Germany arboretum
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin
Paul VanDerWerf · CC BY 2.0
61% trees around it and 712 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km61%
- wild within 10 km62%
- species recorded712
- Altitude55 m
The forest around
61% 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 km64%
- 1–3 km61%
- 3–6 km61%
- 6–10 km48%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees61%
- Grassland1%
- Water0%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up37%
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
712 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
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NT
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Open records within 2 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).
- 61%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 62%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 712Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
- 55 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking in May and in September.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan-3°54 mm
- Feb-3°38 mm
- Mar-1°40 mm
- Apr4°28 mm
- May8°53 mm
- Jun13°57 mm
- Jul15°81 mm
- Aug14°58 mm
- Sep10°49 mm
- Oct5°49 mm
- Nov2°49 mm
- Dec-1°48 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin.
Botanical garden and museum located in Berlin
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin is an arboretum in Germany.
Seen from space, 61% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 62% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
712 species have been recorded around it: 519 plants, 78 fungi, 107 birds and 8 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Small-leaved Lime, Norway maple and Large-leaved Lime.
The best time to walk is in May and in September.
Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Wohnmobil Stellplatz Marina Lankecampsite · 9.5 km · 8 within 10 km
- B&B Hotelplace to stay · 3.9 km · 698 within 10 km
- Dahlemnearest town · 1.2 km in a straight line
- Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 17 km in a straight lineCar hire at BER airport (Berlin)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
- 13marked trails within 5 kmNord-Süd-Weg, Teltower Dörferweg, Teltowkanalweg and 10 more
- 27named and notable trees within 6 kmKaisereiche, Haber-Linde, Friedenseiche and 24 more
- 39picnic sites within 4 km
- 338shelters and huts within 6 km
- 36viewpoints within 5 kmTeufelsberg, Fliegeberg and 34 more
- 11visitor centres within 6 kmPforte und Auskunft, Infopunkt, DB Information and 8 more
- 2,713car parks within 3 km
- 8campsites within 10 kmWohnmobil Stellplatz Marina Lanke, Campingplatz Gatow, CityCamp Süd and 5 more
- 698places to stay within 10 kmB&B Hotel, Rasthof AVUS, Grand Hyatt Berlin and 695 more
- 424restaurants 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 Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin.
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.
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Lakeyas8 lakes within 15 kmKrumme Lanke0.3 km² · 6.0 km↗Großer Wannsee16 km² · 9.9 km↗Flughafensee0.2 km² · 13 kmKarpfenteich im Treptower Park0.2 km² · 13 kmGroß Glienicker See0.5 km² · 13 kmSacrower See0.9 km² · 14 km↗Griebnitzsee0.4 km² · 14 km↗Lake Tegel2.7 km² · 14 km↗
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 kmPlanetarium am InsulanerBortle 9 · 3.1 kmBerlin ObservatoryBortle 9 · 8.2 km↗Archenhold ObservatoryBortle 9 · 12 km↗Zeiss Major PlanetariumBortle 9 · 13 kmLeibniz Institute for Astrophysics PotsdamBortle 6 · 15 km↗Einstein TowerBortle 7 · 18 km↗
Viewyas4 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonGreat Berlin Wheel6.4 km↗Belvedere8.1 km↗Spreepark Ferris wheel13 kmtower building Klein-Glienicke Castle15 km
Birdyas7 birding sites within 25 kmSPA Grunewald199 species · 3.7 kmWestlicher Düppeler Forst187 species · 13 km↗Döberitzer Heide16 kmSpandauer Forst182 species · 16 kmU. Rhinluch/Dreetzer See, Havell. Luch und Belziger Landschaftsw.18 kmTegeler Fließtal201 species · 18 kmNuthe-Nieplitz-Niederung146 species · 24 km↗
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 kmMuschelgrotte im Neuen Garten16 kmNeptune Grotto19 km↗
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmWasserfall im Viktoriapark6.5 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.
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin
Germany
- 64Forestyas Score
- 61%Trees
- 62%Wild
- 712Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q163255) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 42,322 open records within 2 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, Birdyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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