Dufourspitze
The Dufourspitze is the highest peak of Monte Rosa, an ice-covered mountain massif in the Alps. Dufourspitze is the highest mountain of both Switzerland and the Pennine Alps and is also the second-highest mountain of the Alps and Western Europe, after Mont Blanc.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 4,634 metres
- Description: highest mountain of Switzerland
- Also known as: “Gornerhorn, Schwärzehorn, Höchste Spitze, La più alta cima”, “Monte Rosa”, “Дуфоурспитзе”, “Дуфуршпице”, and “Монте Роза”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Dunantspitze and Grenzgipfel.
Grenzgipfel
Peak
Nordend
Peak
Photo: Francofranco56, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Staffa and Isella.
Dufourspitze
- Categories: mountain, main peak, four-thousander, ultra-prominent peak, and landform
- Location: Zermatt, Visp District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.93692° or 45° 56′ 13″ north
Longitude
7.86676° or 7° 52′ 0″ east
Elevation
4,634 metres (15,203 feet)
Named after
Open location code
8FQ9WVP8+QP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Dufourspitze” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Dufour-bergpiek”
- Arabic: “جبل مونتي روزا”
- Arabic: “دوفورسبيتز”
- Asturian: “Picu Dufour”
- Basque: “Dufour Gaina”
- Belarusian: “Дзюфур”
- Belarusian: “Пік Дзюфур”
- Bengali: “মন্টি রোজা”
- Bulgarian: “Дюфур”
- Catalan: “Dufourspitze”
- Cebuano: “Dufourspitze”
- Chinese: “杜富尔峰”
- Czech: “Dufourspitze”
- Danish: “Dufourspitze”
- Dutch: “Dufourspitze”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونتى روزا”
- Esperanto: “Dufour-Pinto”
- Estonian: “Dufour”
- Estonian: “Dufouri mäetipp”
- Finnish: “Dufourspitze”
- French: “pointe Dufour”
- French: “Pointe Dufour”
- Georgian: “დიუფურის პიკი”
- German: “Dufourspitze”
- Gilaki: “دۊفؤرشپيتزه”
- Hebrew: “דופורשפיץ”
- Hungarian: “Dufourspitze”
- Indonesian: “Dufourspitze”
- Irish: “Dufourspitze”
- Italian: “Punta Dufour”
- Japanese: “プンタ・デュフール”
- Korean: “두포우르슈피츠”
- Korean: “몬테로사 산”
- Ladin: “Piza Dufour”
- Lithuanian: “Diufūro kalnas”
- Lombard: “Pizz Dufour”
- Luxembourgish: “Dufourspëtz”
- Macedonian: “Дифур”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dufourspitze”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dufourspitze”
- Norwegian: “Dufourspitze”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dufourspitze”
- Persian: “دوفوراشپیتزه”
- Polish: “Dufourspitze”
- Portuguese: “Pico Dufour”
- Romanian: “Punta Dufour”
- Romanian: “Vârful Dufour, Monte Rosa”
- Romansh: “Piz da Dufour”
- Russian: “Дюфур”
- Russian: “пик Дюфур”
- Russian: “Пик Дюфур”
- Scots: “Dufourspitze”
- Slovak: “Dufourspitze”
- Slovenian: “Dufourspitze”
- Spanish: “Pico Dufour”
- Swahili: “Dufourspitze”
- Swedish: “Dufourspitze”
- Swiss German: “Dufourspitze”
- Tajik: “Дуфур”
- Turkish: “Dufourspitze”
- Ukrainian: “Дюфур”
- Venetian: “Ponta Dufour”
- Welsh: “Dufourspitze”
- Western Panjabi: “مونٹے روزا”
- “nena ma Tupo”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Sesia Canal and Ellermann Plateau.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Silbersattel and Grenzsattel.
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