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Ingleborough · 723 m · 9.8 km W

Mountain · Pennines · England

Pen-y-ghent

694 m2,277 ft

Prominence: 305 m1,002 ft
Isolation: 9.5 km
Tonight: 1°CPartly cloudy · Wind 28 km/h W

Pen-y-ghent is a 694 m (2,277 ft) mountain in the Pennines, England, United Kingdom.

All facts

Elevation: 694 m · 2,277 ft
Nearest higher peak: Ingleborough (723 m)
Range: Pennines
Region: England, United Kingdom
Protected area: Yorkshire Dales National Park
Coordinates: 54.1560° N, 2.2485° W

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3D map

Pen-y-ghent 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Pen-y-ghent 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.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the summit

Pen-y-ghent elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Pen-y-ghent weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 1°C (34°F) · Wind 28 km/h W

Pen-y-ghent forecast for the summit, about 694 m.

Tonight1°–28 km/h W
Today2°7°32.6 mm53 km/h W
Sun3°5°4.7 mm49 km/h W
Mon3°11°9.7 mm35 km/h SW
Tue4°10°18.4 mm38 km/h SW
Wed6°8°7.2 mm30 km/h SW
Thu6°7°0.2 mm14 km/h SE
Fri6°7°3.5 mm19 km/h SE
Sat2°6°8.6 mm23 km/h SE
Sun1°4°0.2 mm25 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.

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 90% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

90.3%

Moderate, 15–30°

8.8%

Steep, 30–45°

0.9%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.9% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 476 m low point 217 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 99.4%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Pen-y-ghent summit.

Summit list 3

1West Fold Hill415 m 1.8 km NW
2Plover Hill680 m 2.1 km NNE
3Whitber Hill427 m 2.2 km WNW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 194 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Purple Saxifrage19
Northern Wheatear6
Slender Yoke-moss6
Pendulous Wing-moss5
Tree moss5
Marsh marigold4

Where it sits

Where Pen-y-ghent sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

WhernsidePeak · 736 m13 km NW

Pen-y-ghent downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGPen-y-ghent satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2025-09-22.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 693 m at the summit; the official height is 694 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	694 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	693 m	-1 m
Copernicus GLO-90	689 m	-5 m

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 2025-09-22)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Accuracy comparison, 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)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia