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Akureyri Botanical Garden

LubovGorshkova · CC BY-SA 4.0

10% trees around it and 425 species recorded.

50Forestyas Score

ArboretumFungi

  • trees within 3 km10%
  • wild within 10 km93%
  • species recorded425
  • Altitude52 m

The forest around

10% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 11%Shrubland 1%Grassland 20%Moss and lichen 1%Water 28%Bare ground 21%Cropland 0%Built-up 18%Trees 10%Shrubland 4%Grassland 34%Wetland 2%Moss and lichen 3%Water 28%Bare ground 7%Cropland 4%Built-up 9%Trees 4%Shrubland 1%Grassland 64%Wetland 2%Moss and lichen 11%Water 10%Bare ground 1%Cropland 6%Built-up 1%Trees 2%Shrubland 2%Grassland 53%Wetland 0%Moss and lichen 20%Water 7%Bare ground 8%Snow and ice 2%Cropland 6%10%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km11%
  • 1–3 km10%
  • 3–6 km4%
  • 6–10 km2%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees10%
  • Shrubland4%
  • Grassland34%
  • Wetland2%
  • Moss and lichen3%
  • Water28%
  • Bare ground7%
  • Snow and ice0%
  • Cropland4%
  • Built-up9%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

425 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Common yarrow
Common yarrowAchillea millefolium35 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia29 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain
Twisted draba
Twisted drabaDraba incana26 recordsMike Pennington · CC BY-SA 2.0
Whitlow grasses
Whitlow grassesDraba25 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Alpine chickweed
Alpine chickweedCerastium alpinum23 recordsEnrico Blasutto · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild Pansy
Wild PansyViola tricolor21 recordsKim Hansen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Grassleaf starwort
Grassleaf starwortStellaria graminea21 recordsJohann Georg Sturm, Painted by Jacob Sturm ; published by Kurt Stüber, · Public domain
Common woodrush
Common woodrushLuzula multiflora19 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Alpine bluegrass
Alpine bluegrassPoa alpina19 recordsDaderot · Public domain
White Clover
White CloverTrifolium repens18 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Eightpetal mountain-avens
Eightpetal mountain-avensDryas octopetala17 recordsMichael Haferkamp · CC BY-SA 3.0
Annual Meadow Grass
Annual Meadow GrassPoa annua16 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 10:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

50out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 10%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 93%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 425Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 52 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-4°-9°110 mm
  2. Feb-4°-9°96 mm
  3. Mar-3°-9°100 mm
  4. Apr0°-6°87 mm
  5. May2°-3°86 mm
  6. Jun8°2°71 mm
  7. Jul10°4°98 mm
  8. Aug8°3°104 mm
  9. Sep5°0°126 mm
  10. Oct0°-4°132 mm
  11. Nov-3°-8°125 mm
  12. Dec-4°-9°121 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Akureyri Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Akureyri, Iceland

Akureyri Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Iceland.

Seen from space, 10% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 93% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

425 species have been recorded around it: 259 plants, 87 fungi, 77 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common yarrow, Rowan and Twisted draba.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

Akureyrar BG 02
LubovGorshkova · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at AEY airport (Akureyri)Discover CarsSee prices 

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Akureyri Botanical Garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 5marked trails within 5 kmSúlur, Vaðlaheiði, Skólavarðan and 2 more
  • 8picnic sites within 4 km
  • 2shelters and huts within 6 kmGönguhús
  • 11viewpoints within 5 km
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmAkureyri Tourist Information Centre, Norden - Norræna upplýsingaskrifstofan, Tourist Information Center and 1 more
  • 321car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmHamrar, Systragil, Vaglaskógur and 1 more
  • 48places to stay within 10 kmHótel Edda, Hótel Akureyri, Sæluhús Akureyri and 45 more
  • 30restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Akureyri Botanical Garden.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas15 mountains within 25 km
Súlur1,213 m · 8.4 kmHlíðarfjall1,100 m · 8.6 kmTröllafjall14 kmKerling1,538 m · 15 kmFornastaðafjall17 kmLandafjall18 kmHólarfjall24 kmHraundrangi1,075 m · 25 km
Islandyasthe island
Iceland102,775 km²

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Abiesc.Akureyri
Berserkur · CC BY-SA 4.0
Akureyrar BG 01
LubovGorshkova · CC BY-SA 4.0
Akureyri Botanical Garden Fountain 01
Spike · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Akureyri Botanical Garden

Iceland

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 10%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 425Species

Vaglaskógur

Iceland · 11 km

  • 45Forestyas Score
  • 4%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 294Species

See the guide

Hallormsstaðaskógur

Iceland · 169 km

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 321Species

See the guide

Þingvallaskógar

Iceland · 210 km

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 1%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 274Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q894637) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species10,594 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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