France forest
Forest of Fontainebleau
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90% trees around it and 1,921 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km90%
- wild within 10 km83%
- species recorded1,921
- Altitude108 m
The forest around
90% 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 km100%
- 1–3 km89%
- 3–6 km94%
- 6–10 km70%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees89%
- Grassland5%
- Water0%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up6%
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
1,921 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
Open records within 5 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).
- 90%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 83%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 1,921Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 108 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.
- Jan0°53 mm
- Feb0°48 mm
- Mar2°52 mm
- Apr5°41 mm
- May9°65 mm
- Jun12°60 mm
- Jul14°55 mm
- Aug14°57 mm
- Sep10°42 mm
- Oct7°59 mm
- Nov4°60 mm
- Dec1°66 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Forest of Fontainebleau.
Forest in France
Forest of Fontainebleau is a forest in France.
Seen from space, 90% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 83% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
1,921 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 709 fungi, 165 birds and 47 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Cypress Spurge and Scots Pine.
The best time to walk is in May.
Get there and walk
- Bivouac de la Faisanderiecampsite · 1.1 km · 8 within 10 km
- Demeures De Campagneplace to stay · 1.9 km · 44 within 10 km
- Fontainebleaunearest town · 3.0 km in a straight line
- Paris-Orly Airport (ORY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 43 km in a straight lineCar hire at ORY 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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 61marked trails within 5 kmSentier Denecourt-Colinet 11, Sentier Denecourt-Colinet 7, Sentier Denecourt-Colinet 15 and 58 more
- 34named and notable trees within 6 kmBouquet de la Reine Amélie, Chêne du Souvenir, Chêne Sully and 31 more
- 9picnic sites within 4 km
- 38shelters and huts within 6 kmGare de Fontainebleau - Avon and 37 more
- 35viewpoints within 5 kmTour Denecourt, Point de Vue de Saint-Mégrin, Croix du Calvaire and 32 more
- 4visitor centres within 6 kmCentre d'Ecotourisme, Office de Tourisme de Fontainebleau, Gare Routière Fontainebleau-Avon - Information Bus and 1 more
- 61car parks within 3 km
- 8campsites within 10 kmBivouac de la Faisanderie, Bivouac de l'Hippodrome de la Solle, Bivouac de la Grande Vallée and 5 more
- 44places to stay within 10 kmDemeures De Campagne, Hôtel Victoria, Hôtel de Londres and 41 more
- 59restaurants 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 Forest of Fontainebleau.
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.
Peakyas9 mountains within 25 kmMont Enflammé121 m · 2.0 kmMont Ussy4.1 kmMonts de Fays5.4 kmMont Aiveu132 m · 7.7 kmrock of Samois120 m · 8.1 kmMont Rouget8.8 kmRocher de la Dame Jouanne114 m · 12 kmRochers-Gréau113 m · 16 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonDenecourt tower5.9 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 kmCrystal Cave4.6 kmGrotte à la peinture13 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.
Forest of Fontainebleau
France
- 84Forestyas Score
- 90%Trees
- 83%Wild
- 1,921Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1293678) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 225,271 open records within 5 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, Viewyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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