Meall a' Bhuachaille is a Corbett of 810 m in Highland. All four of its nearest neighbours are higher, up to Cairn Gorm at 1,244.8 m.
It sits below Bynack More, only 7.2 km to the south-east and 280.4 m higher. It shares its height of 810 m with Meall na Fearna. It is the lowest of the 16 register hills in the Cairngorms region, where Ben Macdui is highest. On the Corbetts height ladder it sits between Meall na Fearna (810 m) and Creach Bheinn (Argyll and Bute) (809.9 m). Its nearest higher summit, Sron a' Cha-no (1,028.1 m, 6.1 km south-east), is a listed top not profiled here.
