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Piz Ela

3,339 m10,954 ft

Prominence: 521 m1,708 ft
Isolation: 6.3 km
Tonight: -16°CFog · Wind 5 km/h E

Piz Ela is a 3,339 m (10,954 ft) mountain in the Albula Alps, Canton of the Grisons, Switzerland.

All facts

Elevation: 3,339 m · 10,954 ft
Nearest higher peak: Piz d'Err (3,378 m)
Range: Albula Alps
Region: Canton of the Grisons, Switzerland
Coordinates: 46.6026° N, 9.7076° E

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3D map

Piz Ela 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Piz Ela terrain and contours

100 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. 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

Piz Ela elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Piz Ela weather

Tonight · Fog · -16°C (3°F) · Wind 5 km/h E

Piz Ela forecast for the summit, about 3,339 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,339 m.

Tonight-16°–5 km/h EBase -4°
Today-18°-9°2.0 mm8 km/h NWBase -6 / 3°
Sun-17°-5°1.7 mm12 km/h SBase -5 / 7°
Mon-18°-3°–8 km/h EBase -6 / 9°
Tue-8°2°–3 km/h SEBase 4 / 14°
Wed-9°-1°0.1 mm4 km/h NBase 3 / 11°
Thu-11°-2°–4 km/h SEBase 1 / 10°
Fri-12°-3°–4 km/h WBase 0 / 9°
Sat-11°-4°0.3 mm5 km/h NWBase 1 / 8°
Sun-9°-6°0.8 mm2 km/h SWBase 3 / 6°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.

Gentle, 0–15°

12.1%

Moderate, 15–30°

32.1%

Steep, 30–45°

42.7%

Cliffs, 45° and over

13.1%

Steeper than 30°: 55.8% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 1,945 m low point 1,339 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 35.1%Grassland 32.8%Snow & ice 12.2%Trees 10.4%Moss & lichen 9.1%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Piz Ela summit.

Summit list 9

1Piz Radond2,872 m 0.9 km NNE
2Piz d'Uglix2,967 m 1.1 km NNW
3Piz Rugnux2,890 m 1.8 km E
4Piz Val Lunga3,078 m 1.8 km S
5Piz Salteras3,111 m 2.4 km S
6Cotschen2,827 m 2.6 km W
7Pizza Grossa2,939 m 2.9 km W
8Corn da Tinizong3,172 m 3.0 km WNW
9Piz da l'Antgierna da Salteras2,982 m 3.0 km SSE

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 118 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Edelweiss7
Bearded Vulture4
Northern Chamois4
Alpine Butterbur4
Alpine Toadflax4
Lingonberry3

Where it sits

Where Piz Ela sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Lai da MarmoreraLake13 km SSW

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Print & wall

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

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

55 m low This 3D map reads 3,284 m at the summit; the official height is 3,339 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 63 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	3,339 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	3,284 m	-55 m
Copernicus GLO-90	3,276 m	-63 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)
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