Mount Tai
- Easiest route
- 2.6 km+720 m · about 2 h
- Prominence
- 1,505 m4,938 ft
- Isolation
- at least 200 km
- Tonight
- 4°CClear · Wind 13 km/h E
Mount Tai is a 1,545 m (5,069 ft) mountain in Shandong, China.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,545 m · 5,069 ft
- Region
- Shandong, China
- Spanish name
- Monte Tai
- Coordinates
- 36.2568° N, 117.1032° E
How to get to the top of Mount Tai
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Parking, 1.8 km SSE of Mount Tai
- Distance
- 2.6 kmone way
- Climb
- +720 m−12 m (2,362 ft up)
- Time up
- about 2 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Tai 3D map
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Mount Tai 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 Tai weather
Today · Clear · 4 / 14°C (39 / 57°F) · Wind 13 km/h E
Mount Tai forecast for the summit, about 1,545 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 818 m.
- Today4°14°–13 km/h EBase 8 / 17°
- Sun2°13°–18 km/h NEBase 6 / 17°
- Mon2°12°–13 km/h NBase 6 / 17°
- Tue-1°8°–15 km/h NBase 3 / 12°
- Wed1°8°1.3 mm14 km/h SBase 4 / 12°
- Thu3°11°–10 km/h WBase 6 / 15°
- Fri2°11°–10 km/h NWBase 6 / 16°
- Sat3°9°7.7 mm12 km/h EBase 7 / 14°
- Sun-3°7°0.3 mm19 km/h NBase 2 / 12°
- Mon-3°3°–10 km/h NEBase 2 / 7°
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.
Camping & parking near Mount Tai
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Tai, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.8 km SSE
Nearest campsite
7.8 km SW
How steep is the route to Mount Tai?
The easiest mapped route, 2.6 km from 818 m to 1,545 m. Steepest stretch: 36°.
- 0–15°1.4 km
- 15–30°1.1 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.
Where Mount Tai sits
Nearby places
Mount Tai downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Print & wall
3D printing & 3D apps
Free to use with credit: see the data sources
How accurate is this?
16 m low This 3D map reads 1,529 m at the summit; the official height is 1,545 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,545 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,529 m | -16 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,516 m | -29 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 2026-09-10)
- 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
- Official website · Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia