St Mary's Loch
- Area
- 2.44 km²
- Tonight
- 3°CPartly cloudy · Wind 21 km/h W
St Mary's Loch is a lake at 244 m above sea level in Scotland, United Kingdom, 2.44 km² in area and 4.5 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 244 m
- Length
- 4.5 km
- Shoreline
- 11.0 km
St Mary's Loch in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 11.0 km≈2¾ h to walk around
St Mary's Loch 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 6.5 × 6.5 km
St Mary's Loch 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.
St Mary's Loch elevation profile
West → east through the centre
St Mary's Loch weather
Tonight · Partly cloudy · 3°C (37°F) · Wind 21 km/h W
St Mary's Loch forecast for about 244 m.
- Tonight3°–21 km/h W
- Today3°9°24.7 mm45 km/h W
- Sun5°8°1.0 mm48 km/h W
- Mon5°7°11.5 mm37 km/h S
- Tue6°11°5.6 mm38 km/h S
- Wed8°10°1.1 mm23 km/h SW
- Thu8°10°0.2 mm14 km/h S
- Fri8°11°6.7 mm20 km/h S
- Sat5°9°1.8 mm21 km/h SE
- Sun5°6°3.3 mm26 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 23, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near St Mary's Loch
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around St Mary's Loch, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.7 km WNW
Nearest campsite
Tibbie Shiels
All mapped places 5
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.7 km WNW |
| Parking | 0.7 km WNW |
| Parking | 0.7 km NE |
| Tibbie ShielsCampsite | 2.3 km SSW |
| Ettrick Valley YurtsCampsite | 7.9 km ESE |
Slope
Share of the 6.5 × 6.5 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 66% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 2.7% of the 42 km² view
- Relief in view
- 388 m low point 240 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 3.2 km; 59 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Orange hawkweed3
- Common Chaffinch2
- White Wagtail2
- Common Harebell2
- Black knapweed2
- Scotch Argus2
Where St Mary's Loch sits
- Region
- Scotland153United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Nearby places
Megget ReservoirLake↑5.8 km W
Loch SkeenLake↑10 km SW
Talla ReservoirLake↑13 km W
Devil's Beef Tub↑21 km WSW
Annandale↑35 km SSW
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- 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 2026-07-19)
- 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)