
France forest
Cerisy Forest
Roi.dagobert · CC BY-SA 3.0
68% trees around it and 1,015 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km68%
- wild within 10 km68%
- species recorded1,015
- Altitude141 m
The forest around
68% 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 km99%
- 1–3 km64%
- 3–6 km25%
- 6–10 km22%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees64%
- Grassland22%
- Cropland13%
- Built-up1%
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
1,015 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
















































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).
- 68%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 68%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 1,015Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 141 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking in June and in September.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan2°69 mm
- Feb1°58 mm
- Mar3°59 mm
- Apr5°45 mm
- May8°59 mm
- Jun11°53 mm
- Jul13°57 mm
- Aug13°60 mm
- Sep10°48 mm
- Oct8°77 mm
- Nov5°79 mm
- Dec2°82 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Cerisy Forest.
Woodland in France
Cerisy Forest is a forest in France.
Seen from space, 68% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 68% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
1,015 species have been recorded around it: 503 plants, 363 fungi, 117 birds and 32 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Bracken and English holly.
The best time to walk is in June and in September.

Get there and walk
- Aire De Camping Carcampsite · 3.3 km · 12 within 10 km
- Les Trois Tilleulsplace to stay · 3.4 km · 11 within 10 km
- Le Molay-Littrynearest town · 6.1 km in a straight line
- Caen Carpiquet airport (CFR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 32 km in a straight lineCar hire at CFR airport (Caen)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
- 2marked trails within 5 kmAutour de la Drôme, Autour de l'abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt
- 10picnic sites within 4 km
- 12shelters and huts within 6 km
- 1viewpoints within 5 km
- 2visitor centres within 6 kmMaison de la Forêt
- 19car parks within 3 km
- 12campsites within 10 kmAire De Camping Car, Aire pour camping-cars Balleroy, Domaine de Litteau and 9 more
- 11places to stay within 10 kmLes Trois Tilleuls, Chez Flo et Manon, Château de Planquery and 8 more
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- named and notable trees within 6 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3078838) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 20,068 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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