Mountain · Crater Highlands · Arusha Region

Ol Doinyo Lengai

2,960 m9,711 ft

Easiest route: 21.4 km+1,999 m · about 8.5 h
Prominence: 1,371 m4,498 ft
Isolation: 16 km
Tonight: 11°CFair · Wind 12 km/h N

Ol Doinyo Lengai is a 2,960 m (9,711 ft) mountain in the Crater Highlands, Arusha Region, Tanzania.

All facts

Elevation: 2,960 m · 9,711 ft
Nearest higher peak: Mount Loolmalasin (3,682 m)
Range: Crater Highlands
Region: Arusha Region, Tanzania
Coordinates: 2.7637° S, 35.9146° E

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Route

How to get to the top of Ol Doinyo Lengai

The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

From Road end, 9.3 km SW of Ol Doinyo Lengai

Distance: 21.4 kmone way
Climb: +1,999 m−1,274 m (6,558 ft up)
Time up: about 8.5 husually 2 days
Difficulty: Grade not mapped

Ol Doinyo Lengai elevation profile

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Ol Doinyo Lengai 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Ol Doinyo Lengai 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.

Index contours every 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

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

Weather

Ol Doinyo Lengai weather

Tonight · Fair · 11°C (52°F) · Wind 12 km/h N

Ol Doinyo Lengai forecast for the summit, about 2,960 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 2,208 m.

Tonight11°–12 km/h NBase 15°
Today10°22°–24 km/h SEBase 14 / 26°
Sun9°21°–28 km/h SEBase 14 / 26°
Mon9°20°0.3 mm25 km/h SEBase 14 / 25°
Tue9°20°2.4 mm15 km/h SEBase 14 / 24°
Wed9°19°2.5 mm14 km/h EBase 14 / 23°
Thu9°18°2.2 mm10 km/h EBase 14 / 23°
Fri9°17°4.5 mm9 km/h SEBase 14 / 22°
Sat9°16°10.3 mm11 km/h EBase 13 / 20°
Sun8°17°9.3 mm9 km/h EBase 13 / 22°

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 Ol Doinyo Lengai

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

Nearest parking
Trailhead for Ol Doinyo Lengai
4.5 km NW
Directions Map
Nearest campsite
Acacia Special Campsite
7.1 km WSW
Directions Map

All mapped places 2

Place	Distance
Trailhead for Ol Doinyo LengaiParking	4.5 km NW
Acacia Special CampsiteCampsite	7.1 km WSW

Slope

How steep is the route to Ol Doinyo Lengai?

The easiest mapped route, 21.4 km from 2,208 m to 2,960 m. Steepest stretch: 33°.

0 km · 2,208 m21.4 km · 2,960 m

0–15°17.8 km
15–30°2.9 km
30–45°0.7 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 230 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 86.6%Shrubland 9.2%Bare rock / sparse 2.8%Cropland 1.1%

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

Where it sits

Where Ol Doinyo Lengai sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Duluti Lake119 km SE

Downloads

Ol Doinyo Lengai downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGOl Doinyo Lengai satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-07-21.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXOl Doinyo Lengai GPX / KML route downloadIn the route section. Mapped route for GPS apps and Google Earth, under the ODbL.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

15 m low This 3D map reads 2,945 m at the summit; the official height is 2,960 m.

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

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	2,960 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	2,945 m	-15 m
Copernicus GLO-90	2,930 m	-30 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 2026-07-21)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
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

Ol Doinyo Lengai

From Road end, 9.3 km SW of Ol Doinyo Lengai

West → east through the summit

Nearest parking

Nearest campsite

Data sources