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Forest of Sénart

The original uploader was Iul at French Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0

88% trees around it and 1,281 species recorded.

72Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km88%
  • wild within 10 km56%
  • species recorded1,281
  • Altitude94 m

The forest around

88% 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 87%Grassland 6%Cropland 1%Built-up 6%Trees 52%Grassland 7%Water 1%Cropland 5%Built-up 35%Trees 36%Grassland 11%Water 2%Cropland 16%Built-up 35%88%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km87%
  • 3–6 km52%
  • 6–10 km36%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees87%
  • Grassland6%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland1%
  • 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

1,281 species recorded.

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

Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix933 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior884 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Common Hawthorn
Common HawthornCrataegus monogyna858 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus857 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata854 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea816 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Herb bennet
Herb bennetGeum urbanum794 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Broad-leaved Helleborine
Broad-leaved HelleborineEpipactis helleborine756 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Creeping cinquefoil
Creeping cinquefoilPotentilla reptans752 recordsKrzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana737 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur710 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Creeping Thistle
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense703 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

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

  • 88%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 56%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,281Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 94 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°53 mm
  2. Feb8°0°48 mm
  3. Mar12°2°52 mm
  4. Apr16°5°41 mm
  5. May19°9°65 mm
  6. Jun23°12°60 mm
  7. Jul25°14°55 mm
  8. Aug25°14°57 mm
  9. Sep22°10°42 mm
  10. Oct16°7°59 mm
  11. Nov10°4°60 mm
  12. Dec6°1°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 Sénart.

Forest in France

Forest of Sénart is a forest in France.

Seen from space, 88% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 56% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,281 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 41 fungi, 191 birds and 49 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common Ivy, Ash and Common Hawthorn.

The best time to walk is in May.

Forêt de Sénart - Jonquilles
The original uploader was Iul at French Wikipedia . · 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.

Forest of Sénart 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

  • 11marked trails within 5 kmSénart en quête d'un secret, Entre Seine et Sénart, Du Val d'Yerres à l'Étampois and 8 more
  • 11named and notable trees within 6 kmChêne sessile, Platane, Cèdre du Liban and 8 more
  • 35picnic sites within 4 km
  • 165shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 3viewpoints within 5 km
  • 3visitor centres within 6 kmGardien de Talma 1, Office de Tourisme, Maison du Tourisme de l'Essonne
  • 115car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmClub Gymnique de France, Les Sablons, Les Canadieres
  • 85places to stay within 10 kmClass'Eco, Confort Hôtel, Ibis Styles Évry Cathédrale and 82 more
  • 18restaurants 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 Sénart.

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.

Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Montagne Sainte-Geneviève61 m · 22 kmButte des Moulins25 kmButte Bergeyre25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Lac de Viry-Châtillon1.0 km² · 6.9 kmLac de Créteil0.3 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas5 dark-sky places within 30 km
Camille Flammarion ObservatoryBortle 9 · 8.7 kmObservatoire de Saint-MaurBortle 9 · 16 kmAstronomy tower of the SorbonneBortle 9 · 23 kmParis Observatory, PSL UniversityBortle 9 · 24 kmGlobe CélesteBortle 9 · 25 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.

Arbre Forêt De Sénart (136201547)
Steeven Xxiii Frosio · CC0
Forêt de Sénart - Fossé
Ibgaui · CC0
Forêt de Sénart dôme
Ibgaui · CC0

Other forests nearby.

Forest of Sénart

France

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 88%Trees
  • 56%Wild
  • 1,281Species

Forest of Fontainebleau

France · 32 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 83%Wild
  • 1,921Species

See the guide

Chantilly Forest

France · 57 km

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

See the guide

Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

France · 42 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 1,244Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q639713) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species151,565 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas

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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