France protected forest
Parc Monceau
Guillaume Jacquet · CC BY-SA 3.0
10% trees around it and 1,446 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km10%
- wild within 10 km24%
- species recorded1,446
The forest around
10% 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 km4%
- 1–3 km11%
- 3–6 km16%
- 6–10 km22%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees11%
- Grassland0%
- Water2%
- Built-up87%
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
1,446 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
NT
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).
- 10%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 24%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 1,446Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 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.
- Jan0°54 mm
- Feb0°50 mm
- Mar2°52 mm
- Apr5°39 mm
- May8°64 mm
- Jun12°60 mm
- Jul14°55 mm
- Aug13°59 mm
- Sep10°42 mm
- Oct7°57 mm
- Nov4°61 mm
- Dec1°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 Monceau.
Urban park in Paris, France
Parc Monceau is a protected forest in France.
Seen from space, 10% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 24% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
1,446 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 180 fungi, 218 birds and 48 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Annual Meadow Grass, Greater Celandine and Greater Plantain.
The best time to walk is in May.
Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Camping de Pariscampsite · 5.4 km · 1 within 10 km
- Hôtel Costesplace to stay · 2.0 km · 2,348 within 10 km
- Paris 08 Élyséenearest town · 0.7 km in a straight line
- Paris-Orly Airport (ORY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 17 km in a straight lineCar hire at ORY airport (Paris)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
- 32marked trails within 5 kmTraversée de Paris n°2, Traversée de Paris n°3, Bois de Boulogne and 29 more
- 174named and notable trees within 6 kmRobinier du square René Viviani, Sophora d'Incarville, Fau de Verzy and 171 more
- 137picnic sites within 4 km
- 354shelters and huts within 6 kmSèvres–Lecourbe and 353 more
- 30viewpoints within 5 kmButte de Coupeaux, Montmartre, Esplanade du Trocadéro and 27 more
- 52visitor centres within 6 kmCaisse à billets, La maison basque de Paris, Centre d'Information et de Documentation de l'Ambassade d'Allemagne and 49 more
- 344car parks within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmCamping de Paris
- 2,348places to stay within 10 kmHôtel Costes, Hôtel Montpensier, Hôtel du Champ de Mars and 2,345 more
- 5,222restaurants 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 Monceau.
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 kmButte des Moulins2.4 kmMontmartre130 m · 2.5 kmMontagne Sainte-Geneviève61 m · 4.5 kmButte Bergeyre4.9 kmbutte Mortemart55 m · 5.0 kmMount Valérien161 m · 7.1 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 kmLac d'Enghien0.3 km² · 10 km
Darkskyas6 dark-sky places within 30 kmGlobe CélesteBortle 9 · 2.7 kmAstronomy tower of the SorbonneBortle 9 · 4.3 kmParis Observatory, PSL UniversityBortle 9 · 10 km↗Observatoire de Saint-MaurBortle 9 · 16 kmCamille Flammarion ObservatoryBortle 9 · 21 kmVersailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines ObservatoryBortle 8 · 22 km↗
Viewyas5 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonHyatt Regency Paris Etoile1.8 km↗Grande roue des Tuileries2.4 kmMontmartre130 m · 2.5 km↗Eiffel Tower2.6 km↗Berthelot Tower9.6 km
Cascadyas2 waterfalls within 15 kmChâteau d'Eau2.9 kmcascades de Montigny15 km
Riveryasthe river nearbySeine777 km · 500 m³/s↗Bièvre35 km · 0.2 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.
Other forests nearby.
Parc Monceau
France
- 39Forestyas Score
- 10%Trees
- 24%Wild
- 1,446Species
Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
France · 17 km
- 73Forestyas Score
- 82%Trees
- 62%Wild
- 1,244Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1414059) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 324,805 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, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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