Tai Mo Shan
- Mapped trail
- 1.5 km+249 m · about 1 hEnds 60 m below the summit.
- Prominence
- 938 m3,079 ft
- Isolation
- 56 km
- Tonight
- 17°CPartly cloudy · Wind 21 km/h N
Tai Mo Shan is a 957 m (3,140 ft) mountain in Hong Kong, China.
All facts
- Elevation
- 957 m · 3,140 ft
- Region
- Hong Kong, China
- Coordinates
- 22.4101° N, 114.1249° E
How to get to the top of Tai Mo Shan
2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 0.7 km WSW of Tai Mo Shan
- Distance
- 1.5 kmone way
- Climb
- +249 m−6 m (817 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
The mapped trail ends 60 m below the summit. Above that there is no mapped path: expect glacier, scrambling or open ground, and go with a guide if you have no route-finding experience.
Other routes 1
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Tai Mo Shan 3D map
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Tai Mo Shan terrain and contours
50 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
Tai Mo Shan weather
Today · Fair · 17 / 26°C (63 / 79°F) · Wind 21 km/h N
Tai Mo Shan forecast for the summit, about 957 m.
- Today17°26°–21 km/h N
- Sun16°26°–17 km/h N
- Mon16°25°1.5 mm18 km/h E
- Tue18°25°1.7 mm11 km/h E
- Wed18°23°–16 km/h E
- Thu17°24°–10 km/h E
- Fri17°25°–11 km/h E
- Sat19°24°–10 km/h SE
- Sun18°24°–10 km/h SE
- Mon20°27°–7 km/h NE
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Tai Mo Shan
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Tai Mo Shan, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.0 km NNW
Nearest campsite
扶輪公園營地 Rotary Club Campsite
Nearest trailhead
4.3 km SSW
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.0 km NNW |
| Parking | 0.1 km NNW |
| Parking | 0.2 km NW |
| 扶輪公園營地 Rotary Club CampsiteCampsite | 2.1 km WSW |
| 荃錦營地 Twisk CampsiteCampsite | 2.2 km W |
| 荃錦營地 Twisk CampsiteCampsite | 2.3 km W |
| Trailhead | 4.3 km SSW |
| Trailhead | 6.0 km WSW |
| 北面入口 North EntranceTrailhead | 6.8 km SSW |
How steep is the route to Tai Mo Shan?
The easiest mapped route, 1.5 km from 654 m to 897 m. Steepest stretch: 35°.
- 0–15°1.0 km
- 15–30°0.5 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 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 3.9 km, measured from the Tai Mo Shan summit.
Summit list 8
- 1Hung Fa Teng824 m 0.7 km N
- 2Miu Ko Toi779 m 0.8 km SSW
- 3Hau Ngam Teng739 m 0.9 km NE
- 4Wo Yang Shan767 m 1.0 km SSE
- 5雙合嶺756 m 1.3 km SSE
- 6Sze Fong Shan784 m 1.5 km NE
- 7吊肚山 Tiu To Shan751 m 1.7 km ENE
- 8過峒山 Kwo Tung Shan714 m 1.9 km ENE
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.9 km; 4,802 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Rhesus Macaque645
- Punchinello410
- Hong Kong Warty Newt403
- Asian Common Toad395
- Paris Peacock Swallowtail360
- Common Five-ring339
Where Tai Mo Shan sits
Nearby places
Tai Mo Shan downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 955 m at the summit; the official height is 957 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 957 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 955 m | -2 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 941 m | -16 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 2026-01-13)
- 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