Wales · Eryri National Park

Moel Cae-howel

Height
508 m · 1,667 ft
Grid reference
SH 97832 33087
Coordinates
52.88549, -3.51986
County / area
Gwynedd
OS Landranger
125
OS Explorer
OL18E OL23E
Summit feature
no feature: thick heather
Key col
SH983325 (459 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 52.885, -3.520. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (508 m)…

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

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature: thick heather. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
23-Oct-23
Drop measured from
SH983325 · 459 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 Moel Cae-howel
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Palé Hall Hotel & RestaurantHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house5 out of 53 km · N
Bala Sailing ClubPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 55.2 km · W
The Bala Lake Hotel & Activity BaseHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house5 out of 55.3 km · W

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

Moel Cae-howel is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Foel Cedig (668 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 459 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
Foel Cwm-Sian Llwyd648 m2.4 km
Y Groes Fagl659 m4.2 km
Rhiwaedog-uwch-afon539 m4.3 km
Foel Cedig667.5 m4.8 km
Pen y Boncyn Trefeilw644.2 m5 km
Stac Rhos629.8 m5.2 km