Snowdon
Snowdon, or Yr Wyddfa, is a mountain in Snowdonia in North Wales. It has an elevation of 1,085 metres above sea level, which makes it both the highest mountain in Wales and the highest in the British Isles south of the Scottish Highlands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gdr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,560 feet
- Description: highest mountain in Wales
- Also known as: “Mount Snowdon”, “Snowdon - Yr Wyddfa”, “The Wyddfa”, and “Wyddfa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Summit railway station and Garnedd Ugain.
Summit railway station
Railway station
Photo: David Leach, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Summit railway station is the southern, upper terminus of the Snowdon Mountain Railway, located within yards of the summit of Snowdon. In 2009 a new station building was opened, which was named Hafod Eryri.
Garnedd Ugain
Peak
Photo: David Crocker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garnedd Ugain, the summit of Crib-y-Ddysgl ridge, is a pyramidal mountain in Wales that forms part of the Snowdon Massif. It is the second-highest peak in Wales and lies just under one kilometre north of the summit of Snowdon itself.
Glaslyn
Photo: Zaphod Beeblebrox, Public domain.
Glaslyn is a lake in the Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd, north-west Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nant Peris and Rhyd Ddu.
Rhyd Ddu
Rhyd-ddu is a small village in Snowdonia, North Wales which is a starting point for walks up Snowdon, Moel Hebog, Yr Aran and the Nantlle Ridge. It lies on the A4085 between Beddgelert and Caernarfon, at its junction with the B4418 to Nantlle and Penygroes. Rhyd Ddu railway station is one of the stops on the Welsh Highland Railway between Caernarfon and Porthmadog.
Cwm Idwal
Locality
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cwm Idwal is a cirque in the Glyderau range of mountains in northern Snowdonia, the national park in the mountainous region of North Wales. Its main interest is to hill walkers and rock climbers, but it is also of interest to geologists and naturalists, given its combination of altitude, aspect and terrain.
Snowdon
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.06849° or 53° 4′ 7″ northLongitude
-4.07623° or 4° 4′ 34″ westElevation
3,560 feet (1,085 metres)Open location code
9C5Q3W9F+9GOpenStreetMap ID
node 8755297244OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Western Panjabi—“Snowdon” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Snowdon”
- Achinese: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Afrikaans: “Snowdon”
- Albanian: “Snowdon”
- Arabic: “أروذبة”
- Arabic: “أَرْوِذْبَة”
- Arabic: “سنودن”
- Arabic: “سَنَوْدَنُ”
- Armenian: “Սնոուդոն”
- Basque: “Snowdon”
- Basque: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Breton: “Ar Gouezva”
- Breton: “Gouezva”
- Breton: “Ouezva”
- Breton: “Wyddfa”
- Catalan: “Snowdon”
- Cebuano: “Snowdon”
- Chinese: “史諾登山”
- Chinese: “史諾頓山”
- Chinese: “斯诺登山”
- Chinese: “斯諾登山”
- Cornish: “An Wodhva”
- Czech: “Snowdon”
- Danish: “Snowdon”
- Danish: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Dutch: “Snowdon”
- Dutch: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سنودون”
- Esperanto: “Snowdon”
- Esperanto: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Estonian: “Snowdon”
- Finnish: “Snowdon”
- French: “Mont Snowdon”
- French: “Snowdon”
- Galician: “Snowdon”
- German: “Snowdon”
- Hebrew: “סנודון”
- Icelandic: “Snowdon”
- Indonesian: “Snowdon”
- Indonesian: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Irish: “An tuaim”
- Irish: “Snowdon”
- Irish: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Italian: “Snowdon”
- Japanese: “スノードン山”
- Javanese: “Snowdon”
- Javanese: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Korean: “스노든 산”
- Korean: “스노든산”
- Korean: “어르우이드바”
- Ladin: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Latvian: “Snoudons”
- Limburgan: “Snowdon”
- Lithuanian: “Snoudonas”
- Lithuanian: “Snowdon”
- Livvi: “Snowdon”
- Livvi: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Low German: “Snowdon”
- Low German: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Macedonian: “Сноудон”
- Minangkabau: “Gunuang Snowdon”
- Minangkabau: “Snowdon”
- Moroccan Arabic: “سنوودون”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Snowdon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Snowdon”
- Norwegian: “Snowdon”
- Persian: “اسنودن”
- Persian: “اسنودون”
- Picard: “Snowdon”
- Polish: “Snowdon”
- Polish: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Portuguese: “Snowdon”
- Portuguese: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Russian: “Ир-Уитва”
- Russian: “Сноудон”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Snowdon”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Serbian: “Сноудон”
- Slovak: “Snowdon”
- Slovenian: “Snowdon”
- Spanish: “Snowdon”
- Sundanese: “Gunung Snowdon”
- Sundanese: “Snowdon”
- Swahili: “Snowdon”
- Swedish: “Snowdon”
- Swedish: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Turkish: “Snowdon”
- Turkish: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Ukrainian: “Сноудон”
- Urdu: “اروذبہ”
- Urdu: “سنودن”
- Urdu: “سَنَودن”
- Venetian: “Snowdon”
- Vlaams: “Snowdon”
- Walloon: “Snowdon”
- Welsh: “Wyddfa”
- Welsh: “Yr Wyddfa”
- Western Frisian: “Snowdon”
- Western Panjabi: “سنوڈن”
- “Yr Wyddfa”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hafod Eryri Summit Visitor Centre and Bwlch y Saethau.
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