Spain arboretum
Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid
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17% trees around it and 482 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km17%
- wild within 10 km38%
- species recorded482
- Altitude634 m
The forest around
17% 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 km28%
- 1–3 km16%
- 3–6 km21%
- 6–10 km18%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees16%
- Grassland1%
- Water0%
- Bare ground1%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up83%
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
482 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
VU
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).
- 17%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 38%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 482Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
- 634 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking in April and in October.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan-1°38 mm
- Feb-1°39 mm
- Mar2°48 mm
- Apr5°52 mm
- May9°42 mm
- Jun14°22 mm
- Jul17°9 mm
- Aug17°14 mm
- Sep13°24 mm
- Oct8°66 mm
- Nov2°54 mm
- Dec0°40 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 of Madrid.
Botanical garden and research centre in Madrid, Spain
Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid is an arboretum in Spain, 634 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 17% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 38% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
482 species have been recorded around it: 299 plants, 16 fungi, 164 birds and 3 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Horse-chestnut, Laurustinus and Sweet mock orange.
The best time to walk is in April and in October.
Get there and walk
- VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: Jan,Feb,Nov,Dec: 10:00-18:00; Apr,Sep: 10:00-20:00; Mar,Oct: 10:00-19:Official site↗
- Area de Autocaravanas Las Cigüeñascampsite · 6.2 km · 3 within 10 km
- NH Nacionalplace to stay · 0.2 km · 890 within 10 km
- Jerónimosnearest town · 0.6 km in a straight line
- Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 14 km in a straight lineCar hire at MAD airport (Madrid)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
- 3marked trails within 5 kmRuta Jacobea Madrileña, Red de Cuidadoras de Microjardines, Camino Santiaguista de Uclés
- 204named and notable trees within 6 kmEl Olivo, Ciprés, Cedro del Atlas and 201 more
- 220picnic sites within 4 kmZona de picnic and 219 more
- 54shelters and huts within 6 km
- 60viewpoints within 5 kmLa Atalaya, Mirador de Tierno Galván, Mirador Este Parque Enrique Tierno Galván and 57 more
- 24visitor centres within 6 kmPunto de Información Turística Paseo del Arte, Información al viajero, Atención al ciudadano Barrio Embajadores and 21 more
- 651car parks within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmArea de Autocaravanas Las Cigüeñas, Cámping Osuna, Camping Alpha
- 890places to stay within 10 kmNH Nacional, Hotel México, The Palace and 887 more
- 3,722restaurants 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 of Madrid.
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.
Peakyas19 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Other forests nearby.
Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid
Spain
- 42Forestyas Score
- 17%Trees
- 38%Wild
- 482Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1794858) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 124,981 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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