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Gemenc

Elekes Andor · CC BY-SA 4.0

80% trees around it and 37 species recorded.

54Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km80%
  • wild within 10 km55%
  • species recorded37
  • Altitude101 m

The forest around

80% 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 96%Grassland 3%Wetland 0%Water 1%Trees 78%Grassland 6%Wetland 0%Water 13%Cropland 3%Trees 44%Grassland 8%Wetland 0%Water 5%Cropland 43%Trees 34%Grassland 10%Wetland 0%Water 4%Cropland 48%Built-up 4%80%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km96%
  • 1–3 km78%
  • 3–6 km44%
  • 6–10 km34%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees78%
  • Grassland6%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water13%
  • Cropland3%
  • 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

37 species recorded.

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

Small yellow balsam
Small yellow balsamImpatiens parviflora5 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5
Cypress Spurge
Cypress SpurgeEuphorbia cyparissias2 recordsKrzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lady's BedstrawGalium verum2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

54out of 100

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

  • 80%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 55%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 37Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 101 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April.

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

  1. Jan3°-4°38 mm
  2. Feb5°-3°44 mm
  3. Mar11°1°40 mm
  4. Apr18°6°37 mm
  5. May22°11°68 mm
  6. Jun27°15°71 mm
  7. Jul30°17°61 mm
  8. Aug30°17°59 mm
  9. Sep23°12°62 mm
  10. Oct17°6°54 mm
  11. Nov10°2°44 mm
  12. Dec4°-3°44 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Gemenc.

Forest in Hungary

Gemenc is a forest in Hungary.

Seen from space, 80% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 55% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

37 species have been recorded around it: 3 plants, 0 fungi, 34 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Small yellow balsam, Cypress Spurge and Lady's Bedstraw.

The best time to walk is in April.

Gemenc forest (10)
Elekes Andor · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Sátorhely vízitúrázóknakcampsite · 9.1 km · 2 within 10 km
  • Sziget Hotel Veránkaplace to stay · 1.9 km · 30 within 10 km
  • Érsekcsanádnearest town · 7.5 km in a straight line
  • Pécs-Pogány International Airport (PEV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 58 km in a straight lineCar hire at OSI airport (Osijek)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.

Gemenc 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 kmAlföldi Kéktúra (Sátoraljaújhely – Dévaványa – Szekszárd), Magyar Zarándokút (alternatív szakasz: Fajsz–Baja–Bátaszék–Ófalu), K+ (Molnárka-tanösvény) and 4 more
  • 16named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 1picnic sites within 4 kmPihenőhely játszótérrel
  • 3shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmMalomtelelő
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmSátorhely vízitúrázóknak, Napsugár Szálló
  • 30places to stay within 10 kmSziget Hotel Veránka, Bárka pihenőház, Fekete Gólya Pihenőház and 27 more
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Gemenc.

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.

Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Nagyhegy5.0 kmAranydomb17 kmÖreg-hegy18 kmElő-hegy19 kmBottyán-hegy19 kmSzivárványos-hegy20 kmÖreg-Petre-hegy20 kmVár-hegy21 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Gemenc65 species · this place

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Gemenc forest (11)
Elekes Andor · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Gemenc

Hungary

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 55%Wild
  • 37Species

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Hungary · 120 km

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 33%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 46Species

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Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden

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  • 38Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 55%Wild
  • 192Species

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Bratislavský lesný park

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  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 840Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5530607) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species166 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, Birdyas

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

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