Austria arboretum
Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna
User:Feldkurat Katz · Public domain
17% trees around it and 1,064 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km17%
- wild within 10 km42%
- species recorded1,064
- Altitude193 m
The forest around
17% 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 km17%
- 1–3 km17%
- 3–6 km26%
- 6–10 km34%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees17%
- Grassland1%
- Water1%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up81%
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
1,064 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
VU
CR
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).
- 17%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 42%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 1,064Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
- 193 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-5°42 mm
- Feb-4°38 mm
- Mar-1°46 mm
- Apr4°41 mm
- May9°85 mm
- Jun13°91 mm
- Jul15°88 mm
- Aug15°86 mm
- Sep10°79 mm
- Oct5°54 mm
- Nov1°45 mm
- Dec-3°42 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna.
Botanical garden
Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna is an arboretum in Austria.
Seen from space, 17% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 42% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
1,064 species have been recorded around it: 532 plants, 415 fungi, 109 birds and 8 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Princesstree, Leatherleaf Viburnum and Smyrnium perfoliatum.
The best time to walk is in May and in September.
Get there and walk
- VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: Apr-Sep 10:00-18:00, Feb-Mar 10:00-17:00, Oct 10:00-17:00, Nov-Dec 10: · free entryOfficial site↗
- MICAMPA Wien Donaucampsite · 5.1 km · 5 within 10 km
- Hotel Johann Straussplace to stay · 1.1 km · 589 within 10 km
- Landstraßenearest town · 1.2 km in a straight line
- Vienna International Airport (VIE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 16 km in a straight lineCar hire at VIE airport (Vienna)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
- 12marked trails within 5 kmOstösterreichischer Grenzlandweg 07, Europäischer Fernwanderweg E8 - Österreich, Stadtwanderweg 7 - Laaer Berg and 9 more
- 19named and notable trees within 6 kmMammutbaum, Baumbiotop am Wasser, Benagelte Bäume and 16 more
- 915picnic sites within 4 kmGrillplatz 9, Grillplatz 10, Grillplatz 11 and 912 more
- 1,413shelters and huts within 6 km
- 20viewpoints within 5 kmFlakturm Esterhazy-Park, Türmerstube, Adlerturm and 17 more
- 19visitor centres within 6 kmTourist-Info, Kinderinfo, ÖJHV - Österr. Jugendherbergsverband and 16 more
- 938car parks within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmMICAMPA Wien Donau, Naturistenpark Lobau Camping, Reisemobil-Stellplatz Wien and 2 more
- 589places to stay within 10 kmHotel Johann Strauss, Mercure Grand Hotel Biedermeier Wien, Hotel Terminus and 586 more
- 2,095restaurants 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 Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna.
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.
Peakyas237 mountains within 25 kmLeopoldsberg425 m · 10 kmKahlenberg484 m · 10 kmHermannskogel544 m · 11 kmExelberg516 m · 12 kmHöllenstein645 m · 18 kmAnninger675 m · 19 kmTroppberg542 m · 21 kmPfaffstättner Kogel541 m · 21 km
Darkskyas7 dark-sky places within 30 kmUraniaBortle 9 · 2.2 km↗Vienna Zeiss PlanetariumBortle 9 · 2.8 kmVienna ObservatoryBortle 8 · 5.8 km↗Kuffner observatoryBortle 8 · 7.3 kmSterngartenBortle 7 · 11 kmPurgathofer-SternwarteBortle 5 · 14 kmFranz-Kroller-SternwarteBortle 6 · 21 km
Viewyas12 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonWiener Riesenrad2.9 km↗Donauturm5.7 km↗Paulinenwarte6.0 kmHimmelhof9.5 km↗Kahlenberg484 m · 10 kmWienerblick434 m · 10 km↗Habsburgwarte11 km↗Hubertuswarte508 m · 12 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyWien34 kmKalter Gang27 kmGablitzbach10 kmAls11 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.
Other forests nearby.
Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna
Austria
- 40Forestyas Score
- 17%Trees
- 42%Wild
- 1,064Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q677602) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 21,440 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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