Germany forest
Spandauer Forst
Leonhard Lenz · CC BY-SA 4.0
82% trees around it and 1,029 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km82%
- wild within 10 km78%
- species recorded1,029
- Altitude52 m
The forest around
82% 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 km99%
- 1–3 km80%
- 3–6 km54%
- 6–10 km55%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees80%
- Grassland8%
- Water3%
- Bare ground0%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up8%
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
1,029 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
VU
NT
Open records within 5 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).
- 82%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 78%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 1,029Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 52 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.
- Jan-3°54 mm
- Feb-3°38 mm
- Mar-1°40 mm
- Apr4°28 mm
- May8°53 mm
- Jun13°57 mm
- Jul15°81 mm
- Aug14°58 mm
- Sep10°49 mm
- Oct5°49 mm
- Nov2°49 mm
- Dec-1°48 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Spandauer Forst.
Forest in Berlin, Germany
Spandauer Forst is a forest in Germany.
Seen from space, 82% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 78% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
1,029 species have been recorded around it: 736 plants, 89 fungi, 169 birds and 35 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Pedunculate Oak, Norway maple and Small-leaved Lime.
The best time to walk is in May and in September.
Get there and walk
- Bürgerablagecampsite · 2.4 km · 6 within 10 km
- centrovital SPA & Sport Hotelplace to stay · 4.1 km · 227 within 10 km
- Hakenfeldenearest town · 2.9 km in a straight line
- Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 33 km in a straight lineCar hire at BER airport (Berlin)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
- 24marked trails within 5 kmSpandauer Weg, Havelseenweg, Humboldt-Spur and 21 more
- 8named and notable trees within 6 kmDicke Marie, Burgsdorff-Lärche, Maulbeerbaum and 5 more
- 47picnic sites within 4 kmSchweinehirte and 46 more
- 92shelters and huts within 6 kmSchutzpilz and 91 more
- 19viewpoints within 5 km
- 6visitor centres within 6 kmInformations-Pavillon, Tourist-Information, DB Service and 3 more
- 690car parks within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmBürgerablage, Campingplantz an der Bürgerablage, Zeltlagerplatz Heiligensee and 3 more
- 227places to stay within 10 kmcentrovital SPA & Sport Hotel, Hotel Benn, Hotel Herbst and 224 more
- 35restaurants 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 Spandauer 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.
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Lakeyas7 lakes within 15 kmNieder Neuendorfer See2.0 km² · 3.1 kmFalkenhagener See0.4 km² · 3.6 kmHeiligensee0.2 km² · 3.8 kmLake Tegel2.7 km² · 6.0 km↗Flughafensee0.2 km² · 7.3 kmGroß Glienicker See0.5 km² · 14 kmGroßer Wannsee16 km² · 15 km↗
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 kmBerlin ObservatoryBortle 9 · 17 km↗Zeiss Major PlanetariumBortle 9 · 17 kmPlanetarium am InsulanerBortle 9 · 18 kmLeibniz Institute for Astrophysics PotsdamBortle 6 · 20 km↗Archenhold ObservatoryBortle 9 · 23 km↗Einstein TowerBortle 7 · 23 km↗
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonBelvedere9.7 km↗Finkenberg Observation Tower13 kmGreat Berlin Wheel13 km↗
Birdyas7 birding sites within 25 kmSpandauer Forst182 species · 0.4 kmDöberitzer Heide11 kmTegeler Fließtal201 species · 11 kmSPA Grunewald199 species · 12 kmU. Rhinluch/Dreetzer See, Havell. Luch und Belziger Landschaftsw.15 kmWestlicher Düppeler Forst187 species · 18 km↗Rhin-Havelluch20 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 kmMuschelgrotte im Neuen Garten19 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.
Other forests nearby.
Spandauer Forst
Germany
- 79Forestyas Score
- 82%Trees
- 78%Wild
- 1,029Species
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin
Germany · 16 km
- 64Forestyas Score
- 61%Trees
- 62%Wild
- 712Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2306658) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 107,564 open records within 5 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, 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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