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Rathong Glacier
- Area
- 0.87 km²
- Lowest point
- 5,061 m
- Tonight
- -20°CClear · Wind 11 km/h NW
Rathong Glacier in Sikkim, India covers 0.87 km² and spans 5,061–5,740 m above sea level.
All facts
- Highest point
- 5,740 m
Rathong Glacier: size and slope
Drawn to scale from the OpenStreetMap outline and the Copernicus 30 m terrain model.
- Vertical range
- 679 m
- Mean slope
- 26°
- Faces
- southwestmostly in sun
Rathong Glacier 3D map
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Rathong Glacier 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.
Rathong Glacier elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Rathong Glacier weather
Today · Clear · -20 / -8°C (-4 / 18°F) · Wind 11 km/h NW
Rathong Glacier forecast for about 5,740 m.
- Today-20°-8°–11 km/h NW
- Sun-19°-7°–11 km/h NW
- Mon-18°-7°–10 km/h NW
- Tue-18°-6°–11 km/h SW
- Wed-17°-6°0.2 mm10 km/h SW
- Thu-11°-7°37.9 mm3 km/h N
- Fri-7°-7°133.9 mm7 km/h S
- Sat-12°-5°7.4 mm9 km/h SW
- Sun-13°-7°–6 km/h NW
- Mon-15°-8°–8 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 Rathong Glacier
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Rathong Glacier, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
HMI Advanced Base Camp
All mapped places 3
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| HMI Advanced Base CampCampsite | 1.4 km ESE |
| HMI Base CampCampsite | 3.0 km SE |
| TigyablaCampsite | 6.6 km S |
Slope
Share of the 3 × 3 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.
- Steeper than 30°
- 56.0% of the 9 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,886 m low point 4,670 m
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.
Where Rathong Glacier sits
- Range
- Himalayas121
Nearby places
Goecha LaPass · 4,940 m↑7.5 km ENE
Mount PandimPeak · 6,691 m↑9.8 km E
Zemu Gap Peak7,780 m↑13 km NNE
KanchenjungaPeak · 8,586 m↑14 km NNE
Timbung PokhariLake↑17 km SSW
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- 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 2025 (scene 2025-12-17)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- 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)