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Vrtača

2,180 m7,152 ft

Prominence: 342 m1,122 ft
Isolation: 2.8 km
Tonight: -3°CSnow · Wind 8 km/h N

Vrtača is a 2,180 m (7,152 ft) mountain in the Western Karawanks, Municipality of Žirovnica, Slovenia.

All facts

Elevation: 2,180 m · 7,152 ft
Nearest higher peak: Stol / Hochstuhl (2,237 m)
Range: Western Karawanks
Region: Municipality of Žirovnica, Slovenia
Spanish name: Wertatscha
Coordinates: 46.4399° N, 14.2126° E

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3D map

Vrtača 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Vrtača 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

Vrtača elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Vrtača weather

Tonight · Snow · -3°C (27°F) · 1.9 mm · Wind 8 km/h N

Vrtača forecast for the summit, about 2,180 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 894 m.

Tonight-3°1.9 mm8 km/h NBase 4°
Today-9°-1°3.6 mm7 km/h NBase -1 / 6°
Sun-9°0°0.1 mm9 km/h SBase -1 / 8°
Mon-8°3°–8 km/h SBase -1 / 10°
Tue-4°3°–3 km/h SEBase 3 / 11°
Wed-5°6°–5 km/h NBase 3 / 14°
Thu-7°3°–7 km/h NBase 1 / 11°
Fri-8°3°–3 km/h NBase -1 / 10°
Sat-7°2°1.0 mm2 km/h NBase 0 / 10°
Sun-9°0°0.1 mm5 km/h SBase -1 / 7°

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 Vrtača

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

Nearest hut
Dom pri izviru Završnice
1.2 km SSE · +2 more within 2.4 km
Directions Map
Nearest parking
2.2 km SSW
+2 more within 2.9 km
Directions Map
Nearest campsite
Camp Podljubelj
6.9 km SE
Directions Map

All mapped places 7

Place	Distance
Dom pri izviru ZavršniceHut	1.2 km SSE
Planinski dom na ZeleniciHut	2.0 km SE
Parking	2.2 km SSW
Parking	2.3 km SSW
Klagenfurter HütteHut	2.4 km WNW
Parking	2.9 km SSW
Camp PodljubeljCampsite	6.9 km SE

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 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.

Gentle, 0–15°

8.3%

Moderate, 15–30°

33.0%

Steep, 30–45°

49.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

9.1%

Steeper than 30°: 58.7% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 1,333 m low point 894 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 62.1%Grassland 29.8%Bare rock / sparse 8.0%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Vrtača summit.

Summit list 6

1Palec / Selenitza2,026 m 0.6 km NE
2Begunjščica2,060 m 2.4 km SSE
3Klagenfurter Spitze / Celovška špica2,102 m 2.5 km W
4Orličje2,139 m 2.6 km WSW
5Krkotnik2,116 m 2.6 km W
6Mali Stol2,187 m 3.0 km WSW

Where it sits

Where Vrtača sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Keutschacher SeeLake · 506 m17 km NNW

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

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Print & wall

JPGVrtača satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-08-14.

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

11 m low This 3D map reads 2,169 m at the summit; the official height is 2,180 m.

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

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	2,180 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	2,169 m	-11 m
Copernicus GLO-90	2,159 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 2026-08-14)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
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

Vrtača

West → east through the summit

Nearest hut

Nearest parking

Nearest campsite

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