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Bodhi Tree

Ken Wieland from Philadelphia, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

8% trees around it and 79 species recorded.

22Forestyas Score

Notable tree

  • trees within 3 km8%
  • wild within 10 km20%
  • species recorded79
  • Altitude125 m

The forest around

8% 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%Grassland 6%Water 8%Bare ground 16%Cropland 19%Built-up 39%Trees 7%Grassland 9%Water 5%Bare ground 4%Cropland 62%Built-up 12%Trees 5%Grassland 9%Water 3%Bare ground 2%Cropland 75%Built-up 7%Trees 10%Grassland 8%Water 2%Bare ground 1%Cropland 72%Built-up 8%8%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km11%
  • 1–3 km7%
  • 3–6 km5%
  • 6–10 km10%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees7%
  • Grassland9%
  • Water5%
  • Bare ground4%
  • Cropland62%
  • Built-up12%

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.

Sorghum
SorghumSorghum bicolor2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Pethan assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
Nyctanthes arbor-tristisNyctanthes arbor-tristis2 recordsJ.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pigeon-peaCajanus cajan2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

22out of 100

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

  • 8%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 20%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 79Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 125 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from December to January.

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

  1. Jan23°8°15 mm
  2. Feb28°12°15 mm
  3. Mar34°17°14 mm
  4. Apr40°23°14 mm
  5. May41°27°44 mm
  6. Jun38°28°170 mm
  7. Jul32°25°297 mm
  8. Aug31°25°268 mm
  9. Sep30°24°191 mm
  10. Oct29°20°61 mm
  11. Nov26°14°4 mm
  12. Dec23°10°4 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bodhi Tree.

Sacred fig tree under which Buddha is said to have achieved enlightenment

Bodhi Tree is a notable tree in India.

Seen from space, 8% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 20% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

79 species have been recorded around it: 3 plants, 0 fungi, 76 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Sorghum, Nyctanthes arbor-tristis and Pigeon-pea.

The best time to walk is from December to January.

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Ken Wieland from Philadelphia, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

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.

Bodhi Tree 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmBodhi Tree
  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 145places to stay within 10 kmHotel Tathagat, Kirti, Mahayana and 142 more
  • 30restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Bodhi Tree.

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.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Pahra19 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
PhalguLilajan River

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

028 Bodhi Tree and Meditators (9222132890)
Photo Dharma from Penang, Malaysia · CC BY 2.0
Bodhi Tree Distant View - panoramio
Neil Satyam · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bodhi Tree Marking - panoramio
Neil Satyam · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Bodhi Tree

India

  • 22Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 20%Wild
  • 79Species

Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests

Bhutan · 380 km

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 85%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 11Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q321437) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species769 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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