Austria forest
Krapfenwaldl
Michael Kranewitter · CC BY 2.5
66% trees around it and 2,015 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km66%
- wild within 10 km63%
- species recorded2,015
- Altitude356 m
The forest around
66% 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 km67%
- 1–3 km65%
- 3–6 km53%
- 6–10 km48%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees65%
- Grassland10%
- Water6%
- Cropland0%
- Built-up18%
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
2,015 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).
- 66%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 63%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 2,015Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 356 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from April to May and in September.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan-5°41 mm
- Feb-4°34 mm
- Mar-1°42 mm
- Apr4°37 mm
- May9°77 mm
- Jun14°80 mm
- Jul16°78 mm
- Aug15°76 mm
- Sep10°70 mm
- Oct5°47 mm
- Nov1°40 mm
- Dec-4°39 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Krapfenwaldl.
Forest in Vienna
Krapfenwaldl is a forest in Austria, 356 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 66% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 63% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
2,015 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 828 fungi, 165 birds and 22 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Tree of heaven, Garlic Mustard and Greater Celandine.
The best time to walk is from April to May and in September.
Get there and walk
- Donaupark Camping Klosterneuburgcampsite · 5.0 km · 5 within 10 km
- Jugendgästehaus Wien-Brigittenauplace to stay · 4.2 km · 539 within 10 km
- Döblingnearest town · 1.8 km in a straight line
- Vienna International Airport (VIE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 25 km in a straight lineCar hire at VIE airport (Vienna)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
- 104marked trails within 5 kmOstösterreichischer Grenzlandweg 07, Voralpenweg 04 (Südroute), Wanderweg 404 Wienerwald-Weitwanderweg and 101 more
- 29named and notable trees within 6 kmMammutbaum, Bildereiche and 27 more
- 288picnic sites within 4 kmHaschhof, Grillplatz 12 and 286 more
- 607shelters and huts within 6 kmUnterstandshütte T.V.N. Klosterneuburg, Steinböck Hütte and 605 more
- 37viewpoints within 5 kmHeimkehrer-Gedächtnismal, Schwarzes Kreuz, Cobenzl and 34 more
- 5visitor centres within 6 kmStadtmarketing & Tourismus, WUK Infobüro, Information and 2 more
- 255car parks within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 kmDonaupark Camping Klosterneuburg, Wohnmobilstellplatz am Bahnhof Kritzendorf, MICAMPA Wien Wienerwald and 2 more
- 539places to stay within 10 kmJugendgästehaus Wien-Brigittenau, Bellevue, Vienna-Apartment-One and 536 more
- 157restaurants 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 Krapfenwaldl.
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.
Peakyas231 mountains within 25 kmKahlenberg484 m · 1.2 kmVogelsangberg516 m · 1.7 kmLeopoldsberg425 m · 1.8 kmHermannskogel544 m · 2.7 kmExelberg516 m · 6.6 kmTroppberg542 m · 17 kmParapluieberg562 m · 18 kmHöllenstein645 m · 22 km
Darkskyas7 dark-sky places within 30 kmVienna ObservatoryBortle 8 · 3.8 km↗Purgathofer-SternwarteBortle 5 · 4.7 kmKuffner observatoryBortle 8 · 6.6 kmUraniaBortle 9 · 7.2 km↗Vienna Zeiss PlanetariumBortle 9 · 7.3 kmSterngartenBortle 7 · 14 kmFranz-Kroller-SternwarteBortle 6 · 28 km
Viewyas14 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonKahlenberg484 m · 1.2 kmHabsburgwarte2.8 km↗Paulinenwarte3.5 kmDonauturm6.5 km↗Wiener Riesenrad7.3 km↗Himmelhof10 km↗Wienerblick434 m · 11 km↗Leopold-Figl-Warte14 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.
Other forests nearby.
Krapfenwaldl
Austria
- 66Forestyas Score
- 66%Trees
- 63%Wild
- 2,015Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q21874750) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 56,859 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Canyonyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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