Israel forest
Jerusalem Forest
David Shankbone · CC BY-SA 3.0
30% trees around it and 440 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km30%
- wild within 10 km62%
- species recorded440
- Altitude686 m
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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km47%
- 1–3 km28%
- 3–6 km22%
- 6–10 km19%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees28%
- Shrubland23%
- Grassland2%
- Bare ground2%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up44%
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
440 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
Open records within 5 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).
- 30%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 62%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 440Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 686 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking in March.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan7°88 mm
- Feb8°62 mm
- Mar9°37 mm
- Apr12°21 mm
- May15°5 mm
- Jun18°1 mm
- Jul20°1 mm
- Aug21°0 mm
- Sep20°2 mm
- Oct17°14 mm
- Nov13°46 mm
- Dec9°83 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Jerusalem Forest.
Pine forest in the Judean Mountains
Jerusalem Forest is a forest in Israel, 686 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 30% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 62% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
440 species have been recorded around it: 155 plants, 8 fungi, 271 birds and 6 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Spontaneous barley, Animated oat and Rivet wheat.
The best time to walk is in March.
Get there and walk
- חניון לילה הקסטלcampsite · 3.6 km · 11 within 10 km
- מבוא ירושליםplace to stay · 4.3 km · 261 within 10 km
- Qiryat HaYovelnearest town · 0.6 km in a straight line
- Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 37 km in a straight lineCar hire at TLV airport (Tel Aviv)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
- 56marked trails within 5 kmשביל ישראל, נחל כסלון, צובה-נחל שורק and 53 more
- 5named and notable trees within 6 kmOld Olive Tree/زيتونة البدوي/أراضي زراعية Al badawi's olive tree /agricultural l, ארז בן גוריון, חורשת אלוני ענק and 2 more
- 54picnic sites within 4 kmחניון היובל, פינת געגועים ליצחק רבין, מרכז המושב - הדשא and 51 more
- 17shelters and huts within 6 kmShalshelet Shelter, בית חם and 15 more
- 38viewpoints within 5 kmמצפה ביתר, פינת עופר, מצפה נפתוח and 35 more
- 7visitor centres within 6 kmמרכז מבקרים עמק הצבאים, Czech House Jerusalem, לשכת מידע בעיר העתיקה and 4 more
- 161car parks within 3 km
- 11campsites within 10 kmחניון לילה הקסטל, חניון לילה האקליפטוסים הר איתן, חניון לילה סעדים and 8 more
- 261places to stay within 10 kmמבוא ירושלים, קיסר, מלון מגדל ירושלים and 258 more
- 36restaurants 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 Jerusalem 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.
Peakyas120 mountains within 25 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Viewyas11 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Cavernyas7 caves within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Jerusalem Forest
Israel
- 44Forestyas Score
- 30%Trees
- 62%Wild
- 440Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2777627) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 464,192 open records within 5 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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