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Pizol
- Prominence
- 464 m1,523 ft
- Isolation
- 6.8 km
- Tonight
- -11°CSnow showers · Wind 4 km/h W
Pizol is a 2,844 m (9,331 ft) mountain in the Tamina Alps, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,844 m · 9,331 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Panärahörner (3,106 m)
- Range
- Tamina Alps
- Region
- Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Coordinates
- 46.9585° N, 9.3871° E
Pizol 3D map
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Pizol 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.
West → east through the summit
Pizol downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How to get to the top of Pizol
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 3.9 km ENE of Pizol
- Distance
- 6.2 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,016 m−67 m (3,333 ft up)
- Time up
- about 3 h
- Difficulty
- T4Alpine: faint path, hands needed in places
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Pizol weather
Tonight · Snow showers · -11°C (12°F) · 2.0 mm · Wind 4 km/h W
Pizol forecast for the summit, about 2,844 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,065 m.
- Tonight-11°2.0 mm4 km/h WBase 0°
- Today-11°-7°5.3 mm10 km/h SBase 0 / 4°
- Sun-11°-2°16.0 mm11 km/h SBase -1 / 8°
- Mon-11°0°–5 km/h SWBase -1 / 10°
- Tue-3°8°–4 km/h SBase 8 / 19°
- Wed-4°2°1.5 mm7 km/h NBase 7 / 13°
- Thu-8°1°–4 km/h SBase 3 / 12°
- Fri-11°2°–4 km/h NBase 1 / 13°
- Sat-10°0°0.5 mm6 km/h NBase 3 / 11°
- Sun-7°-5°7.0 mm5 km/h NWBase 4 / 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 23, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near Pizol
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Pizol, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
3.9 km NW
Nearest campsite
5.1 km NW
Nearest hut
Schräawislihütte
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 3.9 km NW |
| Parking | 4.0 km NW |
| Parking | 4.2 km NW |
| Campsite | 5.1 km NW |
| SchräawislihütteHut | 6.1 km SW |
| Dunkla SteiCampsite | 7.1 km ESE |
| Zeltplatz HüttenwieseCampsite | 7.7 km SSE |
How steep is the route to Pizol?
The easiest mapped route, 6.2 km from 1,860 m to 2,844 m. Steepest stretch: 28°.
- 0–15°5.1 km
- 15–30°1.2 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 70 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.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Pizol summit.
Summit list 8
- 1Gilbistock2,678 m 0.9 km W
- 2Luegichopf2,578 m 1.3 km SSE
- 3Hochwart2,669 m 1.4 km N
- 4Sazmartinshorn2,827 m 1.8 km SSW
- 5Zanaihorn2,821 m 1.8 km SE
- 6Chli Zanaihorn2,763 m 2.0 km SE
- 7Egghorn2,725 m 2.3 km SW
- 8Girenspitz2,346 m 2.8 km NE
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 196 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Spotted gentian20
- Moss Campion18
- Dwarf Snowbell13
- Spiniest thistle12
- Velvetbells12
- Alpine sainfoin12
Where Pizol sits
Nearby places
How accurate is this?
35 m low This 3D map reads 2,809 m at the summit; the official height is 2,844 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 53 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,844 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,809 m | -35 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,791 m | -53 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)
- 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