Loch Lyon
- Area
- 4.05 km²
- Tonight
- 1°CFog · Wind 7 km/h S
Loch Lyon is a lake at 337 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 4.05 km² in area and 8.1 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 337 m
- Length
- 8.1 km
- Shoreline
- 21.5 km
Loch Lyon in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 21.5 km≈5¼ h to walk around
Loch Lyon 3D map
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Loch Lyon 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 Lyon elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Loch Lyon weather
Tonight · Fog · 1°C (34°F) · Wind 7 km/h S
Loch Lyon forecast for about 337 m.
- Tonight1°–7 km/h S
- Today2°7°42.1 mm36 km/h W
- Sun4°6°5.4 mm44 km/h W
- Mon3°6°21.6 mm29 km/h S
- Tue5°10°13.4 mm33 km/h SW
- Wed6°8°1.6 mm19 km/h W
- Thu8°9°0.4 mm15 km/h SE
- Fri8°8°5.9 mm16 km/h SE
- Sat3°9°8.4 mm18 km/h SE
- Sun4°5°6.1 mm18 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 Lyon
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Loch Lyon, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
7.4 km SE
Nearest hut
Gorton
Slope
Share of the 10.1 × 10.1 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 7.6% of the 102 km² view
- Relief in view
- 863 m low point 214 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 5.0 km of Loch Lyon.
Summit list 8
- 1Meall Daill871 m 2.3 km N
- 2Beinn Heasgarnich1,078 m 2.8 km S
- 3Stob an Fhir Bhogha1,029 m 4.0 km S
- 4Beinn Mhanach953 m 4.0 km W
- 5Meall Bhuidhe907 m 4.0 km NNE
- 6Meal na Fèithe Faide826 m 4.2 km N
- 7Meall Tionail895 m 4.2 km SSW
- 8Beinn a' Chreachain1,081 m 4.9 km NW
Where Loch Lyon sits
- Region
- Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
Lochan na h-AchlaiseLake↑12 km WNW
Loch BàLake · 295 m↑13 km NW
Glen Orchy↑16 km WSW
Ben MorePeak · 1,174 m↑17 km S
Meall nan TarmachanPeak · 1,044 m↑17 km E
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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)
- 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)