Loch Maree
- Area
- 28 km²
- Max depth
- 114 m
- Tonight
- 2°CFog · Wind 18 km/h SE
Loch Maree is a lake at 9 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 28 km² in area and 20.0 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 9 m
- Length
- 20.0 km
- Shoreline
- 100.6 km
Loch Maree 3D map
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Loch Maree 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 Maree elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Loch Maree downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Loch Maree in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 100.6 km
Loch Maree weather
Tonight · Fog · 2°C (36°F) · Wind 18 km/h SE
Loch Maree forecast for about 9 m.
- Tonight2°–18 km/h SE
- Today5°8°30.9 mm49 km/h W
- Sun6°9°9.9 mm59 km/h W
- Mon6°8°18.2 mm31 km/h SE
- Tue7°11°14.5 mm43 km/h SW
- Wed8°10°1.9 mm23 km/h SW
- Thu9°12°0.1 mm19 km/h SE
- Fri10°11°15.8 mm20 km/h SE
- Sat8°11°15.8 mm17 km/h NW
- Sun7°8°19.1 mm18 km/h N
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 Maree
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Loch Maree, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.8 km SSW
Nearest hut
Carnmore Bothy
All mapped places 4
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.8 km SSW |
| Parking | 3.2 km SSE |
| Parking | 4.0 km WSW |
| Carnmore BothyHut | 6.3 km NE |
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 64% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 10.1% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 978 m low point 0 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 10 km of Loch Maree.
Summit list 3
- 1Meall Mhèinnidh722 m 3.1 km NNE
- 2Beinn Làir859 m 4.2 km ENE
- 3Beinn Àirigh Charr791 m 4.3 km NNW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 253 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Scots pine21
- European Common Frog17
- Fly Agaric17
- Heath spotted orchid17
- Common Darter15
- Bog asphodel15
Where Loch Maree sits
- Region
- Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
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)