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Kedrinos Lofos

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71% trees around it and 585 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km71%
  • wild within 10 km71%
  • species recorded585
  • Altitude358 m

The forest around

71% 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 87%Shrubland 8%Grassland 5%Trees 69%Shrubland 7%Grassland 12%Bare ground 1%Built-up 11%Trees 47%Shrubland 6%Grassland 17%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 28%Trees 34%Shrubland 3%Grassland 14%Wetland 1%Water 16%Bare ground 0%Cropland 10%Built-up 22%71%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km87%
  • 1–3 km69%
  • 3–6 km47%
  • 6–10 km34%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees69%
  • Shrubland7%
  • Grassland12%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up11%

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

585 species recorded.

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

Silverleaf nightshade
Silverleaf nightshadeSolanum elaeagnifolium70 recordsPLAKLE · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jeruselem thorn
Jeruselem thornPaliurus spina-christi53 recordsFritz Geller-Grimm · CC BY-SA 2.5
Anemone pavonina
Anemone pavoninaAnemone pavonina34 recordsGhislain118 (AD) http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net · CC BY-SA 3.0
Paper mulberry
Paper mulberryBroussonetia papyrifera28 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Laurustinus
LaurustinusViburnum tinus27 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Oleander
OleanderNerium oleander25 recordsUnknown author · CC BY 2.5
Sarcopoterium spinosum
Sarcopoterium spinosumSarcopoterium spinosum22 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mouse barley
Mouse barleyHordeum murinum22 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mediterranean hartwort
Mediterranean hartwortTordylium apulum20 recordsM. Theofilatou · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Poppy
Common PoppyPapaver rhoeas18 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 2.5
Field marigold
Field marigoldCalendula arvensis17 recordsAlvesgaspar · CC BY-SA 3.0
Henbit Dead-nettle
Henbit Dead-nettleLamium amplexicaule16 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

68out of 100

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

  • 71%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 71%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 585Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 358 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April.

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

  1. Jan8°1°47 mm
  2. Feb10°2°38 mm
  3. Mar14°4°48 mm
  4. Apr18°8°40 mm
  5. May24°13°46 mm
  6. Jun30°18°38 mm
  7. Jul33°21°28 mm
  8. Aug33°21°24 mm
  9. Sep27°17°47 mm
  10. Oct21°11°50 mm
  11. Nov15°7°44 mm
  12. Dec9°2°64 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kedrinos Lofos.

Hill and suburban forest of Thessaloniki, Greece

Kedrinos Lofos is a forest in Greece, 358 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 71% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 71% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

585 species have been recorded around it: 199 plants, 243 fungi, 140 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Silverleaf nightshade, Jeruselem thorn and Anemone pavonina.

The best time to walk is in April.

Σέιχ Σου
Gerakishow · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Προσκοπικό Κατασκηνωτικό Κέντρο "Θεόδωρος Λίτσας"campsite · 7.5 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Crossroads Guesthouse - Hostelplace to stay · 5.2 km · 130 within 10 km
  • Asvestochórinearest town · 2.0 km in a straight line
  • Thessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 12 km in a straight lineCar hire at SKG airport (Thessaloniki)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.

Kedrinos Lofos 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

  • 7marked trails within 5 kmΕθνικό μονοπάτι O4, M5, M6 and 4 more
  • 18named and notable trees within 6 kmΠεύκο, Τούγια, Μανταρινιά and 15 more
  • 26picnic sites within 4 km
  • 57shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 20viewpoints within 5 kmΠευκόφυτον, Άρτεμις, Villa Luna and 17 more
  • 46car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmΠροσκοπικό Κατασκηνωτικό Κέντρο "Θεόδωρος Λίτσας"
  • 130places to stay within 10 kmCrossroads Guesthouse - Hostel, Kripis Studio Thessaloniki, Hotel Olympia and 127 more
  • 44restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Kedrinos Lofos.

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.

Peakyas8 mountains within 25 km
Kedrinos Lofosthis placeProfitis Ilias, Asvestochori3.1 kmMount Chortiatis1,201 m · 9.6 kmLanaris11 kmSivri561 m · 18 kmVouzari19 kmKamila Mountain569 m · 24 kmProfitis Ilias24 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mount Chortiatis1,201 m · 9.5 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.

Romulea bulbocodium2
PLAKLE · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Kedrinos Lofos

Greece

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 71%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 585Species

Baikushev's pine

Bulgaria · 131 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 245Species

See the guide

Ohrid plane tree

North Macedonia · 194 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 21%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 142Species

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Dadia Forest

Greece · 276 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 357Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q16329596) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species25,454 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, Viewyas, Birdyas

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

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