First pick
Bois de la Roche
Wood or forest · 210 m outside the commune
162 ha12.5 km of path
2 h 45 minto walk all 12.5 km of path
4.5 km south-eastfrom the center
Chemin du Ménada
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Cobber17 · CC BY-SA 3.013%of the land protected
Outdoors in Breuillet · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Breuillet is on the coast
14 km of footpaths cross Breuillet (0.7 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 20% of Breuillet. Protected areas cover 13% of Breuillet’s land. 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
20%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
14 km
0.7 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: Bois de la Roche
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 4.1 km from its center
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.
Against French towns
How Breuillet 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
Woodland20%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
63out of 100
Footpaths0.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
21out 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
Breuillet has the 15th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,031 to 3,087 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Montlignon (5.5 km per km²) to La Roche-Chalais (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montlignon Val-d'Oise | 5.5 | 50% | 0% | 133 km |
| 2 | Albigny-sur-Saône Rhône | 4.8 | 25% | 0% | 263 km |
| 3 | Coupvray Seine-et-Marne | 4.3 | 19% | 0% | 164 km |
| 4 | Brax Haute-Garonne | 3.4 | 29% | 0% | 162 km |
| 5 | Feucherolles Yvelines | 3.2 | 33% | 0% | 133 km |
| 6 | La Turbie Alpes-Maritimes | 3.1 | 32% | 18% | 2 km |
| 7 | Tarascon-sur-Ariège Ariège | 3 | 48% | 1.5% | 118 km |
| 8 | La Chapelle-en-Serval Oise | 2.9 | 45% | 100% | 132 km |
| 9 | Pont-à-Vendin Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 13% | 0% | 72 km |
| 10 | Chéreng Nord | 2.5 | 11% | 0% | 69 km |
| 11 | Chapareillan Isère | 2.2 | 57% | 98% | 221 km |
| 12 | Fumay Ardennes | 2 | 92% | 100% | 185 km |
| 13 | Chens-sur-Léman Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 41% | 5% | 299 km |
| 14 | Gandrange Moselle | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 313 km |
| 15 | Paimbœuf Loire-Atlantique | 1.9 | 0.6% | 70% | 10 km |
| 16 | Damelevières Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.6 | 46% | 0% | 386 km |
| 17 | La Motte Var | 1.3 | 34% | 25% | 18 km |
| 18 | Valmont Moselle | 1.2 | 28% | 0% | 357 km |
| 19 | Villeneuve-de-Berg Ardèche | 1.2 | 5.9% | 0% | 116 km |
| 20 | Gréoux-les-Bains Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.2 | 62% | 20% | 63 km |
| 21 | Guichainville Eure | 1.1 | 15% | 0% | 78 km |
| 22 | Saint-Ouen Loir-et-Cher | 0.9 | 14% | 0% | 186 km |
| 23 | Gasny Eure | 0.8 | 35% | 9.7% | 98 km |
| 24 | Commelle-Vernay Loire | 0.7 | 6.3% | 34% | 271 km |
| 25 | Nontron Dordogne | 0.7 | 37% | 100% | 110 km |
| 26 | Port-Saint-Père Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 9.5% | 16% | 20 km |
| 27 | Breuillet Charente-Maritime | 0.7 | 20% | 13% | On it |
| 28 | Noé Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 7.6% | 5.6% | 150 km |
| 29 | Senonches Eure-et-Loir | 0.7 | 68% | 100% | 109 km |
| 30 | Pommeuse Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 19% | 0% | 179 km |
| 31 | Lapeyrouse-Fossat Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 146 km |
| 32 | Saint-Denis-de-l'Hôtel Loiret | 0.4 | 38% | 4% | 217 km |
| 33 | Le Grand-Lemps Isère | 0.4 | 24% | 10% | 220 km |
| 34 | Châtillon-sur-Loire Loiret | 0.4 | 15% | 9.3% | 271 km |
| 35 | Crouy Aisne | 0.3 | 23% | 0% | 148 km |
| 36 | Brienon-sur-Armançon Yonne | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | 281 km |
| 37 | Blancs-Coteaux Marne | 0.2 | 35% | 2.1% | 220 km |
| 38 | Miramont-de-Guyenne Lot-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 11% | 0% | 88 km |
| 39 | Gémozac Charente-Maritime | 0.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 13 km |
| 40 | Montesquieu-Volvestre Haute-Garonne | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 151 km |
| 41 | La Roche-Chalais Dordogne | 0.1 | 56% | 6.7% | 50 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 Breuillet
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de la Roche leads, at 162 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 Breuillet 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
Marais de la Seudre
10% of the commune2.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Marais et estuaire de la Seudre, île d’Oléron
10% of the commune2.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Presqu’ile d’Arvert
2.5% of the commune0.7 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Bonne Anse, marais de Bréjat et de Saint Augustin
2.5% of the commune0.7 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 Breuillet’s land is protected, more than in 74% 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.
Footpaths and woods
14 km of footpaths cross Breuillet
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
14 km
0.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
20%
about 4.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BreuilletCharente-Maritime medianFrance median
Footpaths0.7
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BreuilletCharente-Maritime medianFrance median
Woodland20%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 79% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 63% 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 Breuillet 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).
When to get out
The best walking months in Breuillet: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Royan-Medis, 9.3 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) | 9.1 | 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 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 23 | 19 | 14 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 87 | 60 | 60 | 69 | 63 | 54 | 43 | 50 | 71 | 89 | 107 | 103 |
July is the driest month (43 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 107 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 24 nights a year. The climate in Breuillet →
Neighbors
Next to Breuillet
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Sulpice-de-RoyanSaint-Palais-sur-MerÉtaulesVaux-sur-MerRoyanArvertBreuillet
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breuillet | 13% | 20% | 0.7 | On it |
| Saint-Sulpice-de-Royan 3,446 · 4.5 km | 16% | 16% | 1.6 | On it |
| Saint-Palais-sur-Mer 3,840 · 4.8 km | 55% | 58% | 5.1 | On it |
| Étaules 2,857 · 5 km | 39% | 9.6% | 0.7 | On it |
| Vaux-sur-Mer 4,013 · 5.7 km | 0.2% | 10% | 5.3 | On it |
| Royan 19,425 · 7.2 km | 12% | 8.7% | 2.8 | On it |
| Arvert 3,917 · 8.1 km | 31% | 5.8% | 0.2 | On it |
Saint-Palais-sur-Mer, Étaules and Arvert have at least twice as much protected land. Saint-Palais-sur-Mer 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 Breuillet
Is Breuillet 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 Breuillet?
OpenStreetMap maps 14 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Breuillet is woodland?
20% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Breuillet near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 4.1 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Breuillet?
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.