Loch Lochy
- Area
- 17 km²
- Max depth
- 162 m
- Tonight
- 3°CFair · Wind 7 km/h SE
Loch Lochy is a lake at 30 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 17 km² in area and 16.0 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 30 m
- Length
- 16.0 km
- Shoreline
- 39.1 km
Loch Lochy 3D map
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Loch Lochy topographic map
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 Lochy elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Loch Lochy downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Loch Lochy in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 39.1 km≈9¾ h to walk around
Loch Lochy weather
Tonight · Fair · 3°C (37°F) · Wind 7 km/h SE
Loch Lochy forecast for about 30 m.
- Tonight3°–7 km/h SE
- Today3°8°36.0 mm35 km/h SE
- Sun6°9°3.8 mm39 km/h W
- Mon6°8°20.5 mm21 km/h S
- Tue6°11°13.2 mm32 km/h SW
- Wed7°9°2.7 mm18 km/h SW
- Thu9°11°–11 km/h SE
- Fri10°11°12.0 mm9 km/h SE
- Sat7°11°12.2 mm9 km/h SE
- Sun6°7°8.1 mm8 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 Lochy
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Loch Lochy, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.0 km SSE
Nearest campsite
2.4 km NNE
Slope
Share of the 18 × 18 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 60% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 8.1% of the 324 km² view
- Relief in view
- 920 m low point 14 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 9.0 km of Loch Lochy.
Summit list 9
- 1Meall Coire Lochain906 m 2.5 km NNW
- 2Meall na Teanga918 m 2.6 km NNW
- 3Meall Odhar875 m 2.9 km NW
- 4Sròn a' Choire Ghairbh937 m 4.7 km N
- 5Sean Mheall887 m 5.0 km NNE
- 6Meall an Tagraidh761 m 5.4 km NW
- 7Leana Mhòr684 m 5.9 km ESE
- 8Meall nan Dearcag689 m 6.1 km NNE
- 9Meall na h-Eilde838 m 6.6 km NW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 9.0 km; 363 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Purple foxglove24
- Gorse20
- Marsh Thistle16
- Common heather15
- Orange hawkweed15
- Tormentil12
Where Loch Lochy sits
- Region
- Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
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)
- 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)