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Uzbekistan Uzbekistan arboretum

Tashkent botanical garden

Carpodacus · CC BY-SA 3.0

12% trees around it and 142 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km12%
  • wild within 10 km16%
  • species recorded142
  • Altitude468 m

The forest around

12% 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 31%Grassland 4%Water 1%Cropland 2%Built-up 62%Trees 10%Grassland 2%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 86%Trees 10%Grassland 3%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 6%Built-up 80%Trees 7%Grassland 8%Water 0%Bare ground 2%Cropland 18%Built-up 65%12%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km31%
  • 1–3 km10%
  • 3–6 km10%
  • 6–10 km7%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees10%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up86%

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

142 species recorded.

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

Tulipa biflora
Tulipa bifloraTulipa biflora110 recordsUlf Eliasson ( epibase ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Crocus korolkowii
Crocus korolkowiiCrocus korolkowii78 recordsAverater · CC BY-SA 3.0
Crocus alatavicus
Crocus alatavicusCrocus alatavicus77 records26D · CC BY-SA 4.0
Crocus sativus
Crocus sativusCrocus sativus68 recordsHeiWu · CC BY-SA 3.0
Iris nicolai
Iris nicolaiIris nicolai66 recordsAverater · CC BY 4.0
Iris orchioides
Iris orchioidesIris orchioides66 recordsЖексенбек Нұрайым · CC BY-SA 4.0
Barbary Nut Iris
Barbary Nut IrisMoraea sisyrinchium55 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Iris vicariaIris vicaria66 records
Juno waryleyensisJuno waryleyensis66 records
Iris austrotschatkalicaIris austrotschatkalica66 records
Iris maracandicaIris maracandica55 records
Iris albertiIris alberti55 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

29out of 100

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

  • 12%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 16%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 142Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 468 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan4°-4°46 mm
  2. Feb7°-2°59 mm
  3. Mar14°3°62 mm
  4. Apr20°8°56 mm
  5. May27°14°31 mm
  6. Jun34°19°13 mm
  7. Jul36°22°4 mm
  8. Aug35°20°3 mm
  9. Sep28°15°4 mm
  10. Oct20°8°26 mm
  11. Nov11°2°52 mm
  12. Dec5°-3°56 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tashkent botanical garden.

Botanical garden in Tashkent

Tashkent botanical garden is an arboretum in Uzbekistan, 468 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 12% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 16% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

142 species have been recorded around it: 50 plants, 11 fungi, 80 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Tulipa biflora, Crocus korolkowii and Crocus alatavicus.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

Ботанический сад Ташкента, северная дорожка
Carpodacus · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: Mo-Su 09:00-18:00 · ticket requiredOfficial site
  • ch Murodovacampsite · 2.7 km · 6 within 10 km
  • Carat hotelplace to stay · 3.6 km · 386 within 10 km
  • Yunusobodnearest town · 4.3 km in a straight line
  • Tashkent-Khumo International Airport (TVT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 8 km in a straight lineCar hire in TashkentDiscover 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.

Tashkent botanical garden 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

  • 17named and notable trees within 6 kmЧинара, Дальний Восток, The Oak Tree and 14 more
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 94shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmКолесо обозрения, Лошадиная зона, Ташкентская телебашня and 2 more
  • 237car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmch Murodova, Силуэт стайл, Гаражное хозяйство and 3 more
  • 386places to stay within 10 kmCarat hotel, Green House Hotel, Студенческое общежитие Международного Вестминстерское Университета в Ташкенте and 383 more
  • 241restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 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 Tashkent botanical garden.

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.

Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Kyngran Gora20 kmBugor Tokuzbay22 kmBugor Maytepa22 kmAk-Kum24 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.

A dark place with nature in Tashkent Botanical Garden
Humoyun Mehridinov · CC BY-SA 4.0
A green wall
Humoyun Mehridinov · CC BY-SA 4.0
A Narcissus in the Tashkent Botanical Garden
26D · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Tashkent botanical garden

Uzbekistan

  • 29Forestyas Score
  • 12%Trees
  • 16%Wild
  • 142Species

Botanical garden Dushanbe

Tajikistan · 308 km

  • 28Forestyas Score
  • 11%Trees
  • 48%Wild
  • 126Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q12820221) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species3,357 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

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

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