Wales · Eryri National Park

Graig Ddu

Height
537 m · 1,762 ft
Grid reference
SH 88853 42943
Coordinates
52.97227, -3.65663
County / area
Gwynedd
OS Landranger
124 125
OS Explorer
OL18E
Summit feature
small cairn 50m N of large cairn
Key col
SH887447 (468 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

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Computed astronomically for 52.972, -3.657. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (537 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

large cairn at SH 88857 42889 is 1m lower.

The recorded summit point is small cairn 50m N of large cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
23-Oct-23
Drop measured from
SH887447 · 468 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.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Graig Ddu
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Manon's Riverside CafeRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 52.7 km · S
Clwb Golff Y Bala Golf ClubPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 57.3 km · SE
Arlwyo Allanol Nia CyfnodRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 57.8 km · S

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

Graig Ddu is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Carnedd y Filiast (669 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 468 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
Craig yr Hafod533.6 m0.8 km
Carnedd y Filiast669 m2.4 km
Foel-boeth596 m2.4 km
Waun Garnedd-y-Filiast650.9 m2.7 km
Carnedd Llechwedd-llyfn644.1 m3.4 km
Moel y Gydros522.3 m3.5 km