Chopok weather
Summit 2024 m · Low Tatras, Slovakia. Separate forecasts for the summit and the valley (Demänovská Dolina, 1118 m). Local time (UTC+1). About the peak: Chopok
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Active official warnings
- Heavy snow
Level 1, yellow · 13.11, 3:00 – 14:00 · Liptovský Mikuláš - Strong wind — On the mountains wind gusts up to 37 m/s are expected
Level 1, yellow · 13.11, 6:00 – 20:00 · Brezno, Liptovský Mikuláš
Source: SHMÚ, updated at 13.11, 8:09. The official text is on the source site.
Summit forecast
Chopok · 2024 mWeekend: Saturday — caution, Sunday — cautionBest day this week: Thursday, 19 Nov
Cautiontoday, 13 Nov
It is too late today for the whole route — plan to start tomorrow morning.
Cold, feels like −15°.
- Up high · 2024 m
- −9…−7°feels like −15°
- Precipitation
- Dryduring the hike
- Wind
- 16 km/hgusts ≈ 24 km/h (estimate)
- Thunderstorm
- Not expected
- Clouds and visibility
- Partly cloudy
- Snow and ice
- Ice possible0° at ≈ 590 m
- Daylight
- 6:47 – 16:049 h 16 min of daylight
Hourly
Keep in mind
- Cold: feels like −15°. Cover your face and hands.
What to take
Clothing
- Down or warm synthetic jacket — −15°
- Face protection from the wind, spare gloves
- A light rain jacket, just in case
- Hiking boots with a good grip
Water and food
- Water: 2 l per person
- A thermos of hot tea
- Lunch and snacks: nuts, dried fruit, chocolate
Gear
- First-aid kit and an emergency blanket
- Charged phone and a power bank
CautionSaturday, 14 Nov
You can go, with care
Cold, feels like −13°.
- Up high · 2024 m
- −8…−7°feels like −13°
- Precipitation
- Dryduring the hike
- Wind
- 11 km/hgusts ≈ 17 km/h (estimate)
- Thunderstorm
- Not expected
- Clouds and visibility
- Partly cloudy
- Snow and ice
- Ice possible0° at ≈ 750 m
- Daylight
- 6:49 – 16:029 h 13 min of daylight
Hourly
Keep in mind
- Cold: feels like −13°. Cover your face and hands.
What to take
Clothing
- Insulated jacket over the fleece — feels like −13°
- Warm mittens, hat and buff
- A light rain jacket, just in case
- Hiking boots with a good grip
Water and food
- Water: 2 l per person
- A thermos of hot tea
- Lunch and snacks: nuts, dried fruit, chocolate
Gear
- First-aid kit and an emergency blanket
- Charged phone and a power bank
CautionSunday, 15 Nov
You can go, with care
Cold, feels like −12°.
- Up high · 2024 m
- −8…−6°feels like −12°
- Precipitation
- Dryduring the hike
- Wind
- 12 km/hgusts ≈ 18 km/h (estimate)
- Thunderstorm
- Not expected
- Clouds and visibility
- Clearthere will be views
- Snow and ice
- Ice possible0° at ≈ 870 m
- Daylight
- 6:50 – 16:019 h 10 min of daylight
Hourly
Keep in mind
- Cold: feels like −12°. Cover your face and hands.
What to take
Clothing
- Insulated jacket over the fleece — feels like −12°
- Warm mittens, hat and buff
- A light rain jacket, just in case
- Hiking boots with a good grip
Water and food
- Water: 2 l per person
- A thermos of hot tea
- Lunch and snacks: nuts, dried fruit, chocolate
Gear
- First-aid kit and an emergency blanket
- Charged phone and a power bank
GoodMonday, 16 Nov
A good day for a hike
Almost no wind. But light snow up high, fog up high and chilly (−9°).
- Up high · 2024 m
- −6…−5°feels like −9°
- Precipitation
- Snow ≈ 5 cmduring the hike
- Wind
- Almost calm
- Thunderstorm
- Not expected
- Clouds and visibility
- Summit in cloudpoor visibility
- Snow and ice
- Fresh snow0° at ≈ 1 130 m
- Daylight
- 6:52 – 16:009 h 7 min of daylight
Hourly
Keep in mind
- Light snow up high — the path may be slippery.
- Clouds and fog up high — poor visibility, views are unlikely. Follow the waymarks and download the track for offline use.
- Chilly — feels like −9°.
What to take
Clothing
- Insulated jacket over the fleece — feels like −9°
- Warm mittens, hat and buff
- Waterproof jacket — snow up high
- Waterproof hiking boots
Water and food
- Water: 2 l per person
- A thermos of hot tea
- Lunch and snacks: nuts, dried fruit, chocolate
Gear
- Rain cover for the backpack, things in a dry bag
- First-aid kit and an emergency blanket
- Charged phone and a power bank
GoodTuesday, 17 Nov
A good day for a hike
Wind up to 8 km/h. But light snow up high, fog up high and chilly (−9°).
- Up high · 2024 m
- −5°feels like −9°
- Precipitation
- Snow ≈ 4 cmduring the hike
- Wind
- 8 km/hgusts ≈ 12 km/h (estimate)
- Thunderstorm
- Not expected
- Clouds and visibility
- Summit in cloudpoor visibility
- Snow and ice
- Fresh snow0° at ≈ 1 190 m
- Daylight
- 6:53 – 15:599 h 5 min of daylight
Hourly
Keep in mind
- Light snow up high — the path may be slippery.
- Clouds and fog up high — poor visibility, views are unlikely. Follow the waymarks and download the track for offline use.
- Chilly — feels like −9°.
What to take
Clothing
- Insulated jacket over the fleece — feels like −9°
- Warm mittens, hat and buff
- Waterproof jacket — snow up high
- Waterproof hiking boots
Water and food
- Water: 2 l per person
- A thermos of hot tea
- Lunch and snacks: nuts, dried fruit, chocolate
Gear
- Rain cover for the backpack, things in a dry bag
- First-aid kit and an emergency blanket
- Charged phone and a power bank
GoodWednesday, 18 Nov
A good day for a hike
Almost no wind. But light snow up high, fog up high and chilly (−4°).
- Up high · 2024 m
- −4…−3°feels like −4°
- Precipitation
- Snow ≈ 1 cmduring the hike
- Wind
- Almost calm
- Thunderstorm
- Not expected
- Clouds and visibility
- Summit in cloudpoor visibility
- Snow and ice
- Fresh snow0° at ≈ 1 380 m
- Daylight
- 6:55 – 15:589 h 2 min of daylight
Hourly
Keep in mind
- Light snow up high — the path may be slippery.
- Clouds and fog up high — poor visibility, views are unlikely. Follow the waymarks and download the track for offline use.
- Chilly — feels like −4°.
What to take
Clothing
- Three layers: base layer, fleece, wind- and waterproof jacket — −4°
- Hat and light gloves
- Waterproof jacket — snow up high
- Waterproof hiking boots
Water and food
- Water: 2 l per person
- A thermos of hot tea
- Lunch and snacks: nuts, dried fruit, chocolate
Gear
- Rain cover for the backpack, things in a dry bag
- First-aid kit and an emergency blanket
- Charged phone and a power bank
GoodThursday, 19 Nov
A good day for a hike
Dry and almost no wind. But chilly (−9°).
- Up high · 2024 m
- −9…−5°feels like −9°
- Precipitation
- Dryduring the hike
- Wind
- Almost calm
- Thunderstorm
- Not expected
- Clouds and visibility
- Overcast
- Snow and ice
- Ice possible0° at ≈ 580 m
- Daylight
- 6:57 – 15:568 h 59 min of daylight
Hourly
Keep in mind
- Chilly — feels like −9°.
What to take
Clothing
- Insulated jacket over the fleece — feels like −9°
- Warm mittens, hat and buff
- A light rain jacket, just in case
- Hiking boots with a good grip
Water and food
- Water: 2 l per person
- A thermos of hot tea
- Lunch and snacks: nuts, dried fruit, chocolate
Gear
- First-aid kit and an emergency blanket
- Charged phone and a power bank
Updated at 13:23 · data: MET Norway (CC BY 4.0), model run of 12:21. Temperature recalculated for altitude; wind on an open ridge and gusts marked «≈» are our estimate. A forecast is a guide, not a guarantee: mountain weather changes fast.
Summit and valley
Summit, 2024 mDemänovská Dolina, 1118 m
Today 13−7° −11°Wind 28 km/h−1° −5°Wind 18 km/h
Tomorrow 14−7° −11°Wind 16 km/h−1° −5°Wind 11 km/h
Sun 15−6° −11°Wind 18 km/h2° −7°Wind 17 km/h
Mon 16−5° −6°Wind 15 km/h · 8 mm2° 0°Wind 11 km/h · 5 mm
Tue 17−4° −6°Wind 12 km/h · 15 mm3° −1°Wind 13 km/h · 7 mm
Wed 18−3° −8°Wind 16 km/h · 3 mm4° −4°Wind 16 km/h · 2 mm
Thu 19−5° −9°Wind 11 km/h2° −4°Wind 7 km/h
Forecast map
Precipitation, ridge-level wind and freezing level for 5 days; shaded areas are official warnings. Tap a marker for the weather now and tomorrow.
Forecast map: Deutscher Wetterdienst (ICON-EU), CC BY 4.0
Official warnings and services
Check the official warnings before you head into the mountains. Links checked on 12.11.2026.
Other summits: Slovakia
Data sources and how we calculate
- Point forecasts — cards, summit pages, route forecastData: MET Norway Locationforecast 2.0 (Norwegian Meteorological Institute). For the Carpathians it is based on the global HRES model of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF): ≈ 9 km grid, 10-day forecast, updated 4 times a day. We request the 0.1° cell around the place and keep the answer up to 3 hours so as not to overload the service. Licence: CC BY 4.0 and NLOD 2.0.
- Our own calculations — estimates, not model outputTemperature is shifted to the real altitude of the place: −0.62 °C per 100 m. The model smooths the mountains, so wind on an open ridge at 1000–2000 m is multiplied by 1–1.5; gusts, when the model has none, are ≈ 1.5 × the wind (marked «≈»). The freezing level on the cards is computed from the temperature at height (−6.5 °C per km). The hiking verdict weighs the start, the highest point and the finish of the route, walking time from length and ascent, and daylight; it accounts for thunderstorms, wind, rain, snow and ice, frost and wind chill, heat and fog. For towns it is a city walk, not a hike.
- ElevationsSummit and place heights come from our checked data and the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 elevation model (≈ 30 m; © DLR, Airbus, EU Copernicus programme and ESA). Where a place has no height, the model terrain height is used.
- Sunrise and sunsetAn astronomical calculation for the place coordinates (PHP date_sun_info) in local time. Mountains on the horizon are not taken into account: in a deep valley the sun rises later.
- Forecast map: precipitation, wind, freezing levelThe ICON-EU model of the German Weather Service (DWD): ≈ 7 km grid, runs at 00 and 12 UTC, forecast to +120 hours; we refresh the map twice a day. Precipitation — rate over the interval and type (snow share); wind — at 800 hPa (≈ 2000 m, ridge height); freezing level — height of 0 °C. Licence CC BY 4.0, source: Deutscher Wetterdienst.
- Official warningsUkraine — Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center, Poland — IMGW-PIB, Slovakia — SHMÚ (open CAP data, CC BY 4.0). We check every 30 minutes and show them as published: the source is official, we only display it. The Romanian service ANM publishes no open feed, so for Romania there is only a link to the ANM warnings. Avalanche bulletins and mountain rescue are in the «Official services» block.
- Times and «updated at …»All times are the local time of the country: Ukraine and Romania UTC+2 (+3 in summer), Poland and Slovakia UTC+1 (+2 in summer). «Updated at …» is when we last received the data; «model run of …» is the start time of the model run the forecast comes from.
- Limitations and safetyA forecast is a guide, not a guarantee: mountain weather changes fast, and valleys and ridges have their own microclimate. Check the official warnings before you go and tell someone your route. In an emergency: Ukraine 101 or 112; Poland 985 or 601 100 300; Slovakia 18 300; Romania 0725 826 668 (Salvamont) or 112.
