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Piz Bernina

4,048 m13,281 ft

Prominence: 2,254 m7,395 ft
Isolation: 137 km
Tonight: -19°CFog · Wind 7 km/h NW

Piz Bernina is a 4,048 m (13,281 ft) mountain in the Bernina Range, Canton of the Grisons, Switzerland.

All facts

Elevation: 4,048 m · 13,281 ft
Nearest higher peak: Finsteraarhorn (4,274 m)
Range: Bernina Range
Region: Canton of the Grisons, Switzerland
Coordinates: 46.3815° N, 9.9079° E

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3D map

Piz Bernina 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Piz Bernina topographic map

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.

Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGPiz Bernina satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-27.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Route

How to get to the top of Piz Bernina

3 mapped routes from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.

Easiest route: from Road end, 7.0 km NNW of Piz Bernina

Distance: 9.7 kmone way
Climb: +2,083 m−115 m (6,834 ft up)
Time up: about 6 h
Difficulty: T6Difficult alpine: glacier and climbing skills required

Piz Bernina elevation profile

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Other routes 2

Road end, 6.8 km NE of Piz Bernina12.1 km · +1,963 m · about 6.5 h
T6GPX KML
Road end, 7.8 km SSE of Piz Bernina11.8 km · +2,053 m · about 6.5 h
T6GPX KML

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

Weather

Piz Bernina weather

Tonight · Fog · -19°C (-2°F) · Wind 7 km/h NW

Piz Bernina forecast for the summit, about 4,048 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 2,003 m.

Tonight-19°–7 km/h NWBase -7°
Today-22°-15°0.9 mm11 km/h NWBase -10 / -2°
Sun-21°-9°0.6 mm10 km/h NWBase -9 / 3°
Mon-18°-7°–5 km/h NWBase -5 / 5°
Tue-10°-2°–3 km/h NBase 2 / 10°
Wed-13°-6°0.1 mm4 km/h NWBase -1 / 6°
Thu-17°-8°–3 km/h WBase -5 / 5°
Fri-17°-8°–4 km/h NWBase -5 / 4°
Sat-19°-10°0.2 mm4 km/h NWBase -6 / 2°
Sun-14°-10°1.7 mm3 km/h SWBase -2 / 2°

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

Camping & parking near Piz Bernina

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

Nearest hut
Rifugio Marco e Rosa
0.9 km SSE · +2 more within 2.9 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Rifugio Marco e RosaHut	0.9 km SSE
Vecchia Capanna Marco e Rosa De MarchiHut	0.9 km SSE
Bivacco Agostino ParraviciniHut	2.9 km SW

Slope

How steep is the route to Piz Bernina?

The easiest mapped route, 9.7 km from 2,003 m to 4,048 m. Steepest stretch: 36°.

0 km · 2,003 m9.7 km · 4,048 m

0–15°7.2 km
15–30°2.0 km
30–45°0.5 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 50.4%Bare rock / sparse 20.4%Moss & lichen 14.7%Grassland 11.5%Trees 2.3%Water 0.6%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 6.5 km, measured from the Piz Bernina summit.

Summit list 8

1Monte Scerscen3,971 m 0.7 km WSW
2Bellavista3,922 m 2.1 km ESE
3Piz Roseg3,938 m 2.1 km WSW
4Monte Bellavista Centro-Occidentale3,890 m 2.2 km ESE
5Piz Argient3,945 m 2.2 km SE
6Schneekuppe3,917 m 2.3 km WSW
7Piz Zupò3,995 m 2.3 km SE
8Piz Palü3,899 m 4.0 km E

Where it sits

Where Piz Bernina sits

Ranked in 2

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Piz CorvatschPeak · 3,451 m7.7 km WNW

How accurate is this?

70 m low This 3D map reads 3,978 m at the summit; the official height is 4,048 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 87 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	4,048 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	3,978 m	-70 m
Copernicus GLO-90	3,961 m	-87 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 2026-09-27)
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

Piz Bernina

West → east through the summit

Easiest route: from Road end, 7.0 km NNW of Piz Bernina

Nearest hut

Data sources