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Lake · Scotland

Loch Ness

16 m52 ft
Area
56 km²
Max depth
272 m
Tonight
4°CFair · Wind 13 km/h S

Loch Ness is a lake at 16 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 56 km² in area and 36.3 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
16 m
Length
36.3 km
Shoreline
83.0 km
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3D map

Loch Ness 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Loch Ness 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.

Index contours every 250 mShowing west → east through the centre

Loch Ness elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Lake

Loch Ness in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline
83.0 km
Weather

Loch Ness weather

Tonight · Fair · 4°C (39°F) · Wind 13 km/h S

Loch Ness forecast for about 16 m.

  • Tonight4°–13 km/h S
  • Today5°8°34.0 mm48 km/h SE
  • Sun6°9°9.6 mm46 km/h W
  • Mon7°8°10.6 mm31 km/h SE
  • Tue7°12°7.6 mm42 km/h SW
  • Wed8°10°0.8 mm21 km/h SW
  • Thu10°13°–14 km/h S
  • Fri10°11°7.4 mm15 km/h S
  • Sat8°11°21.1 mm8 km/h SE
  • Sun7°7°14.3 mm12 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

Camping & parking near Loch Ness

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

  • Nearest parking

    1.2 km NW

    +2 more within 2.1 km

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  • Nearest campsite

    Loch Ness Bay Camping

    3.3 km NNW · +2 more within 7.0 km

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  • Nearest caravan site

    Dave's Rest

    3.4 km NW

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All mapped places 7
PlaceDistance
Parking1.2 km NW
Parking1.7 km WSW
Parking2.1 km S
Loch Ness Bay CampingCampsite3.3 km NNW
Dave's RestCaravan site3.4 km NW
Loch Ness ShoresCampsite5.9 km SSW
Campsite7.0 km SW
Slope

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 81% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
80.8%
Moderate, 15–30°
16.7%
Steep, 30–45°
2.4%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.2%
Steeper than 30°
2.6% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view
764 m low point 16 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 60.9%Trees 25.1%Water 13.7%

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

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 10 km of Loch Ness.

NESW5 km10 km123
Summit list 3
  1. 1Creag Nay376 m 5.6 km N
  2. 2Meall Donn490 m 6.4 km SE
  3. 3Creag a' Chliabhain513 m 6.7 km SE
Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 735 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Gorse105
  • European Robin76
  • Mallard65
  • Common Chaffinch50
  • Scotch Broom35
  • Fireweed29
Where it sits

Where Loch Ness sits

Range
Scottish Highlands14
Region
Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
More in the Scottish Highlands 6
See all 14 in the Scottish Highlands →
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)
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)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia