The Strahlkogel lies a good five kilometres as the crow flies northeast of Längenfeld in the Ötztal valley and 7 km west-southwest of Lüsens in the Lisenstal valley. It is surrounded by glaciers to the east and west. The steep and heavily crevassed Larstigferner to the east reaches a height of up to 3,200 metres, and in the south lies the flatter, but wider Grasstallferner, that reaches a height of 3,100 metres. Its neighbouring peaks are the 3,287-metre-high Breiter Grießkogel on the ice divide between the Grasstallferner and Grießferner glaciers, the Grasstaller Grießkogel (3,160 m) on the prominent Strahlkogel West Arete, and the Larstigspitze (3,173 m) to the east, separated by the Larstigscharte notch (3,032 m).