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Belgrad Forest

Mohsen Fayazi · CC BY-SA 4.0

99% trees around it and 327 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km99%
  • wild within 10 km92%
  • species recorded327
  • Altitude116 m

The forest around

99% 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 99%Grassland 0%Water 1%Trees 84%Grassland 7%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 7%Trees 59%Grassland 10%Water 18%Bare ground 3%Cropland 1%Built-up 8%99%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km99%
  • 3–6 km84%
  • 6–10 km59%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees99%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • 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

327 species recorded.

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

Ruscus aculeatus
Ruscus aculeatusRuscus aculeatus56 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Vista~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Crocus pulchellus
Crocus pulchellusCrocus pulchellus33 recordsMeneerke bloem · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cherry laurel
Cherry laurelPrunus laurocerasus16 recordsKarduelis · Public domain
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix16 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon11 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 2.5
Salvia cistus
Salvia cistusCistus salviifolius10 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica9 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Strawberry-tree
Strawberry-treeArbutus unedo9 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tree Heath
Tree HeathErica arborea9 recordsJean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 3.0
Animated oat
Animated oatAvena sterilis7 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Hornbeam
HornbeamCarpinus betulus7 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
Shining geranium
Shining geraniumGeranium lucidum7 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Aroche assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

81out of 100

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

  • 99%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 92%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 327Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 116 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in October.

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

  1. Jan8°4°79 mm
  2. Feb9°4°68 mm
  3. Mar12°5°53 mm
  4. Apr16°8°42 mm
  5. May21°14°35 mm
  6. Jun26°19°36 mm
  7. Jul29°21°20 mm
  8. Aug29°22°22 mm
  9. Sep25°19°54 mm
  10. Oct20°14°70 mm
  11. Nov15°10°63 mm
  12. Dec10°6°82 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Belgrad Forest.

Forest in Istanbul

Belgrad Forest is a forest in Turkey.

Seen from space, 99% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 92% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

327 species have been recorded around it: 64 plants, 106 fungi, 155 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ruscus aculeatus, Crocus pulchellus and Cherry laurel.

The best time to walk is in May and in October.

Marsh-Belgrad-Forest2
Mohsen Fayazi · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Eyüpsultan Belediyesi Göktürk Gençlik Kampıcampsite · 6.0 km · 3 within 10 km
  • Sarıyer Belediyesi Tahsin Salihoğlu Kız Konukeviplace to stay · 3.8 km · 16 within 10 km
  • Bahçeköynearest town · 3.8 km in a straight line
  • İstanbul Airport (IST)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 20 km in a straight lineCar hire at ISL airport (Istanbul)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.

Belgrad Forest 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmST614 Pirinççi - Eyüp
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmYatık Çınar
  • 6picnic sites within 4 kmKirazlıbent Piknik Alanı, Kurt Kemeri Piknik Alanı, Çatalçeşme Mesire Alanı and 3 more
  • 29shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 3visitor centres within 6 kmZiyaretçi Eğitim ve Tanıtım Merkezi, Eyüpsultan Belediyesi İşletme Müdürlüğü Kurtkemeri Şefliği, Aylinnn Vize Danışmanlık Hizmetleri
  • 11car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmEyüpsultan Belediyesi Göktürk Gençlik Kampı
  • 16places to stay within 10 kmSarıyer Belediyesi Tahsin Salihoğlu Kız Konukevi, G1 Konutları, Domes Village and 13 more
  • 3restaurants 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 Belgrad 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.

Peakyas7 mountains within 25 km
Çıplak Hill12 kmJoshua's Hill201 m · 12 kmPierre Loti Hill16 kmGöztepe Hill17 kmAlem Dağı21 kmBüyük Çamlıca Hill268 m · 21 kmKüçük Çamlıca Hill21 km
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Kısırka Village6.8 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.

Brown roll-rim 01
Harald the Bard · CC BY-SA 4.0
Brown roll-rim 02
Harald the Bard · CC BY-SA 4.0
Belgrad Forest (1)
Mostafameraji · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Belgrad Forest

Turkey

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 327Species

Atatürk Arboretum

Turkey · 3 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 87%Wild
  • 262Species

See the guide

Acarlar Floodplain Forest

Turkey · 126 km

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 48%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 40Species

See the guide

Dadia Forest

Greece · 228 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 357Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2734907) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species21,391 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, Coastya, Darkskyas

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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