Summit Register

Munro · Highland, Scotland

Bidean nam Bian

1,149.4 m

3,771 ftDrop 844 mNN 143 542

Finder: 173 Munros in Highland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBidean nam Bian1,149.4Stob Coire Sgreamhach1,071.6Beinn Maol Chaluim906.3Buachaille Etive Beag – Stob Dubh956.7Sgurr na h-Ulaidh994
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBidean nam Bian1,149.4Stob Coire Sgreamhach1,071.6Beinn Maol Chaluim906.3
Looking north, 126 km wide, heights ×33 (method).

Bidean nam Bian is a Munro of 1,149.4 m in Highland. Its drop of 844 m is the 22nd greatest of the 1,140 hills here.

It is also on the county tops list, as the highest point of its historic county. In the database's Loch Linnhe to Loch Etive region it is the highest of 21 register hills, above Stob Coire Sgreamhach and 19 others. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Stob Coire Sgreamhach, reaches 1,071.6 m. On the Munros height ladder it sits between Sgurr nan Ceathramhnan (1,149.7 m) and Ben Alder (1,148 m). It is 283.7 m above the average height of the 427 register hills in Highland.

To scale

Summit1,149.4 mKey col305 mdrop 844 msea level
Key col NN 206 560, 6.6 km east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

1,149.4 m24th highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

844 m22nd of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

17.2 km78th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Stob Coire Sgreamhach1.3 km south-east
    1,071.6 m
  2. 2
    Beinn Maol Chaluim1.8 km south-west
    906.3 m
  3. 3956.7 m
  4. 4
    Sgurr na h-Ulaidh4.0 km south-west
    994 m
1234N2 km

Lists

  • 24th highest of 282 Munros
  • 19th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here
  • 5th highest of the 51 County tops profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Ben Nevis, 1,344.5 m, 17.2 km north
Region
03B: Loch Linnhe to Loch Etive
OS map
41
Summit
Cairn
DoBIH no.
191
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Bidean nam Bian

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). How high are the Munros?