Stac Pollaidh is a Graham of 612.4 m in Highland. It clears the 2,000 ft line (609.6 m) by only 2.8 m.
Its drop of 439.8 m is 72% of its height: the col linking it to higher ground is only 172.6 m above sea level. All four of its nearest neighbours are higher, up to Cul Mor at 849.7 m. It sits below Cul Beag, only 3.8 km to the south-east and 157 m higher. Only 17 of the 737 hills profiled in Scotland are lower. It is the lowest of the eight register hills in the Lochinver to Ullapool region, where Cul Mor is highest. The higher hill nearest to it, Cul Beag, is a Corbett, 3.8 km to the south-east. It is 253.3 m below the average height of the 427 register hills in Highland.