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Mount Wilhelm

4,509 m14,793 ft
Prominence
2,969 m9,741 ft
Isolation
at least 200 km
Region
Papua New Guinea
Tonight
0°CPartly cloudy · Wind 14 km/h SW

Mount Wilhelm is a 4,509 m (14,793 ft) mountain in the Bismarck Range, Papua New Guinea.

All facts
Elevation
4,509 m · 14,793 ft
Range
Bismarck Range
Spanish name
Monte Wilhelm
Coordinates
5.7860° S, 145.0326° E
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3D map

Mount Wilhelm 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 15.8 × 15.8 km

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Mount Wilhelm topographic map

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 Wilhelm elevation profile

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.
Downloads

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

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Weather

Mount Wilhelm weather

Today · Rain · 0 / 8°C (32 / 46°F) · 2.2 mm · Wind 14 km/h SW

Mount Wilhelm forecast for the summit, about 4,509 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 2,192 m.

  • Today0°8°2.2 mm14 km/h SWBase 14 / 22°
  • Sun0°7°9.3 mm13 km/h SWBase 13 / 21°
  • Mon-1°8°0.6 mm16 km/h SWBase 13 / 22°
  • Tue-1°7°2.1 mm5 km/h SWBase 13 / 21°
  • Wed-2°4°23.6 mm3 km/h NBase 11 / 18°
  • Thu-3°8°0.7 mm5 km/h NEBase 11 / 22°
  • Fri-1°8°2.1 mm2 km/h NEBase 13 / 22°
  • Sat-1°7°9.8 mm3 km/h EBase 13 / 21°
  • Sun-1°6°6.7 mm6 km/h NBase 13 / 20°
  • Mon0°7°11.6 mm4 km/h SWBase 14 / 21°

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

Camping & parking near Mount Wilhelm

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

All mapped places 3
PlaceDistance
SeekuCampsite2.7 km NW
A-FrameHut2.9 km ESE
Khu PokeCampsite7.0 km W
Slope

Slope

Share of the 15.8 × 15.8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

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

Gentle, 0–15°
8.9%
Moderate, 15–30°
42.3%
Steep, 30–45°
42.7%
Cliffs, 45° and over
6.0%
Steeper than 30°
48.7% of the 250 km² view
Relief in view
2,283 m low point 2,192 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 75.5%Grassland 24.1%

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

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 7.9 km; 47 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Gaultheria mundula3
  • Dendrobium dekockii3
  • Pleuranthodium piundaundense3
  • Anaphalioides mariae2
  • Chauliognathus gibbosus2
  • Bulbophyllum phormion2
Where it sits

Where Mount Wilhelm sits

Range
New Guinea Highlands7Bismarck Range4
Region
Papua New Guinea9Oceania282
Ranked in 1
Nearby

Nearby places

More in the Bismarck Range 2
See all 4 in the Bismarck Range →
Accuracy

How accurate is this?

34 m low This 3D map reads 4,475 m at the summit; the official height is 4,509 m.Official 4,509 m90 m model 4,463 mThis map 4,475 m

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 46 m.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)4,509 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)4,475 m-34 m
Copernicus GLO-904,463 m-46 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 2026-06-17)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
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