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Padaun

3214.0 m · net rise 322.0 m · total ascent 325.9 m · overall 10.0% · evidence quality B (good) · Vals · Tirol ·

Shape: sustained — 29% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 383 m.

Found purely from mapping and LiDAR data, and not yet matched against books, race records or lists — it may be well known to locals under a name we've never heard. It was cross-checked against the GIP.at road network, OpenStreetMap and a second terrain model, but a discovery can still be an artifact of the terrain model or the map. Treat it as a well-evidenced hypothesis until someone has ridden it. If you know this road, tell us what you found — photographs, corrections and local knowledge all welcome; the map links below let you scout it first.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)≈24%2674–2676 munder overhead cover terrain reads 69.6% at 2–4 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈22%2674–2677 munder overhead cover terrain reads 66.0% at 1–4 m across a structure — excluded
5 m≈19%2673–2678 munder overhead cover terrain reads 49.2% at 0–5 m across a structure — excluded
10 m≈16%2673–2683 munder overhead cover terrain reads 23.6% at 0–10 m across a structure — excluded
20 m14.1%2710–2730 m
25 m14.0%2711–2736 m
50 m13.1%2673–2723 m
100 m12.8%2673–2773 m

may start earlier Extent detection suggests reviewing where this climb starts/ends.

Map

Check this route yourself: Google Maps route via their router · Street View at the base where coverage exists · geojson.io our exact measured line · OpenTopoMap

This climb's data: OCL JSON — the full gradient ladder, quality flags and provenance in the OpenClimb Ladder format.

Surface: GIP.at, Austria's official transport graph records no surface for this road; the map may tell you more.

Measured, not vetted. This page records what the laser record shows about the road's shape — nothing more. Nobody has necessarily ridden or inspected this road for the survey, and a page here is not a recommendation and no guarantee that the road is open, surfaced, rideable or safe. Gates, private sections, missing rights of way and hazards do not show up in elevation data. Check access and conditions on the ground and make your own judgment.

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Route colour = gradient over a 25 m window: <10% 10–20% 20–25% ≥25%

  © OpenStreetMap contributors · topo tiles © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · vector tiles OpenFreeMap · aerial imagery © basemap.at (CC BY 4.0)

Padaun LiDAR hillshade map with contours

Profile

The map, profile and gradient chart share one position — move your pointer over them and the marker follows. Colors are the gradient bands; the shaded span is the steepest 25 m. Any 25 m figure is good to about a point either way (why).

Padaun elevation profile
Padaun rolling gradient profile
 

Measurement card

ElevationBEV ALS DTM 1 m — ALS DTM Höhenraster 1 m (Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen with the Länder), EPSG:3035
Resolution / CRS1.0 m grid, EPSG:3035; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation
TilesE4436-N2659, E4437-N2659, E4437-N2660
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)
Quality statusevidence quality B; caveated windows: structure excluded
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run at-run4-260912, calculated 2026-09-12

Provenance

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  "analysis_version": "0.1.0",
  "sample_interval_m": 1.0,
  "interpolation": "bilinear",
  "smoothing": "none",
  "gradient_windows_m": [
    5.0,
    10.0,
    20.0,
    25.0,
    50.0,
    100.0
  ],
  "diagnostic_windows_m": [
    2.0,
    3.0
  ],
  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:3035",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
  "elevation_tiles": [
    "data/cache/at/bev-als_dtm_E4436-N2659.tif",
    "data/cache/at/bev-als_dtm_E4437-N2659.tif",
    "data/cache/at/bev-als_dtm_E4437-N2660.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-12T23:55:52+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/austria-2026-09-11-batch-at-run4-260912.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "",
  "run_id": "at-run4-260912",
  "elevation_provider": "BEV ALS DTM 1 m",
  "elevation_licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) \u2014 \u00a9 BEV / L\u00e4nder, data.gv.at",
  "elevation_dataset": "ALS DTM H\u00f6henraster 1 m (Bundesamt f\u00fcr Eich- und Vermessungswesen with the L\u00e4nder), EPSG:3035",
  "elevation_tile_ids": [
    "E4436-N2659",
    "E4437-N2659",
    "E4437-N2660"
  ],
  "elevation_blocks": [
    "N2650000E4400000@2022-09-15"
  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing"
}