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Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

Ken and Nyetta · CC BY 2.0

8% trees around it and 1,157 species recorded.

36Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km8%
  • wild within 10 km26%
  • species recorded1,157

The forest around

8% 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 10%Grassland 0%Water 5%Built-up 85%Trees 8%Grassland 0%Water 2%Built-up 90%Trees 16%Grassland 1%Water 1%Built-up 82%Trees 26%Grassland 3%Water 2%Built-up 68%8%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km10%
  • 1–3 km8%
  • 3–6 km16%
  • 6–10 km26%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees8%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water2%
  • Built-up90%

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

1,157 species recorded.

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

Princesstree
PrincesstreePaulownia tomentosa201 recordsJean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 2.5
Albanian spurge
Albanian spurgeEuphorbia characias181 recordsMacro63 · Public domain
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus168 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Laurustinus
LaurustinusViburnum tinus155 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Horse-chestnutVU
Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum146 recordsStephan van Helden · CC BY-SA 4.0
Spreading pellitory
Spreading pellitoryParietaria judaica127 recordsFranco Folini · CC BY 2.5
Annual Meadow Grass
Annual Meadow GrassPoa annua123 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 10:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
European smoketree
European smoketreeCotinus coggygria102 recordsLIght Dim · CC0
Rose of Sharon
Rose of SharonHibiscus syriacus93 recordsWilhelm Zimmerling PAR · CC BY-SA 4.0
Shepherd's purse
Shepherd's purseCapsella bursa-pastoris92 recordsEike Wulfmeyer · CC BY-SA 2.5
Smooth sow-thistle
Smooth sow-thistleSonchus oleraceus92 recordsT.Voekler · CC BY-SA 3.0
Groundsel
GroundselSenecio vulgaris91 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

36out of 100

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

  • 8%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 26%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,157Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan6°0°54 mm
  2. Feb7°0°50 mm
  3. Mar12°2°52 mm
  4. Apr16°5°39 mm
  5. May19°8°64 mm
  6. Jun23°12°60 mm
  7. Jul25°14°55 mm
  8. Aug25°13°59 mm
  9. Sep21°10°42 mm
  10. Oct16°7°57 mm
  11. Nov10°4°61 mm
  12. Dec6°1°69 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

Natural history museum in Paris, France

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle is an arboretum in France.

Seen from space, 8% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 26% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,157 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 17 fungi, 127 birds and 13 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Princesstree, Albanian spurge and Greater Celandine.

The best time to walk is in May.

Grande galerie de l'évolution, Paris 10 April 2014
Ken and Nyetta · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Camping Paris-Estcampsite · 9.2 km · 2 within 10 km
  • Young and Happy Hostelplace to stay · 0.5 km · 2,348 within 10 km
  • Salpêtrièrenearest town · 0.6 km in a straight line
  • Paris-Orly Airport (ORY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 13 km in a straight lineCar hire at ORY airport (Paris)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.

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 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

  • 32marked trails within 5 kmSentier des Côteaux, Traversée de Paris n°2, Traversée de Paris n°3 and 29 more
  • 228named and notable trees within 6 kmRobinier du square René Viviani, Sophora d'Incarville, Fau de Verzy and 225 more
  • 161picnic sites within 4 km
  • 301shelters and huts within 6 kmAbri, Sèvres–Lecourbe and 299 more
  • 43viewpoints within 5 kmBelvédère de la Sibylle, Talus Hardenberg, Butte de Coupeaux and 40 more
  • 44visitor centres within 6 kmAssociation Paris Historique, Centre d'Information et de Documentation de l'Ambassade d'Allemagne, La maison du Limousin and 41 more
  • 1,015car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmCamping Paris-Est, Camping de Paris
  • 2,348places to stay within 10 kmYoung and Happy Hostel, Hôtel Port-Royal, Charles V and 2,345 more
  • 5,720restaurants 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 Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

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
Montagne Sainte-Geneviève61 m · 0.9 kmButte des Moulins3.1 kmButte Bergeyre4.2 kmMontmartre130 m · 5.0 kmbutte Mortemart55 m · 7.6 kmMount Valérien161 m · 11 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Lac de Créteil0.3 km² · 10 kmLac d'Enghien0.3 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 km
Astronomy tower of the SorbonneBortle 9 · 1.1 kmGlobe CélesteBortle 9 · 4.9 kmParis Observatory, PSL UniversityBortle 9 · 9.9 kmObservatoire de Saint-MaurBortle 9 · 11 kmCamille Flammarion ObservatoryBortle 9 · 17 kmVersailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ObservatoryBortle 8 · 24 km
Viewyas5 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Grande roue des Tuileries3.0 kmEiffel Tower4.9 kmMontmartre130 m · 5.1 kmHyatt Regency Paris Etoile6.7 kmBerthelot Tower9.9 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Château d'Eau4.2 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Seine777 km · 500 m³/sBièvre35 km · 0.2 m³/s

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Galerie d'Anatomie comparée - Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
Cette photo a été prise par André ALLIOT · CC0
Squelettes exposés dans la galerie de paléontologie et d’anatomie comparée du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
Soupaloignon95 · CC0
Menton d’une baleine à bosse
Soupaloignon95 · CC0

Other forests nearby.

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

France

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 26%Wild
  • 1,157Species

Chantilly Forest

France · 39 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 83%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,387Species

See the guide

Forest of Fontainebleau

France · 54 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 83%Wild
  • 1,921Species

See the guide

Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

France · 22 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 1,244Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q838691) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species72,026 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas

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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