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Ben Avon

1,171 m3,842 ft

Prominence: 202 m661 ft
Isolation: 2.5 km
Tonight: -5°CCloudy · Wind 19 km/h NW

Ben Avon is a 1,171 m (3,842 ft) mountain in the Grampian Mountains, Scotland, United Kingdom.

All facts

Elevation: 1,171 m · 3,842 ft
Nearest higher peak: Beinn a' Bhùird (1,197 m)
Range: Grampian Mountains
Region: Scotland, United Kingdom
Coordinates: 57.0993° N, 3.4344° W

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3D map

Ben Avon 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Ben Avon terrain and contours

50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the summit

Ben Avon elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Ben Avon weather

Tonight · Cloudy · -5°C (23°F) · Wind 19 km/h NW

Ben Avon forecast for the summit, about 1,171 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 407 m.

Tonight-5°–19 km/h NWBase -1°
Today-5°0°21.7 mm41 km/h SBase -1 / 5°
Sun-2°1°7.9 mm53 km/h WBase 2 / 5°
Mon-1°1°9.5 mm32 km/h SEBase 3 / 5°
Tue-1°6°4.8 mm45 km/h SWBase 4 / 11°
Wed1°3°0.3 mm22 km/h SWBase 5 / 8°
Thu1°4°0.1 mm15 km/h SBase 5 / 9°
Fri2°3°5.7 mm21 km/h SBase 7 / 8°
Sat-2°4°16.6 mm23 km/h SEBase 3 / 8°
Sun-2°-1°20.5 mm27 km/h NWBase 2 / 3°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 10 × 10 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 56% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

55.6%

Moderate, 15–30°

38.5%

Steep, 30–45°

5.6%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.3%

Steeper than 30°: 5.9% of the 100 km² view
Relief in view: 788 m low point 407 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 98.3%Trees 0.9%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 5 km, measured from the Ben Avon summit.

Summit list 8

1Stob Bac an Fhurain1,076 m 1.6 km NNE
2Stob an t-Sluichd1,104 m 2.2 km WNW
3Cnap a' Chléirich1,161 m 2.6 km WSW
4West Meur Gorm Craig1,022 m 2.8 km NE
5Càrn Eàs1,083 m 2.8 km SSW
6East Meur Gorm Craig935 m 3.6 km NE
7Creag an Dail Mhòr972 m 3.6 km S
8Beinn a' Bhùird1,196 m 4.1 km WSW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 5 km; 31 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Rock Ptarmigan5
Rough Violet Ground Beetle3
Hairy Kidney-wort3
European Common Frog2
Moss Campion2
Alpine clubmoss2

Where it sits

Where Ben Avon sits

Nearby

Nearby places

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Print & wall

JPGBen Avon satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-07-15.

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

12 m low This 3D map reads 1,159 m at the summit; the official height is 1,171 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	1,171 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	1,159 m	-12 m
Copernicus GLO-90	1,149 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)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Accuracy comparison, Panorama: 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