United Kingdom arboretum
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
David Monniaux · CC BY-SA 3.0
25% trees around it and 1,235 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km25%
- wild within 10 km75%
- species recorded1,235
The forest around
25% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km38%
- 1–3 km23%
- 3–6 km20%
- 6–10 km13%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees23%
- Grassland8%
- Water13%
- Bare ground0%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up56%
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
1,235 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 25%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 75%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 1,235Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
When to walk
Best for walking from July to August.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan2°74 mm
- Feb1°60 mm
- Mar2°60 mm
- Apr4°53 mm
- May6°60 mm
- Jun9°82 mm
- Jul11°92 mm
- Aug11°100 mm
- Sep9°64 mm
- Oct7°93 mm
- Nov4°79 mm
- Dec2°72 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Botanical garden in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is an arboretum in United Kingdom.
Seen from space, 25% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 75% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
1,235 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 100 fungi, 120 birds and 15 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Green alkanet, English holly and Garlic Mustard.
The best time to walk is from July to August.
Get there and walk
- VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: Feb-Oct 10:00-17:00; Nov,Jan 10:00-16:00; Dec 10:00-15:30 · free entryOfficial site↗
- Edinburgh Caravan Clubcampsite · 3.8 km · 6 within 10 km
- Holiday Inn Express Edinburgh City Centreplace to stay · 1.6 km · 471 within 10 km
- Edinburghnearest town · 1.6 km in a straight line
- Edinburgh Airport (EDI)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 10 km in a straight lineCar hire at EDI airport (Ingliston, Edinburgh)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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 9marked trails within 5 kmThe Royal Mile, Innocent Railway, Forth & Clyde/Union Canal Towpath and 6 more
- 8named and notable trees within 6 kmHugging Tree / Kicking Tree, Wentworth Elm, The Workers Memorial Tree and 5 more
- 150picnic sites within 4 km
- 65shelters and huts within 6 kmNewhaven, Designated smoking area and 63 more
- 30viewpoints within 5 kmSouth Viewpoint, Rest and Be Thankful, Hilltop and 27 more
- 8visitor centres within 6 kmJohn Hope Gateway, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, East Gate, Fettes College Reception and 5 more
- 1,982car parks within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmEdinburgh Caravan Club, Mortonhall Caravan and Camping Park, Morton Hall camping caravaning and 3 more
- 471places to stay within 10 kmHoliday Inn Express Edinburgh City Centre, Edinburgh Central Youth Hostel, Britannia Hotel Edinburgh and 468 more
- 1,068restaurants 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 Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
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.
Peakyas57 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
United Kingdom
- 54Forestyas Score
- 25%Trees
- 75%Wild
- 1,235Species
Queen Elizabeth Forest Park
United Kingdom · 81 km
- 87Forestyas Score
- 90%Trees
- 100%Wild
- 709Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1807521) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 34,402 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Coastya, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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