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Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan arboretum

Bishkek Botanical Garden

Farzona Faizullaeva · CC BY-SA 4.0

13% trees around it and 79 species recorded.

27Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km13%
  • wild within 10 km34%
  • species recorded79
  • Altitude888 m

The forest around

13% 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 28%Shrubland 3%Grassland 12%Bare ground 1%Cropland 6%Built-up 51%Trees 11%Shrubland 0%Grassland 13%Bare ground 4%Cropland 20%Built-up 51%Trees 7%Shrubland 1%Grassland 22%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 22%Built-up 47%Trees 8%Shrubland 0%Grassland 25%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 29%Built-up 36%13%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km28%
  • 1–3 km11%
  • 3–6 km7%
  • 6–10 km8%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees11%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland13%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground4%
  • Cropland20%
  • Built-up51%

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

79 species recorded.

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

Branched scouringrush
Branched scouringrushEquisetum ramosissimum2 recordsPetr Filippov · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cherry plum
Cherry plumPrunus cerasifera2 records4028mdk09 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Persian Walnut
Persian WalnutJuglans regia2 recordssurrealpenguin · CC BY-SA 2.0
Wild Privet
Wild PrivetLigustrum vulgare2 recordsVictor M. Vicente Selvas · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tatarian honeysuckle
Tatarian honeysuckleLonicera tatarica2 recordsUser:Algirdas · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

27out of 100

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

  • 13%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 34%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 79Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 888 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in October.

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

  1. Jan5°-4°24 mm
  2. Feb8°-3°30 mm
  3. Mar15°2°42 mm
  4. Apr20°7°61 mm
  5. May26°13°48 mm
  6. Jun32°18°29 mm
  7. Jul35°20°20 mm
  8. Aug33°19°13 mm
  9. Sep27°14°15 mm
  10. Oct19°7°36 mm
  11. Nov11°1°38 mm
  12. Dec6°-3°30 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bishkek Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden

Bishkek Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Kyrgyzstan, 888 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 13% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 34% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

79 species have been recorded around it: 5 plants, 0 fungi, 74 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Branched scouringrush, Cherry plum and Persian Walnut.

The best time to walk is in October.

Botanical garden 25.04.2025. 12
Farzona Faizullaeva · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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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.

Bishkek 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 km
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 25shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmБоз-Болток
  • 198car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmЦентр отдыха Бата
  • 254places to stay within 10 kmJannat, Общежитие, КГУСТА общежитие and 251 more
  • 233restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres 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 Bishkek 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.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Gora Shekule17 kmGory Uch-Yemchek20 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Alamüdün River78 km

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Botanical garden 25.04.2025. 13
Farzona Faizullaeva · CC BY-SA 4.0
"Тис" Ботанический сад им. Э.З.Гареева
Iuliia Malakhova · CC BY 4.0
"Бальзамин махровый" Ботанический сад им. Э.З.Гареева
Iuliia Malakhova · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Bishkek Botanical Garden

Kyrgyzstan

  • 27Forestyas Score
  • 13%Trees
  • 34%Wild
  • 79Species

Almaty Botanical Garden

Kazakhstan · 190 km

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 39%Trees
  • 56%Wild
  • 123Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4095110) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,455 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, Riveryas

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

The family

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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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