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Georgia Georgia arboretum

National Botanical Garden of Georgia

Jason Rosenberg · CC BY 2.0

35% trees around it and 534 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km35%
  • wild within 10 km64%
  • species recorded534
  • Altitude457 m

The forest around

35% 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 38%Grassland 20%Water 4%Bare ground 1%Built-up 37%Trees 34%Shrubland 1%Grassland 20%Water 2%Built-up 43%Trees 27%Shrubland 0%Grassland 34%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 36%Trees 25%Shrubland 0%Grassland 33%Water 6%Bare ground 0%Cropland 14%Built-up 21%35%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km38%
  • 1–3 km34%
  • 3–6 km27%
  • 6–10 km25%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees34%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland20%
  • Water2%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up43%

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

534 species recorded.

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

Pomegranate
PomegranatePunica granatum16 recordsH. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Syrian beancaper
Syrian beancaperZygophyllum fabago14 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Hurior assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain
European smoketree
European smoketreeCotinus coggygria14 recordsLIght Dim · CC0
Colchicum trigynum
Colchicum trigynumColchicum trigynum11 recordsAverater · CC BY 4.0
Fig
FigFicus carica11 recordsSilverije · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jeruselem thorn
Jeruselem thornPaliurus spina-christi11 recordsFritz Geller-Grimm · CC BY-SA 2.5
Alcea rugosa
Alcea rugosaAlcea rugosa11 recordsMichael Wolf · CC BY-SA 3.0
Black maidenhair
Black maidenhairAdiantum capillus-veneris9 recordsBalles2601 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Yellow monkswort
Yellow monkswortNonea lutea9 recordspeganum from Small Dole, England · CC BY-SA 2.0
Astrodaucus orientalis
Astrodaucus orientalisAstrodaucus orientalis9 recordsLazaregagnidze · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cherry laurel
Cherry laurelPrunus laurocerasus7 recordsKarduelis · Public domain
Traveller's-joy
Traveller's-joyClematis vitalba7 recordsMichael Gasperl ( Migas ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

51out of 100

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

  • 35%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 64%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 534Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 457 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan6°-4°18 mm
  2. Feb8°-3°17 mm
  3. Mar14°1°28 mm
  4. Apr18°5°49 mm
  5. May24°11°58 mm
  6. Jun30°16°49 mm
  7. Jul33°19°27 mm
  8. Aug32°19°27 mm
  9. Sep27°14°25 mm
  10. Oct20°8°38 mm
  11. Nov12°2°25 mm
  12. Dec7°-2°17 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

National Botanical Garden of Georgia.

Botanical garden in Tbilisi, Georgia

National Botanical Garden of Georgia is an arboretum in Georgia, 457 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 35% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 64% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

534 species have been recorded around it: 387 plants, 0 fungi, 141 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Pomegranate, Syrian beancaper and European smoketree.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

Botanical Garden & Narikala, Tbilisi
Jason Rosenberg · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

  • VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: Mo-Su 09:00-19:30 · ticket requiredOfficial site
  • Gremeli Wine & Campingcampsite · 7.4 km · 12 within 10 km
  • ბარსუნაplace to stay · 0.7 km · 892 within 10 km
  • Tbilisinearest town · 2.3 km in a straight line
  • Tbilisi International Airport (TBS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 km in a straight lineCar hire at TBS airport (Tbilisi)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.

National Botanical Garden of Georgia 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

  • 23marked trails within 5 km
  • 16named and notable trees within 6 kmპალმა and 15 more
  • 39picnic sites within 4 km
  • 91shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 122viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 187car parks within 3 km
  • 12campsites within 10 kmGremeli Wine & Camping, caucasus and 10 more
  • 892places to stay within 10 kmბარსუნა, Tbili Metekhi Boutique Hotel, მარგო and 889 more
  • 886restaurants 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 National Botanical Garden of Georgia.

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.

Peakyas27 mountains within 25 km
Udzo1,416 m · 9.0 kmMount Namuris Seri1,495 m · 10 kmAzeula1,351 m · 11 kmKashveti1,100 m · 13 kmTselubani998 m · 16 kmDidgori1,275 m · 18 kmSaghandzile1,337 m · 19 kmZedazeni1,178 m · 21 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Tbilisi ObservatoryBortle 8 · 3.8 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.

Botanic Garden, Tbilisi
dare · CC BY-SA 2.0
Waterfall and arch bridge, Tbilisi Botanical Garden
Sb2s3 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Autumn season in Butanic Garden فصل پاییز در باغ بوتانیکال تفلیس 02
Mostafameraji · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

National Botanical Garden of Georgia

Georgia

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 534Species

Vanadzor Botanical Garden

Armenia · 100 km

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 23%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 82Species

See the guide

Sevan Botanical Garden

Armenia · 126 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 268Species

See the guide

Batumi Botanical Garden

Georgia · 256 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 62%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 395Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q894660) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species11,434 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, 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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