Scotland

Meall Buidhe

Munro TopSimmMurdo

2 classifications here — Simm and Murdo — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Height
977.2 m · 3,206 ft
Grid reference
NN 35983 43834
Coordinates
56.55781, -4.67034
County / area
Argyll and Bute/Perth and Kinross
OS Landranger
50
OS Explorer
377E
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
NN367442 (924 m)

Access rights here

Yes Right to roam: Statutory right of responsible access to most land and inland water.

Yes Wild camping: Wild camping is broadly lawful under the 2003 Act.

General position for Scotland — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Scotland · check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 56.558, -4.670. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Leica RX1250
Record revised
25-Feb-20
Drop measured from
NN367442 · 924 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Which hill this one belongs to

Meall Buidhe is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Beinn a' Chreachain (1,081 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 924 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks

PeakHeightDistance
Beinn a' Chreachain 1080.6 m 1.4 km
Beinn Achaladair 1038.6 m 1.6 km
Beinn Achaladair South Top 1003.6 m 2.5 km
Beinn a' Chuirn 922.8 m 2.9 km
Beinn Mhanach 952.5 m 3 km
Beinn an Dothaidh 1004 m 4.1 km