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Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg

Schlaier · Public domain

47% trees around it and 1,189 species recorded.

55Forestyas Score

ArboretumFungiBirds

  • trees within 3 km47%
  • wild within 10 km52%
  • species recorded1,189
  • Altitude516 m

The forest around

47% 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 73%Grassland 10%Water 1%Built-up 16%Trees 44%Grassland 4%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 51%Trees 33%Grassland 8%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 9%Built-up 48%Trees 41%Grassland 13%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 14%Built-up 30%47%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km73%
  • 1–3 km44%
  • 3–6 km33%
  • 6–10 km41%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees44%
  • Grassland4%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up51%

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

1,189 species recorded.

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

Blue-eyed-Mary
Blue-eyed-MaryOmphalodes verna180 recordsAfanasovich · CC BY 4.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica148 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yellow Archangel
Yellow ArchangelLamium galeobdolon97 recordsTeun Spaans · CC BY 2.5
European mistletoe
European mistletoeViscum album84 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · CC BY 4.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata75 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata65 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Hornbeam
HornbeamCarpinus betulus62 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
Aposeris foetida
Aposeris foetidaAposeris foetida60 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dwarf honeysuckle
Dwarf honeysuckleLonicera xylosteum58 recordsDaniel Fuchs · CC BY-SA 2.5
Wild strawberry
Wild strawberryFragaria vesca56 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas55 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
White bedstraw
White bedstrawGalium album53 recordsJ.F.Gaffard Jeffdelonge at fr.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

55out of 100

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

  • 47%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 52%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,189Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 516 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.

  1. Jan2°-5°76 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°59 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°69 mm
  4. Apr14°3°68 mm
  5. May18°8°123 mm
  6. Jun22°12°137 mm
  7. Jul23°14°134 mm
  8. Aug23°13°139 mm
  9. Sep18°9°92 mm
  10. Oct14°5°77 mm
  11. Nov8°0°62 mm
  12. Dec3°-3°67 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg.

Botanical garden and arboretum in Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg is an arboretum in Germany, 516 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 47% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 52% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,189 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 57 fungi, 126 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Blue-eyed-Mary, European Beech and Yellow Archangel.

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

Botanischer Garten Hauptgebäude a
Schlaier · Public domain

Get there and walk

  • VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: Oct 29-Mar 30 09:00-16:30 "letzter Einlass um 16 Uhr, Südeingang schliOfficial site
  • The Tentcampsite · 0.6 km · 9 within 10 km
  • Carmenplace to stay · 5.5 km · 489 within 10 km
  • Pasingnearest town · 4.1 km in a straight line
  • Munich Airport (MUC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 30 km in a straight lineCar hire at MUC airport (Munich)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.

Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg 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

  • 6marked trails within 5 kmMünchner Jakobsweg, KulturGeschichtsPfad 3 Maxvorstadt - Dritter Spaziergang, Traumpfad München-Venedig and 3 more
  • 20named and notable trees within 6 kmRöth-Linde, Die Bäckerlinde, Makoré-Stamm and 17 more
  • 136picnic sites within 4 km
  • 922shelters and huts within 6 kmParapluie, Wetterpilz and 920 more
  • 21viewpoints within 5 kmBavaria and 20 more
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmInfocenter U5 Bau, Infozentrum am Rathaus München, Zweite Stammstrecke München and 1 more
  • 1,013car parks within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmThe Tent, Wohnwagenstellplatz am Neubruch, Campingplatz Nord-West and 6 more
  • 489places to stay within 10 kmCarmen, k+k Hotel, Hotel Mercure München Altstadt and 486 more
  • 307restaurants 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 Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg.

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.

Peakyas30 mountains within 25 km
Fröttmaninger Berg75 m · 11 kmPerlacher Mugl12 kmParsberg569 m · 13 kmEmmeringer Leite561 m · 15 kmMünchener Berg17 kmSchloß-Berg23 kmNeufarner Berg552 m · 24 kmAschberg25 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Karlsfelder See0.2 km² · 8.6 kmOberschleißheim Regatta Course0.4 km² · 9.1 kmFeringasee0.3 km² · 13 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Universitäts-Sternwarte MünchenBortle 8 · 8.2 kmBavarian Public Observatory MunichBortle 8 · 9.2 kmESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor CentreBortle 5 · 17 km
Viewyas4 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Chinese Tower6.9 kmHi-Sky9.1 kmAussicht Schlossplatz Dachau504 m · 12 kmDamit alles fließt493 m · 12 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Ismaninger Speichersee und Fischteiche20 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Wasserfall Schwabinger Bach in München6.8 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.

Botanic Garden Munich (Nymphenburg) Alpine section
Schlaier · Public domain
Botanischer Garten Muenchen Gewächshäuser
Usien · CC BY-SA 3.0
Café, Jardín Botánico, Múnich, Alemania 2012-04-21, DD 02
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg

Germany

  • 55Forestyas Score
  • 47%Trees
  • 52%Wild
  • 1,189Species

Forstenrieder Park

Germany · 13 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 1,176Species

See the guide

Grünwalder Forst

Germany · 16 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,141Species

See the guide

Perlacher Forst

Germany · 12 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 1,324Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q707660) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species30,482 open records within 2 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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