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Botanical Garden of the Comenius University

Pelex · CC BY-SA 4.0

39% trees around it and 606 species recorded.

50Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km39%
  • wild within 10 km56%
  • species recorded606
  • Altitude156 m

The forest around

39% 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 24%Grassland 2%Built-up 75%Trees 40%Grassland 4%Water 7%Built-up 48%Trees 49%Grassland 7%Water 4%Cropland 13%Built-up 27%Trees 42%Grassland 11%Water 3%Bare ground 0%Cropland 30%Built-up 14%39%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km24%
  • 1–3 km40%
  • 3–6 km49%
  • 6–10 km42%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees40%
  • Grassland4%
  • Water7%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up48%

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

606 species recorded.

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

Tree of heaven
Tree of heavenAilanthus altissima92 recordsDarkone ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus51 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Leatherleaf Viburnum
Leatherleaf ViburnumViburnum rhytidophyllum42 recordsJean-Jacques MILAN · CC BY-SA 3.0
Traveller's-joy
Traveller's-joyClematis vitalba36 recordsMichael Gasperl ( Migas ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ramsons
RamsonsAllium ursinum34 recordsAgnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0
Norway maple
Norway mapleAcer platanoides34 recordsMartin Bobka (= Martin120 ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Elder
ElderSambucus nigra32 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Field Maple
Field MapleAcer campestre32 recordsWillow · CC BY-SA 2.5
European smoketree
European smoketreeCotinus coggygria31 recordsLIght Dim · CC0
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix31 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata29 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mugwort
MugwortArtemisia vulgaris28 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · 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.

50out of 100

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

  • 39%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 56%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 606Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 156 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April.

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

  1. Jan2°-4°40 mm
  2. Feb5°-3°36 mm
  3. Mar10°0°41 mm
  4. Apr17°5°35 mm
  5. May22°10°71 mm
  6. Jun26°15°73 mm
  7. Jul29°17°69 mm
  8. Aug28°16°69 mm
  9. Sep22°11°69 mm
  10. Oct16°6°49 mm
  11. Nov9°2°43 mm
  12. Dec3°-3°41 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Botanical Garden of the Comenius University.

Botanical garden in Bratislava, Slovakia

Botanical Garden of the Comenius University is an arboretum in Slovakia.

Seen from space, 39% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 56% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

606 species have been recorded around it: 482 plants, 15 fungi, 109 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Tree of heaven, Greater Celandine and Leatherleaf Viburnum.

The best time to walk is in April.

Botanic Garden of Comenius University
Pelex · 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.

Botanical Garden of the Comenius University 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

  • 42marked trails within 5 kmOstösterreichischer Grenzlandweg 07, European long distance path E8 - part Slovakia, Chodník Jurka Szomolanyiho and 39 more
  • 20named and notable trees within 6 kmLipa profesora Jána Čápa, Najstarší strom v Ružinove - Dub letný, Vŕba Mariky Gombitovej and 17 more
  • 136picnic sites within 4 kmPartizánska lúka, Klub Mark Twain and 134 more
  • 198shelters and huts within 6 kmLúčna besiedka, Skautská besiedka, Podhorská besiedka and 195 more
  • 29viewpoints within 5 kmPosed, Rosslerov lom, UFO and 26 more
  • 8visitor centres within 6 kmTuristické informačné centrum, Bratislavské kultúrne a informačné stredisko, Zákaznícke centrum Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko and 5 more
  • 2,076car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmHuntry camp Bratislava, Zlaté Piesky
  • 235places to stay within 10 kmDOWNTOWN BRATISLAVA B&B, City, BEIGLI and 232 more
  • 850restaurants 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 Botanical Garden of the Comenius University.

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.

Peakyas32 mountains within 25 km
Kamzík439 m · 3.8 kmDevínska Kobyla514 m · 9.4 kmBraunsberg346 m · 11 kmMalý Javorník584 m · 12 kmVeľký Javorník594 m · 13 kmSomár650 m · 18 kmKonské hlavy649 m · 22 kmČmeľok709 m · 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Zlaté Piesky0.6 km² · 7.3 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Modra ObservatoryBortle 4 · 28 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising1.1 kmKamzík TV Tower3.9 kmAussichtsturm Königswarte7.2 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Sysľovské polia205 species · 12 kmŠúr137 species · 14 kmSandboden und Praterterrasse56 species · 24 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Güntherhöhle13 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Danube2,850 km · 5,433 m³/sDrincea RiverBorzaCsömöri StreamKalicsa Stream

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 in Bratislava 2019-05-29 01
Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova · CC BY-SA 4.0
Botanical Garden in Bratislava 2019-05-29 02
Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova · CC BY-SA 4.0
Crowne Plaza Bratislava
No machine-readable author provided. Kelovy assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

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Slovakia

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 39%Trees
  • 56%Wild
  • 606Species

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Slovakia · 6 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 840Species

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Maurer Wald

Austria · 64 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 2,164Species

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Vienna Woods

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  • 83Forestyas Score
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  • 96%Wild
  • 353Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4175880) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species10,102 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas

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

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