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Folly arboretum

János Korom Dr. >11 Million views · CC BY-SA 2.0

33% trees around it and 46 species recorded.

51Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km33%
  • wild within 10 km90%
  • species recorded46
  • Altitude174 m

The forest around

33% 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 52%Grassland 33%Wetland 5%Water 6%Cropland 1%Built-up 3%Trees 30%Grassland 19%Wetland 2%Water 43%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 3%Trees 24%Grassland 24%Wetland 1%Water 45%Cropland 5%Built-up 2%Trees 21%Grassland 30%Wetland 4%Water 34%Cropland 8%Built-up 3%33%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km52%
  • 1–3 km30%
  • 3–6 km24%
  • 6–10 km21%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees30%
  • Grassland19%
  • Wetland2%
  • Water43%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up3%

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

46 species recorded.

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

European smoketree
European smoketreeCotinus coggygria8 recordsLIght Dim · CC0
Burning Bush
Burning BushDictamnus albus6 recordsJean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bloody Crane's-bill
Bloody Crane's-billGeranium sanguineum5 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Fig
FigFicus carica5 recordsSilverije · CC BY-SA 4.0
Traveller's-joy
Traveller's-joyClematis vitalba3 recordsMichael Gasperl ( Migas ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cypress Spurge
Cypress SpurgeEuphorbia cyparissias3 recordsKrzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica2 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Whorled clary
Whorled clarySalvia verticillata2 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Common hop
Common hopHumulus lupulus2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Rasbak assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
White ballmustard
White ballmustardCalepina irregularis2 recordsJohann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm ) · Public domain
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus sanguinea2 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Manna Ash
Manna AshFraxinus ornus2 recordsJean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 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.

51out of 100

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

  • 33%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 90%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 46Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 174 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. Jan2°-4°36 mm
  2. Feb4°-3°40 mm
  3. Mar10°1°41 mm
  4. Apr16°6°35 mm
  5. May21°11°67 mm
  6. Jun26°15°69 mm
  7. Jul28°17°62 mm
  8. Aug28°17°66 mm
  9. Sep22°12°66 mm
  10. Oct16°6°54 mm
  11. Nov9°2°46 mm
  12. Dec3°-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

Folly arboretum.

Folly arboretum is an arboretum in Hungary.

Seen from space, 33% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 90% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

46 species have been recorded around it: 15 plants, 0 fungi, 31 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European smoketree, Burning Bush and Bloody Crane's-bill.

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

Folly arborétum Balaton panoráma a fenyőmúzeumból
János Korom Dr. >11 Million views · CC BY-SA 2.0

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.

Folly arboretum 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

  • 29marked trails within 5 kmP, Kuruc-körút tanösvény, P● (Badacsony, Klastrom-kút), K▲ (Tördemici kilátó) and 26 more
  • 3named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 25picnic sites within 4 kmFolly grillterasz and 24 more
  • 17shelters and huts within 6 kmBadacsonylábdihegy Vasútállomás bejárati út and 16 more
  • 32viewpoints within 5 kmTördemici kilátó, Egry József kilátóhely, Bökk-hegyi kilátó and 29 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmTourinform
  • 38car parks within 3 km
  • 10campsites within 10 kmTomaj Camping, Badacsony Camping, "Tóti" Nomád táborhely and 7 more
  • 175places to stay within 10 kmBorbarátok, Korbély szálláshely, Varga István and 172 more
  • 22restaurants 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 Folly arboretum.

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.

Peakyas16 mountains within 25 km
Tóti-hegy3.5 kmGulács393 m · 4.0 kmCsobánc376 m · 7.4 kmVég-máli-hegy7.8 kmSzent György-hill415 m · 8.2 kmTarlóra-hegy13 kmSínai-hegy15 kmVeréb-hegy23 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Öreg-tó1.4 km² · 7.5 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Egry József-kilátóhely4.2 kmSea of Stones, Szentbékkálla9.0 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Lake Balaton106 species · 14 km
Cavernyas4 caves within 20 km
Tapolca Lake Cave11 kmDöme Cave14 kmKapolcsi Pokol Hole16 kmGyenesdiási Vadlány Hole19 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.

Calocedrus decurrens - Folly Arboretum
Illustratedjc · CC BY-SA 4.0
Folly Arboretum entrance
Illustratedjc · CC BY-SA 4.0
Folly arborétum bejárata
Inritter · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Folly arboretum

Hungary

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 33%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 46Species

Bratislavský lesný park

Slovakia · 159 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 840Species

See the guide

Vienna Woods

Austria · 188 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 85%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 353Species

See the guide

Maurer Wald

Austria · 178 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 2,164Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1002623) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species225 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, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas

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

The family

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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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