42% chance of a view, in and out of it all day.
The summit sits about 274 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
- 1,156 m (671 m of drop)
- Area
- Braemar to Montrose
- County
- Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- Grid ref
- NO243861
- OS Landranger
- 44
- Summit
- rock tor 2m NE of trig point
Sun
- Sunrise
- 06:48 ESE
- Sunset
- 17:08 WSW
- Daylight
- 10.33 hours
About Lochnagar - Cac Carn Beag
Lochnagar or Beinn Chìochan is a mountain in the Mounth, in the Grampians of Scotland. It is about five miles south of the River Dee near Balmoral. It is a popular hill with hillwalkers, and is a noted venue for summer and winter climbing. At the foot of the mountain is a lochan, Lochan na Gaire, from which the mountain's name derives.
Hour by hour, Friday 16 October
| Hour | View | Cloud base | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06:00 | 80% | 386 m | 0.3° | 21 W |
| 08:00 | 41% | 509 m | 0.4° | 17 WNW |
| 10:00 | 46% | 545 m | 0.8° | 19 WNW |
| 12:00 | 54% | 882 m | 1.2° | 18 NW |
| 14:00 | 50% | 917 m | 1.5° | 20 NW |
| 16:00 | 17% | 525 m | 0.8° | 20 NW |
| 18:00 | 46% | 562 m | 0.2° | 26 NW |
| 20:00 | 14% | 451 m | 0.1° | 27 NNW |
Nearby
Carn a' Choire Bhoidheach · Carn an t-Sagairt Mor · Cairn Bannoch · Broad Cairn · Tolmount · Tom Buidhe
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