Wales

Moel Emoel

Moel Emoel, 549 m, Gwynedd
Moel Emoel, 549 m, Gwynedd. Photo by John Horner, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
549 m · 1,801 ft
Grid reference
SH 93797 40259
Coordinates
52.94915, -3.58215
County / area
Gwynedd
OS Landranger
125
OS Explorer
OL18E
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
SH936408 (461 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 52.949, -3.582. 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 cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
obvious summit
Record revised
30-Jun-07
Drop measured from
SH936408 · 461 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 Emoel
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Caerau UchafRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 53.5 km · E
Y Badell AurRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 54.4 km · S
Y CwrtRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 54.4 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

Moel Emoel is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Foel Goch (611 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 461 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
Pen y Bwlch Gwyn502 m1.1 km
Garnedd Fawr569 m2.1 km
Foel Goch611 m2.6 km
Orddu555 m3.3 km
Graig Ddu537 m5.6 km
Moel y Gydros522.3 m5.6 km