Lough Melvin
- Area
- 22 km²
- Tonight
- 6°CLight rain · Wind 57 km/h W
Lough Melvin is a lake at 26 m above sea level in United Kingdom, 22 km² in area and 12.5 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 26 m
- Length
- 12.5 km
- Shoreline
- 54.6 km
Lough Melvin in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 54.6 km
Lough Melvin 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 14.5 × 14.5 km
Lough Melvin 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.
Lough Melvin elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lough Melvin weather
Today · Light rain showers · 6 / 11°C (43 / 52°F) · 2.7 mm · Wind 57 km/h W
Lough Melvin forecast for about 26 m.
- Today6°11°2.7 mm57 km/h W
- Mon9°15°11.2 mm49 km/h SW
- Tue8°11°5.6 mm50 km/h W
- Wed9°13°0.3 mm21 km/h SW
- Thu11°13°12.2 mm27 km/h SE
- Fri8°13°7.0 mm21 km/h NW
- Sat8°11°2.4 mm18 km/h W
- Sun8°13°0.5 mm9 km/h SW
- Mon9°12°1.8 mm6 km/h S
- Tue6°11°–8 km/h E
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 25, 11:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lough Melvin
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lough Melvin, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.4 km NNE
Nearest campsite
Melvin Centre
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.4 km NNE |
| Parking | 1.4 km NNE |
| Parking | 4.0 km E |
| Melvin CentreCampsite | 5.3 km ESE |
| Lakeside Caravan & CampingCampsite | 7.0 km N |
Slope
Share of the 14.5 × 14.5 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 95% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.2% of the 210 km² view
- Relief in view
- 520 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 7.2 km; 130 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Red Clover7
- Ribwort plantain7
- Entyloma ranunculacearum6
- Common selfheal5
- Cuckooflower5
- Lawn daisy5
Where Lough Melvin sits
- Region
- United Kingdom372Ireland108Europe2,151
Nearby places
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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 2026-08-24)
- 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)