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Žagarė Forest

Šarūnas Šimkus · Public domain

56% of the land around it is trees.

  • trees within 3 km56%
  • wild within 10 km50%
  • Altitude88 m

The forest around

56% 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 97%Grassland 3%Trees 50%Grassland 4%Cropland 45%Built-up 0%Trees 43%Shrubland 0%Grassland 6%Wetland 2%Cropland 49%Built-up 0%Trees 40%Grassland 7%Wetland 1%Water 0%Cropland 51%Built-up 0%56%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km97%
  • 1–3 km50%
  • 3–6 km43%
  • 6–10 km40%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees50%
  • Grassland4%
  • Wetland0%
  • Cropland45%
  • Built-up0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

26out of 100

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

  • 56%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 50%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 88 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and in September.

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

  1. Jan-2°-8°48 mm
  2. Feb-2°-8°38 mm
  3. Mar3°-4°38 mm
  4. Apr11°0°41 mm
  5. May17°6°52 mm
  6. Jun20°10°73 mm
  7. Jul23°13°78 mm
  8. Aug22°12°72 mm
  9. Sep17°8°50 mm
  10. Oct10°3°65 mm
  11. Nov4°0°61 mm
  12. Dec0°-4°52 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Žagarė Forest.

Protected area in Lithuania

Žagarė Forest is a forest in Lithuania.

Seen from space, 56% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 50% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

The best time to walk is from May to June and in September.

Žagarės giria ties Šarūnais
Šarūnas Šimkus · Public domain

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.

Žagarė Forest 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

  • 3named and notable trees within 6 kmŽeimių vinkšna, Buivydo ąžuolas, Veršių ąžuolas
  • 2picnic sites within 4 kmDidmargio
  • 5shelters and huts within 6 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • campsites within 10 km
  • places to stay within 10 km
  • restaurants 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 Žagarė Forest.

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.

Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mūšos Tyrelio Watchtower6.0 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.

Žagarės miškas, tiltelis
Vilensija · CC BY-SA 3.0
Žagarės miškas. Medžiotojų rūsys
Vilensija · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Žagarė Forest

Lithuania

  • 26Forestyas Score
  • 56%Trees
  • 50%Wild
  • —Species

National Botanic Garden of Latvia

Latvia · 96 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 503Species

See the guide

Šmerlis

Latvia · 101 km

  • 61Forestyas Score
  • 53%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 259Species

See the guide

Biķernieki Forest

Latvia · 98 km

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 47%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 284Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q14919578) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
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 atlasesViewyas

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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