First pick
Parc de la Rigolée
Park or garden
17 ha3 km of path
40 minto walk all 3 km of path
0.8 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Florian Pépellin · CC BY-SA 4.013%of the land protected
Outdoors in Avermes · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Avermes is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 4.2% of Avermes. Protected areas cover 13% of Avermes’ land. 19 km of footpaths cross Avermes (1.2 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
13%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
4.2%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
19 km
1.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc de la Rigolée
Throughout this page, the Allier median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
Against French towns
How Avermes compares with French towns
Each figure against the 3,798 compared French towns (communes with an overall grade): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Described, not graded.
Protected areas13%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
74out of 100
Woodland4.2%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
19out of 100
Footpaths1.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
39out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Avermes has the 21st fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,037 to 4,108 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Longeville-lès-Metz (7.3 km per km²) to Bâgé-Dommartin (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Longeville-lès-Metz Moselle | 7.3 | 9.3% | 0% | 327 km |
| 2 | Le Croisic Loire-Atlantique | 6.7 | 3.3% | 3.3% | On it |
| 3 | Seignosse Landes | 4.4 | 70% | 9.7% | On it |
| 4 | Le Revest-les-Eaux Var | 4 | 27% | 28% | 5.3 km |
| 5 | La Châtre Indre | 3.7 | 6.5% | 0% | 239 km |
| 6 | Bouxières-aux-Dames Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.5 | 30% | 0% | 359 km |
| 7 | Leffrinckoucke Nord | 3.4 | 0.6% | 25% | On it |
| 8 | Saint-Georges-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 3.4 | 25% | 40% | On it |
| 9 | Le Coudray Eure-et-Loir | 3 | 2.6% | 0% | 140 km |
| 10 | Offemont Territoire de Belfort | 2.9 | 39% | 0% | 433 km |
| 11 | Juziers Yvelines | 2.6 | 38% | 66% | 117 km |
| 12 | Aramon Gard | 2.4 | 2.4% | 15% | 51 km |
| 13 | Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne Alpes-Maritimes | 2.2 | 70% | 100% | 18 km |
| 14 | Verson Calvados | 2 | 0.7% | 0% | 19 km |
| 15 | Abscon Nord | 1.6 | 6.4% | 0% | 100 km |
| 16 | Issou Yvelines | 1.6 | 21% | 0% | 116 km |
| 17 | Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre Eure-et-Loir | 1.6 | 26% | 0.8% | 99 km |
| 18 | Baccarat Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.6 | 39% | 17% | 412 km |
| 19 | Staffelfelden Haut-Rhin | 1.5 | 34% | 0% | 449 km |
| 20 | Loctudy Finistère | 1.4 | 1.4% | 0.3% | On it |
| 21 | Avermes Allier | 1.2 | 4.2% | 13% | 338 km |
| 22 | Le Cellier Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 29% | 12% | 57 km |
| 23 | Survilliers Val-d'Oise | 1.1 | 23% | 71% | 135 km |
| 24 | Pleslin-Trigavou Côtes-d'Armor | 0.9 | 15% | 100% | 5.1 km |
| 25 | Caissargues Gard | 0.9 | 10% | 1.7% | 34 km |
| 26 | Générac Gard | 0.8 | 4.5% | 19% | 27 km |
| 27 | Hochfelden Bas-Rhin | 0.7 | 6.8% | 0% | 428 km |
| 28 | Val-Couesnon Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 7.2% | 1.5% | 19 km |
| 29 | Plélan-le-Grand Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 12% | 0.2% | 55 km |
| 30 | Chevry-Cossigny Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 32% | 0% | 175 km |
| 31 | Eauze Gers | 0.6 | 24% | 9.8% | 117 km |
| 32 | Paulhan Hérault | 0.5 | 1% | 0% | 23 km |
| 33 | Allassac Corrèze | 0.4 | 21% | 2.2% | 164 km |
| 34 | Cuxac-d'Aude Aude | 0.4 | 4.6% | 14% | 17 km |
| 35 | Les Mées Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.4 | 49% | 17% | 91 km |
| 36 | Trouy Cher | 0.4 | 2.7% | 0.1% | 280 km |
| 37 | Campbon Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 6.8% | 1.6% | 21 km |
| 38 | Hourtin Gironde | 0.3 | 66% | 100% | On it |
| 39 | Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 9.9% | 0% | 161 km |
| 40 | Benet Vendée | 0.2 | 0.7% | 100% | 41 km |
| 41 | Bâgé-Dommartin Ain | 0.1 | 13% | 0% | 315 km |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Avermes
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Rigolée leads, at 17 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
13% of Avermes lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Val d’Allier Bourbonnais
13% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de l’Allier nord
6.9% of the commune0.8 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area13%
Natura 2000 site13%
Designations overlap (a regional park can hold a Natura 2000 site), so the rows don’t add up; the first counts each piece of land once.
13% of Avermes’ land is protected, more than in 74% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Allier has 3%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
19 km of footpaths cross Avermes
Paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and waymarked hiking routes, mapped on OpenStreetMap inside the commune; woods are mapped forest and woodland, private woods included.
Footpaths
19 km
1.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
4.2%
about 0.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AvermesAllier medianFrance median
Footpaths1.2
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AvermesAllier medianFrance median
Woodland4.2%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 61% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 81% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Avermes’ residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Le Bourbonnais, de Couzon à Moulins2.3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Avermes: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Yzeure, 3.1 km away, and the daylight at the town’s latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.0 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 15.8 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.6 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 60 | 50 | 52 | 65 | 81 | 71 | 68 | 64 | 68 | 71 | 83 | 65 |
February is the driest month (50 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 83 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 60 nights a year. The climate in Avermes →
Neighbors
Next to Avermes
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MoulinsYzeureDecizeAvermes
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Decize has at least twice as much protected land. Yzeure is more wooded.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Avermes
Is Avermes in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 13% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Avermes?
OpenStreetMap maps 19 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Avermes is woodland?
4.2% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Avermes near the sea?
No: the coast is 338 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Avermes?
April and June to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
TownRatings grades the outdoors in the U.S. and the UK; the French figures are new and not graded yet. This page sets each one beside the median compared French town instead.
Sources: INPN / PatriNat (protected areas 2026, Natura 2000 2024) · © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (paths, hiking routes, woods, coast, gardens) · INSEE, Filosofi 2021 200 m grid (residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Météo-France normals 1991–2020 · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.