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Wielka Sowa

1,015 m3,330 ft

Prominence: 486 m1,594 ft
Isolation: 37 km
Tonight: 4°CCloudy · Wind 27 km/h SW

Wielka Sowa is a 1,015 m (3,330 ft) mountain in the Owl Mountains, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.

All facts

Elevation: 1,015 m · 3,330 ft
Nearest higher peak: Vrchmezí (1,084 m)
Range: Owl Mountains
Region: Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Coordinates: 50.6801° N, 16.4865° E

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3D map

Wielka Sowa 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Wielka Sowa terrain and contours

20 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 100 mShowing west → east through the summit

Wielka Sowa elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Wielka Sowa weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 4°C (39°F) · Wind 27 km/h SW

Wielka Sowa forecast for the summit, about 1,015 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 426 m.

Tonight4°–27 km/h SWBase 7°
Today0°6°1.3 mm25 km/h SWBase 4 / 9°
Sun1°4°8.1 mm39 km/h SBase 4 / 7°
Mon-1°6°0.2 mm22 km/h SWBase 2 / 9°
Tue2°7°–15 km/h SWBase 5 / 11°
Wed1°10°1.6 mm17 km/h NWBase 4 / 13°
Thu1°8°1.3 mm9 km/h NWBase 4 / 11°
Fri2°5°1.5 mm8 km/h NBase 5 / 8°
Sat1°3°2.6 mm10 km/h NBase 4 / 7°
Sun-1°4°0.5 mm6 km/h SWBase 2 / 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, 23:19 UTC.

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 62% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

61.7%

Moderate, 15–30°

36.7%

Steep, 30–45°

1.7%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 1.7% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 592 m low point 426 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 81.8%Grassland 17.1%Cropland 0.6%Built-up 0.5%

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 Wielka Sowa summit.

Summit list 8

1Średnia Góra880 m 1.0 km WSW
2Wroniec822 m 1.3 km NNW
3Sokolica915 m 1.3 km SSW
4Mała Sowa972 m 1.5 km W
5Kozia Równia930 m 2.5 km SE
6Grabina946 m 2.7 km S
7Sokół862 m 2.9 km SW
8Koziołki936 m 3.0 km SSE

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 202 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Common bilberry30
Purple foxglove20
Fly Agaric17
Deer fern13
European wood-sorrel9
European beech8

Where it sits

Where Wielka Sowa sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Králický SněžníkPeak · 1,423 m58 km SSE

Downloads

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Print & wall

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

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 1,018 m at the summit; the official height is 1,015 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	1,015 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	1,018 m	+3 m
Copernicus GLO-90	1,016 m	+1 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)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Accuracy comparison: 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