France arboretum
Jardin des plantes
Guilhem Vellut from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0
9% trees around it and 1,323 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km9%
- wild within 10 km26%
- species recorded1,323
The forest around
9% 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 km8%
- 1–3 km9%
- 3–6 km16%
- 6–10 km25%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees9%
- Grassland0%
- Water2%
- Built-up89%
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
1,323 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
NT
Open records within 2 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).
- 9%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 26%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 1,323Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
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°54 mm
- Feb0°50 mm
- Mar2°52 mm
- Apr5°39 mm
- May8°64 mm
- Jun12°60 mm
- Jul14°55 mm
- Aug13°59 mm
- Sep10°42 mm
- Oct7°57 mm
- Nov4°61 mm
- Dec1°69 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Jardin des plantes.
Urban park in Paris, France
Jardin des plantes is an arboretum in France.
Seen from space, 9% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 26% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
1,323 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 118 fungi, 176 birds and 29 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Annual Meadow Grass, Smooth sow-thistle and Greater Plantain.
The best time to walk is in May.
Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Camping Paris-Estcampsite · 9.0 km · 2 within 10 km
- Young and Happy Hostelplace to stay · 0.8 km · 2,352 within 10 km
- Salpêtrièrenearest town · 0.7 km in a straight line
- Paris-Orly Airport (ORY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 13 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
- 33marked trails within 5 kmSentier des Côteaux, Traversée de Paris n°2, Traversée de Paris n°3 and 30 more
- 226named and notable trees within 6 kmRobinier du square René Viviani, Sophora d'Incarville, Fau de Verzy and 223 more
- 168picnic sites within 4 km
- 307shelters and huts within 6 kmAbri and 306 more
- 41viewpoints within 5 kmBelvédère de la Sibylle, Talus Hardenberg, Butte de Coupeaux and 38 more
- 43visitor centres within 6 kmAssociation Paris Historique, Centre d'Information et de Documentation de l'Ambassade d'Allemagne, La maison du Limousin and 40 more
- 844car parks within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmCamping Paris-Est, Camping de Paris
- 2,352places to stay within 10 kmYoung and Happy Hostel, Hôtel Port-Royal, Charles V and 2,349 more
- 6,047restaurants 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 Jardin des plantes.
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.
Peakyas6 mountains within 25 kmMontagne Sainte-Geneviève61 m · 1.1 kmButte des Moulins3.1 kmButte Bergeyre4.0 kmMontmartre130 m · 4.9 kmbutte Mortemart55 m · 7.8 kmMount Valérien161 m · 11 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 kmLac de Créteil0.3 km² · 10 kmLac d'Enghien0.3 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 kmAstronomy tower of the SorbonneBortle 9 · 1.3 kmGlobe CélesteBortle 9 · 5.1 kmParis Observatory, PSL UniversityBortle 9 · 10 km↗Observatoire de Saint-MaurBortle 9 · 10 kmCamille Flammarion ObservatoryBortle 9 · 17 kmVersailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ObservatoryBortle 8 · 24 km↗
Viewyas5 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonGrande roue des Tuileries3.1 kmEiffel Tower5.0 km↗Montmartre130 m · 5.0 km↗Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile6.8 km↗Berthelot Tower10 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmChâteau d'Eau4.4 km
Riveryasthe river nearbySeine777 km · 500 m³/s↗Bièvre35 km · 0.2 m³/s
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.
Jardin des plantes
France
- 37Forestyas Score
- 9%Trees
- 26%Wild
- 1,323Species
Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
France · 22 km
- 73Forestyas Score
- 82%Trees
- 62%Wild
- 1,244Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q730948) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 95,603 open records within 2 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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