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Zagreb Botanical Garden

Gveret Tered · CC BY-SA 4.0

24% trees around it and 203 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km24%
  • wild within 10 km60%
  • species recorded203
  • Altitude119 m

The forest around

24% 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 12%Grassland 4%Built-up 84%Trees 26%Grassland 10%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 63%Trees 40%Grassland 14%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 39%Trees 45%Grassland 19%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 16%Built-up 18%24%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km12%
  • 1–3 km26%
  • 3–6 km40%
  • 6–10 km45%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees26%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up63%

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

203 species recorded.

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

Horse-chestnutVU
Horse-chestnutAesculus hippocastanum28 recordsStephan van Helden · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tall fescue
Tall fescueLolium arundinaceum24 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cherry laurel
Cherry laurelPrunus laurocerasus18 recordsKarduelis · Public domain
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus17 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Japanese barberry
Japanese barberryBerberis thunbergii13 recordsAlpsdake · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tree of heaven
Tree of heavenAilanthus altissima13 recordsDarkone ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Traveller's-joy
Traveller's-joyClematis vitalba12 recordsMichael Gasperl ( Migas ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix12 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea10 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Cherry plum
Cherry plumPrunus cerasifera10 records4028mdk09 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Plantain
Greater PlantainPlantago major10 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
White Clover
White CloverTrifolium repens10 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.

40out of 100

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

  • 24%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 60%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 203Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 119 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from April to May and in October.

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

  1. Jan2°-4°52 mm
  2. Feb5°-3°60 mm
  3. Mar11°0°59 mm
  4. Apr16°6°62 mm
  5. May21°10°92 mm
  6. Jun26°15°86 mm
  7. Jul29°17°82 mm
  8. Aug28°16°83 mm
  9. Sep22°11°106 mm
  10. Oct16°6°83 mm
  11. Nov9°2°80 mm
  12. Dec4°-2°63 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Zagreb Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden

Zagreb Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Croatia.

Seen from space, 24% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 60% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

203 species have been recorded around it: 118 plants, 4 fungi, 79 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Horse-chestnut, Tall fescue and Cherry laurel.

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

Botanical garden in Zagreb 13
Gveret Tered · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: Mo-Tu 09:00-14:30; We-Su 09:00-19:00; Nov-Mar off · ticket requiredOfficial site
  • Val-Travelcampsite · 13 km · 2 within 10 km
  • Hostel Fancyplace to stay · 0.9 km · 237 within 10 km
  • Centarnearest town · 1.0 km in a straight line
  • Zagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 10 km in a straight lineCar hire at ZAG airport (Velika Gorica)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.

Zagreb 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

  • 8marked trails within 5 kmPlaninarska staza Medvednica 54, Planinarska staza Medvednica 9, Planinarska staza Medvednica 10 and 5 more
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmDedek, Spomen drvo
  • 402picnic sites within 4 km
  • 389shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 9viewpoints within 5 km
  • 8visitor centres within 6 kmTourist Information Center, Kula Lotrščak, Doživi Europu and 5 more
  • 2,210car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmVal-Travel
  • 237places to stay within 10 kmHostel Fancy, Apartment Lessi, Hotel Capital and 234 more
  • 926restaurants 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 Zagreb 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.

Peakyas9 mountains within 25 km
Grmoščica Forest Park4.5 kmTusti vrh648 m · 8.1 kmSljeme11 kmBistranska Gora11 kmPuntijarka12 kmMartin Breg205 m · 20 kmSkribula Breg21 kmSamoborsko Gorje24 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Jarun Lake0.8 km² · 4.1 kmČiče0.8 km² · 14 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.

Bot.Garden Zagreb
MOs810 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Botanical garden in Zagreb 05
Gveret Tered · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bandić kod sjenate šetnice, Zagreb, 29. lipnja 2020
City of Zagreb · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Zagreb Botanical Garden

Croatia

  • 40Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 60%Wild
  • 203Species

Maksimir Park

Croatia · 5 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 39%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 538Species

See the guide

Trnovo Forest Plateau

Slovenia · 168 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 163Species

See the guide

Stara trta

Slovenia · 87 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 32%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 131Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q894661) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species7,756 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, 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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