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University of Basel Botanical Garden

Basmus · CC BY-SA 3.0

30% trees around it and 459 species recorded.

45Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km30%
  • wild within 10 km57%
  • species recorded459
  • Altitude273 m

The forest around

30% 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 13%Grassland 0%Water 9%Built-up 77%Trees 32%Grassland 5%Water 3%Bare ground 1%Cropland 4%Built-up 55%Trees 39%Grassland 14%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 13%Built-up 32%Trees 40%Grassland 19%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 24%Built-up 16%30%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km13%
  • 1–3 km32%
  • 3–6 km39%
  • 6–10 km40%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees32%
  • Grassland5%
  • Water3%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland4%
  • Built-up55%

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

459 species recorded.

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

Eastern daisy fleabane
Eastern daisy fleabaneErigeron annuus187 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tree of heaven
Tree of heavenAilanthus altissima174 recordsDarkone ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Narrow-leaved ragwort
Narrow-leaved ragwortSenecio inaequidens81 recordsPieter Pelser · CC BY 3.0
Princesstree
PrincesstreePaulownia tomentosa57 recordsJean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 2.5
Cherry laurel
Cherry laurelPrunus laurocerasus51 recordsKarduelis · Public domain
Chinese windmill palm
Chinese windmill palmTrachycarpus fortunei46 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Giant Blackberry
Giant BlackberryRubus armeniacus45 recordsKatrin Schneider / korina.info · CC BY-SA 4.0
False Acacia
False AcaciaRobinia pseudoacacia38 recordsThis Photo was taken by Wolfgang Moroder . Feel free to use my photos, but please mention · CC BY-SA 3.0
Canada goldenrod
Canada goldenrodSolidago canadensis35 recordsGeorg Slickers · CC BY-SA 4.0
Blue leadwood
Blue leadwoodCeratostigma plumbaginoides30 recordsDenis.prévôt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus29 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Periwinkle
PeriwinkleVinca minor25 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

45out of 100

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

  • 30%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 57%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 459Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 273 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

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

  1. Jan3°-4°75 mm
  2. Feb4°-4°60 mm
  3. Mar9°0°74 mm
  4. Apr14°3°75 mm
  5. May18°8°118 mm
  6. Jun22°12°105 mm
  7. Jul24°13°107 mm
  8. Aug23°13°110 mm
  9. Sep19°9°79 mm
  10. Oct14°5°94 mm
  11. Nov8°1°77 mm
  12. Dec3°-3°86 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

University of Basel Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden

University of Basel Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Switzerland, 273 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 30% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 57% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

459 species have been recorded around it: 341 plants, 5 fungi, 103 birds and 10 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Eastern daisy fleabane, Tree of heaven and Narrow-leaved ragwort.

The best time to walk is in September.

Basel Universitätsgarten II 08-06-2008
Basmus · 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.

University of Basel 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

  • 100marked trails within 5 kmWestweg (Westliche Variante), Westweg (Östliche Variante), Markgräfler Wiiwegli and 97 more
  • 16named and notable trees within 6 kmSchulhaus De Wette, Maunzenapfel, Schweizer Wasserbirne and 13 more
  • 126picnic sites within 4 km
  • 372shelters and huts within 6 kmHornfelsenhütte, S'Hüttli, Froschlaube and 369 more
  • 26viewpoints within 5 kmHornfelsen, Pfalz and 24 more
  • 7visitor centres within 6 kmTourist Information, SBB-Reisezentrum, DB Information and 4 more
  • 523car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilparkplatz Bäumlihofstrasse, Wohnmobilstellplatz Laguna Badeland - Weil am Rhein, Camping Waldhort Reinach and 4 more
  • 167places to stay within 10 kmSpalentor, Hotel Rochat, HotelD. and 164 more
  • 617restaurants 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 University of Basel 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.

Peakyas45 mountains within 25 km
Geitenberg1,132 m · 21 kmSchattberg1,152 m · 22 kmVogelberg1,204 m · 22 kmPasswang1,152 m · 23 kmHinteri Egg1,169 m · 23 kmPasswang Pass943 m · 23 kmUpper Winde1,204 m · 24 kmHohwildsberg1,084 m · 24 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
St. Margarethen observatoryBortle 8 · 2.0 kmJura ObservatoryBortle 4 · 26 km
Viewyas4 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Schlaich Tower4.2 kmVitra Slide Tower5.5 kmGempenturm10 kmEigenturm12 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Tüllinger Berg und Gleusen7.1 kmRheinniederung Haltingen–Neuenburg mit Vorbergzone182 species · 16 km
Cavernyas3 caves within 20 km
Büttenloch Cave9.6 kmSchalberg Ruins10 kmTschamberhöhle18 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Fahler Wasserfall5.1 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Rhine1,233 km · 2,200 m³/sIll217 km · 54 m³/sUpper Rhine360 kmHigh Rhine165 kmLower RhineMahlbergbachHeglachDie Wild

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

20170527 Basel Botanische Garden
WeeJeeVee · CC BY-SA 4.0
Aeonium tabuliforme in the Botanical Garden in Basel
Paradise Chronicle · CC BY-SA 4.0
Amorphophallus bulbifer - Botanical Garden Basel
Paradise Chronicle · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

University of Basel Botanical Garden

Switzerland

  • 45Forestyas Score
  • 30%Trees
  • 57%Wild
  • 459Species

Cave Birseck hermitage, Palaeolithic residential cave / cult place / neolithic burial

Switzerland · 8 km

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 65%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 1,564Species

See the guide

Stöcklewald

Germany · 78 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 63%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 262Species

See the guide

Forest of Chailluz

France · 118 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 1,397Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q600792) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species13,140 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas, 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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