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Pizzo Carbonara
- Easiest route
- 2.5 km+370 m · about 1 h · T2
- Prominence
- 1,195 m3,922 ft
- Isolation
- 83 km
- Tonight
- 5°CPartly cloudy · Wind 7 km/h NW
Pizzo Carbonara is a 1,979 m (6,493 ft) mountain in the Madonie, Sicily, Italy.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,979 m · 6,493 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Etna (3,357 m)
- Range
- Madonie
- Region
- Sicily, Italy
- Coordinates
- 37.8940° N, 14.0254° E
How to get to the top of Pizzo Carbonara
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 1.8 km SSW of Pizzo Carbonara
- Distance
- 2.5 kmone way
- Climb
- +370 m−8 m (1,214 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1 h
- Difficulty
- T2Mountain trail, sure footing needed
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Pizzo Carbonara 3D map
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Pizzo Carbonara terrain and contours
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
Pizzo Carbonara weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · 5°C (41°F) · Wind 7 km/h NW
Pizzo Carbonara forecast for the summit, about 1,979 m.
- Tonight5°–7 km/h NW
- Today3°9°5.8 mm21 km/h NW
- Sun3°7°8.0 mm18 km/h NW
- Mon4°9°2.1 mm13 km/h N
- Tue2°10°–7 km/h N
- Wed2°9°0.3 mm13 km/h N
- Thu1°9°–9 km/h N
- Fri2°9°0.2 mm8 km/h N
- Sat2°9°3.3 mm7 km/h NW
- Sun1°9°0.4 mm7 km/h N
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 near Pizzo Carbonara
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Pizzo Carbonara, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.7 km S
Nearest hut
Rifugio Giuliano Marini
Nearest caravan site
2.2 km SSW
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.7 km S |
| Parking | 1.9 km SSW |
| Parking | 2.0 km SSW |
| Rifugio Giuliano MariniHut | 2.0 km S |
| Rifugio Il Grifone, Centro di Educazione Ambientale e del Turismo SostenibileHut | 2.1 km S |
| Rifugio Ostello della GiuventuHut | 2.1 km SSW |
| Caravan site | 2.2 km SSW |
How steep is the route to Pizzo Carbonara?
The easiest mapped route, 2.5 km from 1,610 m to 1,979 m. Steepest stretch: 22°.
- 0–15°2.3 km
- 15–30°0.2 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 40 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 4.4 km, measured from the Pizzo Carbonara summit.
Summit list 9
- 1Pizzo Palermo1,964 m 0.5 km NE
- 2Pizzo Antenna o della Principessa1,977 m 0.7 km ESE
- 3Pizzo Scalonazzo1,904 m 0.8 km SW
- 4Monte Spina Puci1,736 m 2.1 km SSE
- 5Monte Ferro1,906 m 2.3 km SE
- 6Monte Mufara1,865 m 2.9 km S
- 7Pizzo Antenna1,696 m 3.6 km WSW
- 8Pizzo Colla1,676 m 3.9 km WSW
- 9Monte Quacella1,869 m 4.1 km S
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4.4 km; 467 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- European Fallow Deer80
- Wild Peony37
- Italian Wall Lizard35
- Astragalus nebrodensis30
- King's-spear23
- Scarabaeus variolosus22
Where Pizzo Carbonara sits
- Range
- Apennines54Southern Apennine13
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Rocca BusambraPeak · 1,613 m↑56 km W
Mount PellegrinoPeak · 606 m↑66 km WNW
Valle del Belice↑85 km WSW
Mount EtnaPeak · 3,357 m↑87 km E
Monte KronioPeak · 396 m↑90 km WSW
More in the Southern Apennine 6
Pizzo Carbonara downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 1,975 m at the summit; the official height is 1,979 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,979 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,975 m | -4 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,970 m | -9 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 2026-07-20)
- 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