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Kunraticko-michelský les

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41% trees around it and 1,399 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km41%
  • wild within 10 km47%
  • species recorded1,399
  • Altitude315 m

The forest around

41% 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 83%Grassland 3%Built-up 14%Trees 36%Grassland 12%Water 1%Cropland 4%Built-up 48%Trees 32%Grassland 11%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 19%Built-up 35%Trees 33%Grassland 12%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 24%Built-up 29%41%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km83%
  • 1–3 km36%
  • 3–6 km32%
  • 6–10 km33%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees36%
  • Grassland12%
  • Water1%
  • Cropland4%
  • Built-up48%

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

1,399 species recorded.

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

Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus270 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garlic Mustard
Garlic MustardAlliaria petiolata241 recordsO. Pichard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea233 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Periwinkle
PeriwinkleVinca minor215 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Small yellow balsam
Small yellow balsamImpatiens parviflora195 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5
Tree of heaven
Tree of heavenAilanthus altissima166 recordsDarkone ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Whitetop
WhitetopLepidium draba153 recordsJan Kops · Public domain
Winter-aconite
Winter-aconiteEranthis hyemalis149 recordsSydenham Edwards / William Curtis · Public domain
Wild Privet
Wild PrivetLigustrum vulgare143 recordsVictor M. Vicente Selvas · CC BY-SA 3.0
Vipers bugloss
Vipers buglossEchium vulgare130 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Pink purslane
Pink purslaneClaytonia sibirica130 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus123 recordsИгоревич · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

49out of 100

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

  • 41%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 47%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,399Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 315 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan1°-5°42 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°32 mm
  3. Mar8°-2°39 mm
  4. Apr14°3°36 mm
  5. May19°8°69 mm
  6. Jun23°12°78 mm
  7. Jul26°14°79 mm
  8. Aug25°14°81 mm
  9. Sep20°9°52 mm
  10. Oct14°4°46 mm
  11. Nov7°0°43 mm
  12. Dec2°-3°41 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kunraticko-michelský les.

Forest at Prague

Kunraticko-michelský les is a forest in Czechia, 315 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 41% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 47% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,399 species have been recorded around it: 948 plants, 262 fungi, 175 birds and 14 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Greater Celandine, Garlic Mustard and Ground-ivy.

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

Prague Kunraticky Forest Meadow2
Czech Wikipedia user Packa · CC BY-SA 2.5

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.

Kunraticko-michelský les 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

  • 30marked trails within 5 km[Č] Praha - Borek, [Z] Uhříněves - Kateřinky, [Z] Zbraslav - Malá Chuchle and 27 more
  • 32named and notable trees within 6 kmStrom na památku Ondřeje Fáryho, Památný Strom, Hraniční dub and 29 more
  • 87picnic sites within 4 km
  • 441shelters and huts within 6 kmVelký altán, Nádraží Modřany and 439 more
  • 55viewpoints within 5 km
  • 11visitor centres within 6 kmÚAMK, a.s., Informační centrum FNKV, Infocentrum Cihelná brána and 8 more
  • 1,195car parks within 3 km
  • 14campsites within 10 kmPrager, Intercamp Kotva, Praguecamp and 11 more
  • 813places to stay within 10 kmSazava dormitory, Villa Voyta, Minimol.cz and 810 more
  • 207restaurants 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 Kunraticko-michelský les.

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.

Peakyas82 mountains within 25 km
Petřín331 m · 8.7 kmLetná265 m · 8.8 kmBílá hora381 m · 12 kmVlková521 m · 18 kmBabka505 m · 22 kmSkalka554 m · 23 kmHolý516 m · 24 kmDoutnáč433 m · 24 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Hostivař Reservoir0.4 km² · 4.9 kmVrané Reservoir0.8 km² · 13 km
Darkskyas5 dark-sky places within 30 km
Astronomical Tower in Clementinum PragueBortle 9 · 7.9 kmŠtefánik's ObservatoryBortle 8 · 8.2 kmPlanetárium PrahaBortle 9 · 9.5 kmĎáblice ObservatoryBortle 7 · 13 kmOndřejov ObservatoryBortle 4 · 26 km
Cavernyas2 caves within 20 km
Klukovická jeskyně8.1 kmKorálové jeskyně8.2 km
Cascadyas6 waterfalls within 15 km
Waterfalls in Modřanská rokle2 m · 3.2 kmWaterfall in Písnický potok3.2 kmPrůhonice waterfall6.8 kmWaterfall in Kinského zahrada7.9 kmZvolské vodopády2 m · 10 kmBudulínkův vodopád3 m · 14 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.

Kunraticko-michelský les

Czechia

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 41%Trees
  • 47%Wild
  • 1,399Species

Prague Botanical Garden

Czechia · 11 km

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 45%Trees
  • 45%Wild
  • 758Species

See the guide

Dresden Heath

Germany · 127 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 830Species

See the guide

Lower Silesian Wilderness

Poland · 156 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 119Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6445002) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species91,173 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, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

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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