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El Capitan Trail
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: May–Oct · highs 16–26 °C (61–79 °F)
- J6°-4°244
- F6°-4°224
- M8°-3°200
- A11°-1°103
- M16°3°59
- J22°7°21
- J26°11°12
- A25°11°5
- S22°8°24
- O17°4°84
- N10°-2°158
- D6°-5°217
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 8.5 km · 5.3 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- 11 km W of Yosemite Valley (Mariposa County, California) · GeoNames
- Park or forest
- Yosemite National Park
- Connects to
- Rockslides (at its start or end)
- Best months
- May–Oct
- Country
- United States of America
- Region
- California
- Continent
- North America
- Route type
- Local route
- Route centre
- 37.7411, -119.6704
- Route start
- 37.7345, -119.7041
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 19100196
How it’s scored
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.