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Piz Sardona

3,056 m10,026 ft

Prominence: 112 m367 ft
Isolation: 1.6 km
Tonight: -11°CSnow · Wind 5 km/h NW

Piz Sardona is a 3,056 m (10,026 ft) mountain in the Glarus thrust, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

All facts

Elevation: 3,056 m · 10,026 ft
Nearest higher peak: Piz Segnas (3,098 m)
Range: Glarus thrust
Region: Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Coordinates: 46.9226° N, 9.2512° E

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3D map

Piz Sardona 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Piz Sardona 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.

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Piz Sardona elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Piz Sardona weather

Tonight · Snow · -11°C (12°F) · 1.1 mm · Wind 5 km/h NW

Piz Sardona forecast for the summit, about 3,056 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,335 m.

Tonight-11°1.1 mm5 km/h NWBase 0°
Today-13°-9°5.3 mm11 km/h SBase -3 / 2°
Sun-15°-6°12.4 mm10 km/h SWBase -4 / 5°
Mon-15°-2°–4 km/h WBase -5 / 8°
Tue-4°5°–3 km/h SWBase 6 / 15°
Wed-5°1°0.6 mm4 km/h NBase 5 / 11°
Thu-11°0°–4 km/h WBase 0 / 10°
Fri-12°0°–5 km/h NWBase -2 / 11°
Sat-9°-1°0.5 mm5 km/h NWBase 1 / 9°
Sun-8°-7°6.8 mm3 km/h SWBase 2 / 4°

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.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

12.8%

Moderate, 15–30°

38.1%

Steep, 30–45°

36.7%

Cliffs, 45° and over

12.4%

Steeper than 30°: 49.1% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 1,754 m low point 1,335 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 50.7%Bare rock / sparse 20.7%Moss & lichen 13.9%Snow & ice 8.1%Trees 6.4%

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 Sardona summit.

Summit list 7

1Chli Schiben2,654 m 1.0 km N
2Älplichopf2,640 m 1.8 km ENE
3Piz Segnas3,098 m 1.9 km SSW
4Gspaltengrat2,625 m 2.1 km NE
5Piz Dolf3,028 m 2.5 km SSE
6Marchegghorn2,614 m 2.6 km NE
7Atlas2,925 m 2.9 km SSW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 104 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Lady's-slipper5
Wolf's bane5
Creeping avens5
Alpine Marmot4
Hedge-leaved adenostyle4
Wallcreeper3

Where it sits

Where Piz Sardona sits

Nearby

Nearby places

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SpitzmeilenPeak · 2,501 m11 km N

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Print & wall

JPGPiz Sardona satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-07-24.

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

18 m low This 3D map reads 3,038 m at the summit; the official height is 3,056 m.

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

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	3,056 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	3,038 m	-18 m
Copernicus GLO-90	3,027 m	-29 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 2026-07-24)
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