39% chance of a view, in cloud all day.
The summit sits about 417 m inside the layer.
Forecast for Friday 16 October, built 2026-10-16 16:22 UTC and rebuilt twice a day. A high number is close to reliable, a low one is barely better than a shrug: how reliable is this?
The hill
- Lists
- Munro
- Height
- 920 m (124 m of drop)
- Area
- Loch Duich to Cannich
- County
- Highland, Scotland
- Grid ref
- NH088229
- OS Landranger
- 25, 33
- Summit
- cairn on outcrop
Sun
- Sunrise
- 06:56 ESE
- Sunset
- 17:15 WSW
- Daylight
- 10.31 hours
About An Socach
An Socach is a Scottish mountain situated some three miles (5 km) west of the A93 road from Perth to Braemar. It is located at grid ref. 080800 on Ordnance Survey sheet 43. The summit altitude is 944 m (3,097 ft). The name may derive from the Gaelic Soc, meaning the snout or beak, leading to the projecting place by analogy with the shape of a snout. Other sources state that it in fact means 'the sow'.
Hour by hour, Friday 16 October
| Hour | View | Cloud base | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06:00 | 22% | 390 m | 1.0° | 18 W |
| 08:00 | 21% | 363 m | 1.2° | 12 W |
| 10:00 | 22% | 377 m | 2.0° | 17 WNW |
| 12:00 | 29% | 503 m | 2.4° | 16 WNW |
| 14:00 | 34% | 472 m | 2.3° | 20 NW |
| 16:00 | 38% | 600 m | 2.1° | 21 NW |
| 18:00 | 54% | 594 m | 1.8° | 23 NNW |
| 20:00 | 94% | 636 m | 1.7° | 19 N |
Nearby
Mullach na Dheiragain · Sgurr nan Ceathramhnan · Mam Sodhail · Carn Eighe · Mullach Fraoch-choire · Beinn Fhionnlaidh
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