Belarus / Poland forest
Białowieża Forest
Robert Wielgórski a.k.a. Barry Kent · CC BY-SA 3.0
96% trees around it and 240 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km96%
- wild within 10 km97%
- species recorded240
- Altitude155 m
The forest around
96% 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 km97%
- 1–3 km96%
- 3–6 km95%
- 6–10 km82%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees96%
- Grassland4%
- Cropland0%
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
240 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
VU
NT
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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).
- 96%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 97%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 240Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 155 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking in May and in September.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan-8°45 mm
- Feb-7°37 mm
- Mar-3°39 mm
- Apr2°40 mm
- May8°74 mm
- Jun12°68 mm
- Jul15°88 mm
- Aug14°74 mm
- Sep9°55 mm
- Oct3°54 mm
- Nov0°46 mm
- Dec-5°47 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Białowieża Forest.
Old forest in Poland and Belarus
Białowieża Forest is a forest in Belarus.
Seen from space, 96% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 97% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
240 species have been recorded around it: 59 plants, 76 fungi, 102 birds and 3 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Coralroot bittercress, Ranunculus cassubicus and May lily.
The best time to walk is in May and in September.
Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- U Michałacampsite · 10 km · 2 within 10 km
- Pokoje Gościnne "ŻUBR"place to stay · 7.6 km · 81 within 10 km
- Białowieżanearest town · 7.9 km in a straight line
- Brest International Airport (BQT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 71 km in a straight lineCar hire in BialystokDiscover 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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 3marked trails within 5 kmWilczy Szlak, Szlak Miejscami Pamięci Narodowej, Ścieżka edukacyjna "Przez trzy zbiorowiska"
- 48named and notable trees within 6 kmDąb Jana Pawła II and 47 more
- 11shelters and huts within 6 kmИзбушка, Głuszec, Беседка для отдыха and 8 more
- 2campsites within 10 kmU Michała
- 81places to stay within 10 kmPokoje Gościnne "ŻUBR", Gospodarstwo agroturystyczne ”EKO-Sen”, Kwatera Agroturystyczna CZAR PUSZCZY and 78 more
- picnic sites within 4 km
- viewpoints within 5 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
- car parks within 3 km
- restaurants 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 Białowieża 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.
Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 kmFigures 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.
Białowieża Forest
Belarus
- 88Forestyas Score
- 96%Trees
- 97%Wild
- 240Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q192666) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 1,492 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, Lakeyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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