France forest
Bois de Vincennes
Georges Seguin ( Okki ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
36% trees around it and 1,385 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km36%
- wild within 10 km28%
- species recorded1,385
- Altitude56 m
The forest around
36% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km86%
- 1–3 km30%
- 3–6 km20%
- 6–10 km24%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees30%
- Grassland4%
- Water4%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up62%
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
1,385 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
NT
Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 36%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 28%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 1,385Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 56 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking in May.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan0°54 mm
- Feb0°50 mm
- Mar2°52 mm
- Apr5°39 mm
- May8°64 mm
- Jun12°60 mm
- Jul14°55 mm
- Aug13°59 mm
- Sep10°42 mm
- Oct7°57 mm
- Nov4°61 mm
- Dec1°69 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Bois de Vincennes.
Public park in Paris, France
Bois de Vincennes is a forest in France.
Seen from space, 36% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 28% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
1,385 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 111 fungi, 217 birds and 57 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Greater Celandine, Annual Meadow Grass and Ribwort plantain.
The best time to walk is in May.
Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Camping Paris-Estcampsite · 3.5 km · 2 within 10 km
- Hôtel de la Place des Vosgesplace to stay · 5.8 km · 2,011 within 10 km
- Saint-Mauricenearest town · 0.8 km in a straight line
- Paris-Orly Airport (ORY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 km in a straight lineCar hire at ORY airport (Paris)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 33marked trails within 5 kmTraversée de Paris n°2, Traversée de Paris n°3, Bords de Marne and 30 more
- 142named and notable trees within 6 kmSophora d'Incarville, Fau de Verzy, Pistachier de Vaillant and 139 more
- 164picnic sites within 4 km
- 220shelters and huts within 6 kmAbri and 219 more
- 17viewpoints within 5 kmButte aux Canons, Le Belvédère Trans 305, Belvédère and 14 more
- 25visitor centres within 6 kmOffice de Tourisme, Info Mairie, Office de Tourisme de la Vallée de la Marne and 22 more
- 1,029car parks within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmCamping Paris-Est, Camping Les Rives de Paris - Neuilly-sur-Marne
- 2,011places to stay within 10 kmHôtel de la Place des Vosges, Charles V, Hôtel Port-Royal and 2,008 more
- 792restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Bois de Vincennes.
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.
Peakyas6 mountains within 25 kmMontagne Sainte-Geneviève61 m · 6.7 kmButte Bergeyre6.9 kmButte des Moulins8.4 kmMontmartre130 m · 9.3 kmbutte Mortemart55 m · 13 kmMount Valérien161 m · 17 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 kmLac de Créteil0.3 km² · 6.0 km
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 kmObservatoire de Saint-MaurBortle 9 · 4.9 kmAstronomy tower of the SorbonneBortle 9 · 6.9 kmGlobe CélesteBortle 9 · 11 kmParis Observatory, PSL UniversityBortle 9 · 15 km↗Camille Flammarion ObservatoryBortle 9 · 16 kmVersailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ObservatoryBortle 8 · 29 km↗
Viewyas4 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonGrande roue des Tuileries8.5 kmMontmartre130 m · 9.4 km↗Eiffel Tower11 km↗Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile12 km↗
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmChâteau d'Eau10 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyMarne514 km · 100 m³/s↗Morbras17 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.
Other forests nearby.
Bois de Vincennes
France
- 47Forestyas Score
- 36%Trees
- 28%Wild
- 1,385Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q271639) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 334,926 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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