Norway arboretum
Oslo Botanical Garden
Helge Høifødt · CC BY-SA 3.0
30% trees around it and 1,719 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km30%
- wild within 10 km77%
- species recorded1,719
The forest around
30% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km30%
- 1–3 km30%
- 3–6 km49%
- 6–10 km59%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees30%
- Grassland2%
- Water8%
- Bare ground0%
- Cropland2%
- Built-up57%
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
1,719 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
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Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 30%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 77%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 1,719Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
When to walk
Best for walking from June to August.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan-8°78 mm
- Feb-8°60 mm
- Mar-5°56 mm
- Apr0°61 mm
- May5°92 mm
- Jun9°96 mm
- Jul12°112 mm
- Aug11°122 mm
- Sep7°96 mm
- Oct2°104 mm
- Nov-3°94 mm
- Dec-7°78 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Oslo Botanical Garden.
University Botanical Garden in Oslo
Oslo Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Norway.
Seen from space, 30% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 77% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
1,719 species have been recorded around it: 925 plants, 597 fungi, 182 birds and 15 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Turkish wartycabbage, Red Clover and Wych Elm.
The best time to walk is from June to August.
Get there and walk
- Ekeberg Campingcampsite · 2.1 km · 16 within 10 km
- Anker Hotelplace to stay · 0.7 km · 112 within 10 km
- Ensjønearest town · 1.0 km in a straight line
- Oslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 36 km in a straight lineCar hire at OSL airport (Oslo)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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 57marked trails within 5 kmTurvei E3, Romeriksleden, Geologistien and 54 more
- 3named and notable trees within 6 kmJordas hånd, Tuntreet, 308/920
- 991picnic sites within 4 kmBord and 990 more
- 166shelters and huts within 6 kmOle Høilands hule and 165 more
- 61viewpoints within 5 kmHavnabakken and 60 more
- 6visitor centres within 6 kmPilegrimssenter Oslo, Den Norske Turistforening, DNT Oslo og Omegn and 3 more
- 1,090car parks within 3 km
- 16campsites within 10 kmEkeberg Camping, Sjølyst bobilparkering, Langøyene Teltplass and 13 more
- 112places to stay within 10 kmAnker Hotel, Anker Hostel, Scandic Oslo City and 109 more
- 873restaurants 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 Oslo Botanical Garden.
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.
Peakyas921 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas20 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Cascadyas7 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Oslo Botanical Garden
Norway
- 58Forestyas Score
- 30%Trees
- 77%Wild
- 1,719Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3116396) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 88,822 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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