25% chance of a view, in cloud all day.
The summit sits about 727 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, Marilyn
- Height
- 1,127 m (880 m of drop)
- Area
- Glen Etive to Glen Lochy
- County
- Argyll and Bute, Scotland
- Grid ref
- NN069304
- OS Landranger
- 50
- Summit
- rock 3m from trig point
Sun
- Sunrise
- 06:54 ESE
- Sunset
- 17:17 WSW
- Daylight
- 10.37 hours
About Ben Cruachan
Ben Cruachan is a mountain that rises to 1,126 metres (3,694 ft), the highest in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It gives its name to the Cruachan Dam, a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station located in a cavern inside the mountain. It is the high point of a ring of mountains, known as the Cruachan Horseshoe, that surrounds the power station reservoir. The horseshoe includes a further Munro, a Corbett, and several subsidiary summits. "Cruachan!" is the battle cry of Highland clans Campbell and MacIntyre.
Hour by hour, Friday 16 October
| Hour | View | Cloud base | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06:00 | 12% | 355 m | 0.3° | 21 W |
| 08:00 | 12% | 368 m | 0.3° | 16 WNW |
| 10:00 | 13% | 383 m | 0.8° | 20 NW |
| 12:00 | 14% | 400 m | 1.1° | 18 NW |
| 14:00 | 17% | 499 m | 1.0° | 27 NNW |
| 16:00 | 35% | 744 m | 0.9° | 28 NW |
| 18:00 | 66% | 714 m | 0.7° | 27 NNW |
| 20:00 | 43% | 726 m | 0.5° | 28 NNW |
Nearby
Stob Daimh · Beinn a' Chochuill · Beinn Eunaich · Beinn nan Aighenan · Ben Starav · Glas Bheinn Mhor
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