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Almindingen

Beethoven9 · CC BY-SA 3.0

71% trees around it and 1,105 species recorded.

63Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km71%
  • wild within 10 km51%
  • species recorded1,105
  • Altitude119 m

The forest around

71% 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 85%Grassland 13%Wetland 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 0%Trees 70%Grassland 14%Wetland 0%Water 0%Cropland 16%Trees 34%Grassland 20%Water 0%Cropland 44%Built-up 2%Trees 28%Grassland 13%Water 4%Cropland 54%Built-up 1%71%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km85%
  • 1–3 km70%
  • 3–6 km34%
  • 6–10 km28%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees70%
  • Grassland14%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland16%
  • Built-up0%

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

1,105 species recorded.

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

European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica1,106 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tufted Hair-grass
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa853 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wavy hair-grass
Wavy hair-grassAvenella flexuosa743 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur691 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Soft Rush
Soft RushJuncus effusus626 recordsThe original uploader was Meggar at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia553 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain
Norway Spruce
Norway SprucePicea abies537 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria526 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior480 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Yorkshire-fog
Yorkshire-fogHolcus lanatus473 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Raspberry
RaspberryRubus idaeus473 recordsmako from Kangasala, Suomi (Finland) · CC BY 2.0
Marsh thistle
Marsh thistleCirsium palustre473 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

63out of 100

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

  • 71%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 51%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,105Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 119 mAltitudeabove the sea

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. Jan3°2°69 mm
  2. Feb3°1°52 mm
  3. Mar4°2°48 mm
  4. Apr7°5°35 mm
  5. May11°9°45 mm
  6. Jun16°14°54 mm
  7. Jul19°17°76 mm
  8. Aug19°18°77 mm
  9. Sep16°15°63 mm
  10. Oct12°10°75 mm
  11. Nov8°7°72 mm
  12. Dec5°4°71 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Almindingen.

Forest on Bornholm

Almindingen is a forest in Denmark.

Seen from space, 71% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 51% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,105 species have been recorded around it: 766 plants, 151 fungi, 157 birds and 31 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Tufted Hair-grass and Wavy hair-grass.

The best time to walk is from July to August.

AlmindingenStationSporside
Beethoven9 · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Almindingen 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

  • 16marked trails within 5 kmGul Tur 1, Stillesøen, Ekkodalen rundtur and 13 more
  • 59picnic sites within 4 km
  • 29shelters and huts within 6 kmShelter (Billen) and 28 more
  • 4viewpoints within 5 kmDronningestenen, Gammelborg, Kongemindet and 1 more
  • 27car parks within 3 km
  • 26campsites within 10 kmHareløkkerne, Åremyr and 24 more
  • 18places to stay within 10 kmPausestedet, Restaurant Kanns Hotel, Kanns and 15 more
  • 5restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Almindingen.

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.

Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
Rytterknægten162 m · 2.7 kmBokul10 kmStjernehøj11 kmSlamrebjerg12 kmEgeshøj14 kmLangebjerg76 m · 20 km
Islandyasthe island
Bornholm588 km²
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
BornholmBortle 2 · 0.5 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Jons Kapel18 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 km
Stavehøl3 m · 7.0 kmDøndalen11 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.

Observation bridge at Bastemose
7alaskan · CC BY-SA 3.0
Almindingen Bastemose 2013-05
Hans-Peter Balfanz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Almindingen Reh auf der Gamle Burg 2007-09
Hans-Peter Balfanz · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Almindingen

Denmark

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 71%Trees
  • 51%Wild
  • 1,105Species

Paradisbakkerne

Denmark · 10 km

  • 59Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 67%Wild
  • 1,111Species

See the guide

Louisenlund

Denmark · 9 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 20%Trees
  • 72%Wild
  • 1,022Species

See the guide

Darß Forest

Germany · 172 km

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 841Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q653870) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species58,407 open records within 5 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, Islandyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, 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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