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Vácrátót Botanical Garden

Szvitek Péter · CC BY 2.5 hu

33% trees around it and 112 species recorded.

44Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km33%
  • wild within 10 km65%
  • species recorded112
  • Altitude134 m

The forest around

33% 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 39%Grassland 30%Cropland 13%Built-up 18%Trees 32%Grassland 33%Wetland 0%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 29%Built-up 5%Trees 37%Grassland 25%Wetland 0%Cropland 29%Built-up 8%Trees 41%Grassland 21%Water 3%Bare ground 0%Cropland 25%Built-up 10%33%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km39%
  • 1–3 km32%
  • 3–6 km37%
  • 6–10 km41%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees32%
  • Grassland33%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland29%
  • Built-up5%

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

112 species recorded.

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

Ramsons
RamsonsAllium ursinum7 recordsAgnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sweet mock orange
Sweet mock orangePhiladelphus coronarius7 recordsMatasg · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wayfaring tree
Wayfaring treeViburnum lantana6 recordsOpioła Jerzy · CC BY 2.5
Prickly lettuce
Prickly lettuceLactuca serriola6 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Black widow
Black widowGeranium phaeum5 recordsAgnieszka Kwiecień ( Nova ) · CC BY 2.5
Garden vetch
Garden vetchVicia sativa5 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria5 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Periwinkle
PeriwinkleVinca minor5 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Guelder-rose
Guelder-roseViburnum opulus3 recordsWaitblock · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea3 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus3 recordsИгоревич · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

44out of 100

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

  • 33%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 65%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 112Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 134 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan2°-5°38 mm
  2. Feb4°-4°42 mm
  3. Mar11°0°41 mm
  4. Apr18°6°38 mm
  5. May22°11°67 mm
  6. Jun27°15°76 mm
  7. Jul29°17°71 mm
  8. Aug29°16°64 mm
  9. Sep23°11°56 mm
  10. Oct16°6°52 mm
  11. Nov9°1°44 mm
  12. Dec2°-3°44 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Vácrátót Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Vácrátót, Hungary

Vácrátót Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Hungary.

Seen from space, 33% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 65% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

112 species have been recorded around it: 34 plants, 4 fungi, 74 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ramsons, Sweet mock orange and Wayfaring tree.

The best time to walk is in April.

Botanikus kert (15084. számú műemlék)
Szvitek Péter · CC BY 2.5 hu

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Veresegyházi Termálfürdő és Kempingcampsite · 7.0 km · 8 within 10 km
  • Nyitramentiplace to stay · 6.7 km · 31 within 10 km
  • Őrbottyánnearest town · 4.2 km in a straight line
  • Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 31 km in a straight lineCar hire at BUD airport (Budapest)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.

Vácrátót 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

  • 11marked trails within 5 kmS (Gödöllő – Erdőkertes – Domonyvölgy – Erzsébet-pihenő), Z+ (Alsógöd – Fóti Somlyó), Z (Őrbottyán – Galgamácsa) and 8 more
  • 601named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 7picnic sites within 4 km
  • 13shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 10car parks within 3 km
  • 8campsites within 10 kmVeresegyházi Termálfürdő és Kemping, Meteor TTE Erdei Telep, Regatta Szabadidőközpont and 5 more
  • 31places to stay within 10 kmNyitramenti, Ilka csárda panzió, Liget Panzió and 28 more
  • 6restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Vácrátót 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.

Peakyas29 mountains within 25 km
Kő-hegy340 m · 17 kmNagy-Csikóvár556 m · 19 kmBölcső-hegy19 kmNagy-Kevély534 m · 21 kmArany-hegy178 m · 22 kmPrédikálószék639 m · 24 kmCsúcs-hegy452 m · 24 kmHármashatár-hegy495 m · 24 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Kulin ObservatoryBortle 9 · 20 kmPlanetarium BudapestBortle 9 · 28 km
Cavernyas16 caves within 20 km
Sas-kői Fissure13 kmMacska Hole14 kmCsódi-hegyi Cave16 kmKis-Kő-hegyi Shelter16 kmKalicsa cavity16 kmNo 4 Cave of Vasas-szakadék17 kmNo I Cave of Vasas-szakadék17 kmBölcső-hegyi Cave19 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.

Botanical creative game
Fauvirt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Botanical creative house
Fauvirt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Botanical garden in Vácrátót kz01
Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Vácrátót Botanical Garden

Hungary

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 33%Trees
  • 65%Wild
  • 112Species

Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden

Hungary · 24 km

  • 38Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 55%Wild
  • 192Species

See the guide

Bratislavský lesný park

Slovakia · 169 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 840Species

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Tilia of King Matthias Corvinus in Bojnice

Slovakia · 129 km

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 43%Trees
  • 72%Wild
  • 196Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q848416) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,209 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, Darkskyas, Cavernyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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