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Watzespitze

3,532 m11,588 ft

Prominence: 491 m1,610 ft
Isolation: 12 km
Tonight: -14°CFog · Wind 5 km/h S

Watzespitze is a 3,532 m (11,588 ft) mountain in the Kaunergrat, Tyrol, Austria.

All facts

Elevation: 3,532 m · 11,588 ft
Nearest higher peak: Hochvernagtspitze (3,535 m)
Range: Kaunergrat
Region: Tyrol, Austria
Coordinates: 46.9893° N, 10.7951° E

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3D map

Watzespitze 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Watzespitze terrain and contours

100 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 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

Watzespitze elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Watzespitze weather

Tonight · Fog · -14°C (7°F) · 0.8 mm · Wind 5 km/h S

Watzespitze forecast for the summit, about 3,532 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,957 m.

Tonight-14°0.8 mm5 km/h SBase -5°
Today-16°-10°2.0 mm13 km/h WBase -7 / 0°
Sun-16°-2°6.7 mm12 km/h SWBase -6 / 8°
Mon-16°-5°0.6 mm5 km/h SBase -6 / 5°
Tue-8°1°–4 km/h SBase 1 / 10°
Wed-10°-3°2.0 mm4 km/h SBase 0 / 6°
Thu-11°-5°–4 km/h SBase -2 / 5°
Fri-13°-4°–3 km/h SBase -4 / 6°
Sat-14°-5°–6 km/h NWBase -4 / 4°
Sun-13°-7°2.9 mm5 km/h SBase -3 / 2°

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.

Mostly steep: more than half the view is steeper than 30°, the angle of most avalanche terrain.

Gentle, 0–15°

10.1%

Moderate, 15–30°

32.9%

Steep, 30–45°

40.2%

Cliffs, 45° and over

16.8%

Steeper than 30°: 57.0% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 1,522 m low point 1,957 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Snow & ice 33.3%Bare rock / sparse 29.2%Moss & lichen 20.7%Grassland 15.3%Trees 1.5%

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 Watzespitze summit.

Summit list 9

1Piz Maskus3,140 m 1.0 km N
2Verpeilspitze3,423 m 1.7 km NNE
3Seekarlesschneid3,208 m 1.9 km ESE
4Schwabenkopf3,379 m 1.9 km N
5帕爾斯特萊斯萬德山3,091 m 2.0 km ENE
6Seekogel3,358 m 2.3 km SSE
7Rostizkogel3,392 m 2.3 km S
8Parstleswand Ostgipfel3,085 m 2.3 km ENE
9K23,253 m 2.6 km S

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 46 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Alpine Ibex5
Creeping avens4
Mossy saxifrage4
Small Tortoiseshell3
Alpine bistort3
Bearded Vulture2

Where it sits

Where Watzespitze sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Ötztal19 km NNE

Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGWatzespitze satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-07-24.

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

53 m low This 3D map reads 3,479 m at the summit; the official height is 3,532 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 63 m.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	3,532 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	3,479 m	-53 m
Copernicus GLO-90	3,469 m	-63 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 2026-07-24)
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 · GeoNames · Wikipedia