Singapore arboretum
Singapore Botanic Gardens
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45% trees around it and 394 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km45%
- wild within 10 km59%
- species recorded394
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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km58%
- 1–3 km43%
- 3–6 km36%
- 6–10 km22%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees43%
- Grassland2%
- Water0%
- Bare ground0%
- Built-up54%
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
394 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
VU
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).
- 45%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 59%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 394Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
When to walk
Best for walking in February.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan24°235 mm
- Feb24°102 mm
- Mar24°168 mm
- Apr26°193 mm
- May26°199 mm
- Jun26°164 mm
- Jul25°174 mm
- Aug25°173 mm
- Sep25°167 mm
- Oct25°210 mm
- Nov25°283 mm
- Dec24°300 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Singapore Botanic Gardens.
Botanical garden located in Singapore
Singapore Botanic Gardens is an arboretum in Singapore.
Seen from space, 45% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 59% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
394 species have been recorded around it: 123 plants, 8 fungi, 253 birds and 10 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Bamboo orchid, Peacock Flower and Dillenia suffruticosa.
The best time to walk is in February.
Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Campsite Area 3campsite · 6.3 km · 2 within 10 km
- Four Seasons Hotelplace to stay · 1.8 km · 601 within 10 km
- Tanglinnearest town · 0.2 km in a straight line
- Seletar Airport (XSP)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 13 km in a straight lineCar hire at SIN airport (Singapore)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
- 12marked trails within 5 kmFaber Walk, Southern Ridges Walk, Hilltop Walk and 9 more
- 57named and notable trees within 6 kmPalm, kakop heritage tree, Ficus and 54 more
- 26picnic sites within 4 km
- 672shelters and huts within 6 kmCatchment Hut, North View Hut, South View Hut and 669 more
- 44viewpoints within 5 kmJelutong Tower, The Pinnacle@Duxton, 1-Altitude Viewing Gallery and 41 more
- 22visitor centres within 6 kmBukit Timah Visitor Services Counter, Singapore Visitor Centre, Visitor Centre and 19 more
- 311car parks within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmCampsite Area 3, HometeamNS Adventure Centre
- 601places to stay within 10 kmFour Seasons Hotel, New Cape Inn, ABC Premium Hostel and 598 more
- 662restaurants 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 Singapore Botanic Gardens.
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.
Peakyas24 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas6 lakes within 15 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonFigures 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.
Singapore Botanic Gardens
Singapore
- 58Forestyas Score
- 45%Trees
- 59%Wild
- 394Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3046409) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 141,571 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, Viewyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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