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Tiger Hill, Kargil

5,307 m17,411 ft

Prominence: 522 m1,712 ft
Isolation: 4.0 km
Tonight: -15°CFair · Wind 1 km/h N

Tiger Hill, Kargil is a 5,307 m (17,411 ft) mountain in the Himalayas, Ladakh, India.

All facts

Elevation: 5,307 m · 17,411 ft
Nearest higher peak: Machoi Peak (5,458 m)
Range: Himalayas
Region: Ladakh, India
Coordinates: 34.4838° N, 75.6621° E

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3D map

Tiger Hill, Kargil 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Tiger Hill, Kargil 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.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

Tiger Hill, Kargil elevation profile

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Weather

Tiger Hill, Kargil weather

Tonight · Fair · -15°C (5°F) · Wind 1 km/h N

Tiger Hill, Kargil forecast for the summit, about 5,307 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 3,597 m.

Tonight-15°–1 km/h NBase -5°
Today-19°-9°2.7 mm6 km/h WBase -8 / 1°
Sun-18°-9°–9 km/h SWBase -8 / 1°
Mon-18°-7°–10 km/h SWBase -8 / 3°
Tue-16°-7°–6 km/h SEBase -6 / 3°
Wed-15°-7°–5 km/h SEBase -5 / 3°
Thu-15°-5°0.2 mm14 km/h SBase -5 / 5°
Fri-15°-6°–4 km/h SBase -5 / 4°
Sat-15°-5°0.1 mm6 km/h SWBase -5 / 5°
Sun-14°-5°–4 km/h SEBase -4 / 5°

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.

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

17.6%

Moderate, 15–30°

46.1%

Steep, 30–45°

32.7%

Cliffs, 45° and over

3.6%

Steeper than 30°: 36.3% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 1,465 m low point 3,597 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 41.5%Moss & lichen 33.1%Grassland 17.8%Snow & ice 6.6%Water 1.0%

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

Where it sits

Where Tiger Hill, Kargil sits

Nearby

Nearby places

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Vishansar Lake51 km WSW

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

245 m low This 3D map reads 5,062 m at the summit; the official height is 5,307 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 266 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	5,307 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	5,062 m	-245 m
Copernicus GLO-90	5,041 m	-266 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 2026-09-08)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
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 · Wikipedia