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Forêt de Marly

Rémih · CC BY-SA 4.0

70% trees around it and 1,219 species recorded.

67Forestyas Score

ForestBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km70%
  • wild within 10 km62%
  • species recorded1,219
  • Altitude183 m

The forest around

70% 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 96%Grassland 1%Built-up 3%Trees 66%Grassland 16%Cropland 13%Built-up 6%Trees 41%Grassland 10%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 32%Built-up 15%Trees 49%Grassland 11%Water 3%Bare ground 0%Cropland 16%Built-up 22%70%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km96%
  • 1–3 km66%
  • 3–6 km41%
  • 6–10 km49%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees66%
  • Grassland16%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland13%
  • 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

1,219 species recorded.

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

AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior507 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Hogweed
HogweedHeracleum sphondylium429 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea423 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus413 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata405 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix401 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica399 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hornbeam
HornbeamCarpinus betulus368 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
Creeping buttercup
Creeping buttercupRanunculus repens350 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Creeping Thistle
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense344 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Sweet Chestnut
Sweet ChestnutCastanea sativa320 recordsJLPC · CC BY-SA 3.0
Herb bennet
Herb bennetGeum urbanum312 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 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.

67out of 100

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

  • 70%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 62%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,219Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 183 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°56 mm
  2. Feb7°0°50 mm
  3. Mar11°2°54 mm
  4. Apr16°5°40 mm
  5. May19°8°64 mm
  6. Jun22°12°58 mm
  7. Jul24°13°55 mm
  8. Aug24°13°58 mm
  9. Sep21°10°42 mm
  10. Oct16°7°61 mm
  11. Nov10°4°64 mm
  12. Dec6°1°71 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Forêt de Marly.

Forest in France

Forêt de Marly is a forest in France.

Seen from space, 70% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 62% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,219 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 14 fungi, 173 birds and 32 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ash, Hogweed and Ground-ivy.

The best time to walk is in May.

Forêt domaniale de Marly @ Butte du Moulin 02
Rémih · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Les Renardièrescampsite · 9.9 km · 2 within 10 km
  • Hôtel du Parcplace to stay · 4.5 km · 109 within 10 km
  • Saint-Nom-la-Bretêchenearest town · 1.1 km in a straight line
  • Paris-Orly Airport (ORY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 28 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.

Forêt de Marly 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

  • 13marked trails within 5 kmLa boucle de Feucherolles, Le sentier des Seigneurs, Parcours randonnée and 10 more
  • 21named and notable trees within 6 kmArbre de Diane, Chêne des Anglais, Le Vieil Arbre and 18 more
  • 52picnic sites within 4 km
  • 74shelters and huts within 6 kmSchapper and 73 more
  • 7viewpoints within 5 kmVue sur Le Vésinet, La Défense et Paris, Désert de Retz, La Croix Saint-Michel and 4 more
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmOffice de tourisme Boucles de Seine, Office du Tourisme, Office de tourisme Saint-Germain Boucles de Seine and 1 more
  • 87car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmLes Renardières, Camping Sandaya Paris Maisons-Laffitte
  • 109places to stay within 10 kmHôtel du Parc, Le Narval, Hôtel Ibis and 106 more
  • 11restaurants 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 Forêt de Marly.

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.

Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
Mount Valérien161 m · 13 kmbutte Mortemart55 m · 16 kmButte des Moulins22 kmMontmartre130 m · 23 kmMontagne Sainte-Geneviève61 m · 23 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Grand Canal of Versailles0.3 km² · 7.3 kmÉtang de Saint-Quentin1.1 km² · 9.0 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ObservatoryBortle 8 · 9.9 kmParis Observatory, PSL UniversityBortle 9 · 16 kmGlobe CélesteBortle 9 · 19 kmAstronomy tower of the SorbonneBortle 9 · 23 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.

Forêt Marly Roi - Marly-le-Roi (FR78) - 2026-09-05 - 1
Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Forêt Marly Roi - Marly-le-Roi (FR78) - 2026-09-05 - 2
Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Défense @ Colline d'Élancourt
Rémih · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Forêt de Marly

France

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 70%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 1,219Species

Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

France · 9 km

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

See the guide

Désert de Retz

France · 3 km

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 63%Trees
  • 60%Wild
  • 1,229Species

See the guide

Chantilly Forest

France · 49 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3078907) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species74,962 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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