Wales · Eryri National Park

Cnicht

HewittNuttallTrail 100HuMPSimm

3 classifications here — Trail 100, HuMP and Simm — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Cnicht, 691 m, Gwynedd
Cnicht, 691 m, Gwynedd. Photo via its Commons file page, Public domain
Height
690.9 m · 2,267 ft
Prominence
104.9 m
Grid reference
SH 64549 46617
Coordinates
52.99968, -4.01987
County / area
Gwynedd
Region
Snowdonia
OS Landranger
115
OS Explorer
OL17W
Summit feature
middle of three rocky outcrops
Key col
SH 6558 4770 (585.9 m)

Access rights here

Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.

Permission needed Wild camping: Permission needed everywhere.

General position for Wales — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Wales · check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

Sunrise
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Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 53.000, -4.020. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is middle of three rocky outcrops. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
11-Jul-23
Drop measured from
SH 6558 4770 · 585.9 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Long-distance paths past this hill

2 waymarked long-distance routes run within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

RouteTotal lengthFrom summit
Cambrian Way 483 km over the top
Snowdonia Slate Trail 135 km 1.3 km

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

Cnicht is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Allt-fawr (698 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 586 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks

PeakHeightDistance
Cnicht North Top 690.2 m 0.4 km
Moelwyn Mawr 770 m 2.2 km
Ysgafell Wen 672.2 m 2.6 km
Ysgafell Wen North Top 669.4 m 2.6 km
Craigysgafn 689.9 m 2.7 km
Moel Druman 676 m 2.8 km