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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- 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” and “Monte Rosa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dunantspitze and Grenzgipfel.
Dunantspitze
Peak
Photo: Herzi Pinki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Dunantspitze, formerly called Ostspitze, is a peak of the Monte Rosa Massif in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. It is the second highest peak of the massif, after the Dufourspitze and the second highest summit in Switzerland, but its prominence is only about 15 metres.
Grenzgipfel
Peak
Photo: TobiasBender, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Grenzgipfel is a peak of Monte Rosa Massif, located on the border between Italy and Switzerland. The Grenzgipfel is the highest summit on the Italian side of the Monte Rosa massif and the highest point of the entire border between Italy and Switzerland; it is also the culminating point of the Italian region of Piedmont and of the Ticino river drainage basin.
Nordend
Peak
Photo: Francofranco56, Public domain.
Nordend is a northern peak of the Monte Rosa Massif. Nordend is the fourth highest peak of the massif, after the Dufourspitze, the Dunantspitze and the Grenzgipfel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Quarazza and Motta.
Quarazza
Hamlet
Photo: BelPatty86, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Quarazza is a hamlet, which is situated 9 km east of Dufourspitze.
Motta
Hamlet
Photo: BelPatty86, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Motta is a hamlet, which is situated 10 km east of Dufourspitze.
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″ northLongitude
7.86676° or 7° 52′ 0″ eastElevation
4,634 metres (15,203 feet)Named after
Guillaume Henri DufourOpen location code
8FQ9WVP8+QPOpenStreetMap ID
node 414760065OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
3177455Wikidata ID
Q3403
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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: “Дуфоурспитзе”
- 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”
- Hungarian: “Punta Dufour”
- 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”
- Luxembourgish: “Dufourspëtz”
- Macedonian: “Дифур”
- Macedonian: “Дуфуршпице”
- Macedonian: “Монте Роза”
- 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”
- Tosk Albanian: “Dufourspitze”
- Turkish: “Dufourspitze”
- Ukrainian: “Дюфур”
- Venetian: “Ponta Dufour”
- Welsh: “Dufourspitze”
- Western Panjabi: “مونٹے روزا”
- “nena ma Tupo”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Zona del ‘Lago Effimero’ and Loccia dei Camosci.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Silbersattel and Grenzsattel.
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