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Dumbrava Sibiului Natural Park

Asurnipal · CC BY-SA 4.0

48% trees around it and 177 species recorded.

49Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km48%
  • wild within 10 km62%
  • species recorded177
  • Altitude522 m

The forest around

48% 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 86%Grassland 6%Cropland 6%Built-up 1%Trees 43%Grassland 39%Water 0%Cropland 18%Built-up 0%Trees 24%Grassland 31%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 29%Built-up 16%Trees 39%Grassland 23%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 27%Built-up 11%48%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km86%
  • 1–3 km43%
  • 3–6 km24%
  • 6–10 km39%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees43%
  • Grassland39%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland18%
  • 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

177 species recorded.

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

Erigeron canadensis
Erigeron canadensisErigeron canadensis19 recordsAndrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA · CC BY 2.0
Himalayan Balsam
Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera18 recordsGuptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eastern daisy fleabane
Eastern daisy fleabaneErigeron annuus17 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Slender rush
Slender rushJuncus tenuis11 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
False Acacia
False AcaciaRobinia pseudoacacia10 recordsThis Photo was taken by Wolfgang Moroder . Feel free to use my photos, but please mention · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cherry plum
Cherry plumPrunus cerasifera9 records4028mdk09 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Canada goldenrod
Canada goldenrodSolidago canadensis9 recordsGeorg Slickers · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Tumble Weed
Common Tumble WeedAmaranthus retroflexus9 recordsLynk media · CC BY-SA 3.0
Smooth peruvian daisy
Smooth peruvian daisyGalinsoga parviflora8 recordsJuan Carlos Fonseca Mata · CC BY-SA 4.0
Staghorn sumac
Staghorn sumacRhus typhina8 recordsThe original uploader was Muggwort17 at English Wikipedia . · Public domain
Indian Corn
Indian CornZea mays8 recordsAkwugo · CC BY-SA 4.0
White panicle aster
White panicle asterSymphyotrichum lanceolatum8 recordsElizabeth Ballard · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

49out of 100

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

  • 48%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 62%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 177Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 522 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

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

  1. Jan-1°-8°41 mm
  2. Feb1°-7°37 mm
  3. Mar6°-4°48 mm
  4. Apr12°1°62 mm
  5. May17°7°96 mm
  6. Jun21°11°117 mm
  7. Jul23°13°105 mm
  8. Aug24°13°76 mm
  9. Sep18°8°62 mm
  10. Oct12°3°62 mm
  11. Nov6°-2°48 mm
  12. Dec0°-6°46 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Dumbrava Sibiului Natural Park.

Protected area in Romania (2.706.)

Dumbrava Sibiului Natural Park is a forest in Romania, 522 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 48% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 62% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

177 species have been recorded around it: 104 plants, 0 fungi, 73 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Erigeron canadensis, Himalayan Balsam and Eastern daisy fleabane.

The best time to walk is in September.

Hermannstadt (Sibiu)-Zoo-Emu (dromaius novaehollandiae) drinking water-04ASD
Asurnipal · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Camping Ananascampsite · 4.4 km · 3 within 10 km
  • Pensiunea Green Houseplace to stay · 5.0 km · 172 within 10 km
  • Poplacanearest town · 5.0 km in a straight line
  • Sibiu International Airport (SBZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 5 km in a straight lineCar hire at SBZ airport (Sibiu)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.

Dumbrava Sibiului Natural Park 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

  • 7marked trails within 5 kmCisnădie - Vf. Măgura - Valea Sadului, Cisnădioara - Curmătura Măgurii, Cisnădioara - vf. Măgura and 4 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 4picnic sites within 4 km
  • 39shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 3viewpoints within 5 km
  • 7visitor centres within 6 kmBilete, Centrul de informare turistică, Tourist Info Sibiu and 4 more
  • 35car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmCamping Ananas, Sibiu City Camping
  • 172places to stay within 10 kmPensiunea Green House, Hostel Caldera, Korona and 169 more
  • 8restaurants 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 Dumbrava Sibiului Natural Park.

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.

Peakyas9 mountains within 25 km
Onceștii18 kmMagura409 m · 18 kmGrohotisu856 m · 22 kmDealul Făgețelului23 kmPaului1,029 m · 23 kmPlesii732 m · 23 kmScaune807 m · 25 kmPaltinis687 m · 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.

Hermannstadt (Sibiu)-Zoo-Emu (dromaius novaehollandiae) drinking water-01ASD
Asurnipal · CC BY-SA 4.0
Atelaje, Muzeul Astra, Sibiu - panoramio
mihai moise · CC BY 3.0
2026-09-09-ASTRA-Complex-Sibiu-01
Roeland P. · CC0

Other forests nearby.

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

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  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 30%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 274Species

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Hoia Forest

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  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 33%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 401Species

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Kuzii protected area

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  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 147Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5313744) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,823 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

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

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