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Nevado de Toluca
- Easiest route
- 1.2 km+320 m · about 1 h
- Prominence
- 2,207 m7,240 ft
- Isolation
- 118 km
- Tonight
- -3°CCloudy · Wind 10 km/h E
Nevado de Toluca is a 4,680 m (15,354 ft) stratovolcano in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, State of Mexico, Mexico.
All facts
- Elevation
- 4,680 m · 15,354 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Iztaccihuatl (5,230 m)
- Range
- Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
- Region
- State of Mexico, Mexico
- Coordinates
- 19.1018° N, 99.7674° W
How to get to the top of Nevado de Toluca
The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
From Road end, 1.1 km E of Nevado de Toluca
- Distance
- 1.2 kmone way
- Climb
- +320 m−8 m (1,050 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Nevado de Toluca 3D map
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Nevado de Toluca 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
Nevado de Toluca weather
Today · Partly cloudy · -3 / 1°C (27 / 34°F) · Wind 10 km/h E
Nevado de Toluca forecast for the summit, about 4,680 m.
- Today-3°1°–10 km/h E
- Sat-2°6°0.8 mm14 km/h E
- Sun-3°4°1.2 mm14 km/h SE
- Mon-3°5°2.6 mm8 km/h S
- Tue-3°5°5.5 mm8 km/h S
- Wed-2°5°9.3 mm7 km/h S
- Thu-3°5°5.7 mm7 km/h S
- Fri-2°3°15.6 mm4 km/h SW
- Sat-2°7°2.7 mm3 km/h E
- Sun-1°7°1.6 mm4 km/h E
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 Nevado de Toluca
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Nevado de Toluca, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
2.7 km NE
How steep is the route to Nevado de Toluca?
The easiest mapped route, 1.2 km from 4,343 m to 4,680 m. Steepest stretch: 48°.
- 0–15°0.5 km
- 15–30°0.6 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 6.5 km; 315 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Mexican Sea holly248
- Senecio mairetianus98
- Transvolcanic false moss97
- Castilleja tolucensis88
- Gentian Beardtongue75
- Cirsium nivale73
Where Nevado de Toluca sits
- Range
- Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt12
- Region
- Mexico31North America1,313
Nearby places
AjuscoPeak · 3,936 m↑55 km ENE
XítlePeak · 3,105 m↑60 km ENE
Tepeyac HillPeak · 2,270 m↑81 km ENE
Valley of Mexico↑114 km ENE
Paso de CortésPass · 3,700 m↑118 km E
More in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt 6
Nevado de Toluca downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
20 m low This 3D map reads 4,660 m at the summit; the official height is 4,680 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 40 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 4,680 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 4,660 m | -20 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 4,640 m | -40 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 2026-04-30)
- 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)