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Palmengarten

Photo: Andreas Praefcke · CC BY 3.0

34% trees around it and 919 species recorded.

49Forestyas Score

ArboretumFungi

  • trees within 3 km34%
  • wild within 10 km55%
  • species recorded919
  • Altitude109 m

The forest around

34% 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 43%Grassland 4%Built-up 53%Trees 32%Grassland 6%Water 2%Built-up 60%Trees 44%Grassland 9%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 9%Built-up 36%Trees 47%Grassland 9%Water 1%Cropland 18%Built-up 25%34%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km43%
  • 1–3 km32%
  • 3–6 km44%
  • 6–10 km47%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees32%
  • Grassland6%
  • Water2%
  • 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

919 species recorded.

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

Winter-aconite
Winter-aconiteEranthis hyemalis49 recordsSydenham Edwards / William Curtis · Public domain
Spring vetchling
Spring vetchlingLathyrus vernus47 recordsPrazak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Melittis melissophyllum
Melittis melissophyllumMelittis melissophyllum46 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica39 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea38 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Woodruff
WoodruffGalium odoratum35 recordsJopi · Public domain
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata33 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yellow marsh marigold
Yellow marsh marigoldCaltha palustris32 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cuckoo flower
Cuckoo flowerCardamine pratensis32 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hollowroot
HollowrootCorydalis cava31 recordsJohann Jaritz · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
American skunkcabbage
American skunkcabbageLysichiton americanus29 recordsMartin Bravenboer · Public domain
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas29 recordsB.navez · 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.

49out of 100

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

  • 34%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 55%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 919Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 109 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from April to May and in September.

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

  1. Jan3°-3°57 mm
  2. Feb5°-2°46 mm
  3. Mar10°0°47 mm
  4. Apr16°4°41 mm
  5. May20°9°71 mm
  6. Jun24°13°58 mm
  7. Jul27°15°66 mm
  8. Aug26°14°64 mm
  9. Sep21°10°46 mm
  10. Oct15°6°54 mm
  11. Nov8°2°56 mm
  12. Dec4°-1°64 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Palmengarten.

Botanical garden in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Palmengarten is an arboretum in Germany.

Seen from space, 34% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 55% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

919 species have been recorded around it: 716 plants, 89 fungi, 106 birds and 8 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Winter-aconite, Spring vetchling and Melittis melissophyllum.

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

Frankfurt Palmengarten Herbst 2005b
Photo: Andreas Praefcke · 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.

Palmengarten 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

  • 30marked trails within 5 kmUrselbach Mühlenwanderweg, Mainweg Teil 10, Hölderlinpfad and 27 more
  • 9named and notable trees within 6 kmEschersheimer Linde, Bismarckeiche, Ginkobaum am Brentanohaus and 6 more
  • 82picnic sites within 4 km
  • 245shelters and huts within 6 kmPilz and 244 more
  • 18viewpoints within 5 kmGoetheruh, Aussichtsturm Taunusblick, Domturm and 15 more
  • 11visitor centres within 6 kmSpanisches Fremdenverkehrsamt Frankfurt/Main, DB Information, RMV Mobilitätsinfo and 8 more
  • 1,296car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmCampingplatz Offenbach-Bürgel, Stellplatz am Freibad Bad Vilbel, Orplid Frankfurt and 3 more
  • 424places to stay within 10 kmGarner, Sophien Hotel, Frankfurt Marriott Hotel and 421 more
  • 1,237restaurants 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 Palmengarten.

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.

Peakyas126 mountains within 25 km
Altkönig798 m · 16 kmKolbenberg690 m · 17 kmKleiner Feldberg825 m · 18 kmGroßer Feldberg879 m · 19 kmGlaskopf687 m · 20 kmWeilsberg701 m · 20 kmSängelberg665 m · 22 kmPferdskopf663 m · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Langener Waldsee0.8 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Hans-Ludwig-Neumann-SternwarteBortle 4 · 18 km
Viewyas8 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Goethe Tower5.5 kmWeather-Park Offenbach Observation Tower9.9 kmViewpoint East10 kmBieberer Observation Tower11 kmBurgberg Tower (Bad Soden)11 kmEllerhöhturm12 kmHardtberg Tower14 kmObservation point Runway 1815 km
Birdyas5 birding sites within 25 km
Untermainschleusen9.3 kmMain bei Mühlheim und NSG 'Rumpenheimer und Bürgeler Kiesgruben'13 kmMönchbruch und Wälder bei Mörfelden-Walldorf und Groß-Gerau214 species · 17 kmSandkiefernwälder in der östlichen Untermainebene24 kmStreuobst-Trockenwiesen bei Nauheim und Königstädten24 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.

Frankfurt Palmengarten Musiktheater Papageno 2005
Photo: Andreas Praefcke · CC BY 3.0
Palmengarten valley
Gerda Arendt · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eingang Palmengarten Frankfurt
Anna16 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Palmengarten

Germany

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 55%Wild
  • 919Species

Haurain

Germany · 59 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 580Species

See the guide

Burgwallbacher Forst

Germany · 104 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 84%Wild
  • 956Species

See the guide

Palatinate Forest

Germany · 108 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q663149) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species18,961 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, Viewyas, Birdyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

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

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
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
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here