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Tryfan
- Easiest route
- 1.4 km+575 m · about 1.5 h · T5
- Prominence
- 191 m627 ft
- Isolation
- 0.9 km
- Tonight
- 2°CCloudy · Wind 19 km/h W
Tryfan is a 917 m (3,009 ft) mountain in the Snowdonia, Wales, United Kingdom.
All facts
- Elevation
- 917 m · 3,009 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Glyder Fach (994 m)
- Range
- Snowdonia
- Region
- Wales, United Kingdom
- Coordinates
- 53.1146° N, 3.9973° W
How to get to the top of Tryfan
3 mapped routes from where a car can get you. None is a walk: expect scrambling, snow or glacier.
Easiest route: from Road end, 1.0 km NNW of Tryfan
- Distance
- 1.4 kmone way
- Climb
- +575 m(1,886 ft up)
- Time up
- about 1.5 h
- Difficulty
- T5Demanding alpine: scrambling, possible snow or glacier
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Tryfan 3D map
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Tryfan terrain and contours
50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Tryfan weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 2°C (36°F) · 0.4 mm · Wind 19 km/h W
Tryfan forecast for the summit, about 917 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 300 m.
- Tonight2°0.4 mm19 km/h WBase 5°
- Today3°9°30.5 mm49 km/h WBase 6 / 12°
- Sun3°5°3.8 mm43 km/h WBase 6 / 8°
- Mon3°8°21.7 mm37 km/h SBase 7 / 11°
- Tue4°7°8.7 mm41 km/h SWBase 7 / 10°
- Wed5°8°1.1 mm24 km/h SWBase 8 / 11°
- Thu5°7°0.7 mm14 km/h SBase 8 / 10°
- Fri5°8°3.1 mm13 km/h SEBase 8 / 11°
- Sat2°6°2.5 mm15 km/h NWBase 5 / 9°
- Sun0°2°10.0 mm17 km/h NWBase 3 / 5°
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near Tryfan
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Tryfan, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.9 km N
Nearest campsite
Gwern Gof Uchaf Campsite
Nearest hut
Helyg
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.9 km N |
| Parking | 1.0 km NNW |
| Parking | 1.0 km NNW |
| Gwern Gof Uchaf CampsiteCampsite | 1.4 km NE |
| YHA IdwalCampsite | 1.9 km WNW |
| Gwern Gôf Isaf Campsite & BunkhousesCampsite | 2.4 km ENE |
| HelygHut | 2.9 km ENE |
| Ynys EttwsHut | 4.8 km SW |
| Cwm Glas MawrHut | 5.0 km WSW |
How steep is the route to Tryfan?
The easiest mapped route, 1.4 km from 305 m to 917 m. Steepest stretch: 39°.
- 0–15°0.3 km
- 15–30°0.9 km
- 30–45°0.2 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
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 3 km, measured from the Tryfan summit.
Summit list 7
- 1Glyder Fach994 m 1.3 km SW
- 2Castell y Gwynt972 m 1.6 km SW
- 3Y Foel Goch805 m 1.8 km SE
- 4Pen y Benglog364 m 1.9 km WNW
- 5Gallt yr Ogof763 m 2.2 km ESE
- 6Glyder Fawr1,001 m 2.6 km SW
- 7Pen yr Ole Wen978 m 2.7 km NNW
Where Tryfan sits
- Range
- Cambrian Mountains19Snowdonia15
- Region
- Wales60United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Llyn OgwenLake↑1.2 km N
Ogwen Valley↑1.2 km N
Llyn IdwalLake↑1.9 km W
Dyffryn Mymbyr↑3.7 km SE
Pen-y-PassPass · 360 m↑4.1 km SSW
More in the Snowdonia 6
Tryfan downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
29 m low This 3D map reads 888 m at the summit; the official height is 917 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 38 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 917 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 888 m | -29 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 879 m | -38 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 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)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- 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 · Wikipedia