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Grasmere

127 m417 ft
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
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Grasmere 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

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.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the centre

Grasmere elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

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

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

    +2 more within 0.7 km

  • Nearest campsite

    1.4 km N

    +2 more within 2.6 km

  • Nearest caravan site

    Greenhowe Caravan Park

    3.8 km W · +2 more within 4.1 km

  • Nearest hut

    Great Langdale Bunkhouse

    4.4 km W

All mapped places 10
PlaceDistance
Parking0.6 km ESE
Parking0.7 km NNE
Parking0.7 km ESE
Campsite1.4 km N
Tarn Foot Farm CampsiteCampsite2.5 km SSE
Campsite2.6 km E
Greenhowe Caravan ParkCaravan site3.8 km W
Skelwith Fold Caravan ParkCaravan site4.0 km SSE
Miller Field Motorhome AireCaravan site4.1 km ESE
Great Langdale BunkhouseHut4.4 km W
Slope

Slope

Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 51% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
50.5%
Moderate, 15–30°
42.0%
Steep, 30–45°
7.3%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.2%
Steeper than 30°
7.5% of the 16 km² view
Relief in view
571 m low point 46 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 59.8%Trees 33.8%Water 5.6%Built-up 0.8%

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

Wildlife

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 it sits

Where Grasmere sits

Range
Lake District28
Region
England120United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Protected area
Lake District National Park27
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
More in the Lake District 6
See all 28 in the Lake District →
Downloads

Grasmere downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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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 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)
Wildlife
iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia