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Zard Kuh

4,221 m13,848 ft
Prominence
2,095 m6,873 ft
Isolation
188 km
Tonight
-3°CPartly cloudy · Wind 3 km/h W

Zard Kuh is a 4,221 m (13,848 ft) mountain in the Zagros Mountains, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran.

All facts
Elevation
4,221 m · 13,848 ft
Range
Zagros Mountains
Region
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran
Coordinates
32.3643° N, 50.0776° E
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Zard Kuh 3D map

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Zard Kuh 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

Zard Kuh elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Zard Kuh weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · -3°C (27°F) · Wind 3 km/h W

Zard Kuh forecast for the summit, about 4,221 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 2,026 m.

  • Tonight-3°–3 km/h WBase 10°
  • Today-4°5°1.8 mm14 km/h WBase 9 / 18°
  • Sun-4°4°–13 km/h WBase 9 / 17°
  • Mon-4°4°–14 km/h SWBase 9 / 17°
  • Tue-3°3°–9 km/h WBase 10 / 16°
  • Wed-3°3°–7 km/h SWBase 10 / 16°
  • Thu-3°3°1.7 mm7 km/h SWBase 11 / 16°
  • Fri-4°2°0.5 mm12 km/h WBase 9 / 15°
  • Sat-4°2°0.3 mm10 km/h SWBase 9 / 15°
  • Sun-3°3°0.1 mm9 km/h SWBase 10 / 16°

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

Slope

Share of the 12.4 × 12.4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°
11.4%
Moderate, 15–30°
45.3%
Steep, 30–45°
37.2%
Cliffs, 45° and over
6.2%
Steeper than 30°
43.4% of the 154 km² view
Relief in view
2,158 m low point 2,026 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Bare rock / sparse 54.9%Grassland 43.9%Shrubland 0.5%

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

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 6.2 km, measured from the Zard Kuh summit.

NESW2 km5 km123456
Summit list 6
  1. 1خرسان4,163 m 0.8 km NE
  2. 2Shahe Shahaidan4,065 m 1.8 km NNW
  3. 3گینشه4,011 m 1.8 km SSE
  4. 4Dozardeh3,995 m 2.8 km NNW
  5. 5چال میشان3,788 m 3.4 km N
  6. 6آب سفید3,759 m 4.2 km NNW
Where it sits

Where Zard Kuh sits

Range
Zagros Mountains4
Region
Iran16Asia964
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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

37 m low This 3D map reads 4,184 m at the summit; the official height is 4,221 m.Official 4,221 m90 m model 4,172 mThis map 4,184 m

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 49 m.

SourceSummitDifference
Official height (Wikidata)4,221 m—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)4,184 m-37 m
Copernicus GLO-904,172 m-49 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 2026-07-20)
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 · GeoNames · Wikipedia