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.