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Hoia Forest

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33% trees around it and 401 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km33%
  • wild within 10 km73%
  • species recorded401
  • Altitude428 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 76%Grassland 22%Cropland 1%Built-up 0%Trees 28%Grassland 42%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 9%Built-up 21%Trees 37%Grassland 30%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 12%Built-up 21%Trees 34%Grassland 40%Bare ground 0%Cropland 14%Built-up 11%33%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km76%
  • 1–3 km28%
  • 3–6 km37%
  • 6–10 km34%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees28%
  • Grassland42%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland9%
  • Built-up21%

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

401 species recorded.

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

Dog's-tooth-violet
Dog's-tooth-violetErythronium dens-canis33 recordsxulescu_g · CC BY-SA 2.0
False hellebore
False helleboreAdonis vernalis32 recordsMartin Bahmann · CC BY-SA 3.0
Erigeron canadensis
Erigeron canadensisErigeron canadensis30 recordsAndrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA · CC BY 2.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus30 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Canada goldenrod
Canada goldenrodSolidago canadensis26 recordsGeorg Slickers · CC BY-SA 4.0
False Acacia
False AcaciaRobinia pseudoacacia25 recordsThis Photo was taken by Wolfgang Moroder . Feel free to use my photos, but please mention · CC BY-SA 3.0
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus23 recordsИгоревич · Public domain
Persian Walnut
Persian WalnutJuglans regia17 recordssurrealpenguin · CC BY-SA 2.0
Aposeris foetida
Aposeris foetidaAposeris foetida17 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY-SA 3.0
Periwinkle
PeriwinkleVinca minor16 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Spring vetchling
Spring vetchlingLathyrus vernus16 recordsPrazak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Japanese Knotweed
Japanese KnotweedReynoutria japonica15 recordsW.carter · CC0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

50out 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
  • 73%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 401Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 428 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. Jan1°-7°35 mm
  2. Feb4°-5°34 mm
  3. Mar9°-1°43 mm
  4. Apr16°4°51 mm
  5. May21°10°81 mm
  6. Jun25°14°97 mm
  7. Jul27°16°90 mm
  8. Aug28°15°63 mm
  9. Sep22°10°53 mm
  10. Oct16°4°53 mm
  11. Nov9°0°40 mm
  12. Dec2°-5°40 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Hoia Forest.

A forest near Cluj-Napoca (Romania)

Hoia Forest is a forest in Romania, 428 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 33% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 73% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

401 species have been recorded around it: 222 plants, 13 fungi, 160 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Dog's-tooth-violet, False hellebore and Erigeron canadensis.

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

Cluj-Napoca - Hoia Forest and Grigorescu district
Roamata · Public domain

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.

Hoia Forest 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

  • 6marked trails within 5 kmFlorești - Cetatea Fetei, Via Mariae M01-47 Macău-Cluj-Napoca, Mănăștur (Baza Unirea) - Casele Micești - Tureni and 3 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmGingko Biloba
  • 10picnic sites within 4 km
  • 12shelters and huts within 6 kmFoișorul de ceremonii and 11 more
  • 10viewpoints within 5 kmPriveliște spre Cluj, Belvedere Gălcer, Belvedere spre Valea Hosuveghi and 7 more
  • 4visitor centres within 6 kmCentru de informare pentru cetățeni, Centrul de Informare Turistică, Receptie & Info and 1 more
  • 263car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmColina, Camp Virtus
  • 164places to stay within 10 kmSara Hotel, Hotel Stadion, Pensiunea Iozefini and 161 more
  • 45restaurants 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 Hoia Forest.

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.

Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Someșul Cald Lake0.8 km² · 15 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Firemen's tower in Cluj Napoca5.2 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Cheile Turenilor (sit SCI)139 species · 24 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Someșul Mic80 km · 21 m³/sPopești RiverNadăș44 km · 1.3 m³/sBecașChinteni

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

Other forests nearby.

Hoia Forest

Romania

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 33%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 401Species

Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden

Romania · 5 km

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 30%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 274Species

See the guide

Kuzii protected area

Ukraine · 137 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 147Species

See the guide

Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh primeval beech forest

Ukraine · 166 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 85%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 56Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q632261) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species13,161 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, Viewyas, Birdyas, Riveryas

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

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