Loch Coire an Lochain
- Area
- 0.09 km²
- Tonight
- -4°CFog · Wind 11 km/h SW
Loch Coire an Lochain is a lake at 996 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 0.09 km² in area and 0.5 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 996 m
- Length
- 0.5 km
- Shoreline
- 1.2 km
Loch Coire an Lochain in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 1.2 km≈15 min to walk around
Loch Coire an Lochain 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4 × 4 km
Loch Coire an Lochain 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.
Loch Coire an Lochain elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Loch Coire an Lochain weather
Tonight · Fog · -4°C (25°F) · Wind 11 km/h SW
Loch Coire an Lochain forecast for about 996 m.
- Tonight-4°–11 km/h SW
- Today-3°2°24.9 mm47 km/h SE
- Sun-1°2°9.3 mm50 km/h W
- Mon0°2°10.1 mm32 km/h SE
- Tue0°7°6.2 mm44 km/h SW
- Wed1°4°0.8 mm19 km/h SW
- Thu3°6°–12 km/h S
- Fri4°5°7.7 mm18 km/h SE
- Sat0°5°17.5 mm22 km/h SE
- Sun-1°0°23.0 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 near Loch Coire an Lochain
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Loch Coire an Lochain, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Corrour Bothy
Nearest parking
Coire Cas Car Park
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Corrour BothyHut | 6.0 km SE |
| Parking | 7.3 km NE |
| Coire Cas Car ParkParking | 7.3 km NE |
| Inshriach ("Drake's") BothyHut | 7.8 km NW |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 16.6% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 820 m low point 473 m
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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 21 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Rock Ptarmigan3
- Moss Campion3
- European Common Frog2
- Dunlin1
- Caribou1
- Marsh marigold1
Where Loch Coire an Lochain sits
- Region
- Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
Loch Coire an Lochain downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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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
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)