Tempest Mountain
Tempest Mountain rises to 3,791 m in Montana. Granite Peak stands 3,904 m to the west-southwest, 0.8 miles off. Beartooth Highway passes 11 miles off.
The story
Tempest Mountain (12,474 feet (3,802 m)) is in the Beartooth Mountains in the U.S. state of Montana. The peak is one of the tallest in the Beartooth Mountains, the eighth tallest in Montana and is in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness of Custer National Forest. Tempest Mountain is less than 1 mi (1.6 km) ENE of Granite Peak, the tallest mountain in Montana.
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Wikidata Q28056266, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3791 m
How to reach it
- 10.7 mi off the Beartooth Highway, National
- 16.6 mi off the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Pilot & Index · 14 mi
- Crazy Creek · 15 mi
- Falls · 17 mi
- Pilot-Index overlook · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Granite Peak: 0.8 mi
- Mount Peal: 1.0 mi
- Granite Peak (Northwest Peak): 1.1 mi
- Cairn Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Froze-to-Death Mountain: 2.3 mi
- South Robinson Spring: 21.2 mi
- Lower Cottonwood Spring: 21.4 mi
- Blind Sheep Spring: 21.7 mi
- Upper Cottonwood Spring: 21.8 mi
- North Robinson Spring: 22.0 mi
- Impasse Falls: 4.2 mi
- Sentinel Falls: 12.9 mi
- Calamity Falls: 13.2 mi
- Woodbine Falls: 13.7 mi
- Crazy Creek Falls: 15.4 mi
- Warm Creek Picnic Area: 16.1 mi
- Soda Butte Creek: 21.4 mi
- Reef Creek: 24.9 mi
- Cooke City Historical Marker: 13.1 mi
- Willow Park: 13.9 mi
- Buffalo Jump: 18.3 mi
- Limestone Palisades: 22.4 mi
- Cooke City Montana Museum: 12.4 mi
- Erma Number 1 Mine: 12.9 mi
- Gallery Dan Hartman: 14.3 mi
- Absaroka–Beartooth Wilderness: 16.1 mi
- Clay Butte Lookout: 17.4 mi
- Rock Creek Vista Point: 20.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.1 miles of Tempest Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Peak | WSW 253° | 3,903.5 m | 0.8 mi |
| Granite Peak (Northwest Peak) | W 271° | 3,882 m | 1.1 mi |
| Mount Wood | N 352° | 3,846 m | 7.5 mi |
| Castle Mountain | ESE 121° | 3,842 m | 9.2 mi |
| Whitetail Peak | ESE 118° | 3,821 m | 11.3 mi |
| Castle Rock Mountain | SE 125° | 3,785 m | 8.2 mi |
| Mount Peal | ESE 114° | 3,778 m | 1.0 mi |
| Glacier Peak | WSW 247° | 3,762 m | 3.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:53 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:25 | 21:11 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:40 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:56 | 15:51 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 27 | 26 | 32 | 37 | 46 | 54 | 62 | 62 | 54 | 42 | 32 | 25 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mystic Lake, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357939904
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