10% chance of a view, in cloud all day.
The summit sits about 875 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
- 1,309 m (950 m of drop)
- Area
- Cairngorms
- County
- Aberdeenshire, Moray, Scotland
- Grid ref
- NN988989
- OS Landranger
- 36, 43
- Summit
- trig point on large platform
Sun
- Sunrise
- 06:50 ESE
- Sunset
- 17:10 WSW
- Daylight
- 10.33 hours
About Ben Macdui
Ben Macdui is the second-highest mountain in Scotland and all of the British Isles, after Ben Nevis, and the highest of the Cairngorm Mountains. The summit is 1,309 metres (4,295 ft) above sea level and it is classed as a Munro. Ben Macdui is situated on the southwestern edge of the Cairngorm plateau, overlooking the Lairig Ghru pass to the west, and Loch Etchachan to the east. It lies on the boundary between the historic counties of Aberdeenshire and Banffshire.
Hour by hour, Friday 16 October
| Hour | View | Cloud base | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06:00 | 9% | 346 m | -1.1° | 18 W |
| 08:00 | 10% | 359 m | -1.1° | 16 WNW |
| 10:00 | 7% | 374 m | -1.0° | 17 NW |
| 12:00 | 8% | 434 m | -0.2° | 16 NW |
| 14:00 | 7% | 402 m | -0.3° | 22 NW |
| 16:00 | 20% | 441 m | -0.5° | 23 NW |
| 18:00 | 13% | 437 m | -1.0° | 24 NW |
| 20:00 | 9% | 453 m | -1.0° | 27 NNW |
Nearby
Derry Cairngorm · Cairn Toul · Sgor an Lochain Uaine · Braeriach · Carn a' Mhaim · The Devil's Point
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