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Mount Keen

939 m3,081 ft

Prominence: 310 m1,017 ft
Isolation: 15 km
Tonight: -4°CCloudy · Wind 21 km/h NW

Mount Keen is a 939 m (3,081 ft) mountain in the Grampian Mountains, Scotland, United Kingdom.

All facts

Elevation: 939 m · 3,081 ft
Nearest higher peak: Lochnagar (1,155 m)
Range: Grampian Mountains
Region: Scotland, United Kingdom
Coordinates: 56.9696° N, 2.9735° W

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3D map

Mount Keen 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Mount Keen 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.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the summit

Mount Keen elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Mount Keen weather

Tonight · Cloudy · -4°C (25°F) · Wind 21 km/h NW

Mount Keen forecast for the summit, about 939 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 373 m.

Tonight-4°–21 km/h NWBase 0°
Today-4°3°21.1 mm38 km/h SBase -1 / 6°
Sun0°3°6.1 mm50 km/h WBase 3 / 7°
Mon0°3°9.9 mm30 km/h SBase 3 / 7°
Tue2°8°3.4 mm39 km/h SWBase 5 / 11°
Wed3°6°0.1 mm20 km/h WBase 6 / 9°
Thu1°7°–13 km/h SBase 4 / 10°
Fri4°5°4.1 mm21 km/h SBase 7 / 9°
Sat1°5°22.3 mm22 km/h SEBase 4 / 9°
Sun0°1°12.9 mm18 km/h NWBase 3 / 4°

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 Mount Keen

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

Nearest hut
Johnny Gordon's Bothy
5.5 km SSW
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Nearest parking
Invermark
7.5 km SSE
Directions Map

All mapped places 2

Place	Distance
Johnny Gordon's BothyHut	5.5 km SSW
InvermarkParking	7.5 km SSE

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 75% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

74.7%

Moderate, 15–30°

23.2%

Steep, 30–45°

2.1%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 2.1% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 562 m low point 373 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 92.8%Trees 7.2%

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

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 21 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Rock Ptarmigan3
European Common Frog1
European mountain ash1
Green Hairstreak1
False Chanterelle1
Western House Martin1

Where it sits

Where Mount Keen sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Glen Shee34 km SW

Mount Keen downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

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

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 934 m at the summit; the official height is 939 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	939 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	934 m	-5 m
Copernicus GLO-90	930 m	-9 m

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
Accuracy comparison: 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 · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Mount Keen

West → east through the summit

Nearest hut

Nearest parking

Data sources