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Hardknott Pass
- Tonight
- 4°CCloudy · Wind 20 km/h NW
Hardknott Pass is a mountain pass at 370 m in England, United Kingdom.
All facts
- Saddle
- 370 m
- Lowest point
- 189 m / 87 m
Hardknott Pass: the climb from each side
No mapped road or trail crosses the saddle.
Distances are straight lines from the saddle to the lowest ground on each side; the road is longer.
Hardknott Pass 3D map
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Hardknott Pass 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.
Hardknott Pass elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Hardknott Pass weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 4°C (39°F) · Wind 20 km/h NW
Hardknott Pass forecast for about 370 m.
- Tonight4°–20 km/h NW
- Today5°12°39.7 mm57 km/h W
- Sun6°8°8.0 mm51 km/h W
- Mon6°8°20.7 mm32 km/h SE
- Tue8°11°12.9 mm38 km/h SW
- Wed8°11°8.7 mm30 km/h W
- Thu7°10°0.7 mm13 km/h SE
- Fri8°11°9.1 mm20 km/h SE
- Sat5°9°4.0 mm18 km/h SE
- Sun5°7°3.7 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.
Slope
Share of the 8 × 8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 53% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 7.6% of the 64 km² view
- Relief in view
- 791 m low point 62 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.
Where Hardknott Pass sits
- Range
- Lake District28
- Region
- England120United Kingdom371Europe2,143
- Protected area
- Lake District National Park27
Nearby places
Wrynose Pass393 m↑4.7 km ENE
Sca FellPeak · 964 m↑5.5 km NNW
Scafell PikePeak · 978 m↑5.9 km NNW
Sprinkling TarnLake · 598 m↑7.7 km N
Little Langdale↑7.7 km ENE
More in the Lake District 6
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