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Mount Macdonald
- Prominence
- 521 m1,708 ft
- Isolation
- 5.3 km
- Tonight
- -14°CPartly cloudy · Wind 5 km/h W
Mount Macdonald is a 2,883 m (9,459 ft) mountain in the Sir Donald Range, British Columbia, Canada.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,883 m · 9,459 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Uto Peak (2,927 m)
- Range
- Sir Donald Range
- Region
- British Columbia, Canada
- Protected area
- Glacier National Park
- Spanish name
- Monte Macdonald
- Coordinates
- 51.3079° N, 117.4715° W
Mount Macdonald 3D map
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Mount Macdonald terrain and contours
100 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.
Mount Macdonald elevation profile
West → east through the summit
Mount Macdonald weather
Today · Fair · -14 / -7°C (7 / 19°F) · Wind 5 km/h W
Mount Macdonald forecast for the summit, about 2,883 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,066 m.
- Today-14°-7°–5 km/h WBase -3 / 4°
- Sat-12°-7°6.8 mm7 km/h NEBase -1 / 4°
- Sun-12°-7°0.4 mm7 km/h NEBase -1 / 4°
- Mon-9°-4°0.6 mm3 km/h NEBase 2 / 7°
- Tue-10°-5°3.6 mm4 km/h SWBase 1 / 5°
- Wed-13°-7°18.0 mm5 km/h NEBase -2 / 4°
- Thu-19°-9°0.5 mm3 km/h SWBase -8 / 2°
- Fri-21°-11°0.3 mm3 km/h NBase -10 / 0°
- Sat-15°-13°0.6 mm5 km/h SWBase -5 / -2°
- Sun-16°-8°–4 km/h SBase -5 / 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, 23:18 UTC.
Slope
Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.
- Steeper than 30°
- 62.0% of the 36 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,783 m low point 1,066 m
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 Macdonald sits
- Region
- British Columbia115Canada331North America1,313
Nearby places
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How accurate is this?
34 m low This 3D map reads 2,849 m at the summit; the official height is 2,883 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 72 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,883 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,849 m | -34 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,811 m | -72 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 2026-09-18)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- 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)