19% chance of a view, in cloud all day.
The summit sits about 788 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
- 1,183 m (1,147 m of drop)
- Area
- Loch Duich to Cannich
- County
- Highland, Scotland
- Grid ref
- NH123261
- OS Landranger
- 25
- Summit
- trig point in shelter
Sun
- Sunrise
- 06:56 ESE
- Sunset
- 17:15 WSW
- Daylight
- 10.31 hours
About Carn Eighe
Carn Eighe is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. Rising to 1,183 metres (3,881 ft) above sea level, it is the highest mountain in Scotland north of the Great Glen, the twelfth-highest in the British Isles, and, in terms of relative height, it is the second-tallest mountain in the British Isles after Ben Nevis. Carn Eighe lies between Glen Affric and Loch Mullardoch, and is at the heart of a massif along with its twin peak, the 1,181-metre (3,875 ft) Mam Sodhail.
Hour by hour, Friday 16 October
| Hour | View | Cloud base | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06:00 | 9% | 347 m | -0.5° | 20 W |
| 08:00 | 13% | 362 m | -0.3° | 17 WNW |
| 10:00 | 10% | 375 m | 0.4° | 19 WNW |
| 12:00 | 11% | 395 m | 0.7° | 19 WNW |
| 14:00 | 19% | 407 m | 0.0° | 26 NW |
| 16:00 | 26% | 508 m | -0.0° | 30 NW |
| 18:00 | 29% | 483 m | 0.0° | 26 NNW |
| 20:00 | 94% | 589 m | -0.3° | 27 NNW |
Nearby
Mam Sodhail · Beinn Fhionnlaidh · Tom a' Choinnich · Mullach na Dheiragain · An Socach · Toll Creagach
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