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Loch Mealt

52 m171 ft
Area
0.35 km²
Tonight
3°CCloudy · Wind 27 km/h S

Loch Mealt is a lake at 52 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 0.35 km² in area and 0.9 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
52 m
Length
0.9 km
Shoreline
3.3 km
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Lake

Loch Mealt in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

0.9 km longest200 mN ↑
Shoreline
3.3 km≈45 min to walk around
3D map

Loch Mealt 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4 × 4 km

Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Loch Mealt terrain and contours

5 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.

Index contours every 25 mShowing west → east through the centre

Loch Mealt elevation profile

West → east through the centre

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.
Weather

Loch Mealt weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 3°C (37°F) · Wind 27 km/h S

Loch Mealt forecast for about 52 m.

  • Tonight3°–27 km/h S
  • Today6°8°26.7 mm77 km/h NW
  • Sun6°10°2.2 mm81 km/h W
  • Mon5°8°21.9 mm35 km/h S
  • Tue8°10°4.9 mm45 km/h W
  • Wed7°11°0.9 mm26 km/h W
  • Thu8°11°0.5 mm27 km/h S
  • Fri10°11°13.1 mm24 km/h S
  • Sat7°10°8.2 mm19 km/h NW
  • Sun8°8°3.8 mm28 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

Camping & parking near Loch Mealt

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Loch Mealt, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

  • Nearest parking

    0.6 km NE

    +2 more within 2.7 km

  • Nearest campsite

    Staffin Campsite

    2.0 km NNW · +2 more within 6.9 km

All mapped places 6
PlaceDistance
Parking0.6 km NE
Staffin CampsiteCampsite2.0 km NNW
North Skye PodsCampsite2.2 km NW
Parking2.2 km NW
Parking2.7 km NW
Campsite6.9 km SW
Slope

Slope

Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 96% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
96.0%
Moderate, 15–30°
2.2%
Steep, 30–45°
1.0%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.8%
Steeper than 30°
1.8% of the 16 km² view
Relief in view
136 m low point 0 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 62.9%Water 35.2%Trees 1.5%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Where it sits

Where Loch Mealt sits

Region
Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby

Nearby places

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Loch Mealt downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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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)
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)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia