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Afan Forest Park

Floor9 m30 ft

Depth: 247 m
Rim: 292 m
Length: 18.3 km
Tonight: 7°CCloudy · Wind 30 km/h W

Afan Forest Park is up to 247 m deep: the rim reaches 292 m and the floor 9 m, along 18.3 km.

All facts

Floor: 9 m

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Depth

Depth of Afan Forest Park

Up to 247 m deep (typically 213 m) along the 18.3 km in view.

Rim = the lower side's highest point within 6 km.

3D map

Afan Forest Park 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Afan Forest Park terrain and contours

20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

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Afan Forest Park elevation profile

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Weather

Afan Forest Park weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 7°C (45°F) · 0.8 mm · Wind 30 km/h W

Afan Forest Park forecast for about 292 m.

Tonight7°0.8 mm30 km/h W
Today7°14°36.0 mm64 km/h SW
Sun8°11°2.8 mm57 km/h W
Mon8°14°26.9 mm47 km/h SW
Tue10°13°6.8 mm38 km/h SW
Wed10°13°2.2 mm22 km/h W
Thu9°12°0.4 mm14 km/h SE
Fri9°13°5.7 mm21 km/h SE
Sat5°10°0.2 mm13 km/h NW
Sun3°9°0.1 mm20 km/h NW

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Afan Forest Park

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Afan Forest Park, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest parking
0.2 km WNW
+2 more within 0.8 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Parking	0.2 km WNW
Parking	0.7 km WSW
Parking	0.8 km WNW

Slope

Share of the 13.8 × 13.8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 72% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

72.2%

Moderate, 15–30°

25.0%

Steep, 30–45°

2.8%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 2.8% of the 190 km² view
Relief in view: 556 m low point -1 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 54.8%Grassland 39.3%Built-up 5.5%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 6.9 km of Afan Forest Park.

Summit list 9

1Foel Y Dyffryn366 m 1.1 km NE
2Pen Disgwylfa363 m 1.2 km W
3Mynydd Bach319 m 2.9 km SSW
4Moel Gallt-Y-Cwm272 m 3.7 km SW
5Moel Y Fen267 m 3.8 km W
6Mynydd Pen-Rhys285 m 4.2 km WNW
7Foel Fynyddau370 m 5.5 km W
8Cefn Morfydd300 m 5.8 km WNW
9Mynydd Brombil257 m 6.5 km SW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 6.9 km; 514 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Himalayan balsam42
Purple foxglove11
Cross Orbweaver10
Fireweed10
Maidenhair spleenwort9
Hart's-tongue fern9

Where it sits

Where Afan Forest Park sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Llyn y Fan FawrLake28 km N

Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGAfan Forest Park satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-08-16.

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-08-16)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · Wikipedia

Afan Forest Park

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