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Passo dello Stelvio

48 numbered tornanti to the second-highest paved pass in the Alps.

Gomagoi to the Passo dello Stelvio, climbing the numbered ramp.

Passo dello Stelvio route mapRoute of Passo dello Stelvio: 18.4 km with 134 called corners, 46 of them hairpins. Corners are coloured by severity, tightest in red.

Corners coloured by severity · tightest in red

18.4km
LENGTH
134
CORNERS CALLED
46
HAIRPINS
7.3
CORNERS / KM
+1554m
CLIMB
2767m
HIGH POINT
8.0%
AVERAGE GRADIENT

The Passo dello Stelvio, Stilfser Joch in German, tops out at 2,757 metres, second only to the Col de l'Iseran among paved Alpine passes. Its eastern ramp is the one on every poster: a wall of numbered hairpins stacked up the mountainside above Trafoi, each signposted with its own number counting down to the summit.

This stage follows the SS38 from Gomagoi to the pass, about 18.4 km of the numbered-tornanti side. Every corner below is generated from the road's own geometry and read aloud by the app in the same notation.

The Stelvio's character is the opposite of the Turini's. Where Turini is relentlessly tight, the Stelvio alternates: 46 of its 134 calls are hairpins, but the grades in between sit overwhelmingly at 4 and 5: long, open links between the switchbacks rather than a continuous fight.

That is what makes it a co-driver's road rather than a memorisation exercise. There are 7.3 corners per kilometre against Turini's 11.2, but each hairpin arrives after enough open road that the call genuinely tells you something you could not already see.

THE STAGE MAP

Every corner, where it actually is.

Passo dello Stelvio: every called cornerRoute of Passo dello Stelvio: 18.4 km with 134 called corners, 46 of them hairpins. Corners are coloured by severity, tightest in red.
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THE CLIMB

Elevation profile.

Elevation profileElevation profile: 1305 m to 2767 m over 18.4 km, vertically exaggerated 3.0 times.
1305 m → 2767 m over 18.4 kmvertical scale ×3.0elevation from a terrain model, not a survey

CORNER MIX

What the road is actually made of.

  • 46hairpin
  • 31
  • 32
  • 103
  • 394
  • 265
  • 76

THE PACENOTES

All 134 calls, in order.

Every call Tornante makes on Passo dello Stelvio, in order. Distances are from the stage start to the corner’s turn-in.
AtCallNotes
0040mR5
1270mR5
1410mL5
1500mL4+
1780mR hairpin
1865mL hairpin
2090mL3
2135mR4-
2225mL5
2385mL4
2425mR5-
2490mL4
2565mR2
2765mL5
2810mL5-
2880mL5
3470mL4
3505mL6-
3575mR4
3650mL5
3750mR5
3825mL4
3980mR5
4075mR1-long
4240mL hairpin
4315mR6
4445mR6
4565mL4
4655mL4+
4810mL4
5005mR6-
5210mR5
5355mR hairpin
5480mR4
5520mL4
5585mL hairpin
5675mR3
5730mL3+
5915mR3
5960mL2
6015mL3
6085mR4
6175mL4
6210mR hairpin
6315mL1
6415mL hairpin
6500mR hairpin
6655mL hairpin
6780mR hairpin
6860mL hairpin
6965mR hairpin
7070mR5
7200mL hairpin
7370mR3
7690mR hairpin
7865mL3
7960mL hairpin
8065mR4
8195mR4
8290mL4-
8350mR4
8420mR4
8510mL4+
8660mR6
8870mR5-
9010mR hairpin
9090mL hairpin
9195mR5
9235mL4
9355mR6
9595mR hairpin
9900mL hairpin
10150mR5
10325mR hairpin
10540mL4
10615mL hairpin
10705mR4
10885mR hairpin
11030mL hairpin
11220mR3+
11270mL4
11330mR4
11445mR hairpin
11550mL hairpin
11630mR4
11730mR hairpin
11875mL hairpin
11975mR4
12335mL5
12450mR hairpin
12610mL hairpin
12730mR hairpin
12875mL hairpin
13160mL4
13215mR5
13425mR hairpin
13600mL hairpin
14150mL4
14370mR hairpin
14475mL hairpin
14585mR5
14760mL4
14855mR hairpin
14970mR4
15205mL hairpin
15425mL4
15505mL4
15605mL4+
15660mR5-
15700mR1long
15940mR5
16065mL hairpin
16260mL5-
16450mR6-
16565mR hairpin
16790mL hairpin
16875mR5
17005mL5
17045mR hairpin
17195mL hairpin
17300mL5
17415mL3
17470mR hairpin
17540mL hairpin
17610mR hairpin
17700mR2
17750mL5
17825mR4-
17885mL hairpin
17960mL4
18060mR4
18100mL3
18220mR4
18315mR4
How to read these notes

A call is a direction and a grade: L or R, then 1 (tightest) to 6 (barely a bend). A + or − means the corner sits near the edge of its band. Corners too tight for the ladder are named instead: hairpin, open hairpin, square.

The Notes column carries the modifiers a co-driver would add: tightens, opens, long, don’t cut. Radius is the tightest sustained apex radius the engine measured, and Turn is the total heading change through the corner. Those are the two numbers behind the grade.

HOW IT SOUNDS

The opening of the stage, as spoken.

  1. 40m“40, right 5”
  2. 1270m“500, right 5”
  3. 1410m“80, left 5 into left 4”
  4. 1780m“200, hairpin right and hairpin left”
  5. 2090m“150, left 3 and right 4”
  6. 2225m“40, left 5”

QUESTIONS

Passo dello Stelvio, in brief.

How many hairpins does the Stelvio Pass have?

The eastern ramp is famous for its 48 numbered tornanti. On this 18.4 km stage, from Gomagoi to the pass, Tornante's engine calls 46 hairpins among 134 corners.

How high is the Passo dello Stelvio?

The pass is at 2,757 m, the second-highest paved mountain pass in the Alps after the Col de l'Iseran. (The elevation profile on this page comes from a terrain model and reads about ten metres higher; see the note under the chart.)

How steep is the Stelvio Pass?

This stage climbs about 1,460 m net over 18.4 km, an average of roughly 8%. We deliberately do not publish a maximum-gradient figure, because the terrain model available for this road cannot resolve individual hairpins well enough for that number to mean anything.

WHERE THIS COMES FROM

Measured, not written.

Every corner on this page was generated by the same engine that runs in the app, from the road’s own geometry: Strada Statale 38 dello Stelvio (SS38), mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors and tagged secondary, asphalt. The engine is deterministic: the same road always produces the same notes, so this table is exactly what the app will say to you.

Elevation comes from an open terrain model rather than a survey, so altitudes are close but not exact. Corner grades are computed estimates, not measurements of how the road should be driven.

Drive it with the calls.

Passo dello Stelvio ships with the app. Start the stage and Tornante speaks each of these calls as you reach it, timed to your GPS, so your eyes stay on the road rather than on a screen.

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Corner density on this stage: 7.3 calls per kilometre.