Hotels at Baluachraig booking.com

Baluachraig

Booking.com

Baluachraig

General information - Location

Country	Scotland
Part of	United Kingdom
Location in country	Northwest
Location in Europe	West Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -5.4883,Lat: 56.1167
Elevation	116 meter above sea level
Local time	22:34:10pm
Name province/region	Scotland
Name Subregion	Argyll and Bute
Name	Mid Argyll

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Slockavullin	0.7 km	WestNorthWest
2 Ballymeanoch	1.1 km	SouthSouthEast
3 Poltalloch	1.9 km	West
4 Kilmartin	1.9 km	NorthNorthEast
5 Kilmichael Glassary	4.5 km	SouthSouthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Glasgow	Scotland	86 km	SouthEast
2 Belfast	Northern-ireland	172 km	SouthSouthWest
3 Douglas	Isle-of-man	227 km	South

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Atlantic Ocean is very close with only a distance of around 3 km (direction WestSouthWest). The nearest bigger lake is Loch Awe (37.3 km² at a distance of 8.1 km in NorthEastern direction).

The most nearby international border is the North-Irish-Irish border with a straight distance of 161.8 km in WestSouthWestern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 227 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 18%, low location: 79%, hill: 3%, The hills are mainly southeastern orientated. The most common land use in the area is nature.
Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Glasgow International Airport (at a distance of 71 km and direction SouthEast).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Islay Airport (at a distance of 68 km in WestSouthWestern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

14.8 km2

19.7%

Nature

27.9 km2

37.2%

Wet nature

6.1 km2

8.1%

Agriculture

24.8 km2

33%

Rock-Sand

1.5 km2

1.9%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Baluachraig in country Scotland

Baluachraig at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	115 km	SouthWest
2 New Lanark	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	118 km	SouthEast
3 The Forth Bridge	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	131 km	EastSouthEast

Social media - Maps

	Video's op youtube van Baluachraig
	Video's op Vimeo
	TikTok
	Instagram
	Flickr
Filming Location	IMDB Baluachraig
	TikTok
	Bings maps
	Mapquest
	Wikimapia
	OpenStreetMap

Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Lochgilphead

Type of weather in Lochgilphead	few clouds
Current temperature:	5 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	2 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 2)
Wind direction:	South South East
Air pressure:	1003 mb
Humidity:	83 %
Daylength at 28 April 2024:	15 hour and 12 minutes
Sunrise :	06:43 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	21:55 Europe/Amsterdam