Loch Morar
- Area
- 26 km²
- Max depth
- 87 m
- Tonight
- 6°CCloudy · Wind 24 km/h SE
Loch Morar is a lake at 9 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 26 km² in area and 18.5 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 9 m
- Length
- 18.5 km
- Shoreline
- 60.3 km
Loch Morar 3D map
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Loch Morar 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 Morar elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Loch Morar downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Loch Morar in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 60.3 km
Loch Morar weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 6°C (43°F) · Wind 24 km/h SE
Loch Morar forecast for about 9 m.
- Tonight6°–24 km/h SE
- Today6°9°40.5 mm73 km/h NW
- Sun8°10°6.9 mm73 km/h W
- Mon7°9°23.7 mm34 km/h SE
- Tue8°10°15.9 mm46 km/h SW
- Wed10°11°4.5 mm28 km/h W
- Thu10°12°0.8 mm26 km/h SE
- Fri11°11°11.6 mm26 km/h SE
- Sat8°10°12.9 mm19 km/h SE
- Sun7°8°5.8 mm19 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 Morar
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Loch Morar, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
7.3 km SSE
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 56% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 11.0% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 947 m low point -7 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 Morar.
Summit list 7
- 1Cruachan Dhùghaill316 m 2.5 km N
- 2Eun-tuim253 m 3.0 km NE
- 3Beinn nan Cabar574 m 3.3 km S
- 4Cnoc a' Bhac Fholaichte379 m 4.1 km NE
- 5Sidhean Mòr599 m 4.8 km SW
- 6Meith Bheinn710 m 6.1 km ESE
- 7Sgùrr Bhuidhe440 m 6.5 km NW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 424 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Tree Lungwort19
- Green Tiger Beetle14
- Bell Heather13
- Great Sundew10
- Round-leaved sundew10
- Common heather10
Where Loch Morar sits
- Region
- Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
Loch ShielLake · 5 m↑18 km SSE
Loch ArkaigLake · 43 m↑32 km E
Glen Shiel↑33 km NNE
Blà BheinnPeak · 928 m↑40 km NW
Loch CoruiskLake↑42 km NW
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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)
- 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)