Loch Vaa
- Tonight
- 0°CClear · Wind 11 km/h SW
Loch Vaa is a lake at 232 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 232 m
Loch Vaa 3D map
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Loch Vaa 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 Vaa elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Loch Vaa weather
Tonight · Clear · 0°C (32°F) · Wind 11 km/h SW
Loch Vaa forecast for about 232 m.
- Tonight0°–11 km/h SW
- Today1°7°23.2 mm41 km/h S
- Sun4°7°10.1 mm47 km/h W
- Mon4°7°7.7 mm27 km/h S
- Tue5°12°5.3 mm41 km/h SW
- Wed7°9°0.5 mm17 km/h SW
- Thu7°11°–8 km/h S
- Fri9°10°8.6 mm12 km/h S
- Sat6°10°14.3 mm10 km/h S
- Sun4°5°18.8 mm13 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 Vaa
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Loch Vaa, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.4 km W
Nearest caravan site
Boat of Garten Holiday Park
Nearest campsite
Rothiemurchus Camp and Caravan
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.4 km W |
| Layby 137Parking | 0.8 km NNW |
| Layby 138Parking | 0.9 km NNW |
| Boat of Garten Holiday ParkCaravan site | 3.0 km NE |
| High Range Holiday ComplexCaravan site | 6.0 km SSW |
| Rothiemurchus Camp and CaravanCampsite | 6.9 km S |
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 87% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.1% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 371 m low point 205 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 201 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Horned Grebe16
- Scotch Argus15
- Common Goldeneye8
- Little Grebe7
- Tufted Duck7
- Birch polypore7
Where Loch Vaa sits
- Region
- Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
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- Terrain
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- 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)