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Loch Etchachan
- Area
- 0.27 km²
- Tonight
- -4°CFog · Wind 13 km/h W
Loch Etchachan is a lake at 924 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 0.27 km² in area and 0.9 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 924 m
- Length
- 0.9 km
- Shoreline
- 2.5 km
Loch Etchachan in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 2.5 km≈45 min to walk around
Loch Etchachan 3D map
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Loch Etchachan terrain and contours
25 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 Etchachan elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Loch Etchachan weather
Tonight · Fog · -4°C (25°F) · Wind 13 km/h W
Loch Etchachan forecast for about 924 m.
- Tonight-4°–13 km/h W
- Today-3°2°23.9 mm45 km/h SE
- Sun-1°2°9.3 mm50 km/h W
- Mon0°2°10.7 mm29 km/h S
- Tue1°8°5.7 mm46 km/h SW
- Wed2°5°0.7 mm21 km/h SW
- Thu3°6°0.1 mm12 km/h S
- Fri4°5°7.6 mm19 km/h SE
- Sat0°5°18.5 mm23 km/h SE
- Sun-1°0°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 near Loch Etchachan
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Loch Etchachan, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Hutchinson Memorial Hut
Nearest parking
Coire Cas Car Park
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Hutchinson Memorial HutHut | 1.7 km ESE |
| Fords of Avon Refuge HutHut | 4.5 km NE |
| Corrour BothyHut | 5.2 km SSW |
| Parking | 6.1 km NNW |
| Coire Cas Car ParkParking | 6.1 km NNW |
| Coire na CisteParking | 7.2 km N |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 52% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 14.0% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 636 m low point 672 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.
Where Loch Etchachan sits
- Range
- Scottish Highlands14Cairngorms5
- Region
- Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
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Data sources
- Terrain
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- 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)
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)