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Loch Thom

178 m584 ft
Area
0.17 km²
Tonight
4°CPartly cloudy · Wind 18 km/h S

Loch Thom is a lake at 178 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 0.17 km² in area and 1.0 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
178 m
Length
1.0 km
Shoreline
2.8 km
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Lake

Loch Thom in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

1.0 km longest200 mN ↑
Shoreline
2.8 km≈45 min to walk around
3D map

Loch Thom 3D map

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Surface
Vertical scale
Topographic map

Loch Thom terrain and contours

10 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 Thom elevation profile

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Weather

Loch Thom weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 4°C (39°F) · Wind 18 km/h S

Loch Thom forecast for about 178 m.

  • Tonight4°–18 km/h S
  • Today6°10°29.3 mm64 km/h SW
  • Sun7°9°4.4 mm58 km/h W
  • Mon7°8°21.5 mm39 km/h S
  • Tue8°11°16.5 mm40 km/h SW
  • Wed9°12°0.8 mm23 km/h W
  • Thu8°10°0.5 mm17 km/h SE
  • Fri9°10°10.1 mm13 km/h E
  • Sat6°10°3.1 mm16 km/h W
  • Sun6°8°1.1 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 Thom

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

  • Nearest parking

    1.3 km W

    +2 more within 3.0 km

  • Nearest campsite

    Auchenfoyle Camp

    4.7 km E

  • Nearest caravan site

    Cloch Holiday Park

    6.6 km WNW · +2 more within 7.2 km

All mapped places 7
PlaceDistance
Parking1.3 km W
Parking3.0 km NNE
Parking3.0 km NNE
Auchenfoyle CampCampsite4.7 km E
Cloch Holiday ParkCaravan site6.6 km WNW
Wemyss Bay Holiday ParkCaravan site6.9 km SW
Wemyss Bay Holiday ParkCaravan site7.2 km WSW
Slope

Slope

Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 94% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
93.5%
Moderate, 15–30°
6.3%
Steep, 30–45°
0.2%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
0.2% of the 16 km² view
Relief in view
278 m low point 35 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 82.8%Water 11.5%Trees 5.3%

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

Nearby summits

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 2 km of Loch Thom.

NESW1 km2 km1234
Summit list 4
  1. 1Hillside Hill296 m 0.7 km WNW
  2. 2Dunrod Hill298 m 1.1 km WNW
  3. 3Laverockhouse Hill294 m 1.2 km WNW
  4. 4Cauldron Hill280 m 1.5 km WNW
Where it sits

Where Loch Thom sits

Region
Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby

Nearby places

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Loch Thom downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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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)
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia