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Parc Montsouris

Guilhem Vellut from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0

15% trees around it and 1,409 species recorded.

41Forestyas Score

ProtectedFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km15%
  • wild within 10 km30%
  • species recorded1,409
  • Altitude70 m

The forest around

15% 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 17%Grassland 2%Built-up 80%Trees 15%Grassland 0%Built-up 85%Trees 18%Grassland 1%Water 2%Built-up 79%Trees 30%Grassland 4%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 63%15%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km17%
  • 1–3 km15%
  • 3–6 km18%
  • 6–10 km30%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees15%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up85%

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

1,409 species recorded.

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

Annual Meadow Grass
Annual Meadow GrassPoa annua2,376 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 10:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Groundsel
GroundselSenecio vulgaris1,804 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Smooth sow-thistle
Smooth sow-thistleSonchus oleraceus1,760 recordsT.Voekler · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus1,744 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Plantain
Greater PlantainPlantago major1,641 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Creeping Thistle
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense1,639 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix1,592 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
Little mouse-ear chickweed
Little mouse-ear chickweedStellaria media1,551 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Ribwort plantain
Ribwort plantainPlantago lanceolata1,524 recordssannse · CC BY-SA 3.0
Shepherd's purse
Shepherd's purseCapsella bursa-pastoris1,509 recordsEike Wulfmeyer · CC BY-SA 2.5
Erigeron sumatrensis
Erigeron sumatrensisErigeron sumatrensis1,477 recordsHarry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Spreading pellitory
Spreading pellitoryParietaria judaica1,452 recordsFranco Folini · CC BY 2.5

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

41out of 100

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

  • 15%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 30%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,409Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 70 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan6°0°54 mm
  2. Feb7°0°50 mm
  3. Mar12°2°52 mm
  4. Apr16°5°39 mm
  5. May19°8°64 mm
  6. Jun23°12°60 mm
  7. Jul25°14°55 mm
  8. Aug25°13°59 mm
  9. Sep21°10°42 mm
  10. Oct16°7°57 mm
  11. Nov10°4°61 mm
  12. Dec6°1°69 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Parc Montsouris.

Urban park in Paris, France

Parc Montsouris is a protected forest in France.

Seen from space, 15% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 30% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,409 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 162 fungi, 204 birds and 43 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Annual Meadow Grass, Groundsel and Smooth sow-thistle.

The best time to walk is in May.

Parc Montsouris @ Paris (29860614110)
Guilhem Vellut from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Camping de Pariscampsite · 9.1 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Hôtel Port-Royalplace to stay · 1.9 km · 2,310 within 10 km
  • Maison Blanchenearest town · 1.0 km in a straight line
  • Paris-Orly Airport (ORY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 10 km in a straight lineCar hire at ORY airport (Paris)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.

Parc Montsouris 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

  • 25marked trails within 5 kmSentier des Côteaux, Traversée de Paris n°2, Traversée de Paris n°3 and 22 more
  • 260named and notable trees within 6 kmRobinier du square René Viviani, Sophora d'Incarville, Fau de Verzy and 257 more
  • 211picnic sites within 4 km
  • 265shelters and huts within 6 kmAbri, Sèvres–Lecourbe and 263 more
  • 35viewpoints within 5 kmTalus Hardenberg, Butte de Coupeaux, Esplanade du Trocadéro and 32 more
  • 36visitor centres within 6 kmCentre d'Information et de Documentation de l'Ambassade d'Allemagne, Association Paris Historique, Office de Tourisme and 33 more
  • 2,207car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmCamping de Paris
  • 2,310places to stay within 10 kmHôtel Port-Royal, Young and Happy Hostel, Ibis and 2,307 more
  • 2,473restaurants 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 Parc Montsouris.

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.

Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
Montagne Sainte-Geneviève61 m · 2.7 kmButte des Moulins4.9 kmButte Bergeyre6.8 kmbutte Mortemart55 m · 7.0 kmMontmartre130 m · 7.2 kmMount Valérien161 m · 11 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lac de Créteil0.3 km² · 9.8 km
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 km
Astronomy tower of the SorbonneBortle 9 · 3.0 kmGlobe CélesteBortle 9 · 5.1 kmParis Observatory, PSL UniversityBortle 9 · 7.9 kmObservatoire de Saint-MaurBortle 9 · 11 kmCamille Flammarion ObservatoryBortle 9 · 15 kmVersailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ObservatoryBortle 8 · 22 km
Viewyas5 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Grande roue des Tuileries4.7 kmEiffel Tower5.1 kmMontmartre130 m · 7.2 kmHyatt Regency Paris Etoile7.6 kmBerthelot Tower8.1 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Château d'Eau4.4 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Bièvre35 km · 0.2 m³/s

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

P1110707 Paris XIV parc de Montsouris rwk
Mbzt · CC BY 3.0
Petite Fontaine Wallace Parc Montsouris - Paris XIV (FR75) - 2021-02-20 - 2
Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0
CF6013 Paris 14e parc Montsouris entree rwk
Mbzt · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Parc Montsouris

France

  • 41Forestyas Score
  • 15%Trees
  • 30%Wild
  • 1,409Species

Forest of Fontainebleau

France · 52 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 83%Wild
  • 1,921Species

See the guide

Chantilly Forest

France · 41 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 83%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,387Species

See the guide

Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

France · 22 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 1,244Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1538929) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species372,975 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas

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.

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