Loch Muick
- Area
- 2.20 km²
- Max depth
- 35 m
- Tonight
- -1°CCloudy · Wind 18 km/h NW
Loch Muick is a lake at 398 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 2.20 km² in area and 3.5 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 398 m
- Length
- 3.5 km
- Shoreline
- 8.9 km
Loch Muick in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 8.9 km≈2¼ h to walk around
Loch Muick 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 5.5 × 5.5 km
Loch Muick terrain and contours
25 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 Muick elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Loch Muick weather
Tonight · Cloudy · -1°C (30°F) · Wind 18 km/h NW
Loch Muick forecast for about 398 m.
- Tonight-1°–18 km/h NW
- Today0°6°26.8 mm41 km/h S
- Sun3°6°5.7 mm50 km/h W
- Mon3°6°14.1 mm32 km/h S
- Tue4°10°5.7 mm36 km/h S
- Wed5°8°0.4 mm22 km/h W
- Thu5°9°0.3 mm16 km/h S
- Fri7°8°6.0 mm22 km/h SE
- Sat4°8°24.7 mm26 km/h SE
- Sun3°4°8.4 mm21 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 Muick
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Loch Muick, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest hut
Glas-allt-Shiel
Nearest parking
Spittal of Glen Muick Car Park
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Glas-allt-ShielHut | 1.6 km WSW |
| Parking | 2.8 km NE |
| Spittal of Glen Muick Car ParkParking | 2.9 km NE |
| Parking | 3.7 km NNE |
| Allan's HutHut | 4.1 km SW |
| Shielin of MarkHut | 4.6 km E |
Slope
Share of the 5.5 × 5.5 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 74% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 7.4% of the 30 km² view
- Relief in view
- 664 m low point 388 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2.8 km; 115 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Red Deer18
- European Common Frog11
- Common Chaffinch9
- Bell Heather8
- Meadow Pipit7
- Oak Eggar7
Where Loch Muick sits
- Region
- Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
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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)