Scotland · Cairngorms National Park

Meall Dubhag

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
997.4 m · 3,272 ft
Grid reference
NN 88043 95543
Coordinates
57.03741, -3.84655
County / area
Highland
OS Landranger
35 36 43
OS Explorer
OL57S 403S
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
NN 8889 9594 (964.1 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 57.037, -3.847. 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
obvious summit/Leica RX1250
Record revised
12-Dec-22
Drop measured from
NN 8889 9594 · 964.1 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 Dubhag is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Sgor Gaoith (1,116 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 964 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
Carn Ban Mor 1050.5 m 2.1 km
Mullach Clach a' Bhlair 1019 m 2.9 km
Sgor Gaoith 1116 m 4.1 km
Tom Dubh 919.8 m 4.1 km
Meall Buidhe 975 m 4.7 km
Sgoran Dubh Mor 1111 m 5.3 km