Creag Meagaidh is a Munro of 1,128.1 m in Highland. Its drop of 868 m is the 18th greatest of the 1,140 hills here.
In the database's Loch Lochy to Loch Laggan region it is the highest of 11 register hills, above Stob Poite Coire Ardair and nine others. The key col lies 15.1 km away to the east, at 260 m. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Stob Poite Coire Ardair, reaches 1,052.5 m. It is 262.4 m above the average height of the 427 register hills in Highland. The database describes the top as a large cairn. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 34 and 42.