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Zemu Glacier
- Area
- 34.90 km²
- Lowest point
- 4,163 m
- Tonight
- -21°CSnow showers · Wind 11 km/h E
Zemu Glacier in Sikkim, India covers 34.9 km² and spans 4,163–6,921 m above sea level.
All facts
- Highest point
- 6,921 m
Zemu Glacier 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 31 × 31 km
Zemu Glacier topographic map
250 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.
Zemu Glacier elevation profile
West → east through the centre
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Zemu Glacier: size and slope
Drawn to scale from the OpenStreetMap outline and the Copernicus 30 m terrain model.
- Vertical range
- 2,758 m
- Mean slope
- 15°
- Faces
- northeastmostly shaded
Zemu Glacier weather
Today · Light snow showers · -21 / -14°C (-6 / 7°F) · 10.6 mm · Wind 11 km/h E
Zemu Glacier forecast for about 6,921 m.
- Today-21°-14°10.6 mm11 km/h E
- Sun-24°-14°3.4 mm11 km/h NW
- Mon-25°-13°–10 km/h NW
- Tue-25°-14°–5 km/h SE
- Wed-26°-13°–6 km/h NW
- Thu-19°-14°35.7 mm4 km/h NW
- Fri-15°-15°126.4 mm6 km/h SW
- Sat-15°-13°32.4 mm5 km/h S
- Sun-18°-13°5.2 mm3 km/h NW
- Mon-19°-12°0.4 mm4 km/h NW
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 31 × 31 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.
- Steeper than 30°
- 50.9% of the 961 km² view
- Relief in view
- 6,966 m low point 1,598 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Where Zemu Glacier sits
- Range
- Himalayas121
Nearby places
Zemu Gap Peak7,780 m↑8.8 km WSW
KanchenjungaPeak · 8,586 m↑11 km WSW
Goecha LaPass · 4,940 m↑15 km SSW
Mount PandimPeak · 6,691 m↑17 km S
South Lhonak Lake5,225 m↑21 km NNW
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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 2026-01-13)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- 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)