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Daintree Rainforest

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94% trees around it and 982 species recorded.

88Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWildMangroveFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km94%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded982
  • Altitude69 m

The forest around

94% 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 98%Grassland 2%Built-up 0%Trees 93%Mangroves 4%Grassland 3%Trees 82%Mangroves 9%Grassland 3%Water 6%Trees 64%Mangroves 6%Grassland 5%Water 22%Cropland 2%94%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km98%
  • 1–3 km93%
  • 3–6 km82%
  • 6–10 km64%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees93%
  • Mangroves4%
  • Grassland3%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

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

982 species recorded.

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

Daintree Penda
Daintree PendaLindsayomyrtus racemoides129 recordsDonald Davesne · CC BY 4.0
Idiospermum australiense
Idiospermum australienseIdiospermum australiense123 recordsdivision, CSIRO · CC BY 3.0
Ryparosa kurrangii
Ryparosa kurrangiiRyparosa kurrangii96 recordsChristopher Mitchell · CC BY 4.0
Endiandra cooperana
Endiandra cooperanaEndiandra cooperana87 recordsCentre for National Biodiversity Research · CC BY 4.0
Beilschmiedia castrisinensis
Beilschmiedia castrisinensisBeilschmiedia castrisinensis86 recordsCentre for National Biodiversity Research · CC BY 4.0
Mueller's silky oak
Mueller's silky oakAustromuellera trinervia80 recordsG. Sankowsky · CC BY 4.0
Endiandra microneura
Endiandra microneuraEndiandra microneura73 recordsCentre for National Biodiversity Research · CC BY 4.0
Hairy Walnut
Hairy WalnutEndiandra insignis38 recordsQueensland Herbarium · CC BY 4.0
Xanthostemon formosusXanthostemon formosus83 records
Hernandia albifloraHernandia albiflora82 records
Storckiella australiensisStorckiella australiensis76 records
Grey milkwoodCerbera floribunda69 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

88out of 100

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

  • 94%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 982Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 69 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to September.

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

  1. Jan29°27°367 mm
  2. Feb29°27°378 mm
  3. Mar28°27°429 mm
  4. Apr27°26°186 mm
  5. May26°24°78 mm
  6. Jun24°23°53 mm
  7. Jul24°22°37 mm
  8. Aug24°22°25 mm
  9. Sep25°23°27 mm
  10. Oct26°24°50 mm
  11. Nov27°25°70 mm
  12. Dec28°26°184 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Daintree Rainforest.

Rainforest in the region of the Daintree River, Queensland, Australia

Daintree Rainforest is a forest in Australia.

Seen from space, 94% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

982 species have been recorded around it: 649 plants, 80 fungi, 231 birds and 22 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Daintree Penda, Idiospermum australiense and Ryparosa kurrangii.

The best time to walk is from June to September.

Daintree Rainforest 2
Killerscene · CC0

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.

Daintree Rainforest 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

  • 9viewpoints within 5 kmMcLean's Creek Lookout, Strangler Fig Lookout and 7 more
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmRainforest Village, Thorthon Peak Base Camp, High / Summit Camp and 3 more
  • 20places to stay within 10 kmEden Escape Private Holiday Retreat, Coral Sea Views B&B, Daintree Mountain View Holiday Retreat and 17 more
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Daintree Rainforest.

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.

Peakyas25 mountains within 25 km
Thornton Peak1,374 m · 4.9 kmTable Mountain5.8 kmMount Alexandra8.9 kmSylvania Hill11 kmMount Sorrow14 kmMount Pieter Botte1,009 m · 15 kmRound Mountain21 kmMount Somerset24 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Newell BeachBortle 2 · 25 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.

Daintree Rainforest, Queensland (483855) (9440811465)
Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada · CC BY 2.0
Daintree Rainforest 3
Killerscene · CC0
20160923113050 - One of the many rivers in the Daintree (29917413112)
Felix Dance · CC BY 2.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5209517) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species24,258 open records within 5 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, Darkskyas

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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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