United Kingdom arboretum
Botanic Gardens
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25% trees around it and 590 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km25%
- wild within 10 km74%
- species recorded590
The forest around
25% 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 km26%
- 1–3 km25%
- 3–6 km28%
- 6–10 km16%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees25%
- Grassland11%
- Water2%
- Bare ground0%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up62%
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
590 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
NT
Open records within 2 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).
- 25%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 74%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 590Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
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.
- Jan4°98 mm
- Feb4°78 mm
- Mar4°76 mm
- Apr6°60 mm
- May8°71 mm
- Jun11°83 mm
- Jul12°90 mm
- Aug12°99 mm
- Sep11°82 mm
- Oct9°116 mm
- Nov7°112 mm
- Dec5°104 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Botanic Gardens.
Public garden in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Botanic Gardens is an arboretum in United Kingdom.
Seen from space, 25% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 74% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
590 species have been recorded around it: 440 plants, 59 fungi, 81 birds and 10 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Giant Hogweed, Himalayan Balsam and Herb-robert.
The best time to walk is from July to August.
Get there and walk
- Dundonald Touring Caravan Parkcampsite · 7.4 km · 4 within 10 km
- Lagan Backpackersplace to stay · 0.4 km · 101 within 10 km
- Belfastnearest town · 1.7 km in a straight line
- George Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 6 km in a straight lineCar hire at BHD airport (Belfast)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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 16marked trails within 5 kmLagan Towpath, Comber Greenway, Memories of Castlereagh Heritage Trail and 13 more
- 2named and notable trees within 6 kmSeaview, Springfield Road
- 46picnic sites within 4 km
- 328shelters and huts within 6 km
- 5viewpoints within 5 kmThe Dome at Victoria Square and 4 more
- 7visitor centres within 6 kmTourism Northern Ireland, Belfast Welcome Centre, Discover Ulster-Scots Centre and 4 more
- 1,164car parks within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmDundonald Touring Caravan Park, Standing Stones Lodge Caravan Park, Lorne Estate and 1 more
- 101places to stay within 10 kmLagan Backpackers, Kate's B&B, Citi Lodge and 98 more
- 333restaurants 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 Botanic Gardens.
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.
Peakyas8 mountains within 25 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
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.
Botanic Gardens
United Kingdom
- 51Forestyas Score
- 25%Trees
- 74%Wild
- 590Species
Tollymore Forest Park
United Kingdom · 41 km
- 62Forestyas Score
- 29%Trees
- 96%Wild
- 1,330Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q3115229) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 12,940 open records within 2 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, Islandyas, Viewyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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