
Llyn Crafnant
- Area
- 0.23 km²
- Tonight
- 6°CCloudy · Wind 19 km/h W
Llyn Crafnant is a lake at 183 m above sea level in Wales, United Kingdom, 0.23 km² in area and 1.2 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 183 m
- Length
- 1.2 km
- Shoreline
- 2.7 km
Llyn Crafnant in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 2.7 km≈45 min to walk around
Llyn Crafnant 3D map
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Llyn Crafnant 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.
Llyn Crafnant elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Llyn Crafnant weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 6°C (43°F) · 0.3 mm · Wind 19 km/h W
Llyn Crafnant forecast for about 183 m.
- Tonight6°0.3 mm19 km/h W
- Today7°14°33.1 mm48 km/h W
- Sun7°9°3.3 mm43 km/h W
- Mon8°14°22.1 mm41 km/h SW
- Tue8°11°10.1 mm41 km/h SW
- Wed10°12°0.9 mm23 km/h W
- Thu9°11°0.7 mm14 km/h S
- Fri9°12°3.1 mm14 km/h S
- Sat6°10°2.1 mm14 km/h NW
- Sun5°6°11.1 mm15 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 Crafnant
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Llyn Crafnant, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Cornel Scout Campsite
Nearest parking
Llyn Crafnant - Parc Coedwig Gwydyr Forest Park
Nearest caravan site
Gwydyr View Lodge Park
Nearest hut
Gwydyr Mountain Club Hut
All mapped places 12
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Cornel Scout CampsiteCampsite | 0.5 km SSW |
| Llyn Crafnant - Parc Coedwig Gwydyr Forest ParkParking | 1.1 km NE |
| Parking | 1.5 km ESE |
| Parking | 1.5 km ESE |
| GwersylluCampsite | 3.8 km SW |
| DolgamCampsite | 3.8 km S |
| Gwydyr View Lodge ParkCaravan site | 3.9 km ENE |
| Glyn Farm CaravansCaravan site | 3.9 km ENE |
| Caravan site | 3.9 km ENE |
| Gwydyr Mountain Club HutHut | 4.5 km SSW |
| HelygHut | 5.8 km W |
| DulynHut | 6.9 km NW |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 56% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 9.2% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 591 m low point 73 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 Llyn Crafnant.
Summit list 4
- 1Pen y Craig Gron500 m 1.5 km NNW
- 2Craiglwyn623 m 1.9 km W
- 3Moel Ddefaid570 m 2.0 km WSW
- 4Creigiau Gleision North Top634 m 2.0 km NW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 131 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Round-leaved sundew5
- Fly Agaric4
- Heath rush4
- Eurasian Silver-bordered Fritillary4
- Common Redstart3
- Castor Bean Tick3
Where Llyn Crafnant sits
- Region
- Wales60United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
Llyn GeirionyddLake↑1.4 km E
Llyn CowlydLake↑3.1 km W
Llynnau MymbyrLake↑5.5 km SW
Llyn EigiauLake↑5.6 km N
Carnedd LlewelynPeak · 1,062 m↑7.3 km WNW
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Llyn Crafnant downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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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)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)