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Sweden Sweden protected forest

Kungsparken

Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain

14% trees around it and 2,044 species recorded.

46Forestyas Score

ProtectedFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km14%
  • wild within 10 km63%
  • species recorded2,044

The forest around

14% 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 17%Grassland 8%Water 6%Built-up 69%Trees 14%Grassland 8%Wetland 0%Water 26%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 52%Trees 10%Grassland 16%Wetland 0%Water 38%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 33%Trees 5%Grassland 12%Wetland 0%Water 47%Cropland 25%Built-up 10%14%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km17%
  • 1–3 km14%
  • 3–6 km10%
  • 6–10 km5%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees14%
  • Grassland8%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water26%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up52%

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

2,044 species recorded.

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

Bur chervil
Bur chervilAnthriscus caucalis640 recordsCopyright by Curtis Clark, licensed as noted · CC BY-SA 2.5
Little lovegrass
Little lovegrassEragrostis minor590 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek (kenraiz ) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Narrow-leaved ragwort
Narrow-leaved ragwortSenecio inaequidens561 recordsPieter Pelser · CC BY 3.0
Bristly thistle
Bristly thistleCarduus acanthoides355 recordsRobert Flogaus-Faust · CC BY 4.0
Sagina micropetala
Sagina micropetalaSagina micropetala298 recordsDominique Remaud · CC BY-SA 2.0 fr
Hairy love-grass
Hairy love-grassEragrostis pilosa296 recordsMacleay Grass Man · CC BY 2.0
Vipers bugloss
Vipers buglossEchium vulgare280 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Traveller's-joy
Traveller's-joyClematis vitalba275 recordsMichael Gasperl ( Migas ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mouse barley
Mouse barleyHordeum murinum270 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dyer's rocket
Dyer's rocketReseda luteola227 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Ribwort plantain
Ribwort plantainPlantago lanceolata218 recordssannse · CC BY-SA 3.0
Foxtail barley
Foxtail barleyHordeum jubatum215 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

46out of 100

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

  • 14%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 63%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 2,044Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

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

  1. Jan3°0°63 mm
  2. Feb2°-1°49 mm
  3. Mar5°0°43 mm
  4. Apr9°4°34 mm
  5. May14°8°45 mm
  6. Jun18°12°58 mm
  7. Jul21°15°69 mm
  8. Aug21°15°83 mm
  9. Sep17°12°54 mm
  10. Oct12°8°73 mm
  11. Nov8°5°66 mm
  12. Dec4°2°65 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kungsparken.

Park in Malmö, Sweden

Kungsparken is a protected forest in Sweden.

Seen from space, 14% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 63% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

2,044 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 687 fungi, 325 birds and 32 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Bur chervil, Little lovegrass and Narrow-leaved ragwort.

The best time to walk is in June and in September.

Malmö Vy af Kungsparken (1890-1900)
Unknown author Unknown author · 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.

Kungsparken 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

  • 13marked trails within 5 kmSkåneleden 2, Etapp 18: Torup-Malmö Bulltofta, Skåneleden 5, Etapp 14: Spillepeng-Bulltofta, Skåneleden 5, Etapp 13: Lomma - Spillepeng and 10 more
  • 6named and notable trees within 6 kmMalmös nappträd, Vårdträd, Romernas vårdträd and 3 more
  • 214picnic sites within 4 km
  • 456shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmKalkbrottet and 4 more
  • 727car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmLagunen Husbilsparkering, Småbåtshamnen i Limhamn AB, First Camp Malmö Sibbarp and 2 more
  • 54places to stay within 10 kmContinental Hotel, Hotel Noble House, Scandic Stortorget and 51 more
  • 619restaurants 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 Kungsparken.

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.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Runestone Hill17 kmHelgonabacken17 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Lund ObservatoryBortle 8 · 16 kmTycho Brahe PlanetariumBortle 9 · 28 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.

Kungsparken, Malmö
Jorchr · CC BY-SA 3.0
Canal, Kungsparken, Malmo, 2
Jin Zan · CC BY-SA 4.0
Canal, Kungsparken, Malmo
Jin Zan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Kungsparken

Sweden

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 2,044Species

Gribskov

Denmark · 60 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 1,880Species

See the guide

Store Dyrehave

Denmark · 53 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 70%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 1,559Species

See the guide

Rude Skov

Denmark · 42 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 60%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 1,811Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q59032) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species703,899 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, Darkskyas

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

The family

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