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Mount Sibayak
- Mapped trail
- 1.6 km+226 m · about 1 h · T3Ends 250 m below the summit.
- Prominence
- 761 m2,496 ft
- Isolation
- 14 km
- Tonight
- 12°CRain · Wind 16 km/h SW
Mount Sibayak is a 2,212 m (7,257 ft) stratovolcano in the Barisan Mountains, North Sumatra, Indonesia.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,212 m · 7,257 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Sinabung (2,460 m)
- Range
- Barisan Mountains
- Region
- North Sumatra, Indonesia
- Spanish name
- Monte Sibayak
- Coordinates
- 3.2474° N, 98.5010° E
How to get to the top of Mount Sibayak
2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 1.3 km SSW of Mount Sibayak
- Distance
- 1.6 kmone way
- Climb
- +226 m−47 m (741 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1 h
- Difficulty
- T3Demanding: exposed spots, some easy scrambling
The mapped trail ends 250 m below the summit. Above that there is no mapped path: expect glacier, scrambling or open ground, and go with a guide if you have no route-finding experience.
Other routes 1
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Sibayak 3D map
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Mount Sibayak 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 Sibayak weather
Today · Heavy rain · 12 / 16°C (54 / 61°F) · 24.1 mm · Wind 16 km/h SW
Mount Sibayak forecast for the summit, about 2,212 m.
- Today12°16°24.1 mm16 km/h SW
- Sun12°17°7.7 mm18 km/h SW
- Mon12°16°3.1 mm18 km/h SW
- Tue13°17°8.4 mm8 km/h NE
- Wed12°17°2.1 mm8 km/h NE
- Thu12°18°4.6 mm6 km/h N
- Fri13°16°15.3 mm7 km/h E
- Sat11°18°6.3 mm6 km/h SW
- Sun11°17°7.4 mm8 km/h NE
- Mon11°16°3.9 mm6 km/h NE
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 Sibayak
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Sibayak, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Wild camping (free)
Nearest parking
1.6 km SW
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Wild camping (free)Campsite | 1.1 km S |
| BasecampCampsite | 1.3 km SSW |
| Parking | 1.6 km SW |
| Parking | 2.9 km SSE |
| Parking | 5.7 km SSE |
| Bumi Perkemahan Pramuka SibolangitCampsite | 5.8 km NE |
How steep is the route to Mount Sibayak?
The easiest mapped route, 1.6 km from 1,785 m to 1,960 m. Steepest stretch: 31°.
- 0–15°1.2 km
- 15–30°0.4 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.5 km; 134 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Broad-leaf Fern11
- Nepenthes tobaica8
- Staghorn clubmoss6
- Selliguea triloba6
- Trimeresurus gunaleni5
- Gaultheria nummularioides5
Where Mount Sibayak sits
- Range
- Barisan Mountains8
Nearby places
More in the Barisan Mountains 6
Mount Sibayak downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 2,206 m at the summit; the official height is 2,212 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,212 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,206 m | -6 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,198 m | -14 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.
- 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)
- 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