10% chance of a view, in cloud all day.
The summit sits about 881 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
- 1,296 m (461 m of drop)
- Area
- Cairngorms
- County
- Aberdeenshire, Highland, Scotland
- Grid ref
- NN953999
- OS Landranger
- 36, 43
- Summit
- rock c 20m NE of cairn
Sun
- Sunrise
- 06:50 ESE
- Sunset
- 17:10 WSW
- Daylight
- 10.33 hours
About Braeriach
Braeriach or Brae Riach is the third-highest mountain in Scotland and all of the British Isles, after Ben Nevis and Ben Macdui, rising 1,296 metres (4,252 ft) above sea level. It is in the Scottish Highlands and is the highest point in the western massif of the Cairngorms, separated from the central section by the Lairig Ghru pass. The summit is a crescent-shaped plateau, overlooking several corries.
Hour by hour, Friday 16 October
| Hour | View | Cloud base | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06:00 | 8% | 348 m | -1.4° | 17 W |
| 08:00 | 7% | 382 m | -1.1° | 15 W |
| 10:00 | 7% | 376 m | -0.9° | 17 WNW |
| 12:00 | 8% | 415 m | -0.3° | 15 NW |
| 14:00 | 8% | 404 m | -0.3° | 22 NW |
| 16:00 | 15% | 465 m | -0.5° | 21 NW |
| 18:00 | 16% | 439 m | -0.8° | 22 NW |
| 20:00 | 9% | 456 m | -1.0° | 26 NNW |
Nearby
Sgor an Lochain Uaine · Cairn Toul · Ben Macdui · Sgor Gaoith · The Devil's Point · Monadh Mor
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