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Iran Iran arboretum

National Botanical Garden of Iran

Mahmoodrezamo · CC BY-SA 4.0

13% trees around it and 133 species recorded.

34Forestyas Score

ArboretumMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km13%
  • wild within 10 km60%
  • species recorded133
  • Altitude1,267 m

The forest around

13% 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 34%Shrubland 9%Grassland 10%Water 0%Bare ground 7%Built-up 40%Trees 11%Shrubland 6%Grassland 7%Bare ground 17%Cropland 0%Built-up 60%Trees 8%Shrubland 5%Grassland 24%Water 2%Bare ground 17%Cropland 3%Built-up 40%Trees 8%Shrubland 3%Grassland 29%Water 0%Bare ground 24%Cropland 6%Built-up 29%13%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km34%
  • 1–3 km11%
  • 3–6 km8%
  • 6–10 km8%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees11%
  • Shrubland6%
  • Grassland7%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground17%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up60%

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

133 species recorded.

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

Common dandelion
Common dandelionTaraxacum officinale3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cream narcissus
Cream narcissusNarcissus tazetta2 recordsZachi Evenor · CC BY 2.0
Sacred thorn-apple
Sacred thorn-appleDatura wrightii2 recordsDlarsen · Public domain
Common mallow
Common mallowMalva sylvestris2 recordsKöhler, F. E. (Franz Eugen) · Public domain
Oleander
OleanderNerium oleander2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY 2.5
Common jasmine
Common jasmineJasminum officinale2 recordsC T Johansson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hyssop
HyssopHyssopus officinalis2 recordsRobert Flogaus-Faust · CC BY 4.0
Judas-tree
Judas-treeCercis siliquastrum2 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata2 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bread WheatTriticum aestivum2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

34out of 100

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

  • 13%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 60%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 133Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,267 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from March to April.

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

  1. Jan8°-2°34 mm
  2. Feb11°0°34 mm
  3. Mar17°4°35 mm
  4. Apr22°9°38 mm
  5. May29°15°15 mm
  6. Jun35°20°6 mm
  7. Jul38°23°7 mm
  8. Aug36°22°8 mm
  9. Sep32°18°16 mm
  10. Oct24°12°36 mm
  11. Nov15°4°45 mm
  12. Dec10°0°35 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 Iran.

Garden in Tehran, Iran

National Botanical Garden of Iran is an arboretum in Iran, 1,267 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 13% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 60% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

133 species have been recorded around it: 10 plants, 0 fungi, 119 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common dandelion, Cream narcissus and Sacred thorn-apple.

The best time to walk is from March to April.

National Botanic Garden Karaj
Mahmoodrezamo · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • کمپ لتمالcampsite · 6.7 km · 1 within 10 km
  • هتل دانشplace to stay · 1.4 km · 29 within 10 km
  • Qodsnearest town · 6.2 km in a straight line
  • Mehrabad International Airport (THR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 14 km in a straight line

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 Iran 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

  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 56shelters and huts within 6 kmجانپناه امید and 55 more
  • 86car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmکمپ لتمال
  • 29places to stay within 10 kmهتل دانش, برج صدف, 3 Star and 26 more
  • 22restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 National Botanical Garden of Iran.

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.

Peakyas66 mountains within 25 km
Kūh-e Dashteh11 kmKūh-e Chāl17 kmKūh-e Gandom Chāl18 kmChin Kalagh2,820 m · 19 kmKūh-e Sorūdār20 kmKūh-e Chāl Nājī20 kmKūh-e Kotal Khākī21 kmShah Neshin3,875 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.

Alley in Tehran Botanical garden 2016
Averater · CC BY 4.0
Gramina in Tehran Botanical garden 2016
Averater · CC BY 4.0
National Botanical Garden of Iran 1
GTVM92 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

National Botanical Garden of Iran

Iran

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 13%Trees
  • 60%Wild
  • 133Species

Chitgar Park

Iran · 3 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 216Species

See the guide

Lavizan Forest Park

Iran · 30 km

  • 32Forestyas Score
  • 26%Trees
  • 50%Wild
  • 139Species

See the guide

Pardisan Park

Iran · 16 km

  • 27Forestyas Score
  • 15%Trees
  • 30%Wild
  • 136Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6971107) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species10,702 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

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

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