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Prague Botanical Garden

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45% trees around it and 758 species recorded.

51Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km45%
  • wild within 10 km45%
  • species recorded758
  • Altitude229 m

The forest around

45% 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 52%Grassland 25%Water 4%Built-up 19%Trees 44%Grassland 9%Water 5%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 39%Trees 36%Grassland 7%Water 2%Cropland 18%Built-up 36%Trees 30%Grassland 10%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 30%Built-up 29%45%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km52%
  • 1–3 km44%
  • 3–6 km36%
  • 6–10 km30%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees44%
  • Grassland9%
  • Water5%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland3%
  • Built-up39%

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

758 species recorded.

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

Princesstree
PrincesstreePaulownia tomentosa105 recordsJean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 2.5
Cypress Spurge
Cypress SpurgeEuphorbia cyparissias88 recordsKrzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
Quince
QuinceCydonia oblonga76 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common bugloss
Common buglossAnchusa officinalis66 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
California poppy
California poppyEschscholzia californica58 recordsKaldari · CC0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus57 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Vipers bugloss
Vipers buglossEchium vulgare56 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Spotted knapweed
Spotted knapweedCentaurea stoebe55 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY-SA 3.0
Volga fescue
Volga fescueFestuca valesiaca43 recordsPetr Filippov · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pilosella officinarum
Pilosella officinarumPilosella officinarum41 recordsAnne Burgess · CC BY-SA 2.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea40 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
St Lucie Cherry
St Lucie CherryPrunus mahaleb40 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Victor M. Vicente Selvas assumed (based on copyright · Public domain

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

51out of 100

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

  • 45%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 45%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 758Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 229 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. Jan1°-5°42 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°32 mm
  3. Mar8°-2°39 mm
  4. Apr14°3°36 mm
  5. May19°8°69 mm
  6. Jun23°12°78 mm
  7. Jul26°14°79 mm
  8. Aug25°14°81 mm
  9. Sep20°9°52 mm
  10. Oct14°4°46 mm
  11. Nov7°0°43 mm
  12. Dec2°-3°41 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Prague Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden

Prague Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Czechia, 229 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 45% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 45% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

758 species have been recorded around it: 576 plants, 18 fungi, 156 birds and 8 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Princesstree, Cypress Spurge and Quince.

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

Praha, Troja, Botanická zahrada, Japonská zahrada
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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.

Prague Botanical Garden 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

  • 40marked trails within 5 km[Č] Baba - Šárka, okruh, [M] U Matěje - Dolní Šárka, [Z] Hanspaulka - Únětice and 37 more
  • 96named and notable trees within 6 kmBuk lesní, 74, Františkánský tis and 93 more
  • 115picnic sites within 4 km
  • 551shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 163viewpoints within 5 kmMasarykova vyhlídka, Vyhlídka Emy Destinnové, Vyhlídka Havránka and 160 more
  • 26visitor centres within 6 kmPražský hrad, Informační a rezervační centrum, Tourist information and 23 more
  • 2,760car parks within 3 km
  • 21campsites within 10 kmHG Sport, s.r.o., Camp Fremunt, Camp Herzog and 18 more
  • 854places to stay within 10 kmPlaza Prague Hotel, Plus Prague, Hotel AXA and 851 more
  • 497restaurants 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 Prague 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.

Peakyas66 mountains within 25 km
Letná265 m · 2.6 kmLádví359 m · 4.1 kmVítkov271 m · 4.2 kmPetřín331 m · 4.3 kmBílá hora381 m · 8.2 kmCukrák411 m · 21 kmMandava480 m · 24 kmVinařická hora Vinařice u Kladna413 m · volcano · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Hostivař Reservoir0.4 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Planetárium PrahaBortle 9 · 1.7 kmAstronomical Tower in Clementinum PragueBortle 9 · 3.6 kmŠtefánik's ObservatoryBortle 8 · 4.3 kmĎáblice ObservatoryBortle 7 · 5.0 km
Viewyas25 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Rozhledna Obora1.0 kmLookout tower in Sovovy mlýny3.9 kmPetřín331 m · 4.4 kmLookout Tower Šiška364 m · 6.1 kmCibulka (tower)7.4 kmBarrandov Terraces9.1 kmDoubravka XIV.254 m · 10 kmLahovice Bridge14 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Korálové jeskyně9.6 kmKlukovická jeskyně9.7 km
Cascadyas3 waterfalls within 15 km
Waterfall in Kinského zahrada4.7 kmWaterfalls in Modřanská rokle2 m · 14 kmWaterfall in Písnický potok14 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Vltava430 km · 150 m³/sRokytka37 kmSüderelbeFlottbekKöhlbrandGeberbachJahnaKlinke

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Botanic Garden - panoramio
Pedro Krtička · CC BY 3.0
Botanic Garden North, Prague Troja
Czech Wikipedia user Packa · CC BY-SA 2.5
Botanic Garden North2, Prague Troja
Czech Wikipedia user Packa · CC BY-SA 2.5

Other forests nearby.

Prague Botanical Garden

Czechia

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 45%Trees
  • 45%Wild
  • 758Species

Kunraticko-michelský les

Czechia · 11 km

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 41%Trees
  • 47%Wild
  • 1,399Species

See the guide

Dresden Heath

Germany · 116 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 830Species

See the guide

Lower Silesian Wilderness

Poland · 148 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 119Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q195786) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species43,701 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, Cavernyas, 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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