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Mount Sir Donald

3,284 m10,774 ft
Prominence
883 m2,897 ft
Isolation
12 km
Tonight
-17°CPartly cloudy · Wind 6 km/h NW

Mount Sir Donald is a 3,284 m (10,774 ft) mountain in the Sir Donald Range, British Columbia, Canada.

All facts
Elevation
3,284 m · 10,774 ft
Nearest higher peak
Mount Dawson (3,377 m)
Range
Sir Donald Range
Region
British Columbia, Canada
Protected area
Glacier National Park
Coordinates
51.2632° N, 117.4310° W
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3D map

Mount Sir Donald 3D map

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Topographic map

Mount Sir Donald 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 Sir Donald elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mount Sir Donald weather

Today · Fair · -17 / -10°C (1 / 14°F) · Wind 6 km/h NW

Mount Sir Donald forecast for the summit, about 3,284 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,043 m.

  • Today-17°-10°–6 km/h NWBase -4 / 3°
  • Sat-15°-10°7.1 mm7 km/h EBase -1 / 3°
  • Sun-14°-9°0.3 mm8 km/h EBase -1 / 4°
  • Mon-11°-6°0.7 mm3 km/h NEBase 3 / 7°
  • Tue-12°-8°3.8 mm4 km/h SWBase 1 / 6°
  • Wed-14°-9°8.5 mm5 km/h EBase 0 / 4°
  • Thu-18°-11°0.5 mm3 km/h WBase -5 / 2°
  • Fri-21°-13°0.5 mm3 km/h SWBase -8 / 0°
  • Sat-18°-16°0.5 mm5 km/h SWBase -5 / -3°
  • Sun-16°-10°–4 km/h SWBase -3 / 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

Slope

Share of the 7.4 × 7.4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°
22.8%
Moderate, 15–30°
37.6%
Steep, 30–45°
28.2%
Cliffs, 45° and over
11.4%
Steeper than 30°
39.6% of the 55 km² view
Relief in view
2,169 m low point 1,043 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 32.3%Bare rock / sparse 27.6%Snow & ice 27.0%Grassland 6.5%Moss & lichen 6.1%

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

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3.7 km, measured from the Mount Sir Donald summit.

NESW2 km5 km1234567
Summit list 7
  1. 1North Terminal Peak2,972 m 0.7 km SSE
  2. 2Uto Peak2,927 m 1.2 km NNW
  3. 3South Terminal Peak2,747 m 1.3 km SE
  4. 4Perley Rock2,392 m 1.8 km SSW
  5. 5Eagle Peak2,821 m 2.5 km NW
  6. 6Lookout Mountain2,490 m 3.7 km SSW
  7. 7Glacier Crest2,251 m 3.7 km SW
Where it sits

Where Mount Sir Donald sits

Range
American Cordillera467North American Cordillera271Columbia Mountains7Selkirk Mountains3
Region
British Columbia115Canada331North America1,313
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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

72 m low This 3D map reads 3,212 m at the summit; the official height is 3,284 m.Official 3,284 m90 m model 3,204 mThis map 3,212 m

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 80 m.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)3,284 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)3,212 m-72 m
Copernicus GLO-903,204 m-80 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)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia