Skip to content
forestyas
EN

United Kingdom United Kingdom arboretum

Glasgow Botanic Gardens

No machine-readable author provided. Finlay McWalter assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0

30% trees around it and 807 species recorded.

48Forestyas Score

ArboretumFungi

  • trees within 3 km30%
  • wild within 10 km59%
  • species recorded807

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 33%Grassland 1%Built-up 66%Trees 29%Grassland 10%Water 3%Cropland 0%Built-up 57%Trees 28%Grassland 19%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 47%Trees 30%Grassland 34%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 31%30%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km33%
  • 1–3 km29%
  • 3–6 km28%
  • 6–10 km30%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees29%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water3%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • 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

807 species recorded.

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

Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata76 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Giant Hogweed
Giant HogweedHeracleum mantegazzianum67 recordsanastasiiamerkulova · CC BY 4.0
Few-flowered leek
Few-flowered leekAllium paradoxum62 recordsMichael Wolf · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lawn-daisy
Lawn-daisyBellis perennis60 recordsm.dolores paderne sa… · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bigflower tellima
Bigflower tellimaTellima grandiflora59 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
Herb-robert
Herb-robertGeranium robertianum58 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Himalayan Balsam
Himalayan BalsamImpatiens glandulifera56 recordsGuptaele · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hart's-tongue
Hart's-tongueAsplenium scolopendrium52 recordsErwin Gruber from Frohnleiten, Österreich, Steiermark · CC BY-SA 2.0
Ramsons
RamsonsAllium ursinum52 recordsAgnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cuckoo flower
Cuckoo flowerCardamine pratensis50 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Herb bennet
Herb bennetGeum urbanum48 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium48 recordsUnknown author · 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.

48out 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
  • 59%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 807Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from June to August.

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

  1. Jan5°1°137 mm
  2. Feb5°1°102 mm
  3. Mar7°2°94 mm
  4. Apr10°3°76 mm
  5. May13°6°92 mm
  6. Jun16°9°106 mm
  7. Jul17°10°122 mm
  8. Aug17°10°137 mm
  9. Sep14°8°106 mm
  10. Oct11°6°143 mm
  11. Nov8°4°134 mm
  12. Dec5°2°131 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Glasgow Botanic Gardens.

Botanical garden in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Glasgow Botanic Gardens is an arboretum in United Kingdom.

Seen from space, 30% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 59% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

807 species have been recorded around it: 603 plants, 92 fungi, 99 birds and 13 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Garlic Mustard, Giant Hogweed and Few-flowered leek.

The best time to walk is from June to August.

Wfm Glasgow Botanic Gardens
No machine-readable author provided. Finlay McWalter assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at GLA airport (Glasgow)Discover CarsSee prices 

Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.

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.

Glasgow Botanic Gardens 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 kmClyde Walkway, Forth & Clyde/Union Canal Towpath, Kelvin Walkway and 6 more
  • 7named and notable trees within 6 kmThe Argyle Street Ash Tree, Silver Birch tree, Normal Avenue and 4 more
  • 99picnic sites within 4 km
  • 64shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 12viewpoints within 5 kmMackintosh Tower, Hill Street Viewpoint Garnethill and 10 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmVisit West End, Kelvingrove Park Ranger Centre
  • 695car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmJubilee Caravan Park, Dunroman Caravan Park, Craigmaddie Glamping and 1 more
  • 157places to stay within 10 kmAmbassador Hotel, Glasgow Youth Hostel, Devoncove Hotel and 154 more
  • 670restaurants 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 Glasgow Botanic Gardens.

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.

Peakyas18 mountains within 25 km
Castle Hill118 m · 6.7 kmCathkin Braes11 kmDuncolm14 kmDumgoyne427 m · 15 kmEarl's Seat578 m · 16 kmBar Hill16 kmCorse Hill21 kmDunlop Hill24 km
Islandyasthe island
Great Britain228,938 km²
Lakeyas7 lakes within 15 km
Craigmaddie Reservoir0.5 km² · 8.0 kmGadloch0.2 km² · 8.4 kmCochno Loch0.4 km² · 12 kmBalgray Reservoir0.5 km² · 12 kmKilmannan Reservoir0.4 km² · 13 kmLoch Humphrey0.3 km² · 14 kmBurncrooks Reservoir0.4 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Coats ObservatoryBortle 8 · 9.6 kmAirdrie Public ObservatoryBortle 8 · 19 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Glasgow Tower2.4 km
Cascadyas5 waterfalls within 15 km
Grey Mare's Tail, Kilpatrick Hills10 kmCraigie Linn12 kmBlack Spout12 kmSpout of Ballagan13 kmWhite Spout13 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
River Clyde176 kmRiver Kelvin35 kmRiver GryfeAllander Water

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Glasgow Botanic Gardens reopen 009
StaraBlazkova · Public domain
The Botannical Gardens 142
gillfoto · CC BY-SA 4.0
Glasgow Botanical Gardens (8038799605)
Steve Collis from Melbourne, Australia · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Glasgow Botanic Gardens

United Kingdom

  • 48Forestyas Score
  • 30%Trees
  • 59%Wild
  • 807Species

Queen Elizabeth Forest Park

United Kingdom · 33 km

  • 87Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 709Species

See the guide

Glentress Forest

United Kingdom · 77 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 48%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 913Species

See the guide

Fortingall Yew

United Kingdom · 81 km

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 44%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 219Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q894634) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species26,344 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, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

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

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here