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Mount Pico
- Easiest route
- 3.6 km+1,110 m · about 3 h · T5
- Isolation
- at least 200 km
- Tonight
- 5°CFair · Wind 13 km/h SW
Mount Pico is a 2,351 m (7,713 ft) volcano in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Azores, Portugal.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,351 m · 7,713 ft
- Prominence
- 2,351 m · 7,713 ft
- Range
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- Region
- Azores, Portugal
- Spanish name
- Montaña del Pico
- Coordinates
- 38.4688° N, 28.3990° W
How to get to the top of Mount Pico
The shortest mapped route from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.
From Parking, 2.4 km W of Mount Pico
- Distance
- 3.6 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,110 m−5 m (3,642 ft up)
- Time up
- about 3 h
- 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 Pico 3D map
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Mount Pico 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.
West → east through the summit
Mount Pico weather
Tonight · Fair · 5°C (41°F) · Wind 13 km/h SW
Mount Pico forecast for the summit, about 2,351 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,223 m.
- Tonight5°–13 km/h SWBase 12°
- Sat5°8°2.4 mm28 km/h SWBase 12 / 15°
- Sun5°8°24.4 mm44 km/h SWBase 12 / 15°
- Mon1°5°0.6 mm45 km/h NWBase 8 / 12°
- Tue3°4°2.1 mm16 km/h SBase 10 / 11°
- Wed4°7°26.3 mm30 km/h SWBase 11 / 14°
- Thu1°5°3.1 mm15 km/h NBase 8 / 11°
- Fri1°3°0.5 mm14 km/h NEBase 8 / 10°
- Sat2°4°1.5 mm12 km/h EBase 9 / 11°
- Sun3°4°38.2 mm22 km/h SEBase 10 / 11°
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 Pico
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Pico, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
2.4 km W
Nearest hut
Casa da Montanha
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 2.4 km W |
| Parking | 2.4 km W |
| Casa da MontanhaHut | 2.4 km W |
| Parking | 2.5 km W |
How steep is the route to Mount Pico?
The easiest mapped route, 3.6 km from 1,223 m to 2,351 m. Steepest stretch: 35°.
- 0–15°1.5 km
- 15–30°2.0 km
- 30–45°0.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 40 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 Pico summit.
Summit list 8
- 1Queiro1,486 m 2.8 km SSW
- 2Capitão1,136 m 3.1 km WNW
- 3Redondo848 m 4.0 km NW
- 4Pico da Urze899 m 4.6 km ESE
- 5Cabeco de Macela872 m 5.3 km ENE
- 6Cabeco Gordo736 m 5.7 km WNW
- 7Selado531 m 5.9 km W
- 8Lomba861 m 6.6 km ENE
Where Mount Pico sits
- Range
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge4
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Cabeço GordoPeak · 1,043 m↑30 km WNW
Pico da EsperançaPeak · 1,053 m↑35 km NE
CapelinhosPeak · 143 m↑41 km WNW
Serra de Santa BárbaraPeak · 1,021 m↑99 km ENE
Lagoa das Sete CidadesLake · 259 m↑238 km ESE
More in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge 1
Mount Pico downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
16 m low This 3D map reads 2,335 m at the summit; the official height is 2,351 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 43 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,351 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,335 m | -16 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,308 m | -43 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 2025 (scene 2025-07-18)
- 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