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Parc de Bagatelle

Benchaum · CC BY-SA 3.0

35% trees around it and 1,169 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km35%
  • wild within 10 km36%
  • species recorded1,169

The forest around

35% 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 59%Grassland 11%Water 7%Built-up 22%Trees 32%Grassland 4%Water 3%Cropland 0%Built-up 61%Trees 21%Grassland 3%Water 3%Cropland 0%Built-up 72%Trees 33%Grassland 3%Water 2%Cropland 1%Built-up 61%35%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km59%
  • 1–3 km32%
  • 3–6 km21%
  • 6–10 km33%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees32%
  • Grassland4%
  • Water3%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up61%

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

1,169 species recorded.

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

Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus450 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Annual Meadow Grass
Annual Meadow GrassPoa annua442 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 10:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Groundsel
GroundselSenecio vulgaris398 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mugwort
MugwortArtemisia vulgaris392 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Little mouse-ear chickweed
Little mouse-ear chickweedStellaria media380 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Greater Plantain
Greater PlantainPlantago major376 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Ribwort plantain
Ribwort plantainPlantago lanceolata372 recordssannse · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix360 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata351 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Smooth sow-thistle
Smooth sow-thistleSonchus oleraceus345 recordsT.Voekler · CC BY-SA 3.0
Shepherd's purse
Shepherd's purseCapsella bursa-pastoris340 recordsEike Wulfmeyer · CC BY-SA 2.5
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus335 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

48out of 100

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

  • 35%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 36%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,169Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan6°0°54 mm
  2. Feb7°0°50 mm
  3. Mar12°2°52 mm
  4. Apr16°5°39 mm
  5. May19°8°64 mm
  6. Jun23°12°60 mm
  7. Jul25°14°55 mm
  8. Aug25°13°59 mm
  9. Sep21°10°42 mm
  10. Oct16°7°57 mm
  11. Nov10°4°61 mm
  12. Dec6°1°69 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Parc de Bagatelle.

Garden in Paris

Parc de Bagatelle is an arboretum in France.

Seen from space, 35% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 36% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,169 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 18 fungi, 129 birds and 22 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Greater Celandine, Annual Meadow Grass and Groundsel.

The best time to walk is in May.

Jardin de Bagatelle-Mai 2010
Benchaum · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Parc de Bagatelle 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

  • 29marked trails within 5 kmSentier des Côteaux, Traversée de Paris n°3, Bois de Boulogne and 26 more
  • 126named and notable trees within 6 kmSophora du Japon, Poirier à fleur, acacia and 123 more
  • 102picnic sites within 4 km
  • 249shelters and huts within 6 kmSèvres–Lecourbe and 248 more
  • 32viewpoints within 5 kmGrande Arche, Esplanade du Trocadéro, Toit de l'Arc de Triomphe and 29 more
  • 28visitor centres within 6 kmPuteaux Point-Info, EPAD Info, Ipm and 25 more
  • 585car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmCamping de Paris, Camping Sandaya Paris Maisons-Laffitte
  • 2,173places to stay within 10 kmMercure, Novotel Paris La Défense Nanterre, Hôtel du Champ de Mars and 2,170 more
  • 969restaurants 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 Parc de Bagatelle.

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.

Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
butte Mortemart55 m · 2.2 kmMount Valérien161 m · 2.5 kmButte des Moulins6.4 kmMontmartre130 m · 7.2 kmMontagne Sainte-Geneviève61 m · 7.7 kmButte Bergeyre9.5 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Lac d'Enghien0.3 km² · 12 kmGrand Canal of Versailles0.3 km² · 13 km
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 km
Globe CélesteBortle 9 · 3.7 kmParis Observatory, PSL UniversityBortle 9 · 7.4 kmAstronomy tower of the SorbonneBortle 9 · 7.5 kmVersailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ObservatoryBortle 8 · 18 kmObservatoire de Saint-MaurBortle 9 · 19 kmCamille Flammarion ObservatoryBortle 9 · 22 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 km
Château d'Eau4.4 kmcascades de Montigny13 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyComing soon
Seine777 km · 500 m³/s

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Bagatelle jardins pelle
CarlottaOlmez · CC BY-SA 4.0
Chateau de Bagatelle2
Bmclaughlin9 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Chateau de Bagatelle5
Bmclaughlin9 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Parc de Bagatelle

France

  • 48Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 36%Wild
  • 1,169Species

Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

France · 13 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 1,244Species

See the guide

Chantilly Forest

France · 39 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 83%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,387Species

See the guide

Forest of Fontainebleau

France · 60 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 83%Wild
  • 1,921Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q956826) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species64,154 open records within 2 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, Cascadyas, Riveryas

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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