Glaslyn
- Area
- 0.09 km²
- Tonight
- 4°CCloudy · Wind 19 km/h W
Glaslyn is a lake at 596 m above sea level in Wales, United Kingdom, 0.09 km² in area and 0.5 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 596 m
- Length
- 0.5 km
- Shoreline
- 1.4 km
Glaslyn in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 1.4 km≈15 min to walk around
Glaslyn 3D map
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Glaslyn terrain and contours
50 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.
Glaslyn elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Glaslyn weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 4°C (39°F) · 0.6 mm · Wind 19 km/h W
Glaslyn forecast for about 596 m.
- Tonight4°0.6 mm19 km/h W
- Today5°11°27.1 mm54 km/h W
- Sun5°7°3.0 mm48 km/h W
- Mon6°12°21.6 mm41 km/h S
- Tue6°9°7.2 mm43 km/h SW
- Wed7°10°1.1 mm25 km/h SW
- Thu7°9°0.7 mm16 km/h S
- Fri7°11°3.0 mm16 km/h SE
- Sat4°8°2.9 mm17 km/h NW
- Sun2°5°8.9 mm19 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 near Glaslyn
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Glaslyn, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Ynys Ettws
Nearest parking
2.4 km NNE
Nearest campsite
Macs Pebyll Hafod Y Llan
Nearest trailhead
Start of Llanberis Path (Snowdon)
Nearest caravan site
Llanberis Touring Park
All mapped places 11
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Ynys EttwsHut | 2.3 km NNE |
| Parking | 2.4 km NNE |
| Parking | 2.4 km NNE |
| Parking | 2.4 km NNE |
| Cwm Glas MawrHut | 2.4 km N |
| Macs Pebyll Hafod Y LlanCampsite | 3.5 km SSE |
| Llyn Gwynant CampsiteCampsite | 3.9 km ESE |
| Campsite | 4.0 km NNW |
| FronwydyrHut | 4.4 km NNW |
| Start of Llanberis Path (Snowdon)Trailhead | 6.1 km NW |
| Llanberis Touring ParkCaravan site | 7.6 km NW |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 36.8% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 869 m low point 206 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 2 km of Glaslyn.
Summit list 6
- 1Snowdon1,085 m 0.7 km WSW
- 2Garnedd Ugain1,065 m 0.8 km NW
- 3Crib Goch923 m 1.0 km NE
- 4Y Lliwedd (West Peak)898 m 1.4 km SSE
- 5Clawdd Coch931 m 1.4 km SW
- 6Y Lliwedd (East Peak)893 m 1.5 km SSE
Where Glaslyn sits
- Region
- Wales60United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
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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 2026 (scene 2026-07-15)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)