Loch Laggan
- Area
- 7.68 km²
- Tonight
- 1°CFog · Wind 6 km/h S
Loch Laggan is a lake at 249 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 7.68 km² in area and 11.7 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 249 m
- Length
- 11.7 km
- Shoreline
- 29.1 km
Loch Laggan in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 29.1 km≈7¼ h to walk around
Loch Laggan 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 13.7 × 13.7 km
Loch Laggan 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 Laggan elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Loch Laggan weather
Tonight · Fog · 1°C (34°F) · Wind 6 km/h S
Loch Laggan forecast for about 249 m.
- Tonight1°–6 km/h S
- Today2°6°38.2 mm35 km/h SE
- Sun4°7°6.8 mm42 km/h W
- Mon5°6°21.5 mm27 km/h S
- Tue5°11°11.6 mm32 km/h SW
- Wed6°8°1.7 mm19 km/h SW
- Thu8°9°0.2 mm16 km/h SE
- Fri8°9°7.3 mm16 km/h SE
- Sat5°9°16.2 mm17 km/h SE
- Sun4°5°6.6 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 Laggan
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Loch Laggan, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Creag Meagaidh
Nearest campsite
2.4 km ENE
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Creag MeagaidhParking | 0.6 km NW |
| Parking | 1.1 km NE |
| Parking | 1.9 km NE |
| Campsite | 2.4 km ENE |
| Campsite | 5.5 km SW |
Slope
Share of the 13.7 × 13.7 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 68% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 5.7% of the 188 km² view
- Relief in view
- 878 m low point 249 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.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 6.8 km of Loch Laggan.
Summit list 9
- 1Sron a' Choire1,001 m 4.0 km WNW
- 2Càrn Liath1,006 m 4.2 km NNW
- 3Binnein Shuas747 m 4.4 km SSW
- 4Meall an t-Shaim969 m 4.8 km NW
- 5Creag Pitridh924 m 4.9 km S
- 6Puist Coire Ardair1,070 m 4.9 km W
- 7Sron Coire A'Chriochairein991 m 5.2 km NW
- 8Stob Coire Dubh916 m 5.4 km N
- 9Meall a' Chaorainn Mor892 m 6.0 km N
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 6.8 km; 254 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Wood anemone11
- European mountain ash10
- Common bilberry10
- Arctic Starflower10
- Common Lousewort9
- European Common Frog8
Where Loch Laggan sits
- Region
- Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
Creag MeagaidhPeak · 1,128 m↑6.8 km W
Loch SpeyLake↑9.8 km NW
Corrieyairack Pass↑14 km NNW
Loch ErichtLake · 351 m↑14 km SSE
Ben AlderPeak · 1,148 m↑15 km S
More 1
Loch Laggan downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
Free files made in your browser from this page's terrain data. No sign-up; credit the sources below.
Print & wall
3D printing & 3D apps
GIS & GPS
Free to use with credit: see the data 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)