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Muztagh Ata
- Mapped trail
- 2.7 km+430 m · about 1.5 hEnds 2,860 m below the summit.
- Prominence
- 2,733 m8,968 ft
- Isolation
- 38 km
- Tonight
- -34°CClear · Wind 7 km/h S
Muztagh Ata is a 7,546 m (24,757 ft) mountain in the Kashgar Range, Xinjiang, China.
All facts
- Elevation
- 7,546 m · 24,757 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Kongur Tagh (7,649 m)
- Range
- Kashgar Range
- Region
- Xinjiang, China
- Coordinates
- 38.2768° N, 75.1137° E
Trails toward Muztagh Ata
Mapped trails from the road get to 2,860 m below the summit, typically a pass, lake or camp. The top itself is a mountaineering climb with no mapped route.
From Road end, 9.4 km W of Muztagh Ata
- Distance
- 2.7 kmone way
- Climb
- +430 m(1,411 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1.5 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
Ends 2,860 m below the summit.
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Muztagh Ata 3D map
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Muztagh Ata terrain and contours
200 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
Muztagh Ata weather
Tonight · Clear · -34°C (-29°F) · Wind 7 km/h S
Muztagh Ata forecast for the summit, about 7,546 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 4,189 m.
- Tonight-34°–7 km/h SBase -11°
- Today-36°-24°–12 km/h NBase -14 / -2°
- Sun-36°-25°0.4 mm11 km/h SEBase -14 / -3°
- Mon-34°-24°0.2 mm16 km/h WBase -11 / -1°
- Tue-35°-25°2.2 mm5 km/h WBase -13 / -3°
- Wed-33°-26°0.4 mm5 km/h SBase -10 / -4°
- Thu-34°-25°–6 km/h SWBase -12 / -3°
- Fri-35°-25°0.9 mm4 km/h SWBase -12 / -3°
- Sat-31°-27°1.2 mm4 km/h SBase -10 / -5°
- Sun-32°-25°–4 km/h SBase -10 / -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.
Camping & parking near Muztagh Ata
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Muztagh Ata, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
2.0 km W
How steep is the route to Muztagh Ata?
The easiest mapped route, 2.7 km from 4,189 m to 4,622 m. Steepest stretch: 34°.
- 0–15°2.4 km
- 15–30°0.2 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.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 7.5 km, measured from the Muztagh Ata summit.
Summit list 3
- 1Kalaxong Peak7,277 m 1.5 km SW
- 2Kuksay Peak7,184 m 2.3 km NNE
- 3阔斯库拉克峰7,028 m 4.3 km SSE
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 7.5 km; 23 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Cudweed Saw-Wort8
- Snow Milk-Vetch3
- Alpine bistort2
- Tibetan Snowcock1
- Yellow-billed Chough1
- Tibetan Sandgrouse1
Where Muztagh Ata sits
- Range
- Kunlun Mountains4
Nearby places
Black Lake3,600 m↑20 km NNW
Kongur TaghPeak · 7,649 m↑40 km NNE
Beyik Pass↑109 km S
Taghdumbash Pamir↑122 km SSE
Kilik Pass4,827 m↑138 km SSW
More in the Kunlun Mountains 2
Muztagh Ata downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
61 m low This 3D map reads 7,485 m at the summit; the official height is 7,546 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 67 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 7,546 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 7,485 m | -61 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 7,479 m | -67 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 2025 (scene 2025-09-21)
- 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)
- 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