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How tall is Mauna Loa?

Mauna Loa has a summit elevation of 4,169 m (13,678 ft) above sea level.

That is about 2.6 miles, or 5 times the Burj Khalifa (828 m).

Side by side with Mount Everest, Denali and K2

Mauna Loa is higher than Mount Fuji by 393 m (1,289 ft).Mauna Loa: 4,169 m (13,678 ft), summit, above sea level. Mount Fuji: 3,776 m (12,388 ft), summit, above sea level.

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Where the measurement starts and ends. Outlines are symbols, not to scale.

What Mauna Loa’s elevation measures

This is summit elevation above sea level. It is not the distance from the local base to the summit.

Next above Mauna Loa on this site: Mauna Kea, at 4,207 m (13,803 ft), 38 m (126 ft) higher. Next below: Mount Fuji, at 3,776 m (12,388 ft), 393 m (1,289 ft) lower.

  • Puncak Jaya: 4,884 m (16,024 ft). Puncak Jaya is higher than Mauna Loa by 715 m (2,346 ft).

A summit elevation is measured from sea level, not from the mountain’s own base or a trailhead. How height and elevation differ.

Measured from the sea floor

Above the seaFrom the floorSea level
Above sea level is the summit’s elevation; from the sea floor is the mountain’s rise from its base, which depends on where the base is drawn. Outlines are symbols, not to scale.

Mauna Loa’s submarine flanks run about 5,000 m (16,400 ft) down to the sea floor, so with its 4,169 m above the sea it rises about 9,170 m (30,085 ft) from base to summit, more than Everest’s elevation of 8,848.86 m (29,032 ft).

Its weight also presses the ocean crust down by about another 8 km (5 mi), so measured from the start of its eruptive history, Mauna Loa is about 17,170 m (56,000 ft) tall.

Source: Wikipedia, Mauna Loa

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Published height

4,169 m (13,678 ft)

Mauna Loa has a summit elevation of 4,169 m (13,678 ft) above sea level.

Source: NASA

Compared with Mauna Loa

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Mauna Loa, 4,169 m (13,678 ft), drawn to scale beside Mauna Kea, 4,207.3 m (13,803 ft)