Llyn Fawr
- Area
- 0.10 km²
- Tonight
- 6°CCloudy · Wind 17 km/h W
Llyn Fawr is a lake at 367 m above sea level in Wales, United Kingdom, 0.10 km² in area and 0.6 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 367 m
- Length
- 0.6 km
- Shoreline
- 1.4 km
Llyn Fawr in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 1.4 km≈15 min to walk around
Llyn Fawr 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4 × 4 km
Llyn Fawr 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 Fawr elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Llyn Fawr weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 6°C (43°F) · 0.6 mm · Wind 17 km/h W
Llyn Fawr forecast for about 367 m.
- Tonight6°0.6 mm17 km/h W
- Today7°13°47.6 mm43 km/h SW
- Sun7°10°2.6 mm39 km/h W
- Mon8°14°35.3 mm35 km/h SW
- Tue9°11°5.9 mm29 km/h SW
- Wed9°12°3.0 mm19 km/h W
- Thu9°12°1.3 mm12 km/h SE
- Fri9°12°6.7 mm18 km/h SE
- Sat5°10°0.2 mm12 km/h NW
- Sun3°8°0.4 mm19 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 Fawr
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Llyn Fawr, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Rhigos Viewpoint Carpark
Nearest campsite
Willow Springs Campsite
Nearest caravan site
6.9 km E
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.0 km SE |
| Rhigos Viewpoint CarparkParking | 1.0 km ESE |
| Parking | 1.1 km SSE |
| Willow Springs CampsiteCampsite | 5.6 km SW |
| Spring Valley CampingCampsite | 6.5 km W |
| Glyncorrwg Ponds CampsiteCampsite | 6.7 km SW |
| Caravan site | 6.9 km E |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 78% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 3.4% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 449 m low point 164 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; 50 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Common bilberry13
- Deer fern8
- Water Lobelia4
- Common heather3
- Purple foxglove2
- Soft Rush2
Where Llyn Fawr 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 2025 (scene 2025-08-16)
- 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
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © 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.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)