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Mount Talang

2,597 m8,520 ft

Prominence: 1,044 m3,426 ft
Isolation: 34 km
Tonight: 11°CCloudy · Wind 10 km/h W

Mount Talang is a 2,597 m (8,520 ft) stratovolcano in the Barisan Mountains, West Sumatra, Indonesia.

All facts

Elevation: 2,597 m · 8,520 ft
Nearest higher peak: Marapi (2,885 m)
Range: Barisan Mountains
Region: West Sumatra, Indonesia
Coordinates: 0.9796° S, 100.6818° E

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3D map

Mount Talang 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mount Talang terrain and contours

50 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 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

Mount Talang elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mount Talang weather

Today · Rain · 11 / 15°C (52 / 59°F) · 8.9 mm · Wind 10 km/h W

Mount Talang forecast for the summit, about 2,597 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,114 m.

Today11°15°8.9 mm10 km/h WBase 20 / 24°
Sun11°16°2.0 mm11 km/h SWBase 20 / 24°
Mon10°16°3.8 mm11 km/h WBase 19 / 25°
Tue12°16°6.8 mm5 km/h EBase 21 / 25°
Wed11°14°6.0 mm7 km/h NBase 20 / 23°
Thu12°15°16.1 mm6 km/h NWBase 21 / 24°
Fri11°14°6.8 mm3 km/h SWBase 20 / 23°
Sat10°18°3.5 mm10 km/h EBase 19 / 26°
Sun10°16°3.3 mm14 km/h EBase 19 / 25°
Mon11°14°8.7 mm6 km/h EBase 20 / 23°

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

Camping & parking near Mount Talang

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Talang, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest campsite
0.8 km S
Directions Map
Nearest hut
1.9 km ESE
+1 more within 3.7 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Campsite	0.8 km S
Hut	1.9 km ESE
Base Camp Ghnung Talang via Aia BatumbuakHut	3.7 km S

Slope

Share of the 8.2 × 8.2 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

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

Gentle, 0–15°

38.2%

Moderate, 15–30°

45.2%

Steep, 30–45°

16.1%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.5%

Steeper than 30°: 16.6% of the 67 km² view
Relief in view: 1,472 m low point 1,114 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 76.2%Grassland 15.2%Cropland 4.6%Water 2.2%Built-up 1.8%

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

Where it sits

Where Mount Talang sits

Ranked in 1

#15 Volcanoes in Indonesia

Nearby

Nearby places

Mount Talang downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

10 m low This 3D map reads 2,587 m at the summit; the official height is 2,597 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	2,597 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	2,587 m	-10 m
Copernicus GLO-90	2,579 m	-18 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)
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

Mount Talang

West → east through the summit

Nearest campsite

Nearest hut

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