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San Salvador Volcano

1,893 m6,211 ft
Easiest route
1.0 km+125 m · about 0.5 h · T1
Prominence
317 m1,038 ft
Isolation
4.0 km
Tonight
12°CPartly cloudy · Wind 9 km/h N

San Salvador Volcano is a 1,893 m (6,211 ft) mountain in the Central American Cordillera, El Salvador.

All facts
Elevation
1,893 m · 6,211 ft
Nearest higher peak
Cerro Verde (2,030 m)
Range
Central American Cordillera
Region
El Salvador
Spanish name
Volcán de San Salvador
Coordinates
13.7313° N, 89.2901° W
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Route

How to get to the top of San Salvador Volcano

3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

Easiest route: from Road end near Ojo de Agua El Pino

Distance
1.0 kmone way
Climb
+125 m−47 m (410 ft up)
Time up
about 0.5 h
Difficulty
T1Easy trail, trainers are fine
San Salvador Volcano elevation profile
1,8001,85001.0 kmSan Salvador Volcano

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Other routes 2
  • Road end, 0.6 km WSW of San Salvador Volcano1.2 km · +121 m · about 0.5 h
    T1GPXKML
  • Road end near Ojo de Agua El Pino1.2 km · +149 m · about 0.5 h
    T1GPXKML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

San Salvador Volcano 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 6 × 6 km

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

San Salvador Volcano terrain and contours

50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one, from Ojo de Agua El Pino. 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 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.
Weather

San Salvador Volcano weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 12°C (54°F) · Wind 9 km/h N

San Salvador Volcano forecast for the summit, about 1,893 m.

  • Tonight12°–9 km/h N
  • Sat11°21°–14 km/h N
  • Sun11°21°–15 km/h N
  • Mon11°20°–9 km/h N
  • Tue12°21°–5 km/h N
  • Wed12°21°–4 km/h N
  • Thu12°22°0.1 mm4 km/h NE
  • Fri14°21°4.3 mm5 km/h W
  • Sat12°21°–5 km/h N
  • Sun12°22°–6 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

Camping & parking near San Salvador Volcano

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around San Salvador Volcano, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

All mapped places 3
PlaceDistance
Parking2.3 km SSE
Parking5.0 km SSE
Parking5.0 km SSE
Slope

How steep is the route to San Salvador Volcano?

The easiest mapped route, 1.0 km from 1,789 m to 1,893 m. Steepest stretch: 42°.

0 km · 1,789 m1.0 km · 1,893 m
  • 0–15°0.7 km
  • 15–30°0.2 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 97.8%Built-up 1.1%Grassland 0.9%

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

Where it sits

Where San Salvador Volcano sits

Range
American Cordillera467
Region
El Salvador13North America1,313
Nearby

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Downloads

San Salvador Volcano downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

13 m low This 3D map reads 1,880 m at the summit; the official height is 1,893 m.Official 1,893 m90 m model 1,872 mThis map 1,880 m

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

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)1,893 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)1,880 m-13 m
Copernicus GLO-901,872 m-21 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 2026-01-08)
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)
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 · GeoNames · Wikipedia