The Highest Volcanoes in the World

The tallest volcanoes, by summit elevation.

Ranked by summit elevation, the highest volcanoes on Earth — from the towering cones of the Andes to the great peaks of Africa and Asia.

#	Place	Elevation (ft)
1	Cotopaxi Ecuador's near-perfect glaciated cone, among the world's highest active volcanoes	19,347 ft 5,897 m
2	Popocatepetl Mexico's smoking mountain, a restless giant beside Mexico City	17,881 ft 5,450 m
3	Mount Teide Spain's highest peak, a volcanic giant rising from the Atlantic on Tenerife	12,188 ft 3,715 m
4	Nyiragongo The Congolese volcano cradling one of the world's great lava lakes	11,385 ft 3,470 m
5	Mount Etna Europe's tallest and most restless volcano, towering over eastern Sicily	11,165 ft 3,403 m
6	Mount Tambora The Indonesian volcano behind the 1816 Year Without a Summer	9,354 ft 2,851 m
7	Mount St. Helens The Cascade volcano whose 1980 blast tore off its own summit	8,366 ft 2,550 m
8	Eyjafjallajokull The Icelandic volcano whose 2010 ash cloud grounded Europe	5,417 ft 1,651 m
9	Mount Pinatubo The Philippine volcano whose 1991 eruption cooled the entire planet	4,875 ft 1,486 m
10	Mount Vesuvius The volcano that buried Pompeii, looming over the Bay of Naples	4,203 ft 1,281 m
11	Kilauea Hawaii's shield volcano, among the most active on Earth	4,009 ft 1,222 m
12	Stromboli The Mediterranean's lighthouse, erupting almost without pause for millennia	3,031 ft 924 m

Figures are drawn from standard government and reference sources and shown in both imperial and metric units. See each entry for full details and citations. Browse all guides or open the explore map.