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University of Helsinki Botanical Garden

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14% trees around it and 1,923 species recorded.

52Forestyas Score

ArboretumFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km14%
  • wild within 10 km79%
  • species recorded1,923

The forest around

14% 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 11%Grassland 3%Water 17%Bare ground 0%Built-up 68%Trees 15%Grassland 2%Water 40%Bare ground 0%Built-up 44%Trees 26%Grassland 2%Wetland 2%Water 51%Bare ground 0%Built-up 18%Trees 28%Grassland 3%Wetland 1%Water 49%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 18%14%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km11%
  • 1–3 km15%
  • 3–6 km26%
  • 6–10 km28%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees15%
  • Grassland2%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water40%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up44%

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

1,923 species recorded.

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

Tall tumblemustard
Tall tumblemustardSisymbrium altissimum220 recordsLee Ferguson · Public domain
Small yellow balsam
Small yellow balsamImpatiens parviflora129 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5
Common Reed
Common ReedPhragmites australis117 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata116 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Fool's parsley
Fool's parsleyAethusa cynapium97 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Japanese rose
Japanese roseRosa rugosa90 recordsVihljun · Public domain
White Dead-nettle
White Dead-nettleLamium album89 recordsJohann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm ) · Public domain
Erigeron canadensis
Erigeron canadensisErigeron canadensis84 recordsAndrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA · CC BY 2.0
Common hornwort
Common hornwortCeratophyllum demersum82 recordsS.Tanaka · Public domain
Sticky ragwort
Sticky ragwortSenecio viscosus80 recordsMe · Public domain
Mugwort
MugwortArtemisia vulgaris80 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Greater Plantain
Greater PlantainPlantago major79 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

52out of 100

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

  • 14%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 79%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,923Speciesrecorded 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.

  1. Jan-1°-4°56 mm
  2. Feb-2°-6°45 mm
  3. Mar0°-3°42 mm
  4. Apr5°1°40 mm
  5. May11°6°48 mm
  6. Jun16°11°66 mm
  7. Jul20°16°59 mm
  8. Aug19°15°71 mm
  9. Sep15°12°63 mm
  10. Oct9°6°80 mm
  11. Nov4°2°75 mm
  12. Dec1°-2°67 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

University of Helsinki Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Helsinki, Finland

University of Helsinki Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Finland.

Seen from space, 14% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 79% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,923 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 649 fungi, 248 birds and 26 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Tall tumblemustard, Small yellow balsam and Common Reed.

The best time to walk is from July to August.

University of Helsinki Botanical Garden (11464)
Cope Baronet · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

University of Helsinki 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

  • 13marked trails within 5 kmReitti 2000, Luontopolku Puumerkkipolku, Luonnon syli -luontopolku and 10 more
  • 77named and notable trees within 6 kmHerttoniemen mänty, Lasipalatsin salava, Mannerheimintien ruhtinaanpoppeli and 74 more
  • 290picnic sites within 4 kmKarhulinnan evästila and 289 more
  • 455shelters and huts within 6 kmSörnäinen (M) and 454 more
  • 97viewpoints within 5 kmSuomenlinnan kuivatelakan katseluterassi, Mölylän kallio, Sinisen huvilan kahvila and 94 more
  • 11visitor centres within 6 kmHelsingin matkailuneuvonta, Italian kulttuuri-instituutti, INFO and 8 more
  • 970car parks within 3 km
  • 18campsites within 10 kmKäärmesaaren keittokatos and 17 more
  • 120places to stay within 10 kmCarlton, Scandic Kaisaniemi, Scandic Helsinki Station and 117 more
  • 1,229restaurants 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 University of Helsinki 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.

Peakyas14 mountains within 25 km
Siltavuori0.5 kmTähtitorninvuori1.2 kmTaivaskallio5.3 kmhighest hill in Helsinki62 m · 11 kmVuosaarenhuippu61 m · 13 kmHummelviksberget20 kmPetbergen21 kmKonkoonkalliot82 m · 22 km
Coastya48 beaches within 10 km
Hietaniemi2.2 kmHaakoninlahti3.7 kmPikku Huopalahti4.5 kmUppbyviken5.4 kmPapinlahti5.6 kmOtaranta6.3 kmKeilalahti6.3 kmMaarinlahti7.3 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Silvola reservoir0.5 km² · 12 kmLippajärvi0.6 km² · 14 kmPitkäjärvi1.6 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Helsinki University ObservatoryBortle 9 · 1.2 kmUrsa ObservatoryBortle 8 · 1.9 km
Viewyas4 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Turist Information Centre Kauppatori0.7 kmSkyWheel Helsinki0.9 kmPanoraama1.7 kmHelsinki Olympic Stadium tower2.0 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Vanhankaupunginselkä318 species · 4.2 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Strömberginkoski3 m · 7.0 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.

Kaisaniemi botanical garden 1
Alexignat · CC BY-SA 4.0
Kaisaniemi botanical garden 2
Alexignat · CC BY-SA 4.0
Helsinki July 2013-14
Alvesgaspar · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

University of Helsinki Botanical Garden

Finland

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 1,923Species

Anja's Park

Finland · 211 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 81%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 14Species

See the guide

Luua Arboretum

Estonia · 193 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 42%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 99Species

See the guide

University of Tartu Botanical Gardens

Estonia · 223 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 61%Wild
  • 928Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q117797383) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species95,314 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, Coastya, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas

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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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
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