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Grasmere
- Tonight
- 5°CCloudy · Wind 19 km/h NW
Grasmere is a lake at 127 m above sea level in England, United Kingdom.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 127 m
Grasmere 3D map
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Grasmere 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.
Grasmere elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Grasmere weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 5°C (41°F) · Wind 19 km/h NW
Grasmere forecast for about 127 m.
- Tonight5°–19 km/h NW
- Today6°10°40.3 mm50 km/h W
- Sun7°9°4.4 mm46 km/h W
- Mon7°9°24.6 mm29 km/h SW
- Tue8°12°14.3 mm40 km/h S
- Wed10°11°5.1 mm26 km/h W
- Thu9°10°1.0 mm13 km/h SE
- Fri9°11°10.6 mm19 km/h SE
- Sat5°10°4.4 mm22 km/h SE
- Sun5°8°0.4 mm21 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 23, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near Grasmere
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Grasmere, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.6 km ESE
Nearest campsite
1.4 km N
Nearest caravan site
Greenhowe Caravan Park
Nearest hut
Great Langdale Bunkhouse
All mapped places 10
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.6 km ESE |
| Parking | 0.7 km NNE |
| Parking | 0.7 km ESE |
| Campsite | 1.4 km N |
| Tarn Foot Farm CampsiteCampsite | 2.5 km SSE |
| Campsite | 2.6 km E |
| Greenhowe Caravan ParkCaravan site | 3.8 km W |
| Skelwith Fold Caravan ParkCaravan site | 4.0 km SSE |
| Miller Field Motorhome AireCaravan site | 4.1 km ESE |
| Great Langdale BunkhouseHut | 4.4 km W |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 51% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 7.5% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 571 m low point 46 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 539 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Eurasian Jackdaw58
- European Robin55
- Purple foxglove36
- Mallard34
- Common Chaffinch33
- Maidenhair spleenwort33
Where Grasmere sits
- Range
- Lake District28
- Region
- England120United Kingdom371Europe2,143
- Protected area
- Lake District National Park27
Nearby places
Elter WaterLake↑2.9 km SSW
Great Langdale↑4.0 km W
Easedale TarnLake · 282 m↑4.2 km WNW
Dunmail RaisePass · 238 m↑5.2 km NNW
Little Langdale↑5.4 km SW
More in the Lake District 6
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- Imagery
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- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
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- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)