First pick
Bois de Voigny
Wood or forest · 230 m outside the commune
140 ha3.9 km of path
50 minto walk all 3.9 km of path
5 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Marc Ryckaert · CC BY-SA 4.022%of the land protected
Outdoors in Bar-sur-Aube · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Bar-sur-Aube is within 800 m of a park or wood
Bar-sur-Aube has 13 km of waymarked hiking routes. Protected areas cover 22% of Bar-sur-Aube’s land. Footpaths add up to 23 km across Bar-sur-Aube (1.5 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
22%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
14%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
23 km
1.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
13 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Voigny
Throughout this page, the Aube 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 Bar-sur-Aube 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 areas22%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
79out of 100
Woodland14%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
51out of 100
Footpaths1.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
45out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
76out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Bar-sur-Aube has the 18th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,635 to 4,694 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Ban-Saint-Martin (4.6 km per km²) to Soullans (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Ban-Saint-Martin Moselle | 4.6 | 27% | 0% | 326 km |
| 2 | Bavilliers Territoire de Belfort | 4.6 | 16% | 0% | 430 km |
| 3 | La Tremblade Charente-Maritime | 4.3 | 72% | 89% | On it |
| 4 | Auzeville-Tolosane Haute-Garonne | 3.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 140 km |
| 5 | L'Huisserie Mayenne | 3.8 | 16% | 0% | 80 km |
| 6 | Bièvres Essonne | 3.5 | 31% | 0% | 154 km |
| 7 | Sequedin Nord | 3.3 | 5.9% | 0% | 60 km |
| 8 | La Tour-de-Salvagny Rhône | 3.3 | 28% | 0% | 255 km |
| 9 | Sangatte Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 1.7% | 99% | On it |
| 10 | Ribeauvillé Haut-Rhin | 2.7 | 72% | 100% | 461 km |
| 11 | Hallennes-lez-Haubourdin Nord | 2.7 | 1.3% | 0% | 61 km |
| 12 | Ascain Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.6 | 20% | 51% | 5.2 km |
| 13 | Guesnain Nord | 2.3 | 3% | 0% | 93 km |
| 14 | Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 5.8% | 0% | 258 km |
| 15 | Angres Pas-de-Calais | 2.1 | 14% | 0% | 75 km |
| 16 | Saint-Leu-d'Esserent Oise | 1.8 | 22% | 0.3% | 119 km |
| 17 | Viuz-en-Sallaz Haute-Savoie | 1.5 | 40% | 0% | 278 km |
| 18 | Bar-sur-Aube Aube | 1.5 | 14% | 22% | 309 km |
| 19 | Blénod-lès-Pont-à-Mousson Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 20% | 11% | 343 km |
| 20 | Neufchâtel-en-Bray Seine-Maritime | 1.2 | 17% | 3.7% | 32 km |
| 21 | Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 14% | 0% | 47 km |
| 22 | Soucieu-en-Jarrest Rhône | 1 | 15% | 0% | 240 km |
| 23 | Véretz Indre-et-Loire | 1 | 13% | 0% | 188 km |
| 24 | Bas-en-Basset Haute-Loire | 0.9 | 54% | 97% | 194 km |
| 25 | Les Garennes sur Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.9 | 12% | 23% | 121 km |
| 26 | Rognes Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 51% | 12% | 34 km |
| 27 | Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis Charente-Maritime | 0.9 | 3.1% | 0% | 12 km |
| 28 | Bédée Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 0.5% | 0% | 35 km |
| 29 | Flayosc Var | 0.8 | 36% | 0% | 32 km |
| 30 | Bourbon-Lancy Saône-et-Loire | 0.7 | 21% | 13% | 341 km |
| 31 | La Suze-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 0.6 | 31% | 0% | 132 km |
| 32 | Montbard Côte-d'Or | 0.6 | 74% | 0% | 344 km |
| 33 | La Bouëxière Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 35% | 0% | 48 km |
| 34 | Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas Gard | 0.6 | 4.6% | 0% | 59 km |
| 35 | Phalsbourg Moselle | 0.5 | 19% | 25% | 411 km |
| 36 | Saint-Méen-le-Grand Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 36 km |
| 37 | Fumel Lot-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 33% | 0.1% | 135 km |
| 38 | Herrlisheim Bas-Rhin | 0.3 | 6.9% | 3.3% | 448 km |
| 39 | Villers-Bretonneux Somme | 0.3 | 8.8% | 0% | 69 km |
| 40 | Saint-Georges-de-Reneins Rhône | 0.3 | 10% | 25% | 282 km |
| 41 | Soullans Vendée | 0.2 | 5.9% | 51% | 11 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 Bar-sur-Aube
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Voigny leads, at 140 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
parc de la gravière
Park or garden
5.3 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Bar-sur-Aube
Directionsto a point inside
Bois du Signal
Wood or forest
4.4 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
2.6 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Promenade de Mathaut
Park or garden
0.3 ha
Centralin the middle of Bar-sur-Aube
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
22% of Bar-sur-Aube 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
Barrois et forêt de Clairvaux
22% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area22%
Natura 2000 site22%
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.
22% of Bar-sur-Aube’s land is protected, more than in 79% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Aube has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
23 km of footpaths and 13 km of hiking routes cross Bar-sur-Aube
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
23 km
1.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
13 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
14%
about 2.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Bar-sur-AubeAube medianFrance median
Footpaths1.5
Hiking routes0.8
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Bar-sur-AubeAube medianFrance median
Woodland14%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 55% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 51% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. Every home in Bar-sur-Aube is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 14510 km
Tour du Pays de Gaston Bachelard9.6 km
Tour des Deux Bar9.4 km
Circuit de la Paume2.4 km
Alternative Circuit Gaston Cheq1.5 km
GR 145 passes within 2 km of Bar-sur-Aube.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bar-sur-Aube: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Ailleville_Sapc, 2.8 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) | 8.8 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.1 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 66 | 62 | 65 | 62 | 76 | 64 | 70 | 64 | 68 | 78 | 79 | 82 |
February is the driest month (62 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 82 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 61 nights a year. The climate in Bar-sur-Aube →
Neighbors
Next to Bar-sur-Aube
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Brienne-le-ChâteauBar-sur-SeineBar-sur-Aube
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bar-sur-Aube | 22% | 14% | 1.5 |
| Brienne-le-Château 2,672 · 22 km | 100% | 40% | 0.6 |
| Bar-sur-Seine 2,858 · 27 km | 0% | 40% | 1.7 |
Brienne-le-Château has at least twice as much protected land. Brienne-le-Château and Bar-sur-Seine are 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 Bar-sur-Aube
Is Bar-sur-Aube in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 22% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Bar-sur-Aube?
OpenStreetMap maps 23 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 13 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Bar-sur-Aube is woodland?
14% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bar-sur-Aube near the sea?
No: the coast is 309 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bar-sur-Aube?
April 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 9, 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.