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Pinatubo
- Mapped trail
- 9.5 km+661 m · about 3.5 hEnds 30 m below the summit.
- Prominence
- 369 m1,211 ft
- Isolation
- 3.9 km
- Tonight
- 16°CPartly cloudy · Wind 14 km/h W
Pinatubo is a 1,486 m (4,875 ft) mountain in the Zambales Mountains, Zambales, Philippines.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,486 m · 4,875 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Tapulao (2,037 m)
- Range
- Zambales Mountains
- Region
- Zambales, Philippines
- Coordinates
- 15.1318° N, 120.3532° E
How to get to the top of Pinatubo
The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
From Road end, 7.0 km E of Pinatubo
- Distance
- 9.5 kmone way
- Climb
- +661 m−216 m (2,169 ft up)
- Time up
- about 3.5 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
The mapped trail ends 30 m below the summit. Above that there is no mapped path: expect glacier, scrambling or open ground, and go with a guide if you have no route-finding experience.
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Pinatubo 3D map
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Pinatubo 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.
West → east through the summit
Pinatubo weather
Today · Rain · 16 / 21°C (61 / 70°F) · 3.0 mm · Wind 14 km/h W
Pinatubo forecast for the summit, about 1,486 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 854 m.
- Today16°21°3.0 mm14 km/h WBase 20 / 24°
- Sun16°22°2.2 mm10 km/h SWBase 20 / 25°
- Mon16°23°1.2 mm12 km/h SEBase 20 / 26°
- Tue16°22°6.6 mm6 km/h EBase 20 / 26°
- Wed17°21°1.7 mm10 km/h NEBase 20 / 25°
- Thu16°21°2.6 mm9 km/h NEBase 20 / 25°
- Fri17°22°0.1 mm11 km/h EBase 21 / 26°
- Sat16°21°6.9 mm9 km/h NBase 20 / 25°
- Sun16°22°3.8 mm6 km/h EBase 20 / 25°
- Mon17°19°5.0 mm8 km/h EBase 21 / 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 near Pinatubo
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Pinatubo, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Campsite One Pinatubo
Nearest parking
Mt. Pinatubo 4x4 Parking
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Campsite One PinatuboCampsite | 4.2 km ENE |
| Tripinas CampCampsite | 6.6 km NNW |
| Mt. Pinatubo 4x4 ParkingParking | 7.0 km N |
| Lunch at PinatuboCampsite | 7.5 km E |
How steep is the route to Pinatubo?
The easiest mapped route, 9.5 km from 854 m to 1,303 m. Steepest stretch: 18°.
- 0–15°9.3 km
- 15–30°0.2 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 110 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 3 km; 18 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Begonia platyphylla3
- Domestic Dog2
- Domestic Cattle2
- Parrot's Beak2
- Mycalesis ita2
- African Coromandel2
Where Pinatubo sits
- Range
- Zambales Mountains3
- Region
- Philippines64Asia964
Nearby places
Pinatubo downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Print & wall
3D printing & 3D apps
Free to use with credit: see the data sources
How accurate is this?
158 m low This 3D map reads 1,328 m at the summit; the official height is 1,486 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 190 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,486 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,328 m | -158 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,296 m | -190 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 2024 (scene 2024-11-22)
- 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