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Mountain · Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Wielki Szyszak

1,510 m4,954 ft

Prominence: 332 m1,089 ft
Isolation: 9.2 km
Tonight: 0°CCloudy · Wind 26 km/h S

Wielki Szyszak is a 1,510 m (4,954 ft) mountain in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.

All facts

Elevation: 1,510 m · 4,954 ft
Nearest higher peak: Luční hora (1,556 m)
Region: Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Protected area: Krkonoše National Park
Coordinates: 50.7768° N, 15.5681° E

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3D map

Wielki Szyszak 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Wielki Szyszak 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

Wielki Szyszak elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Wielki Szyszak weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 0°C (32°F) · 0.3 mm · Wind 26 km/h S

Wielki Szyszak forecast for the summit, about 1,510 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 736 m.

Tonight0°0.3 mm26 km/h SBase 4°
Today-3°1°–28 km/h SBase 1 / 6°
Sun-3°1°15.8 mm41 km/h SBase 2 / 6°
Mon-3°2°0.1 mm22 km/h WBase 2 / 7°
Tue0°5°–10 km/h SBase 4 / 10°
Wed0°4°2.8 mm12 km/h NWBase 4 / 9°
Thu-2°5°0.4 mm8 km/h NWBase 3 / 10°
Fri-1°3°2.4 mm5 km/h NBase 4 / 7°
Sat-3°0°1.6 mm7 km/h NBase 1 / 4°
Sun-4°1°0.4 mm9 km/h SBase 0 / 6°

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.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Wielki Szyszak

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

Nearest hut
Martinova bouda
0.7 km SE · +2 more within 1.7 km
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Nearest parking
3.9 km SE
+2 more within 4.7 km
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Nearest campsite
Baza Harcerska ZHP Czerwonak
5.0 km NNW · +2 more within 6.4 km
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All mapped places 9

Place	Distance
Martinova boudaHut	0.7 km SE
Brádlerovy boudyHut	1.6 km SE
Labská boudaHut	1.7 km WSW
Parking	3.9 km SE
Parking	4.7 km SSW
Parking	4.7 km S
Baza Harcerska ZHP CzerwonakCampsite	5.0 km NNW
Baza Pod Ponurą MałpąCampsite	6.0 km NNW
Kemping Pod MostemCampsite	6.4 km NNW

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 60% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

59.7%

Moderate, 15–30°

35.3%

Steep, 30–45°

4.3%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.8%

Steeper than 30°: 5.1% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 772 m low point 736 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 69.2%Grassland 30.4%

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 Wielki Szyszak summit.

Summit list 5

1Vysoká pláň1,497 m 0.8 km WNW
2Śmielec1,424 m 0.8 km ENE
3Czeskie Kamienie1,416 m 1.6 km E
4Łabski Szczyt1,472 m 1.6 km WNW
5Śląskie Kamienie1,414 m 2.4 km E

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 387 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Willow gentian94
Fairy Primrose52
Common bistort43
Northern firmoss38
Common heather30
Two-banded Longhorn Beetle29

Where it sits

Where Wielki Szyszak sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

OstrzycaPeak · 501 m34 km NNE

Downloads

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

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Print & wall

JPGWielki Szyszak 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 1,508 m at the summit; the official height is 1,510 m.

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

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	1,510 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	1,508 m	-2 m
Copernicus GLO-90	1,506 m	-4 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, 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

Wielki Szyszak

West → east through the summit

Nearest hut

Nearest parking

Nearest campsite

Data sources