Israel forest
Aminadav Forest
YoavR · CC BY-SA 3.0
40% trees around it and 327 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km40%
- wild within 10 km73%
- species recorded327
- Altitude779 m
The forest around
40% 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 km52%
- 1–3 km38%
- 3–6 km34%
- 6–10 km24%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees38%
- Shrubland46%
- Grassland8%
- Bare ground0%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up9%
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
327 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
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).
- 40%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 73%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 327Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 779 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from February to March and in December.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan5°59 mm
- Feb6°42 mm
- Mar8°27 mm
- Apr10°15 mm
- May14°4 mm
- Jun17°0 mm
- Jul19°1 mm
- Aug20°0 mm
- Sep18°2 mm
- Oct16°12 mm
- Nov11°31 mm
- Dec7°48 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Aminadav Forest.
Aminadav Forest is a forest in Israel, 779 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 40% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 73% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
327 species have been recorded around it: 79 plants, 3 fungi, 233 birds and 12 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Spontaneous barley, Animated oat and Hoary rock-rose.
The best time to walk is from February to March and in December.
Get there and walk
- חניון לילה סעדיםcampsite · 0.7 km · 13 within 10 km
- Everest Hotel & Restaurantplace to stay · 5.2 km · 246 within 10 km
- ‘Amminadavnearest town · 1.4 km in a straight line
- Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 37 km in a straight lineCar hire at TLV airport (Tel Aviv)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.
Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.
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
- 76marked trails within 5 kmשביל ישראל, דרך נוף דרומית, נחל כסלון and 73 more
- 5named and notable trees within 6 kmOld Olive Tree/زيتونة البدوي/أراضي زراعية Al badawi's olive tree /agricultural l, ארז בן גוריון, חורשת אלוני ענק and 2 more
- 18picnic sites within 4 kmחוות הגתות, מרכז המושב - הדשא and 16 more
- 10shelters and huts within 6 kmמקלט בני עקיבא, מקלט הנגריה, מרכזון דקל and 7 more
- 34viewpoints within 5 kmמצפה ביתר, פינת עופר, מצפור הר טייסים and 31 more
- 3visitor centres within 6 km
- 44car parks within 3 km
- 13campsites within 10 kmחניון לילה סעדים, חניון לילה עין קובי, חניון לילה האקליפטוסים הר איתן and 10 more
- 246places to stay within 10 kmEverest Hotel & Restaurant, Saint Nicholas Hotel, מבוא ירושלים and 243 more
- 14restaurants 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 Aminadav Forest.
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.
Peakyas116 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Viewyas11 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Cavernyas7 caves within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Aminadav Forest
Israel
- 52Forestyas Score
- 40%Trees
- 73%Wild
- 327Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q4064297) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 88,025 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
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.
beaches
Find your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit 
lakes
Every lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountains
Every summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit 
waterfalls
Every waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit 
islands
Every island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit rivers
Every river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit 
canyons
Every canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit caves
Every cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skies
Where the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit viewpoints
Every viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit 
birdwatching
Every bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit 
forests
Every forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here