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Chantilly Forest

Irish21 · CC BY-SA 3.0

83% trees around it and 1,387 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km83%
  • wild within 10 km77%
  • species recorded1,387
  • Altitude52 m

The forest around

83% 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 93%Grassland 7%Trees 81%Grassland 12%Water 1%Cropland 4%Built-up 1%Trees 67%Grassland 16%Water 0%Cropland 10%Built-up 6%Trees 60%Grassland 10%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 19%Built-up 10%83%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km93%
  • 1–3 km81%
  • 3–6 km67%
  • 6–10 km60%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees81%
  • Grassland12%
  • Water1%
  • Cropland4%
  • Built-up1%

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

1,387 species recorded.

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

Common Bluebell
Common BluebellHyacinthoides non-scripta414 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hornbeam
HornbeamCarpinus betulus381 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
Wood Anemone
Wood AnemoneAnemone nemorosa333 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica322 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Small-leaved Lime
Small-leaved LimeTilia cordata284 recordsImreKiss · CC BY 3.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur272 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Heather-bell
Heather-bellErica cinerea220 recordsGwen and James Anderson · CC BY-SA 2.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata218 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dog's mercury
Dog's mercuryMercurialis perennis212 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Woodland germander
Woodland germanderTeucrium scorodonia206 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana198 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood Spurge
Wood SpurgeEuphorbia amygdaloides196 recordsRobert Flogaus-Faust · CC BY 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

80out of 100

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

  • 83%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 77%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,387Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 52 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan6°0°54 mm
  2. Feb7°0°50 mm
  3. Mar12°2°52 mm
  4. Apr16°5°39 mm
  5. May19°8°64 mm
  6. Jun23°12°60 mm
  7. Jul25°14°55 mm
  8. Aug25°13°59 mm
  9. Sep21°10°42 mm
  10. Oct16°7°57 mm
  11. Nov10°4°61 mm
  12. Dec6°1°69 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Chantilly Forest.

Forest in France

Chantilly Forest is a forest in France.

Seen from space, 83% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 77% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,387 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 173 fungi, 175 birds and 39 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common Bluebell, Hornbeam and Wood Anemone.

The best time to walk is in May.

Chantilly Forest
Irish21 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Le Pré des Moinescampsite · 7.4 km · 5 within 10 km
  • Le Pied à l'Étrierplace to stay · 3.7 km · 54 within 10 km
  • Avilly-Saint-Léonardnearest town · 3.0 km in a straight line
  • Charles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 19 km in a straight lineCar hire at CDG airport (Paris)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.

Chantilly 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

  • 8marked trails within 5 kmChemin Royal, Grand Tour de Paris, Montagny-Prouvaire - La Ferté-Milon, Aux marches de Luzarches and 5 more
  • 6named and notable trees within 6 kmChène du Coup de Foudre, Chène des Grès, Chêne Sylvie and 3 more
  • 27picnic sites within 4 kmAire de Pique-Nique de la Table and 26 more
  • 25shelters and huts within 6 kmAbribus and 24 more
  • 3viewpoints within 5 km
  • 3visitor centres within 6 kmOffice de tourisme de Chantilly, Maison du Parc naturel régional Oise-Pays de france, Office du tourisme de Senlis
  • 23car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmLe Pré des Moines, Camping le Mont Cesar, Campix and 2 more
  • 54places to stay within 10 kmLe Pied à l'Étrier, Hôtel Du Parc, Chambres d'Hôtes L'Alezan and 51 more
  • 15restaurants 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 Chantilly 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.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Mont Pagnotte15 kmMont Cornon20 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
marais de Sacy218 species · 18 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.

Floresta de Chantilly
Cassio Teixeira · Public domain
Forêt de Chantilly allée équestre 01
Rémih · CC BY-SA 4.0
Forêt de Chantilly allée équestre 02
Rémih · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Chantilly Forest

France

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 83%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,387Species

Forest of Halatte

France · 9 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 1,559Species

See the guide

Forest of Compiègne

France · 35 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 1,320Species

See the guide

Ermenonville Forest

France · 10 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 54%Wild
  • 1,274Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2541063) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species63,393 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, Birdyas

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

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