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Pacaya

2,552 m8,373 ft

Easiest route: 2.3 km+500 m · about 1.5 h
Prominence: 963 m3,160 ft
Isolation: 16 km
Tonight: 8°CPartly cloudy · Wind 17 km/h N

Pacaya is a 2,552 m (8,373 ft) volcano in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Escuintla Department, Guatemala.

All facts

Elevation: 2,552 m · 8,373 ft
Nearest higher peak: Volcán de Agua (3,760 m)
Range: Sierra Madre de Chiapas
Region: Escuintla Department, Guatemala
Spanish name: Volcán de Pacaya
Coordinates: 14.3821° N, 90.6007° W

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Route

How to get to the top of Pacaya

2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

Easiest route: from Road end, 1.6 km NW of Pacaya

Distance: 2.3 kmone way
Climb: +500 m−20 m (1,640 ft up)
Time up: about 1.5 h
Difficulty: Grade not mapped

Pacaya elevation profile

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Other routes 1

Parking, 2.5 km NNW of Pacaya3.2 km · +646 m · about 2 h
Grade not mappedGPX KML

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

3D map

Pacaya 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Pacaya terrain and contours

50 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 250 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

Pacaya weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 8°C (46°F) · Wind 17 km/h N

Pacaya forecast for the summit, about 2,552 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,887 m.

Tonight8°–17 km/h NBase 12°
Sat7°18°–18 km/h NBase 11 / 22°
Sun6°18°0.1 mm21 km/h NBase 10 / 22°
Mon6°18°–13 km/h NBase 10 / 22°
Tue6°17°0.1 mm8 km/h SWBase 10 / 21°
Wed5°18°0.4 mm7 km/h NBase 9 / 22°
Thu7°19°1.6 mm7 km/h NBase 11 / 23°
Fri9°18°4.4 mm6 km/h NBase 13 / 22°
Sat7°19°–8 km/h NBase 11 / 23°
Sun8°19°0.6 mm9 km/h NBase 12 / 23°

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 Pacaya

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

Nearest parking
Übernachtungplatz kostenfrei
2.5 km NW · +2 more within 2.5 km
Directions Map
Nearest campsite
Funka La Escondida
6.3 km SSW
Directions Map

All mapped places 4

Place	Distance
Parking	2.5 km NW
Parking	2.5 km NNW
Übernachtungplatz kostenfreiParking	2.5 km NW
Funka La EscondidaCampsite	6.3 km SSW

Slope

How steep is the route to Pacaya?

The easiest mapped route, 2.3 km from 2,054 m to 2,552 m. Steepest stretch: 30°.

0 km · 2,054 m2.3 km · 2,552 m

0–15°1.3 km
15–30°1.0 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 50 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 49.9%Grassland 30.9%Bare rock / sparse 13.7%Built-up 1.9%Cropland 1.9%Shrubland 1.1%Water 0.5%

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

Where it sits

Where Pacaya sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Volcán TolimánPeak · 3,158 m68 km WNW

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

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Print & wall

JPGPacaya satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-03-29.

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GIS & GPS

GPXPacaya 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?

19 m high This 3D map reads 2,571 m at the summit; the official height is 2,552 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model measures the surface, snow, ice and trees included, and official heights can come from older surveys.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	2,552 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	2,571 m	+19 m
Copernicus GLO-90	2,559 m	+7 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 2026-03-29)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
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

Pacaya

Easiest route: from Road end, 1.6 km NW of Pacaya

West → east through the summit

Nearest parking

Nearest campsite

Data sources