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Loch Awe

36 m118 ft
Area
38 km²
Max depth
32 m
Tonight
4°CCloudy · Wind 10 km/h S

Loch Awe is a lake at 36 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 38 km² in area and 35.7 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
36 m
Length
35.7 km
Shoreline
126.7 km
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3D map

Loch Awe 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Loch Awe topographic map

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 Awe elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Lake

Loch Awe in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline
126.7 km
Weather

Loch Awe weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 4°C (39°F) · Wind 10 km/h S

Loch Awe forecast for about 36 m.

  • Tonight4°–10 km/h S
  • Today5°10°34.7 mm41 km/h SW
  • Sun6°9°6.9 mm45 km/h W
  • Mon6°9°20.9 mm27 km/h SE
  • Tue7°10°14.6 mm33 km/h SW
  • Wed8°11°1.5 mm19 km/h W
  • Thu10°11°1.9 mm18 km/h SE
  • Fri10°10°10.5 mm18 km/h SE
  • Sat7°10°6.2 mm15 km/h SE
  • Sun6°7°5.2 mm14 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 Awe

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

All mapped places 3
PlaceDistance
Parking1.9 km NNW
Parking3.6 km WSW
Parking6.9 km NE
Slope

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 82% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
81.5%
Moderate, 15–30°
17.3%
Steep, 30–45°
1.1%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
1.1% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view
584 m low point 0 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 50.1%Trees 39.6%Water 10.1%

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

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 10 km of Loch Awe.

NESW5 km10 km123
Summit list 3
  1. 1Tom an t-Saighdeir303 m 3.2 km W
  2. 2An t-Sliabh221 m 5.3 km WSW
  3. 3Beinn Bhreac526 m 5.6 km SSE
Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 199 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Tree Lungwort8
  • European mountain ash8
  • Devil's-bit Scabious8
  • Fireweed8
  • Common selfheal7
  • Carpet bugle6
Where it sits

Where Loch Awe sits

Region
Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
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)
Camping & parking, Geometry
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
Summits
© OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
Wildlife
iNaturalist community observations, counts only
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 · GeoNames · Wikipedia