What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Alpine marmot been recorded?

Marmota marmota occurrence evidence comes from 832 records in 12 countries and territories, from 1860 to 2026. Most records come from Spain.

Alpine marmot
Alpine marmot — Photo (display-sized rendition): Photography captured by Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
MammaliaRodentiaSciuridaeMarmota

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

832 records across 12 countries and territories, 1860–2026.

Marmota marmota · GBIF taxon key 2437377

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: July.

6 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18602026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Alpine marmot has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Alpine marmot. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Spain 311
France 158
Austria 133
Italy 89
Switzerland 66
Andorra 40
Germany 12
Slovenia 8
Liechtenstein 7
Slovakia 4
Poland 2
Romania 2

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.