CaminantesCamino Mozárabe elevation profile
419 km and 4,452 m of ascent, between 93 m and 1,017 m. Measured from the route's own GPS track rather than copied from anywhere, which matters more than it should: almost every ascent figure published for these routes, including ours until August 2026, was an estimate nobody could source.
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Metres up the side, kilometres along the bottom. Ticks are stage boundaries. Sampled every 100 m against SRTM 30m, smoothed over 500 m, climbs under 3 m discarded as noise.
Move across the profile to read any point, or drag to measure a stretch. With the keyboard: focus the profile, then arrow keys to move, shift for finer steps, Enter to start and end a measurement, Escape to clear. Each stage in the table below can also be measured directly.
What the profile shows
The Camino Mozárabe climbs 10.6 m per kilometre on average, which makes it the second gentlest of the 10 routes measured here. A total on its own mostly measures how long a route is; per kilometre is what decides whether your days feel hilly.
The climbing is not spread evenly. The first third of the route carries 42% of the total ascent (42%, 41% and 17% across the three thirds), so pace yourself for that section rather than for the average.
The longest sustained climb runs from km 172 to km 190, gaining 456 m over 17.3 km, an average grade of 2.6%. The high point, 1,017 m, comes at km 33, 8% of the way in.
The hardest days
Ranked by climbing rather than distance, which is a different list and the one that decides how the evening feels.
- Day 2, Pinos Puente to La Alhondiguilla : 685 m over 23.7 km
- Day 11, Villaharta to Alcaracejos : 557 m over 34.9 km
- Day 9, Córdoba to Estación de Obejo : 497 m over 20.6 km
- Day 8, Santa Cruz to Córdoba : 346 m over 26.2 km
- Day 7, Castro del Río to Santa Cruz : 330 m over 23.5 km
Every stage
| Day | From | To | km | Ascent | High point |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granada | Pinos Puente | 19.1 | 34 m | 695 m |
| 2 | Pinos Puente | La Alhondiguilla | 23.7 | 685 m | 1017 m |
| 3 | La Alhondiguilla | Puertollano | 18.7 | 306 m | 947 m |
| 4 | Puertollano | Alcaudete | 17.5 | 225 m | 843 m |
| 5 | Alcaudete | Baena | 25.6 | 253 m | 674 m |
| 6 | Baena | Castro del Río | 19.8 | 91 m | 419 m |
| 7 | Castro del Río | Santa Cruz | 23.5 | 330 m | 405 m |
| 8 | Santa Cruz | Córdoba | 26.2 | 346 m | 293 m |
| 9 | Córdoba | Estación de Obejo | 20.6 | 497 m | 556 m |
| 10 | Estación de Obejo | Villaharta | 17.3 | 230 m | 646 m |
| 11 | Villaharta | Alcaracejos | 34.9 | 557 m | 746 m |
| 12 | Alcaracejos | Hinojosa del Duque | 21.6 | 95 m | 609 m |
| 13 | Hinojosa del Duque | Monterrubio de la Serena | 32.1 | 237 m | 560 m |
| 14 | Monterrubio de la Serena | Castuera | 18.9 | 121 m | 554 m |
| 15 | Castuera | Campanario | 19.7 | 115 m | 498 m |
| 16 | Campanario | Don Benito | 27.8 | 152 m | 422 m |
| 17 | Don Benito | Santa Amalia | 19 | 30 m | 284 m |
| 18 | Santa Amalia | San Pedro de Mérida | 19.4 | 70 m | 284 m |
| 19 | San Pedro de Mérida | Mérida | 13.8 | 77 m | 332 m |
Stages are a suggested split, not a rule. Most people walk their own.
Where the numbers come from
The GPS track carries position but no height, so the altitude was measured rather than read off: 4,191 points along the route, one every 100 m, each looked up against the SRTM 30 m elevation dataset.
One check worth stating, because it is the difference between plausible and correct. Total ascent minus total descent comes to -482 m. The profile's own start and finish differ by -475 m, so the two agree to within 7 m over 419 km.
They do not match exactly, and the reason is the noise floor: climbs under 3 m are discarded as sensor jitter, which removes a little real height along with a lot of imaginary height. A tool claiming these two numbers agree perfectly would be hiding that.
Ascent depends on method. Sample more finely and you measure noise as climbing; smooth harder and you flatten real hills. Anyone quoting a single authoritative number for a route this long is hiding that choice, so the settings used here are stated above and you can compare like with like.
Route facts, stages and the full description are on the Camino Mozárabe route page. Every route's profile is on the elevation profiles page, and how the ten routes compare puts the totals side by side.
Compare with another route
All measured the same way, so the numbers are comparable. Ordered by total ascent, hardest first.
- Camino del Norte : 14,663 m of ascent over 831.6 km
- Vía de la Plata : 11,724 m of ascent over 994.6 km
- Camino Francés : 10,446 m of ascent over 768.6 km
- Camino Primitivo : 6,777 m of ascent over 306.6 km
- Camino Portugués : 6,519 m of ascent over 620.2 km
- Camino Invierno : 4,941 m of ascent over 263.1 km
- Camino Lebaniego : 2,134 m of ascent over 66.5 km
- Camino Inglés : 1,802 m of ascent over 110.5 km
- Camino Finisterre : 1,431 m of ascent over 85 km