Nature · Dufourspitze summit · bounded southern section
Dufourspitze / Monte Rosa: terrain elevation and local relief
Dufourspitze / Monte Rosa uses an approximately 4,536-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,908 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 4,536 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Dufourspitze summit · bounded southern section
- In feet, rounded
- 14,882.8 ft (1 ft = 0.3048 m)
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Terrain boundary, base and datum
- Vertical reference
- EGM2008. Published surveys are separate; no datum conversion is applied.
- Highest sampled surface
- 4536.3 m at 45.937778°, 7.867222°.
- Local base
- 1627.9 m at 45.887500°, 7.920833°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 7.795972°, east 7.937917°; south 45.887361°, north 45.938750°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 21.5 m east-west and 30.9 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
Switzerland Tourism lists Dufourspitze at 4,634 meters above sea level, identifying the individual peak within Monte Rosa. This Copernicus section reaches about 4,536 meters in EGM2008. Its northern boundary excludes Nordend: the initial wider section selected that neighboring summit instead. The corrected section keeps Dufourspitze’s sampled summit area, although its sharp rock geometry remains substantially softened at this grid spacing.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 1627.9 meters at 45.887500° latitude, 7.920833° longitude. This produces about 2,908 meters of relief within the stated boundary. It is not a universal mountain base, a route’s total ascent, or topographic prominence.
The rendered surface uses the public 2021 Copernicus release, primarily based on TanDEM-X observations from 2011–2015 with infill from other sources. It is a surface model rather than a current bare-earth survey. Neutral shading explains the geometry without claiming a snow season or photographic ground texture. No datum conversion or summit correction is applied.
Quick facts
Dufourspitze / Monte Rosa uses an approximately 4,536-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,908 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Switzerland Tourism: Dufourspitze, 4634 m
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Wikidata: summit-area identity and initial coordinate
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
The approximately 4,536-meter surface estimate belongs to a section bounded around Dufourspitze. It does not replace the published 4,634-meter reference or represent every Monte Rosa summit.
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