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Mount Temple
- Easiest route
- 12.8 km+1,916 m · about 6.5 h · T4
- Prominence
- 1,544 m5,066 ft
- Tonight
- -21°CPartly cloudy · Wind 7 km/h NW
Mount Temple is a 3,543 m (11,624 ft) mountain in the Bow Range, Alberta, Canada.
All facts
- Elevation
- 3,543 m · 11,624 ft
- Range
- Bow Range
- Region
- Alberta, Canada
- Protected area
- Banff National Park
- Coordinates
- 51.3510° N, 116.2056° W
How to get to the top of Mount Temple
The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
From Road end, 5.5 km NNE of Mount Temple
- Distance
- 12.8 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,916 m−130 m (6,286 ft up)
- Time up
- about 6.5 h
- Difficulty
- T4Alpine: faint path, hands needed in places
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Temple 3D map
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Mount Temple terrain and contours
100 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 Temple weather
Today · Clear · -21 / -13°C (-6 / 9°F) · Wind 7 km/h NW
Mount Temple forecast for the summit, about 3,543 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,729 m.
- Today-21°-13°–7 km/h NWBase -10 / -2°
- Sat-20°-11°4.2 mm9 km/h EBase -9 / 0°
- Sun-19°-10°–6 km/h SEBase -8 / 0°
- Mon-14°-6°–1 km/h WBase -3 / 5°
- Tue-15°-8°1.6 mm4 km/h WBase -4 / 3°
- Wed-15°-10°15.8 mm6 km/h EBase -4 / 0°
- Thu-23°-12°2.8 mm4 km/h SBase -12 / -1°
- Fri-24°-15°1.3 mm3 km/h WBase -13 / -4°
- Sat-21°-16°0.5 mm6 km/h SWBase -10 / -5°
- Sun-21°-13°–5 km/h SWBase -10 / -2°
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 Temple
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Temple, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Pa10
Nearest parking
4.3 km NE
Nearest hut
Neil Colgan Hut
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Pa10Campsite | 3.2 km W |
| Parking | 4.3 km NE |
| Parking | 4.3 km NE |
| Parking | 5.4 km NNE |
| Neil Colgan HutHut | 6.0 km SSE |
| Lake Louise Overflow CampgroundCampsite | 6.6 km NE |
| Lake Louise Hardsided CampgroundCampsite | 7.2 km NNE |
How steep is the route to Mount Temple?
The easiest mapped route, 12.8 km from 1,729 m to 3,543 m. Steepest stretch: 36°.
- 0–15°11.0 km
- 15–30°1.2 km
- 30–45°0.6 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 140 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.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 5.1 km, measured from the Mount Temple summit.
Summit list 3
- 1Eiffel Tower3,080 m 2.8 km SW
- 2Eiffel Peak3,084 m 3.0 km SW
- 3Mount Aberdeen3,152 m 4.4 km NW
Where Mount Temple sits
- Range
- American Cordillera467North American Cordillera271Rocky Mountains104Canadian Rockies32Bow Range7
- Region
- Alberta66Canada331North America1,313
- Protected area
- Banff National Park17
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Valley of the Ten Peaks1,857 m↑3.2 km E
Moraine Lake1,884 m↑3.5 km SSE
Mount AberdeenPeak · 3,152 m↑4.4 km NW
Mount LefroyPeak · 3,423 m↑5.3 km WNW
Fairview MountainPeak · 2,744 m↑5.6 km NNW
More in the Bow Range 3
Mount Temple downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
21 m low This 3D map reads 3,522 m at the summit; the official height is 3,543 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 3,543 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 3,522 m | -21 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 3,515 m | -28 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 2026-09-17)
- 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, 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