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Niepołomice Forest

MMalczyk · CC BY-SA 3.0

91% trees around it and 305 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km91%
  • wild within 10 km71%
  • species recorded305
  • Altitude215 m

The forest around

91% 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 94%Grassland 6%Trees 91%Grassland 9%Cropland 0%Trees 65%Grassland 23%Water 0%Cropland 10%Built-up 2%Trees 30%Grassland 28%Water 1%Cropland 34%Built-up 6%91%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km94%
  • 1–3 km91%
  • 3–6 km65%
  • 6–10 km30%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees91%
  • Grassland9%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland0%
  • 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

305 species recorded.

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

Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur28 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
American bird cherry
American bird cherryPrunus serotina26 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
May lily
May lilyMaianthemum bifolium24 recordsBouba at French Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia22 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain
Narrow buckler-fern
Narrow buckler-fernDryopteris carthusiana22 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Alder Buckthorn
Alder BuckthornFrangula alnus20 recordsOldMuzzle · CC BY-SA 3.0
Scots Pine
Scots PinePinus sylvestris19 recordsHello, I am Bruce on Flickr · CC BY-SA 2.0
Wood-sorrel
Wood-sorrelOxalis acetosella18 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
American milletgrass
American milletgrassMilium effusum15 recordsJames K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0
Northern Red Oak
Northern Red OakQuercus rubra14 recordsNicholas A. Tonelli from Northeast Pennsylvania, USA · CC BY 2.0
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum14 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus13 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

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

  • 91%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 71%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 305Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 215 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan0°-7°46 mm
  2. Feb2°-6°42 mm
  3. Mar7°-2°47 mm
  4. Apr14°3°52 mm
  5. May19°9°96 mm
  6. Jun23°13°94 mm
  7. Jul25°15°107 mm
  8. Aug26°14°73 mm
  9. Sep20°9°72 mm
  10. Oct14°4°58 mm
  11. Nov7°0°46 mm
  12. Dec2°-4°41 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Niepołomice Forest.

Forest complex in western part of Sandomierz Basin, Poland

Niepołomice Forest is a forest in Poland, 215 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 91% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 71% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

305 species have been recorded around it: 128 plants, 5 fungi, 172 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Pedunculate Oak, American bird cherry and May lily.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Puszcza Niepołomicka Niepolomice Forest 2010-05-23
MMalczyk · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Bobrowe Rozlewiskocampsite · 3.3 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Hotel nad Rabąplace to stay · 6.7 km · 14 within 10 km
  • Wola Zabierzowskanearest town · 4.5 km in a straight line
  • Kraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 42 km in a straight lineCar hire at KRK airport (Balice)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.

Niepołomice Forest 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 kmPKP Stanisławice - Niepołomice, Ścieżka edukacyjna "Pomocnik Leśnika"
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmDąb Jagielloński
  • 21shelters and huts within 6 kmWiata, MOR Wola Batorska and 19 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmBobrowe Rozlewisko
  • 14places to stay within 10 kmHotel nad Rabą, Azalia, Millenium and 11 more
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • restaurants 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 Niepołomice Forest.

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.

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Grunwaldzki Mound198 m · 12 kmKacza Góra349 m · 18 kmBocheniec396 m · 23 kmWzgórze Kaim24 kmZarnowka457 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.

Niepolomice 09 - Castle Canon
Scotch Mist · CC BY-SA 4.0
The sun in forest (1223998380)
Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium · CC BY-SA 2.0
Kapliczka św. Huberta PN2
Jerzy Opioła · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Niepołomice Forest

Poland

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 305Species

Bartek

Poland · 107 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 95%Wild
  • 10Species

See the guide

Sandomierz Wilderness

Poland · 127 km

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 2Species

See the guide

Solska Wilderness

Poland · 194 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 85%Wild
  • 100Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7031799) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species10,889 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

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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