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Loch Avon

722 m2,369 ft

Area: 0.58 km²
Tonight: -3°CFog · Wind 13 km/h W

Loch Avon is a lake at 722 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 0.58 km² in area and 2.5 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 722 m
Length: 2.5 km
Shoreline: 5.8 km

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Lake

Loch Avon in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 5.8 km≈1½ h to walk around

3D map

Loch Avon 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Loch Avon terrain and contours

20 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 100 mShowing west → east through the centre

Loch Avon elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Loch Avon weather

Tonight · Fog · -3°C (27°F) · Wind 13 km/h W

Loch Avon forecast for about 722 m.

Tonight-3°–13 km/h W
Today-2°3°23.9 mm45 km/h SE
Sun1°3°9.3 mm50 km/h W
Mon1°4°10.7 mm29 km/h S
Tue2°9°5.7 mm46 km/h SW
Wed3°6°0.7 mm21 km/h SW
Thu4°8°0.1 mm12 km/h S
Fri5°6°7.6 mm19 km/h SE
Sat1°7°18.5 mm23 km/h SE
Sun1°1°24.1 mm17 km/h NW

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.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Loch Avon

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Loch Avon, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest hut
Hutchinson Memorial Hut
2.8 km SSE · +2 more within 7.5 km
Directions Map
Nearest parking
Coire Cas Car Park
4.5 km NW · +2 more within 5.3 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 6

Place	Distance
Hutchinson Memorial HutHut	2.8 km SSE
Fords of Avon Refuge HutHut	2.8 km ENE
Parking	4.5 km NW
Coire Cas Car ParkParking	4.5 km NW
Coire na CisteParking	5.3 km NNW
Corrour BothyHut	7.5 km SSW

Slope

Share of the 4.5 × 4.5 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

43.7%

Moderate, 15–30°

40.1%

Steep, 30–45°

14.2%

Cliffs, 45° and over

1.9%

Steeper than 30°: 16.1% of the 20 km² view
Relief in view: 559 m low point 684 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 93.8%Water 4.0%Bare rock / sparse 1.7%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 2.2 km of Loch Avon.

Summit list 6

1Beinn Mheadhoin1,182 m 1.3 km SE
2Beinn Mheadhoin SW Top1,163 m 1.3 km SSE
3Cairn Gorm1,245 m 1.9 km NNW
4Stob Coire an t-Sneachda1,176 m 1.9 km WNW
5Carn Etchachan1,120 m 2.0 km SW
61141m1,141 m 2.2 km NW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2.2 km; 94 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Snow Bunting30
Rock Ptarmigan12
Northern firmoss10
Least Willow9
European Common Frog8
Black crowberry8

Where it sits

Where Loch Avon sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Bynack MorePeak · 1,090 m4.7 km NE

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Print & wall

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

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Sources

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
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Loch Avon

West → east through the centre

Nearest hut

Nearest parking