Mount Judah is an 8,243-foot-elevation (2,512 meter) mountain summit in Placer County, California, United States.

Mount Judah is located one mile southeast of Donner Pass at Sugar Bowl Ski Resort, on land managed by Tahoe National Forest.

The Pacific Crest Trail traverses the west slope of the peak, providing an approach option from Donner Pass.

[6] This landform's toponym was officially adopted October 18, 1940, by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to honor Theodore Judah (1826–1863), an American civil engineer who played a leading part in the promotion and design of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the range.