Mount Longonot
- Easiest route
- 4.2 km+631 m · about 2 h · T2
- Prominence
- 649 m2,130 ft
- Isolation
- 13 km
- Tonight
- 9°CFair · Wind 9 km/h N
Mount Longonot is a 2,776 m (9,108 ft) stratovolcano in the East African Rift, Kenya.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,776 m · 9,108 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Ol Doinyo Eburru (2,856 m)
- Range
- East African Rift
- Region
- Kenya
- Spanish name
- Longonot
- Coordinates
- 0.9165° S, 36.4471° E
How to get to the top of Mount Longonot
The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
From Parking, 3.7 km NE of Mount Longonot
- Distance
- 4.2 kmone way
- Climb
- +631 m−57 m (2,070 ft up)
- Time up
- about 2 h
- Difficulty
- T2Mountain trail, sure footing needed
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Longonot 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 6.6 × 6.6 km
Mount Longonot terrain and contours
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 Longonot weather
Tonight · Fair · 9°C (48°F) · Wind 9 km/h N
Mount Longonot forecast for the summit, about 2,776 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 2,163 m.
- Tonight9°–9 km/h NBase 11°
- Today11°24°0.1 mm26 km/h EBase 13 / 26°
- Sun11°23°–32 km/h EBase 14 / 25°
- Mon11°22°3.9 mm22 km/h SBase 14 / 24°
- Tue11°19°3.7 mm14 km/h SBase 14 / 22°
- Wed9°16°3.6 mm9 km/h SWBase 12 / 22°
- Thu9°19°4.8 mm9 km/h SEBase 11 / 21°
- Fri10°16°3.8 mm11 km/h SWBase 12 / 21°
- Sat9°15°17.7 mm9 km/h NBase 11 / 21°
- Sun8°18°4.4 mm6 km/h EBase 10 / 21°
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 Longonot
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Longonot, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Lakeview Campsite
Nearest parking
3.7 km NE
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Lakeview CampsiteCampsite | 3.4 km NNE |
| Parking | 3.7 km NE |
| Oloongonot Public CampsiteCampsite | 3.9 km NE |
| Shepards CampCampsite | 4.5 km NE |
How steep is the route to Mount Longonot?
The easiest mapped route, 4.2 km from 2,163 m to 2,776 m. Steepest stretch: 31°.
- 0–15°3.4 km
- 15–30°0.8 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 50 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.
Where Mount Longonot sits
Nearby places
Mount Longonot downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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3D printing & 3D apps
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How accurate is this?
32 m low This 3D map reads 2,744 m at the summit; the official height is 2,776 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 41 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,776 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,744 m | -32 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,735 m | -41 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 2026-06-06)
- 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
- 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