Arthur's Seat
- Easiest route
- 0.5 km+111 m · about 0.5 h · T2
- Prominence
- 170 m559 ft
- Isolation
- 6.5 km
- Tonight
- 4°CPartly cloudy · Wind 24 km/h W
Arthur's Seat is a 251 m (823 ft) mountain in Scotland, United Kingdom.
All facts
- Elevation
- 251 m · 823 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- South Black Hill (563 m)
- Region
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Coordinates
- 55.9438° N, 3.1615° W
How to get to the top of Arthur's Seat
2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Dunsapie Loch car park (parking)
- Distance
- 0.5 kmone way
- Climb
- +111 m(364 ft up)
- Time up
- about 0.5 h
- Difficulty
- T2Mountain trail, sure footing needed
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Arthur's Seat 3D map
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Arthur's Seat terrain and contours
10 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Arthur's Seat weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · 4°C (39°F) · Wind 24 km/h W
Arthur's Seat forecast for the summit, about 251 m.
- Tonight4°–24 km/h W
- Today4°10°16.3 mm48 km/h SW
- Sun6°9°0.2 mm53 km/h W
- Mon7°8°5.1 mm34 km/h S
- Tue8°13°4.4 mm40 km/h S
- Wed8°11°0.3 mm29 km/h SW
- Thu8°12°0.1 mm12 km/h S
- Fri9°12°8.6 mm16 km/h S
- Sat6°11°3.7 mm19 km/h SE
- Sun6°6°5.2 mm21 km/h W
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Arthur's Seat
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Arthur's Seat, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Dunsapie Loch car park
Nearest campsite
Mortonhall Caravan and Camping Park
Nearest caravan site
Kevock Vale Park Retirement Living
All mapped places 7
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Dunsapie Loch car parkParking | 0.5 km ENE |
| Parking | 0.6 km SW |
| Parking | 0.7 km SW |
| Mortonhall Caravan and Camping ParkCampsite | 4.5 km SSW |
| Morton Hall camping caravaningCampsite | 4.6 km SSW |
| Edinburgh Caravan ClubCampsite | 7.5 km WNW |
| Kevock Vale Park Retirement LivingCaravan site | 7.5 km SSE |
How steep is the route to Arthur's Seat?
The easiest mapped route, 0.5 km from 117 m to 251 m. Steepest stretch: 22°.
- 0–15°0.4 km
- 15–30°0.1 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 10 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Arthur's Seat summit.
Summit list 6
- 1Whinny Hill178 m 0.5 km NNE
- 2Dunsapie Crag146 m 0.7 km ENE
- 3Salisbury Crags173 m 0.8 km WNW
- 4Calton Hill103 m 1.8 km NW
- 5Craigmillar Hill91 m 2.3 km SSE
- 6Castle Rock130 m 2.4 km WNW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 1,759 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Carrion Crow628
- Gorse598
- Lesser Black-backed Gull570
- Eurasian Magpie534
- Asian Lady Beetle446
- Common Wood-Pigeon404
Where Arthur's Seat sits
- Region
- Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Arthur's Seat downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
19 m low This 3D map reads 232 m at the summit; the official height is 251 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 251 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 232 m | -19 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 229 m | -22 m |
Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-07-15)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Accuracy comparison
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia