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Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden

Ana Maria Catalina · CC BY-SA 3.0

30% trees around it and 274 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km30%
  • wild within 10 km74%
  • species recorded274
  • Altitude405 m

The forest around

30% 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 34%Grassland 1%Built-up 64%Trees 29%Grassland 11%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 57%Trees 39%Grassland 32%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 8%Built-up 20%Trees 37%Grassland 42%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 15%Built-up 6%30%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km34%
  • 1–3 km29%
  • 3–6 km39%
  • 6–10 km37%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees29%
  • Grassland11%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland3%
  • Built-up57%

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

274 species recorded.

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

Soybean
SoybeanGlycine max151 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Indian Corn
Indian CornZea mays40 recordsAkwugo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus24 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus17 recordsИгоревич · Public domain
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix14 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
European smoketree
European smoketreeCotinus coggygria13 recordsLIght Dim · CC0
Dianthus collinus
Dianthus collinusDianthus collinus11 recordsRadio Tonreg from Vienna, Austria · CC BY 2.0
Common barley
Common barleyHordeum vulgare10 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Blackeyed pea
Blackeyed peaVigna unguiculata10 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Wild Grape
Wild GrapeVitis vinifera10 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Periwinkle
PeriwinkleVinca minor8 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Phytolacca acinosa
Phytolacca acinosaPhytolacca acinosa7 recordsAlgirdas · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

50out of 100

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

  • 30%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 74%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 274Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 405 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from April to May and from September to October.

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

  1. Jan1°-7°35 mm
  2. Feb4°-5°34 mm
  3. Mar9°-1°43 mm
  4. Apr16°4°51 mm
  5. May21°10°81 mm
  6. Jun25°14°97 mm
  7. Jul27°16°90 mm
  8. Aug28°15°63 mm
  9. Sep22°10°53 mm
  10. Oct16°4°53 mm
  11. Nov9°0°40 mm
  12. Dec2°-5°40 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden

Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Romania, 405 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 30% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 74% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

274 species have been recorded around it: 138 plants, 51 fungi, 85 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Soybean, Indian Corn and Greater Celandine.

The best time to walk is from April to May and from September to October.

Cluj-Napoca-Grădina Botanică -Alexandru Borza-IMG 1557
Ana Maria Catalina · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

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.

Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden 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

  • 9marked trails within 5 kmVia Mariae M01-47 Macău-Cluj-Napoca, Via Mariae M01-48 Cluj-Napoca-Cojocna, Mănăștur (Baza Unirea) - Casele Micești - Tureni and 6 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmGingko Biloba
  • 24picnic sites within 4 km
  • 20shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 16viewpoints within 5 kmBrüll kilátó, Priveliște spre Cluj, Observator Feleacu and 13 more
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmCentru de informare pentru cetățeni, Centrul de Informare Turistică, Receptie & Info and 1 more
  • 672car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmColina, Camp Virtus, Moara de Vânt
  • 167places to stay within 10 kmHotel Capitolina, City Central și cămin studențesc, Hotel Olimp and 164 more
  • 386restaurants 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 Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden.

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.

Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Firemen's tower in Cluj Napoca1.5 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Cheile Turenilor (sit SCI)139 species · 20 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 Cluj-Napoca 4
Cristian Bortes from Cluj-Napoca, Romania · CC BY 2.0
Institutul Botanic, Muzeul Botanic, Cluj-Napoca-9947
Raimond Spekking · CC BY-SA 4.0
Artificial river - panoramio
Shadowmed · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden

Romania

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 30%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 274Species

Hoia Forest

Romania · 5 km

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 33%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 401Species

See the guide

Kuzii protected area

Ukraine · 137 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 147Species

See the guide

Svydovets protected massif

Ukraine · 163 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 103Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q596723) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,928 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, Viewyas, Birdyas, Riveryas

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

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