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Grosses Fiescherhorn

Elevation
4,048 m
#1,339
in the world
#37
in Switzerland
396 m
prominence

Grosses Fiescherhorn is a mountain in Switzerland, rising to 4,048 m, the 37th highest we list in Switzerland, part of the Jungfrau-Fiescherhorn Group.

Isolation
4.7 km
To the nearest higher ground
Range
#4 in the range
Nearest town
40 km away
Type
Mountain
GeoNames feature code MT

Where it is

Grosses Fiescherhorn

Grosses Fiescherhorn lies in Switzerland, in Valais.

Key facts

Elevation
4,048 m (13,281 ft)
Surveyed elevation, GeoNames
Prominence
396 m
Type
Mountain
Region
Valais
Coordinates
46.551, 8.061

How it ranks

Among peaks in Switzerland
#37of 1,296
LargestSmallest
In the Jungfrau-Fiescherhorn Group
#4of 22
LargestSmallest
Among all listed peaks
#1,339of 14,616
LargestSmallest

Nearest peaks

Nearest peaks, by distance from this summit
PeakElevationDistance
Hinteres Fiescherhorn4,024 m0.7 km
Kleines Fiescherhorn3,895 m1.2 km
Kleines Grünhorn3,912 m1.9 km
Grosses Grünhorn4,043 m2.5 km
Trugberg3,932 m3.6 km
Agassizhorn3,946 m4.1 km

Nearest cities

The closest places in our city dataset to Grosses Fiescherhorn.

Nearest cities, by distance from this summit
CityCountryPopulationDistance
ThunSwitzerland43,72340 km
SteffisburgSwitzerland15,70941 km
SierreSwitzerland16,79050 km
DomodossolaItaly17,77852 km
KriensSwitzerland25,01056 km

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Elevation and coordinates from GeoNames; prominence, isolation, range and first-ascent data from Wikidata. GeoNames publishes no date for elevation figures, so none is shown.