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Snake Pass
- Tonight
- 3°CCloudy · Wind 25 km/h W
Snake Pass is a mountain pass at 508 m in England, United Kingdom.
All facts
- Saddle
- 508 m
- Lowest point
- 400 m / 236 m
Snake Pass: the climb from each side
No mapped road or trail crosses the saddle.
Distances are straight lines from the saddle to the lowest ground on each side; the road is longer.
Snake Pass 3D map
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Snake Pass 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.
Snake Pass elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Snake Pass weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 3°C (37°F) · Wind 25 km/h W
Snake Pass forecast for about 508 m.
- Tonight3°–25 km/h W
- Today3°9°20.3 mm41 km/h W
- Sun4°7°9.5 mm47 km/h W
- Mon4°12°8.7 mm36 km/h SW
- Tue6°11°6.0 mm37 km/h SW
- Wed6°9°2.0 mm23 km/h SW
- Thu7°9°0.2 mm12 km/h SE
- Fri7°8°7.0 mm17 km/h SE
- Sat3°8°10.3 mm21 km/h SE
- Sun2°6°–24 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 8 × 8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 80% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 1.9% of the 64 km² view
- Relief in view
- 452 m low point 178 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 4 km of Snake Pass.
Summit list 8
- 1Featherbed Top544 m 0.8 km S
- 2Higher Shelf Stones622 m 1.9 km N
- 3James's Thorn572 m 2.2 km NNW
- 4Over Wood Moss536 m 2.3 km ENE
- 5Moss Castle536 m 2.7 km SW
- 6Bleaklow Head633 m 3.2 km N
- 7The Edge631 m 3.7 km SSW
- 8Mill Hill544 m 3.7 km SW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4 km; 313 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Cloudberry36
- Oak Eggar31
- Fox Moth19
- Mountain Hare15
- Common bilberry13
- Deer fern13
Where Snake Pass sits
- Range
- Pennines6
- Region
- England120United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
Kinder ReservoirLake · 278 m↑5.7 km SW
Torside ReservoirLake · 196 m↑6.0 km NNW
Woodhead ReservoirLake · 238 m↑6.8 km N
Derwent ReservoirLake↑8.5 km ESE
Ladybower ReservoirLake↑11 km ESE
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More in the Pennines 5
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- Terrain
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- Imagery
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- Land cover
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- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)