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Perlacher Forst

Sebastian Grünwald · CC BY 3.0

79% trees around it and 1,324 species recorded.

72Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km79%
  • wild within 10 km63%
  • species recorded1,324
  • Altitude568 m

The forest around

79% 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 96%Grassland 4%Trees 77%Grassland 2%Water 1%Cropland 5%Built-up 15%Trees 44%Grassland 8%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 16%Built-up 30%Trees 59%Grassland 6%Water 0%Cropland 8%Built-up 28%79%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km96%
  • 1–3 km77%
  • 3–6 km44%
  • 6–10 km59%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees77%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland5%
  • Built-up15%

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

1,324 species recorded.

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

Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata427 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica253 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria251 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus sanguinea242 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Coltsfoot
ColtsfootTussilago farfara239 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5
Herb bennet
Herb bennetGeum urbanum235 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Herb-robert
Herb-robertGeranium robertianum219 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata214 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon213 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 2.5
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana209 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild strawberry
Wild strawberryFragaria vesca201 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
White Clover
White CloverTrifolium repens191 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0

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).

  • 79%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 63%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,324Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 568 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. Jan2°-5°78 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°61 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°72 mm
  4. Apr14°3°69 mm
  5. May18°8°124 mm
  6. Jun22°12°143 mm
  7. Jul23°13°138 mm
  8. Aug23°13°143 mm
  9. Sep18°9°95 mm
  10. Oct14°4°80 mm
  11. Nov7°0°62 mm
  12. Dec3°-3°68 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Perlacher Forst.

Unincorporated area in Germany

Perlacher Forst is a forest in Germany, 568 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 79% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 63% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,324 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 104 fungi, 179 birds and 41 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, European Beech and Bishop's goutweed.

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

Chopped wood at Perlacher Forst, Munich
Sebastian Grünwald · 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.

Perlacher Forst 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

  • 6marked trails within 5 kmMünchner Jakobsweg, Traumpfad München-Venedig, Walderlebnispfad Grünwald and 3 more
  • 16named and notable trees within 6 kmVerfassungslinde, Jubiläumsbuche, Friedenseiche and 13 more
  • 95picnic sites within 4 km
  • 548shelters and huts within 6 kmWetterpilz, Vogelanger and 546 more
  • 16viewpoints within 5 kmSteg an der Marienklause, Isartalblick aufs Stauwehr, Blick auf Burg Grünwald and 13 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmService-Center, Informationshaus
  • 481car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmCampingplatz Thalkirchen, Parkanlage Dulipphof
  • 438places to stay within 10 kmHotel Kölbl, Jugendherberge Burg Schwaneck, Hotel am Hachinger Bach and 435 more
  • 63restaurants 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 Perlacher Forst.

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.

Peakyas29 mountains within 25 km
Perlacher Mugl0.2 kmFröttmaninger Berg75 m · 17 kmParsberg569 m · 20 kmNeufarner Berg552 m · 21 kmTauben-Berg22 kmEmmeringer Leite561 m · 24 kmAschberg24 kmWittelsbacher Höhe539 m · 25 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Bavarian Public Observatory MunichBortle 8 · 6.5 kmUniversitäts-Sternwarte MünchenBortle 8 · 9.0 kmESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor CentreBortle 5 · 23 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Hi-Sky6.7 kmChinese Tower9.6 kmGronsdorf Observation Tower11 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Ismaninger Speichersee und Fischteiche21 kmStarnberger See22 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Wasserfall Schwabinger Bach in München8.7 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.

Benches at Perlacher Forst
Sebastian Grünwald · CC BY 3.0
Outdoor Shooting Range Perlacher Forst total view
User:Mattes · Public domain
Parkplatz Perlacher Forst Perlach-Geräumt Unterhaching-Nord als Müllabladeplatz
Wikitarisch · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Perlacher Forst

Germany

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 1,324Species

Forstenrieder Park

Germany · 9 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 1,176Species

See the guide

Grünwalder Forst

Germany · 6 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,141Species

See the guide

Pupplinger Au

Germany · 18 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 61%Trees
  • 86%Wild
  • 1,047Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q252634) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species93,524 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas

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