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Palatinate Forest

Awilms · CC BY 3.0

98% trees around it and 279 species recorded.

83Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWildFungi

  • trees within 3 km98%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded279
  • Altitude453 m

The forest around

98% 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 99%Grassland 1%Trees 98%Grassland 2%Built-up 0%Trees 98%Grassland 1%Built-up 0%Trees 97%Grassland 2%Built-up 1%98%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km98%
  • 3–6 km98%
  • 6–10 km97%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees98%
  • Grassland2%
  • 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

279 species recorded.

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

Common oak fern
Common oak fernGymnocarpium dryopteris40 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Beech Fern
Beech FernPhegopteris connectilis34 recordsde:Benutzer:Griensteidl · CC BY-SA 3.0
Campanula baumgartenii
Campanula baumgarteniiCampanula baumgartenii34 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lemon-scented fern
Lemon-scented fernOreopteris limbosperma25 recordsJames K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cypress Spurge
Cypress SpurgeEuphorbia cyparissias14 recordsKrzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
Trailing St John's-wort
Trailing St John's-wortHypericum humifusum12 recordsFornax · CC BY-SA 3.0
Foxglove
FoxgloveDigitalis purpurea12 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Woodland germander
Woodland germanderTeucrium scorodonia9 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bride's feathers
Bride's feathersAruncus dioicus9 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY 2.5
European centaury
European centauryCentaurium erythraea9 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common wintergreen
Common wintergreenPyrola minor8 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Black spleenwort
Black spleenwortAsplenium adiantum-nigrum7 recordsBernd Haynold · 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.

83out of 100

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

  • 98%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 279Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 453 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. Jan3°-2°55 mm
  2. Feb5°-2°45 mm
  3. Mar10°0°47 mm
  4. Apr15°4°40 mm
  5. May20°9°69 mm
  6. Jun24°13°61 mm
  7. Jul27°15°65 mm
  8. Aug26°14°67 mm
  9. Sep21°10°48 mm
  10. Oct15°6°57 mm
  11. Nov8°2°57 mm
  12. Dec4°-1°65 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Palatinate Forest.

Low mountain range in Germany

Palatinate Forest is a forest in Germany, 453 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 98% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

279 species have been recorded around it: 134 plants, 77 fungi, 64 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common oak fern, Beech Fern and Campanula baumgartenii.

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

PfälzerwaldFrankenweide
Awilms · CC BY 3.0

Get there and walk

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.

Palatinate 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

  • 44marked trails within 5 kmPfälzerwald Roter Punkt, Pfälzerwald Blauer Balken, Pfälzerwald Gelb-Roter Balken and 41 more
  • 9named and notable trees within 6 kmBrandbuche, Hindenburgkiefer, Erhardsbuche and 6 more
  • 18picnic sites within 4 km
  • 25shelters and huts within 6 kmDörrentalhütte, Grillhütte, Schutzhütte and 22 more
  • 16viewpoints within 5 kmKirschfels, Almersberg, Schindhübelturm and 13 more
  • 9car parks within 3 km
  • 13campsites within 10 kmBiosphärenerlebniscamp Geiswiese, Gasthaus-Pension Waldesruhe Wohnmobilstellplatz, Trekking Pfalz: Eußerthal and 10 more
  • 67places to stay within 10 kmMüllers Lust, Waldschänke Hornesselwiese, Hotel Restaurant Waldschlössel and 64 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Palatinate 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.

Peakyas493 mountains within 25 km
Mosisberg610 m · 1.9 kmRoßberg637 m · 12 kmOrensberg581 m · 12 kmKesselberg (Palatinate)662 m · 12 kmSchafkopf617 m · 13 kmBlättersberg613 m · 14 kmKalmit674 m · 15 kmHohe Loog (Haardt)619 m · 17 km
Viewyas8 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Eschkopf tower2.7 kmSchindhübel Tower4.1 kmLuitpold tower5.5 kmSchänzel Tower11 kmHeltersberg Observation Tower13 kmHohenberg Tower14 kmRehberg tower14 kmLudwigs Tower14 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Pfälzerwald7.9 kmMehlinger Heide21 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.

Pferchfeldturm-Südwand 7034
Rüdiger Kratz , St. Ingbert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Karlstal 009 edited
Mr Mosher · Public domain
Karlstal 015 edited
Mr Mosher · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Palatinate Forest

Germany

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 279Species

Forest of Hagenau

France · 49 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 1,168Species

See the guide

Hardtwald

Germany · 47 km

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 73%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 590Species

See the guide

Black Forest High Forest

Germany · 78 km

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 228Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q707004) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,538 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, Viewyas, Birdyas

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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
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