Loch Skeen
- Area
- 0.27 km²
- Tonight
- 1°CPartly cloudy · Wind 20 km/h NW
Loch Skeen is a lake at 511 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 0.27 km² in area and 1.2 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 511 m
- Length
- 1.2 km
- Shoreline
- 3.1 km
Loch Skeen in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 3.1 km≈45 min to walk around
Loch Skeen 3D map
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Loch Skeen terrain and contours
20 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 Skeen elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Loch Skeen weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · 1°C (34°F) · Wind 20 km/h NW
Loch Skeen forecast for about 511 m.
- Tonight1°–20 km/h NW
- Today1°9°30.4 mm45 km/h W
- Sun4°6°1.6 mm48 km/h W
- Mon4°6°16.8 mm36 km/h S
- Tue5°10°10.0 mm38 km/h S
- Wed7°9°1.9 mm21 km/h SW
- Thu7°8°0.7 mm13 km/h S
- Fri7°9°6.6 mm18 km/h S
- Sat3°8°2.3 mm17 km/h SE
- Sun4°5°2.4 mm24 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 23, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Loch Skeen
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Loch Skeen, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
Grey Mare's Tail Nature Reserve Car Park
Nearest hut
Gameshope
Nearest campsite
Tibbie Shiels
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 2.5 km SE |
| Grey Mare's Tail Nature Reserve Car ParkParking | 2.5 km SE |
| GameshopeHut | 4.1 km WNW |
| Parking | 4.6 km NW |
| Tibbie ShielsCampsite | 8.0 km ENE |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 62% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 8.8% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 592 m low point 227 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.
Where Loch Skeen sits
- Region
- Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
Megget ReservoirLake↑6.0 km NNE
Talla ReservoirLake↑7.3 km NW
St Mary's LochLake↑9.9 km NE
Devil's Beef Tub↑11 km WSW
Annandale↑27 km SSW
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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 2026-07-19)
- 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)
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)