First pick
Bois des Landes
Wood or forest · 180 m outside the commune
27 ha
3.8 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jack ma · CC BY-SA 3.014%of the land protected
Outdoors in Saujon · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Saujon is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 4% of Saujon. Protected areas cover 14% of Saujon’s land. 34 km of footpaths cross Saujon (1.8 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
14%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
34 km
1.8 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
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois des Landes
The sea
4.1 km
from the town center to the coast
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Saujon?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Near the seaThe coast is 4.1 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland4% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Saujon apart: the sea nearby. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Saujon 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 areas14%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
75out of 100
Woodland4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
18out of 100
Footpaths1.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
54out 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
Saujon has the 21st fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,337 to 7,544 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Gières (7.2 km per km²) to Lanton (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gières Isère | 7.2 | 35% | 0% | 202 km |
| 2 | Huningue Haut-Rhin | 4.9 | 0.9% | 0% | 423 km |
| 3 | Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil Essonne | 4.8 | 28% | 0% | 177 km |
| 4 | Lisses Essonne | 3.8 | 22% | 2.9% | 176 km |
| 5 | Soisy-sur-Seine Essonne | 3.6 | 64% | 0% | 173 km |
| 6 | Remiremont Vosges | 3.5 | 70% | 18% | 432 km |
| 7 | Cournonterral Hérault | 3.4 | 3.1% | 62% | 13 km |
| 8 | Saint-Benoît Vienne | 3.3 | 25% | 0% | 116 km |
| 9 | Saint-Apollinaire Côte-d'Or | 3.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 403 km |
| 10 | Clisson Loire-Atlantique | 3.1 | 9% | 0% | 54 km |
| 11 | Audun-le-Tiche Moselle | 3 | 42% | 0% | 288 km |
| 12 | Fabrègues Hérault | 2.9 | 7.6% | 8.4% | 9.4 km |
| 13 | Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.7 | 20% | 0% | 256 km |
| 14 | Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente Charente | 2.5 | 20% | 8.7% | 74 km |
| 15 | Crozon Finistère | 2.4 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 16 | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Savoie | 2.2 | 37% | 0% | 190 km |
| 17 | Châteaubourg Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.1 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 18 | Pontcharra Isère | 2 | 39% | 0% | 217 km |
| 19 | Carhaix-Plouguer Finistère | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 40 km |
| 20 | Paimpol Côtes-d'Armor | 1.9 | 12% | 12% | On it |
| 21 | Saujon Charente-Maritime | 1.8 | 4% | 14% | 4.1 km |
| 22 | Villard-Bonnot Isère | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 203 km |
| 23 | Céret Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.7 | 61% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 24 | Toulouges Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.6 | 0.2% | 0% | 17 km |
| 25 | Fresnes-sur-Escaut Nord | 1.5 | 24% | 100% | 100 km |
| 26 | Saint-Berthevin Mayenne | 1.5 | 17% | 0% | 74 km |
| 27 | Langres Haute-Marne | 1.2 | 9.7% | 0.1% | 371 km |
| 28 | Pordic Côtes-d'Armor | 1.2 | 8.1% | 0% | On it |
| 29 | Yssingeaux Haute-Loire | 1.2 | 39% | 15% | 176 km |
| 30 | Lagnieu Ain | 1.1 | 35% | 0% | 274 km |
| 31 | Melesse Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.1 | 3.7% | 0% | 38 km |
| 32 | Jaunay-Marigny Vienne | 0.9 | 9.6% | 27% | 123 km |
| 33 | Trélissac Dordogne | 0.9 | 43% | 0% | 109 km |
| 34 | Saint-Nicolas-de-Port Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.9 | 11% | 0% | 376 km |
| 35 | Ruelle-sur-Touvre Charente | 0.8 | 6.5% | 8% | 81 km |
| 36 | Sucé-sur-Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 13% | 25% | 48 km |
| 37 | Digoin Saône-et-Loire | 0.8 | 12% | 6.1% | 325 km |
| 38 | Rethel Ardennes | 0.6 | 2.9% | 0% | 207 km |
| 39 | Chaumes-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 40 | Guipry-Messac Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.5 | 8.9% | 0% | 55 km |
| 41 | Lanton Gironde | 0.2 | 83% | 100% | On it |
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 Saujon
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois des Landes leads, at 27 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois des Fourches
Wood or forest · 260 m outside the commune
16 ha
3.4 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Château
Park or garden
0.2 ha0.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Saujon
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
14% of Saujon 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
14% of the commune1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Marais et estuaire de la Seudre, île d’Oléron
14% of the commune1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area14%
Natura 2000 site14%
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.
14% of Saujon’s land is protected, more than in 75% 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
34 km of footpaths cross Saujon
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
34 km
1.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
4%
about 0.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
SaujonCharente-Maritime medianFrance median
Footpaths1.8
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
SaujonCharente-Maritime medianFrance median
Woodland4%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 54% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 82% 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 Saujon 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 Saujon: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Royan-Medis, 5.8 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) | 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 Saujon →
Neighbors
Next to Saujon
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MédisSaint-Sulpice-de-RoyanSemussacSaint-Georges-de-DidonneRoyanBreuilletSaujon
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saujon | 14% | 4% | 1.8 | 4.1 km |
| Médis 3,157 · 4.3 km | 0.6% | 9.4% | 0.2 | 5.1 km |
| Saint-Sulpice-de-Royan 3,446 · 6.4 km | 16% | 16% | 1.6 | On it |
| Semussac 2,585 · 8 km | 6.9% | 3.8% | 0.3 | 5.1 km |
| Saint-Georges-de-Didonne 5,092 · 9 km | 37% | 19% | 2.3 | On it |
| Royan 19,425 · 9 km | 12% | 8.7% | 2.8 | On it |
| Breuillet 3,058 · 10 km | 13% | 20% | 0.7 | On it |
Saint-Georges-de-Didonne has at least twice as much protected land. Breuillet 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 Saujon
Is Saujon in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 14% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Saujon?
OpenStreetMap maps 34 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Saujon is woodland?
4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saujon near the sea?
No: the coast is 4.1 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saujon?
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 8, 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.