Loch Shiel
- Area
- 20 km²
- Max depth
- 128 m
- Tonight
- 5°CCloudy · Wind 15 km/h SE
Loch Shiel is a lake at 3 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 20 km² in area and 26.1 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 3 m
- Length
- 26.1 km
- Shoreline
- 85.5 km
Loch Shiel 3D map
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Loch Shiel 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 Shiel elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Loch Shiel downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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Loch Shiel in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 85.5 km
Loch Shiel weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 5°C (41°F) · Wind 15 km/h SE
Loch Shiel forecast for about 3 m.
- Tonight5°–15 km/h SE
- Today6°9°41.6 mm59 km/h W
- Sun7°9°8.4 mm60 km/h W
- Mon6°9°38.6 mm32 km/h SE
- Tue7°10°11.7 mm35 km/h W
- Wed9°11°3.7 mm22 km/h W
- Thu10°11°1.7 mm23 km/h SE
- Fri10°11°14.3 mm21 km/h SE
- Sat7°10°11.8 mm15 km/h NW
- Sun7°7°4.7 mm16 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 near Loch Shiel
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Loch Shiel, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
4.0 km SSW
Nearest hut
Resourie
Slope
Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 15.3% of the 400 km² view
- Relief in view
- 883 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 Shiel.
Summit list 6
- 1Beinn an t-Samhainn524 m 2.2 km NNW
- 2Sgor an Tarmachain756 m 2.6 km ESE
- 3Beinn Gaire666 m 4.4 km NW
- 4Croit Bheinn663 m 5.0 km N
- 5Meall nan Creag Leac755 m 5.1 km ENE
- 6Sgùrr na Bà Glaise874 m 7.1 km NW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 319 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Red Deer13
- Tree Lungwort12
- Globe Ball Lichen12
- Heath spotted orchid12
- Chequered Skipper11
- Eurasian Silver-bordered Fritillary10
Where Loch Shiel sits
- Region
- Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
Data sources
- Terrain
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- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-08-17)
- 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)