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Bucharest Botanical Garden

CristianChirita · CC BY-SA 3.0

23% trees around it and 136 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km23%
  • wild within 10 km39%
  • species recorded136
  • Altitude76 m

The forest around

23% 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 34%Grassland 2%Water 2%Cropland 0%Built-up 62%Trees 22%Grassland 2%Water 3%Cropland 0%Built-up 73%Trees 25%Grassland 6%Water 5%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 61%Trees 24%Grassland 16%Wetland 0%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 18%Built-up 39%23%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km34%
  • 1–3 km22%
  • 3–6 km25%
  • 6–10 km24%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees22%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water3%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up73%

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

136 species recorded.

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

Tree of heaven
Tree of heavenAilanthus altissima29 recordsDarkone ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Pigeon Berry
Pigeon BerryPhytolacca americana14 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Western boxelder
Western boxelderAcer negundo12 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Staghorn sumac
Staghorn sumacRhus typhina12 recordsThe original uploader was Muggwort17 at English Wikipedia . · Public domain
Winter-aconite
Winter-aconiteEranthis hyemalis11 recordsSydenham Edwards / William Curtis · Public domain
Eastern daisy fleabane
Eastern daisy fleabaneErigeron annuus10 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Tumble Weed
Common Tumble WeedAmaranthus retroflexus9 recordsLynk media · CC BY-SA 3.0
Quince
QuinceCydonia oblonga8 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Johnsongrass
JohnsongrassSorghum halepense7 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana7 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bois d'Arc
Bois d'ArcMaclura pomifera7 recordsThomas R Machnitzki ( thomas machnitzki.com) · CC BY 3.0
Thicket Creeper
Thicket CreeperParthenocissus inserta7 recordscassi saari · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

34out of 100

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

  • 23%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 39%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 136Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 76 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan2°-5°44 mm
  2. Feb6°-4°34 mm
  3. Mar12°1°39 mm
  4. Apr18°6°43 mm
  5. May24°12°65 mm
  6. Jun29°16°79 mm
  7. Jul32°18°67 mm
  8. Aug32°18°46 mm
  9. Sep26°13°52 mm
  10. Oct18°7°56 mm
  11. Nov11°2°42 mm
  12. Dec4°-3°48 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bucharest Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Romania.

Seen from space, 23% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 39% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

136 species have been recorded around it: 82 plants, 2 fungi, 51 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Tree of heaven, Pigeon Berry and Western boxelder.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

Gradina Botanica iunie 2014 IMG 3798 01
CristianChirita · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: Apr-Sep 08:00-19:00; Oct-Mar 09:00-17:00; Mo off · ticket requiredOfficial site
  • Camping Casa Albacampsite · 9.1 km · 2 within 10 km
  • Kretan Hostelplace to stay · 1.9 km · 332 within 10 km
  • Bucharestnearest town · 3.4 km in a straight line
  • Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport (BBU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 8 km in a straight lineCar hire at OTP airport (Otopeni)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.

Bucharest 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 26picnic sites within 4 kmMese Șah and 25 more
  • 54shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 15viewpoints within 5 kmMovila, Tineretului Park Coicioc Lake Overlook and 13 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmInformation, Centrul Național de Informare și Promovare Turistică
  • 568car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmCamping Casa Alba, Camping București Belvedere
  • 332places to stay within 10 kmKretan Hostel, Radisson Blu, Hotel Central and 329 more
  • 704restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 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 Bucharest 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
Dealul Spirii2.3 kmDealul Mitropoliei3.1 km
Lakeyas6 lakes within 15 km
Morii Lake3.0 km² · 3.2 kmLake Herăstrău0.4 km² · 4.4 kmLake Floreasca0.4 km² · 4.6 kmLake Plumbuita0.4 km² · 5.9 kmLake Grivița0.4 km² · 6.6 kmLake Pantelimon2.9 km² · 13 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Admiral Vasile Urseanu House, BucharestBortle 9 · 2.6 kmBucharest Astronomical ObservatoryBortle 9 · 3.9 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Foișorul de Foc4.5 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Colentina River101 km · 7.8 m³/sIlfov River96 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.

Bucarest Botanical garden islet
Lichinga · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bucuresti, Romania. GRADINA BOTANICA. Bradul in mai. (B-II-a-B-18508)
Britchi Mirela · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bucuresti, Romania. GRADINA BOTANICA. Doua alei in parc. (B-II-a-B-18508)
Britchi Mirela · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Bucharest Botanical Garden

Romania

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 23%Trees
  • 39%Wild
  • 136Species

Băneasa Forest

Romania · 10 km

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 40%Wild
  • 267Species

See the guide

Dumbrava Sibiului Natural Park

Romania · 212 km

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 48%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 177Species

See the guide

Botanical garden, Balchik

Bulgaria · 203 km

  • 38Forestyas Score
  • 27%Trees
  • 58%Wild
  • 113Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2616933) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,398 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, 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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