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Sölk Pass
- Connects
- Heck – Mautneralpe
- Tonight
- -1°CSnow · Wind 12 km/h N
Sölk Pass is a mountain pass at 1,787 m in Styria, Austria. It links Heck and Mautneralpe.
All facts
- Saddle
- 1,787 m
- Lowest point
- 1,323 m / 1,311 m
Sölk Pass: the climb from each side
Crossed by: L704 Sölkpaßstraße
Distances are straight lines from the saddle to the lowest ground on each side; the road is longer.
Sölk Pass 3D map
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Sölk Pass terrain and contours
50 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.
Sölk Pass elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Sölk Pass weather
Tonight · Snow · -1°C (30°F) · 1.5 mm · Wind 12 km/h N
Sölk Pass forecast for about 1,787 m.
- Tonight-1°1.5 mm12 km/h N
- Today-8°0°2.1 mm15 km/h N
- Sun-3°2°3.8 mm28 km/h NW
- Mon-6°2°0.2 mm17 km/h NW
- Tue3°6°0.4 mm8 km/h NW
- Wed1°6°1.5 mm14 km/h NW
- Thu-2°3°–10 km/h NW
- Fri-1°5°–9 km/h N
- Sat-3°2°1.1 mm7 km/h N
- Sun-2°4°0.9 mm8 km/h W
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 Sölk Pass
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Sölk Pass, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.1 km S
Nearest hut
Kaltenbachalm
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.1 km S |
| Parking | 0.1 km NNE |
| HochkehreParking | 0.5 km NNE |
| KaltenbachalmHut | 0.9 km N |
| Hut | 5.1 km E |
| Neunkirchner HütteHut | 5.2 km E |
Slope
Share of the 8 × 8 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°
- 53.9% of the 64 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,312 m low point 1,155 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4 km; 377 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Rusty-leaved Alpenrose17
- Small-white Orchid16
- Yellow Saxifrage15
- Bearded Bellflower12
- Dwarf Soapwort12
- Alpine Pasqueflower11
Where Sölk Pass sits
- Range
- Alps751Eastern Alps350Central Eastern Alps140Lower Tauern5
Nearby places
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- Terrain
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- Imagery
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- 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
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- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Panorama
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- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)