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Mount Kazbek
- Easiest route
- 14.7 km+2,868 m · about 8.5 h · T5
- Prominence
- 2,344 m7,690 ft
- Isolation
- 113 km
- Tonight
- -21°CFog · Wind 7 km/h W
Mount Kazbek is a 5,033 m (16,512 ft) stratovolcano in the Greater Caucasus, North Ossetia–Alania, Russia.
All facts
- Elevation
- 5,033 m · 16,512 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Koshtan-Tau (5,144 m)
- Range
- Greater Caucasus
- Region
- North Ossetia–Alania, Russia
- Spanish name
- Monte Kazbek
- Coordinates
- 42.6968° N, 44.5182° E
How to get to the top of Mount Kazbek
The shortest mapped route from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.
From Road end, 8.6 km ESE of Mount Kazbek
- Distance
- 14.7 kmone way
- Climb
- +2,868 m−20 m (9,409 ft up)
- Time up
- about 8.5 husually 2 days, night at ბეთლემის ქოხი 3650
- Difficulty
- T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Kazbek 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 13.4 × 13.4 km
Mount Kazbek terrain and contours
200 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 Kazbek weather
Tonight · Fog · -21°C (-6°F) · Wind 7 km/h W
Mount Kazbek forecast for the summit, about 5,033 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 2,167 m.
- Tonight-21°–7 km/h WBase -3°
- Today-21°-11°–7 km/h WBase -3 / 7°
- Sun-21°-11°–6 km/h WBase -2 / 7°
- Mon-20°-9°–8 km/h WBase -1 / 9°
- Tue-14°-7°–4 km/h SWBase 2 / 11°
- Wed-13°-6°–5 km/h SWBase 4 / 12°
- Thu-13°-11°1.9 mm6 km/h SBase 4 / 7°
- Fri-14°-10°3.8 mm6 km/h SBase 4 / 7°
- Sat-20°-12°0.8 mm5 km/h WBase -2 / 6°
- Sun-15°-11°6.2 mm4 km/h SBase 2 / 7°
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 near Mount Kazbek
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Kazbek, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
საბანაკე მეორე ჯვართან
Nearest hut
ბეთლემის ქოხი 3650
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| საბანაკე მეორე ჯვართანCampsite | 1.8 km S |
| Campsite | 2.2 km SE |
| ბეთლემის ქოხი 3650Hut | 2.3 km SE |
| Стоянка 4200Campsite | 3.7 km NW |
| დეკაHut | 5.3 km SE |
| ალტიჰატიHut | 5.4 km SE |
How steep is the route to Mount Kazbek?
The easiest mapped route, 14.7 km from 2,167 m to 5,033 m. Steepest stretch: 33°.
- 0–15°12.4 km
- 15–30°2.2 km
- 30–45°0.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 160 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 6.7 km, measured from the Mount Kazbek summit.
Summit list 8
- 1Western Kazbegi5,015 m 0.5 km W
- 2Spartacus4,517 m 2.1 km WNW
- 3Ortsveri4,365 m 2.7 km S
- 4Maili-khokh4,597 m 3.6 km WNW
- 5OZhD4,271 m 3.6 km NNW
- 6Пастухова4,312 m 4.8 km WNW
- 7Пик Одиночный4,018 m 5.0 km N
- 8Chata4,098 m 6.4 km N
Where Mount Kazbek sits
- Range
- Caucasus Mountains23Greater Caucasus15
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
GergetiGlacier↑1.9 km SW
Darial Gorge1,447 m↑10 km ENE
Truso valley↑14 km SSW
Karmadon Gorge↑18 km N
Mount ShaniPeak · 4,451 m↑20 km E
More in the Greater Caucasus 6
Mount Kazbek downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 5,025 m at the summit; the official height is 5,033 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 5,033 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 5,025 m | -8 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 5,006 m | -27 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 2026-08-23)
- 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
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia