Ben Lawers · 1,214 m · 4.8 km NW

Lake · Scotland

Loch Tay

106 m348 ft

Area: 26 km²
Max depth: 150 m
Tonight: 3°CFair · Wind 10 km/h W

Loch Tay is a lake at 106 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 26 km² in area and 22.8 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 106 m
Length: 22.8 km
Shoreline: 56.4 km

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3D map

Loch Tay 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Loch Tay 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.

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Loch Tay elevation profile

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Downloads

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Print & wall

JPGLoch Tay satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-07-15.

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GIS & GPS

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Lake

Loch Tay in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 56.4 km

Weather

Loch Tay weather

Tonight · Fair · 3°C (37°F) · Wind 10 km/h W

Loch Tay forecast for about 106 m.

Tonight3°–10 km/h W
Today4°8°38.5 mm37 km/h W
Sun5°8°4.3 mm41 km/h W
Mon6°7°21.1 mm25 km/h S
Tue6°12°11.3 mm31 km/h SW
Wed7°9°1.5 mm18 km/h W
Thu9°10°0.6 mm9 km/h SE
Fri9°10°6.7 mm9 km/h SE
Sat6°10°10.9 mm13 km/h SE
Sun6°6°5.3 mm17 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 Tay

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

Nearest parking
Walkers Car Park
1.6 km NNW · +2 more within 1.6 km
Directions Map
Nearest campsite
Wild camp site
6.7 km NE · +1 more within 7.2 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 5

Place	Distance
Parking	1.5 km NNW
Parking	1.6 km NNW
Walkers Car ParkParking	1.6 km NNW
Wild camp siteCampsite	6.7 km NE
Cruachan Farm Caravan and Camping ParkCampsite	7.2 km WSW

Slope

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

Mostly gentle: 64% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

63.7%

Moderate, 15–30°

32.4%

Steep, 30–45°

3.9%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.1%

Steeper than 30°: 4.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 1,105 m low point 103 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 79.3%Trees 13.3%Water 7.3%

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 Tay.

Summit list 9

1Meall Odhar547 m 2.2 km NW
2Tullich Hill682 m 3.2 km ESE
3Ben Lawers1,214 m 5.1 km NW
4Meall nan Oighreag833 m 5.2 km SSE
5Creag an Fhithich1,047 m 5.6 km NW
6Beinn Bhreac713 m 5.9 km ENE
7An Stùc1,118 m 6.0 km NW
8Shee of Ardtalnaig759 m 6.2 km ESE
9Creag Charbh637 m 7.2 km SW

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 10 km; 466 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Sea Thrift35
Yellow Saxifrage28
Alpine Lady's-mantle27
Common Butterwort21
Moss Campion19
Alpine bistort19

Where it sits

Where Loch Tay sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Loch EarnLake15 km SSW

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)
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

Loch Tay

West → east through the centre

Nearest parking

Nearest campsite