Llyn Alaw
- Area
- 3.07 km²
- Tonight
- 10°CCloudy · Wind 37 km/h W
Llyn Alaw is a lake at 38 m above sea level in Wales, United Kingdom, 3.07 km² in area and 4.3 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 38 m
- Length
- 4.3 km
- Shoreline
- 12.8 km
Llyn Alaw in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 12.8 km≈3¼ h to walk around
Llyn Alaw 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 6.3 × 6.3 km
Llyn Alaw terrain and contours
5 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.
Llyn Alaw elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Llyn Alaw weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 10°C (50°F) · 0.5 mm · Wind 37 km/h W
Llyn Alaw forecast for about 38 m.
- Tonight10°0.5 mm37 km/h W
- Today10°15°11.3 mm87 km/h W
- Sun10°12°1.3 mm77 km/h W
- Mon10°15°9.4 mm58 km/h SW
- Tue11°13°3.4 mm60 km/h SW
- Wed11°14°–37 km/h SW
- Thu11°13°0.3 mm23 km/h SE
- Fri11°14°5.8 mm18 km/h SE
- Sat10°11°1.8 mm35 km/h NW
- Sun9°9°10.6 mm38 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 Llyn Alaw
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Llyn Alaw, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Llyn Alaw Visitor Centre
Nearest caravan site
The Ring
Nearest campsite
Dôl Dulas
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Llyn Alaw Visitor CentreParking | 2.4 km WSW |
| The RingCaravan site | 2.9 km NNE |
| Parking | 3.3 km SE |
| Station Cafe Car ParkParking | 3.5 km SE |
| Caravan site | 4.6 km E |
| Campsite | 6.8 km W |
| Dôl DulasCampsite | 7.0 km E |
| Campsite | 7.2 km NE |
| Caravan site | 7.4 km NNW |
Slope
Share of the 6.3 × 6.3 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 100% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.0% of the 40 km² view
- Relief in view
- 74 m low point 31 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 Llyn Alaw 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)
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)