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Mount Shani

4,451 m14,603 ft

Prominence: 1,772 m5,813 ft
Isolation: 18 km
Tonight: -13°CFog · Wind 9 km/h S

Mount Shani is a 4,451 m (14,603 ft) mountain in the Greater Caucasus, Ingushetia, Russia.

All facts

Elevation: 4,451 m · 14,603 ft
Nearest higher peak: Mount Kazbek (5,033 m)
Range: Greater Caucasus
Region: Ingushetia, Russia
Coordinates: 42.6757° N, 44.7560° E

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3D map

Mount Shani 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 11.2 × 11.2 km

Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mount Shani 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.

Index contours every 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

Mount Shani elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mount Shani weather

Tonight · Fog · -13°C (9°F) · Wind 9 km/h S

Mount Shani forecast for the summit, about 4,451 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,762 m.

Tonight-13°–9 km/h SBase 4°
Today-12°-6°–9 km/h SBase 4 / 10°
Sun-12°-6°–8 km/h SBase 4 / 10°
Mon-13°-4°–9 km/h SBase 3 / 13°
Tue-12°-3°–6 km/h SBase 4 / 14°
Wed-9°-1°–10 km/h SBase 7 / 15°
Thu-9°-7°2.5 mm14 km/h SBase 8 / 9°
Fri-9°-6°6.5 mm12 km/h SBase 7 / 10°
Sat-14°-7°0.2 mm9 km/h SBase 2 / 9°
Sun-11°-7°4.0 mm9 km/h SBase 5 / 10°

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

Share of the 11.2 × 11.2 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.

Gentle, 0–15°

7.4%

Moderate, 15–30°

26.7%

Steep, 30–45°

51.8%

Cliffs, 45° and over

14.1%

Steeper than 30°: 65.9% of the 125 km² view
Relief in view: 2,590 m low point 1,762 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 53.3%Grassland 19.0%Moss & lichen 19.0%Trees 3.7%Snow & ice 3.7%Water 1.3%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 5.6 km, measured from the Mount Shani summit.

Summit list 8

1жандарм "Большой"4,400 m 1.0 km S
2Dzeneladze4,376 m 1.2 km S
3Dzhaparidze4,372 m 1.9 km SSE
4Bachakhi4,291 m 2.4 km SSE
5Kich-Choch-Kort4,117 m 3.3 km NNW
6Salgi3,944 m 4.3 km N
7Shino4,048 m 4.5 km SW
8Q'uro4,071 m 5.2 km W

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 5.6 km; 17 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

East Caucasian Tur12
Caucasus Subalpine Viper7
Caucasian Grouse5
Pallid Harrier3
Eurasian Griffon2
Cinereous Vulture2

Where it sits

Where Mount Shani sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Jvari Pass2,379 m31 km SW

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Print & wall

JPGMount Shani satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-23.

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

98 m low This 3D map reads 4,353 m at the summit; the official height is 4,451 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 107 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	4,451 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	4,353 m	-98 m
Copernicus GLO-90	4,344 m	-107 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)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
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