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Penang Botanic Gardens

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69% trees around it and 165 species recorded.

72Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km69%
  • wild within 10 km87%
  • species recorded165

The forest around

69% 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 98%Grassland 0%Built-up 2%Trees 65%Grassland 4%Water 1%Bare ground 2%Cropland 0%Built-up 27%Trees 40%Grassland 2%Water 35%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 22%Trees 31%Grassland 1%Water 61%Bare ground 0%Built-up 7%69%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km98%
  • 1–3 km65%
  • 3–6 km40%
  • 6–10 km31%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees65%
  • Grassland4%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground2%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up27%

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

165 species recorded.

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

Zanzibar yam
Zanzibar yamDioscorea sansibarensis5 recordsEngler, Adolf, 1844-1930 · No restrictions
Antidesma montanum
Antidesma montanumAntidesma montanum5 recordsVinayaraj · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lluvia de orquideas
Lluvia de orquideasCongea tomentosa4 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Dipteris conjugata
Dipteris conjugataDipteris conjugata4 records天問 小窩 · CC BY-SA 2.0
Miconia crenata
Miconia crenataMiconia crenata4 recordsDamien Wallace · CC BY 4.0
Rockweed
RockweedPilea microphylla3 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Male bamboo
Male bambooDendrocalamus strictus2 recordsLRBurdak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Devil flower
Devil flowerTacca chantrieri2 recordsgeoff mckay from Palmerston North, New Zealand · CC BY 2.0
Sensitive Plant
Sensitive PlantMimosa pudica2 recordsSteve Fitzgerald · CC BY-SA 4.0
Chinese violet
Chinese violetAsystasia gangetica2 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY 3.0
Dillenia suffruticosa
Dillenia suffruticosaDillenia suffruticosa2 recordsWibowo Djatmiko ( Wie146 ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pentaphragma begoniifoliumPentaphragma begoniifolium3 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

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

  • 69%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 87%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 165Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from January to February.

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

  1. Jan29°26°93 mm
  2. Feb30°26°62 mm
  3. Mar30°27°146 mm
  4. Apr30°28°200 mm
  5. May30°28°242 mm
  6. Jun30°28°176 mm
  7. Jul29°28°203 mm
  8. Aug29°28°218 mm
  9. Sep29°27°263 mm
  10. Oct29°27°303 mm
  11. Nov29°27°271 mm
  12. Dec29°26°177 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Penang Botanic Gardens.

Public park in George Town, Penang, Malaysia

Penang Botanic Gardens is an arboretum in Malaysia.

Seen from space, 69% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 87% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

165 species have been recorded around it: 20 plants, 0 fungi, 143 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Zanzibar yam, Antidesma montanum and Lluvia de orquideas.

The best time to walk is from January to February.

Pg botanic gardens trees
Dr htgoon · CC0

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.

Penang Botanic Gardens 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

  • 3marked trails within 5 kmRabbit Trail, Heritage Trail, The Habitat Penang Hill Route
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmOrange Paint On Tree Bark, Giant Tree
  • 4picnic sites within 4 km
  • 72shelters and huts within 6 kmRest Stop 3, TNB, Vera Kitchen and 69 more
  • 29viewpoints within 5 kmTop of The Pagoda, Lena Viewpoint, Rain Gauge 6 and 26 more
  • 3visitor centres within 6 kmPusat Informasi Taman Bandaraya, Rapid Penang kiosk, Tourist Information Centre
  • 74car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmBasecamp, Bangawan Solo and 3 more
  • 307places to stay within 10 kmPalanquinn, Sea View Resort and Restaurant, MunluStay 88 Hotel and 304 more
  • 167restaurants 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 Penang Botanic Gardens.

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.

Peakyas42 mountains within 25 km
Penang Hill735 m · 3.3 kmGovernment Hill594 m · 3.5 kmBatu Itam483 m · 7.5 kmBukit Pintu Tujuh12 kmPondok Upih12 kmBukit Kelompang18 kmBukit Noning21 kmBukit Kecil Hujung22 km
Islandyasthe island
Penang Island293 km²
Coastya5 beaches within 10 km
Teluk Pasir5.9 kmPasir Elok6.0 kmTeluk Nibung6.3 kmTeluk Pisang6.7 kmTeluk Mat Inca7.3 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Komtar Skywalk5.4 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.

Pg botanic gardens orchidarium
Dr htgoon · CC0
Botanical garden - panoramio (2)
CK Tan · CC BY 3.0
Curious Lookout
Leespoh1688 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Penang Botanic Gardens

Malaysia

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 69%Trees
  • 87%Wild
  • 165Species

Templer's Park

Malaysia · 280 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 350Species

See the guide

Putrajaya Botanical Garden

Malaysia · 318 km

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 47%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 83Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7162208) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species8,944 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, Islandyas, Coastya, Viewyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here