Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Dimimis · CC BY-SA 3.0Protected areas cover 31% of Arvert’s land. 4 km of footpaths cross Arvert (0.2 km per km²). 5.8% of Arvert is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Charente-Maritime median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Arvert apart: the sea, then its protected countryside. It is shorter on footpaths.
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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,882 to 3,954 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Coye-la-Forêt (6.4 km per km²) to Arvert (0.2 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coye-la-Forêt Oise | 6.4 | 60% | 100% | 129 km |
| 2 | La Rochette Seine-et-Marne | 3.6 | 67% | 56% | 193 km |
| 3 | Pagny-sur-Moselle Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.4 | 41% | 100% | 333 km |
| 4 | Ferrières-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 3.3 | 45% | 0% | 168 km |
| 5 | Jarrie Isère | 3.2 | 33% | 0.8% | 196 km |
| 6 | Santeny Val-de-Marne | 3.2 | 51% | 0% | 171 km |
| 7 | Hussigny-Godbrange Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.5 | 62% | 0% | 282 km |
| 8 | Belz Morbihan | 2.4 | 25% | 13% | On it |
| 9 | Saint-Nabord Vosges | 2.1 | 62% | 3.6% | 429 km |
| 10 | Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans Doubs | 2.1 | 67% | 4.5% | 405 km |
| 11 | Montry Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 20% | 0% | 166 km |
| 12 | Mézières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 1.9 | 28% | 5.5% | 117 km |
| 13 | Lauris Vaucluse | 1.8 | 41% | 100% | 43 km |
| 14 | Richwiller Haut-Rhin | 1.7 | 25% | 0% | 444 km |
| 15 | Nouvoitou Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 1.6% | 0% | 60 km |
| 16 | Lexy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.4 | 18% | 0% | 275 km |
| 17 | Oudon Loire-Atlantique | 1.3 | 17% | 27% | 63 km |
| 18 | Aix-Noulette Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 16% | 0% | 73 km |
| 19 | Touques Calvados | 1.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 2.8 km |
| 20 | Saint-Germain-sur-Morin Seine-et-Marne | 1.3 | 15% | 0% | 167 km |
| 21 | Folschviller Moselle | 1.2 | 22% | 0% | 357 km |
| 22 | Mortagne-au-Perche Orne | 1.2 | 6.1% | 100% | 98 km |
| 23 | Boissise-le-Roi Seine-et-Marne | 1.2 | 10% | 100% | 190 km |
| 24 | Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon Essonne | 1.1 | 28% | 0% | 167 km |
| 25 | Pierrevert Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.1 | 36% | 100% | 61 km |
| 26 | Tinténiac Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 3.9% | 2.2% | 22 km |
| 27 | Verberie Oise | 1 | 20% | 8.1% | 123 km |
| 28 | Saint-Chef Isère | 1 | 24% | 12% | 246 km |
| 29 | Tavaux Jura | 0.9 | 10% | 0% | 398 km |
| 30 | Saint-Martin-en-Haut Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 236 km |
| 31 | Le Val-d'Ajol Vosges | 0.8 | 53% | 100% | 431 km |
| 32 | Fay-aux-Loges Loiret | 0.8 | 36% | 12% | 213 km |
| 33 | Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny Manche | 0.7 | 2.5% | 0.6% | 21 km |
| 34 | Blainville-sur-l'Eau Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 388 km |
| 35 | Grosseto-Prugna Corse-du-Sud | 0.6 | 59% | 0.2% | On it |
| 36 | Ablis Yvelines | 0.5 | 8.6% | 0% | 149 km |
| 37 | Verfeil Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 7.7% | 0% | 133 km |
| 38 | Moreuil Somme | 0.3 | 21% | 1.9% | 73 km |
| 39 | Val d'Anast Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 52 km |
| 40 | Suippes Marne | 0.2 | 24% | 0% | 237 km |
| 41 | Arvert Charente-Maritime | 0.2 | 5.8% | 31% | On it |
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale de la Coubre leads, at 5,470 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
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.
31% of Arvert’s land is protected, more than in 82% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Charente-Maritime has 12%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
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.
That is less than in 97% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 74% 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 Arvert is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Chateau d’oleron, 14 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 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.4 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 18 | 14 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 81 | 58 | 57 | 61 | 51 | 43 | 39 | 44 | 67 | 87 | 103 | 93 |
July is the driest month (39 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 103 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 12 nights a year. The climate in Arvert →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arvert | 31% | 5.8% | 0.2 | On it |
| Étaules 2,857 · 3.1 km | 39% | 9.6% | 0.7 | On it |
| La Tremblade 4,650 · 3.6 km | 89% | 72% | 4.3 | On it |
| Breuillet 3,058 · 8.1 km | 13% | 20% | 0.7 | On it |
| Marennes-Hiers-Brouage 6,163 · 9.4 km | 75% | 3.2% | 0.6 | On it |
| Saint-Palais-sur-Mer 3,840 · 11 km | 55% | 58% | 5.1 | On it |
| Bourcefranc-le-Chapus 3,486 · 11 km | 46% | 7.9% | 0.9 | On it |
La Tremblade and Marennes-Hiers-Brouage have at least twice as much protected land. La Tremblade, Breuillet and Saint-Palais-sur-Mer are more wooded.
No, but 31% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
OpenStreetMap maps 4 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
5.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 3.1 km from its center.
April to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
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.