Piz Cancian, Mountain summit in Lombardy, Italy

Piz Cancian is a mountain summit in the Bernina Range of the Alps, standing at 3,103 meters above sea level on the border between Italy and Switzerland. The peak is accessed from both the Italian and Swiss sides, with hiking routes that vary in difficulty depending on the approach chosen.

Piz Cancian lies on the watershed that separates the Poschiavo valley in Graubünden from Val Malenco in Lombardy, and the state border follows this ridge. The mountain belongs to the Scalino group of the Bernina Range, whose peaks were surveyed and mapped during the 19th-century Alpine exploration of the Rhaetian Alps. Its Italian name, Pizzo Canciano, appears alongside the Swiss Piz Cancian in mountaineering literature.

The summit marks the border between Italy and Switzerland: the Italian slope lies in the province of Sondrio, Lombardy, the Swiss slope in the municipality of Poschiavo, Graubünden. The two names reflect this split, Pizzo Canciano in Italian and Piz Cancian in German. From the Swiss side the mountain rises above Lake Poschiavo and the Val di Poschiavo.

The usual Italian approach starts from Campo Moro in Val Malenco, in the municipality of Lanzada, and leads toward the summit past Pizzo Scalino and the Vedretta di Pizzo Scalino glacier. From the Swiss side the mountain rises above Lake Poschiavo and the Val di Poschiavo, in the municipality of Poschiavo. The summit stands at 3,103 metres on the border, so plan for high-altitude snow and ice.

The mountain's Italian name, Pizzo Canciano, is used in Italian sources, while the Swiss side calls it Piz Cancian. The summit stands just beside the higher Pizzo Scalino, 3,323 metres, and the Vedretta di Pizzo Scalino glacier lies on the Italian side below the western face. The usual Italian approach starts from Campo Moro in Lanzada, Val Malenco.