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Durban Botanic Gardens

Wayne77 · CC BY-SA 3.0

22% trees around it and 498 species recorded.

48Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km22%
  • wild within 10 km71%
  • species recorded498

The forest around

22% 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 20%Grassland 19%Built-up 61%Trees 22%Grassland 7%Water 5%Bare ground 2%Cropland 0%Built-up 63%Trees 30%Mangroves 0%Grassland 6%Wetland 0%Water 28%Bare ground 4%Cropland 0%Built-up 32%Trees 35%Grassland 4%Water 36%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 23%22%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km20%
  • 1–3 km22%
  • 3–6 km30%
  • 6–10 km35%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees22%
  • Grassland7%
  • Water5%
  • Bare ground2%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up63%

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

498 species recorded.

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

Cannonball tree
Cannonball treeCouroupita guianensis11 recordsRanjithsiji · CC BY-SA 3.0
Indonesian gumVU
Indonesian gumEucalyptus deglupta10 recordsby *amelia* · CC BY 2.0
Candlenut
CandlenutAleurites moluccanus8 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Large-leaved dragon tree
Large-leaved dragon treeDracaena aletriformis7 recordsPurves, M. · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sticky gooseberry
Sticky gooseberryPhysalis viscosa7 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Millettia grandis
Millettia grandisMillettia grandis7 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Riocreuxia torulosa
Riocreuxia torulosaRiocreuxia torulosa7 recordsAlandmanson · CC BY 4.0
Sacred lotus
Sacred lotusNelumbo nucifera6 recordsT.Voekler · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hyacinthbean
HyacinthbeanLablab purpureus6 recordsTaken by Fanghong · CC BY-SA 3.0
Celtis mildbraedii
Celtis mildbraediiCeltis mildbraedii6 recordsPurves, M. ( Michaelwild at en.wikipedia ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
African Baobab
African BaobabAdansonia digitata6 recordsFerdinand Reus from Arnhem, Holland · CC BY-SA 2.0
Heliophila scandensHeliophila scandens11 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

48out of 100

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

  • 22%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 71%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 498Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from June to August.

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

  1. Jan25°24°107 mm
  2. Feb26°24°84 mm
  3. Mar26°24°90 mm
  4. Apr24°22°65 mm
  5. May23°21°40 mm
  6. Jun22°20°27 mm
  7. Jul21°19°42 mm
  8. Aug21°19°36 mm
  9. Sep22°19°64 mm
  10. Oct22°20°100 mm
  11. Nov23°21°122 mm
  12. Dec24°22°110 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Durban Botanic Gardens.

Gardens's from South Africa

Durban Botanic Gardens is an arboretum in South Africa.

Seen from space, 22% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 71% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

498 species have been recorded around it: 223 plants, 8 fungi, 265 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Cannonball tree, Indonesian gum and Candlenut.

The best time to walk is from June to August.

Durban Botanic Gardens-1b
Wayne77 · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Durban Botanic Gardens 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 kmuShaka Village Walk, North Beach parkrun
  • 37shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 3viewpoints within 5 km
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmDurban Tourism Beachfront Office
  • 234car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmDurban Caravan Park, Queensburgh Caravan Resort
  • 62places to stay within 10 kmNomads, Silver Oaks Boutique Hotel, Gibela Backpackers Lodge and 59 more
  • 100restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Durban Botanic Gardens.

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.

Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
Berea Range3.9 kmCowies Hill12 kmNtuzuma14 kmMatabetule20 kmArmstrong Hill22 kmNwabi22 km
Coastya8 beaches within 10 km
Battery Beach3.0 kmNorth Beach3.2 kmCountry Club Beach3.5 kmSouth Beach3.6 kmAddington Beach3.9 kmMission Beach8.7 kmAnstey’s Beach9.0 kmBrighton Beach9.7 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Natal ObservatoryBortle 9 · 0.2 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Umdoni Bird Sanctuary302 species · 24 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.

Durban Botanic Gardens Established Board
Akidjoh · CC BY-SA 3.0
Durban Botanic Gardens-01
Wayne77 · CC BY-SA 3.0
The Durban Banyan Tree
Robert Cutts · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Durban Botanic Gardens

South Africa

  • 48Forestyas Score
  • 22%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 498Species

Karkloof Forest

South Africa · 97 km

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 36%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 251Species

See the guide

Katse Botanical Gardens

Lesotho · 251 km

  • 33Forestyas Score
  • 0%Trees
  • 85%Wild
  • 37Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5316277) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species13,601 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, Coastya, Darkskyas, Birdyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

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

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
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