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Llyn Gwynant
- Area
- 0.46 km²
- Tonight
- 7°CCloudy · Wind 18 km/h W
Llyn Gwynant is a lake at 66 m above sea level in Wales, United Kingdom, 0.46 km² in area and 1.4 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 66 m
- Length
- 1.4 km
- Shoreline
- 3.5 km
Llyn Gwynant in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 3.5 km≈45 min to walk around
Llyn Gwynant 3D map
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Llyn Gwynant 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.
Llyn Gwynant elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Llyn Gwynant weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 7°C (45°F) · 0.2 mm · Wind 18 km/h W
Llyn Gwynant forecast for about 66 m.
- Tonight7°0.2 mm18 km/h W
- Today8°14°32.4 mm48 km/h W
- Sun8°10°3.4 mm44 km/h W
- Mon9°14°24.3 mm36 km/h SW
- Tue10°12°9.3 mm44 km/h SW
- Wed11°13°1.8 mm24 km/h SW
- Thu10°12°1.0 mm14 km/h SE
- Fri10°13°3.1 mm14 km/h SE
- Sat7°11°1.2 mm15 km/h NW
- Sun5°8°7.2 mm18 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 Gwynant
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Llyn Gwynant, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.2 km SE
Nearest campsite
Llyn Gwynant Campsite
Nearest hut
Nantmor Mountain Centre
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.2 km SE |
| Parking | 0.3 km S |
| Parking | 0.3 km ESE |
| Llyn Gwynant CampsiteCampsite | 0.6 km NE |
| Macs Pebyll Hafod Y LlanCampsite | 1.8 km WSW |
| Nantmor Mountain CentreHut | 3.9 km SSW |
| Ynys EttwsHut | 5.2 km NNW |
| Cwm Glas MawrHut | 5.6 km NNW |
| Cae Du CampsiteCampsite | 5.8 km SW |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 13.7% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 799 m low point 55 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 Gwynant sits
- Range
- Cambrian Mountains19Snowdonia15
- Region
- Wales60United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
Llyn LlydawLake · 436 m↑2.9 km NW
Llyn DinasLake↑3.7 km SW
Pen-y-PassPass · 360 m↑3.7 km N
Crib GochPeak · 923 m↑3.8 km NNW
GlaslynLake↑3.9 km NW
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- Terrain
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- 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)
- 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)