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Vetal Hill

793 m2,600 ft
Prominence
141 m461 ft
Isolation
4.1 km
Tonight
21°CPartly cloudy · Wind 10 km/h N

Vetal Hill is a 793 m (2,600 ft) mountain in the Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India.

All facts
Elevation
793 m · 2,600 ft
Nearest higher peak
Vandan Fort (1,158 m)
Range
Western Ghats
Region
Maharashtra, India
Coordinates
18.5254° N, 73.8157° E
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3D map

Vetal Hill 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

Vetal Hill terrain and contours

10 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 50 mShowing west → east through the summit

Vetal Hill elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Vetal Hill weather

Today · Partly cloudy · 21 / 31°C (70 / 88°F) · 0.3 mm · Wind 10 km/h N

Vetal Hill forecast for the summit, about 793 m.

  • Today21°31°0.3 mm10 km/h N
  • Sun20°31°–12 km/h NE
  • Mon19°31°–14 km/h NE
  • Tue19°30°–16 km/h E
  • Wed20°29°–15 km/h NE
  • Thu19°29°–15 km/h W
  • Fri19°29°–13 km/h W
  • Sat19°28°0.1 mm12 km/h W
  • Sun21°30°0.3 mm9 km/h SE

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.

Slope

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 93% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
92.9%
Moderate, 15–30°
7.1%
Steep, 30–45°
0.0%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
0.0% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view
183 m low point 538 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Built-up 38.3%Trees 33.0%Shrubland 16.9%Grassland 8.3%Cropland 2.8%Bare rock / sparse 0.6%

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

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 1,367 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Gram Blue218
  • Lemon Pansy209
  • Common Gull197
  • White Orange Tip197
  • Blue Tiger184
  • Great Eggfly179
Where it sits

Where Vetal Hill sits

Range
Western Ghats7
Region
Maharashtra13India313Asia964
Nearby

Nearby places

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Downloads

Vetal Hill downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

72 m low This 3D map reads 721 m at the summit; the official height is 793 m.Official 793 m90 m model 713 mThis map 721 m

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 80 m.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)793 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)721 m-72 m
Copernicus GLO-90713 m-80 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 2026-04-23)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
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 · Wikipedia