 km/h SBase -11 / -2°
Thu-19°-13°0.7 mm11 km/h SWBase -6 / -1°
Fri-24°-14°3.7 mm11 km/h SBase -13 / -3°
Sat-28°-15°0.1 mm12 km/h SBase -14 / -4°
Sun-25°-13°–10 km/h SBase -13 / -3°

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.

Slope

How steep is the route to Mount Kailash?

The easiest mapped route, 6.8 km from 5,001 m to 5,860 m. Steepest stretch: 55°.

0 km · 5,001 m6.8 km · 5,860 m

0–15°6.5 km
15–30°0.2 km
30–45°0.1 km
45°+0.1 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 80 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 75.4%Moss & lichen 10.1%Grassland 7.9%Snow & ice 6.0%Water 0.5%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 4.6 km, measured from the Mount Kailash summit.

Summit list 6

1Nandi6,002 m 1.3 km S
2Guru Rinpoche Torma5,656 m 1.6 km W
3Dharama King Norsang5,996 m 2.3 km ESE
4Chana Dorje5,750 m 2.3 km N
5Cheneresi5,675 m 3.3 km NNE
6Jampelyang5,835 m 3.4 km NE

Where it sits

Where Mount Kailash sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Om ParvatPeak · 5,590 m100 km SSW

Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGMount Kailash satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-24.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXMount Kailash GPX / KML route downloadIn the route section. Mapped route for GPS apps and Google Earth, under the ODbL.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

189 m low This 3D map reads 6,449 m at the summit; the official height is 6,638 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 196 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	6,638 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	6,449 m	-189 m
Copernicus GLO-90	6,442 m	-196 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 2026-09-24)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
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