Sgùrr nan Clach Geala · 1,093 m · 40 km SSE

Mountain · Scotland

Stac Pollaidh

613 m2,011 ft

Easiest route: 1.9 km+450 m · about 1 h · T3
Prominence: 441 m1,448 ft
Isolation: 3.5 km
Tonight: 0°CPartly cloudy · Wind 20 km/h S

Stac Pollaidh is a 613 m (2,011 ft) mountain in Scotland, United Kingdom.

All facts

Elevation: 613 m · 2,011 ft
Nearest higher peak: Cùl Beag (769 m)
Region: Scotland, United Kingdom
Coordinates: 58.0440° N, 5.2069° W

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Route

How to get to the top of Stac Pollaidh

The shortest mapped walking route from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

From Stac Pollaidh car park (parking)

Distance: 1.9 kmone way
Climb: +450 m−14 m (1,476 ft up)
Time up: about 1 h
Difficulty: T3Demanding: exposed spots, some easy scrambling

Stac Pollaidh elevation profile

Download GPX (free, ODbL)KML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Stac Pollaidh 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Stac Pollaidh terrain and contours

20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. 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

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.

Weather

Stac Pollaidh weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 0°C (32°F) · Wind 20 km/h S

Stac Pollaidh forecast for the summit, about 613 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 85 m.

Tonight0°–20 km/h SBase 3°
Today1°5°28.1 mm64 km/h NWBase 4 / 7°
Sun5°6°12.5 mm77 km/h NWBase 7 / 9°
Mon4°5°13.2 mm26 km/h WBase 7 / 8°
Tue5°8°12.0 mm55 km/h WBase 8 / 11°
Wed6°6°5.9 mm31 km/h WBase 9 / 9°
Thu5°8°–16 km/h EBase 7 / 11°
Fri6°8°28.4 mm16 km/h EBase 9 / 11°
Sat5°7°21.3 mm18 km/h EBase 8 / 10°
Sun4°5°9.4 mm19 km/h NBase 7 / 8°

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, 23:18 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Stac Pollaidh

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

Nearest parking
Stac Pollaidh car park
1.1 km S · +2 more within 7.8 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Stac Pollaidh car parkParking	1.1 km S
Parking	3.9 km W
Parking	7.8 km SE

Slope

How steep is the route to Stac Pollaidh?

The easiest mapped route, 1.9 km from 85 m to 613 m. Steepest stretch: 39°.

0 km · 85 m1.9 km · 613 m

0–15°1.4 km
15–30°0.5 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 30 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 76.3%Water 20.4%Trees 3.3%

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; 54 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Heath spotted orchid16
Common Chaffinch6
Oak Eggar5
European Common Frog4
Magpie Moth4
Bog myrtle4

Where it sits

Where Stac Pollaidh sits

Ranked in 1

#8 Treks and hikes in United Kingdom

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Ben HopePeak · 927 m54 km NE

Downloads

Stac Pollaidh downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

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

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXStac Pollaidh GPX / KML route downloadIn the route section. Mapped route for GPS apps and Google Earth, under the ODbL.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

15 m low This 3D map reads 598 m at the summit; the official height is 613 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	613 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	598 m	-15 m
Copernicus GLO-90	585 m	-28 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, 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)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Stac Pollaidh

From Stac Pollaidh car park (parking)

West → east through the summit

Nearest parking

Data sources