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6.9%of the land protected

Outdoors in Semussac · protected areas, woods and footpaths

Almost every home in Semussac is within 800 m of a park or wood

7 km of footpaths cross Semussac (0.3 km per km²). 3.8% of Semussac is mapped woodland. Protected areas cover 6.9% of Semussac’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.

6.9%protected 3.8%woodland 7km of footpaths 5.1 kmto the coast

Protected areas

6.9%

of the commune’s land

Compared town: 0.1%

Woodland

3.8%

of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap

Compared town: 13%

Footpaths

6.8 km

0.3 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

named, in or within 400 m of the commune

First: Forêt de Suzac

The sea

5.1 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 Semussac?

Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.

Near the seaThe coast is 5.1 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.3 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.

What sets Semussac apart: the sea nearby. It is shorter on footpaths.

Against French towns

How Semussac 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 areas6.9%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site

68out of 100

Woodland3.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap

18out of 100

Footpaths0.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune

5out 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

Semussac has the 7th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size

The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,559 to 2,609 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.

Semussac 0.3

École-ValentinHilsenheim

02.55 km per km²

From École-Valentin (3.9 km per km²) to Hilsenheim (0 km per km²).

Every town in the comparison

	Town	Paths (km/km²)	Woodland	Protected	Coast
1	École-Valentin Doubs	3.9	16%	0%	405 km
2	Josselin Morbihan	3.7	15%	0%	36 km
3	Sainte-Feyre Creuse	2.1	30%	0%	222 km
4	Tourville-la-Rivière Seine-Maritime	2	15%	15%	55 km
5	Camiers Pas-de-Calais	2	30%	32%	On it
6	Sain-Bel Rhône	1.9	12%	0%	253 km
7	Damparis Jura	1.6	35%	0%	401 km
8	Hardricourt Yvelines	1.6	15%	0.4%	118 km
9	Longueil-Annel Oise	1.5	21%	0%	116 km
10	Mornas Vaucluse	1.5	35%	5%	84 km
11	Le Palais Morbihan	1.5	5%	26%	On it
12	Saint-Jean-du-Gard Gard	1.4	84%	100%	62 km
13	Watten Nord	1.4	24%	100%	18 km
14	Beautor Aisne	1.3	3.6%	40%	133 km
15	Bessèges Gard	1.3	66%	100%	81 km
16	Villenauxe-la-Grande Aube	1.3	13%	0%	223 km
17	Cattenom Moselle	1.1	37%	0%	308 km
18	Pîtres Eure	0.9	47%	0.2%	64 km
19	Ivry-la-Bataille Eure	0.8	2.6%	3.2%	101 km
20	Grâces Côtes-d'Armor	0.8	12%	0%	17 km
21	Villages du Lac de Paladru Isère	0.8	21%	0%	230 km
22	La Calmette Gard	0.7	29%	0%	43 km
23	Frelinghien Nord	0.7	1%	0%	51 km
24	Avelin Nord	0.6	6.1%	0%	72 km
25	La Châtaigneraie Vendée	0.6	4.5%	0%	48 km
26	Trélon Nord	0.6	78%	100%	156 km
27	Le Cailar Gard	0.4	2%	68%	17 km
28	Xertigny Vosges	0.4	42%	0%	417 km
29	Frans Ain	0.4	4%	0%	275 km
30	Baldersheim Haut-Rhin	0.4	63%	60%	446 km
31	Toucy Yonne	0.4	24%	0%	288 km
32	Saint-Yzan-de-Soudiac Gironde	0.3	13%	3%	19 km
33	Charly-sur-Marne Aisne	0.3	21%	0%	177 km
34	Clairac Lot-et-Garonne	0.3	7.7%	0%	105 km
35	Semussac Charente-Maritime	0.3	3.8%	6.9%	5.1 km
36	Vivy Maine-et-Loire	0.3	15%	100%	140 km
37	Nogent-sur-Vernisson Loiret	0.2	46%	0.3%	249 km
38	Eymet Dordogne	0.2	8.6%	0.4%	86 km
39	Athies-sous-Laon Aisne	0.2	8.9%	0%	159 km
40	Cauchy-à-la-Tour Pas-de-Calais	0.1	0.4%	0%	54 km
41	Hilsenheim Bas-Rhin	0	28%	18%	465 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 Semussac

Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Suzac leads, at 370 ha. Directions go to a point inside.

First pick

Forêt de Suzac

Wood or forest · 380 m outside the commune

370 ha21.7 km of path

4 h 50 minto walk all 21.7 km of path

5 km south-westfrom the center

Allée des GirollesAllée des PaonsChemin du Fort de Suzac+5 paths

Directionsto a point inside

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.

Protected areas

6.9% of Semussac 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

Estuaire de la Gironde : marais de la rive nord

6.9% of the commune1 km from the center

Natura 2000 site

Marais et falaises des côteaux de Gironde

6.9% of the commune1 km from the center

Share of the commune’s land

Any protected area6.9%

Natura 2000 site6.9%

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.

6.9% of Semussac’s land is protected, more than in 68% 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

7 km of footpaths cross Semussac

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

6.8 km

0.3 km per km²

Hiking routes

0 km

waymarked: 0 km per km²

Woodland

3.8%

about 0.9 km² of mapped woods

Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap

SemussacCharente-Maritime medianFrance median

Footpaths0.3

Hiking routes0

01.53 km per km²

Share of the land · mapped woods and forest

SemussacCharente-Maritime medianFrance median

Woodland3.8%

0%50%100%

That is less than in 95% 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 Semussac is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.

A named hiking route within 2 km

Other named walk

De Cozes à St-Fort-sur-Gironde1 km

When to get out

The best walking months in Semussac: April to September

Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Royan-Medis, 5.6 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 Semussac →

Neighbors

Next to Semussac

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.

Meschers-sur-GirondeMédisSaint-Georges-de-DidonneSaujonRoyanSaint-Sulpice-de-RoyanSemussac

Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+

Town	Protected	Woodland	Paths (km/km²)	Coast
Semussac	6.9%	3.8%	0.3	5.1 km
Meschers-sur-Gironde 3,180 · 5 km	60%	7.4%	0.6	On it
Médis 3,157 · 5.7 km	0.6%	9.4%	0.2	5.1 km
Saint-Georges-de-Didonne 5,092 · 5.7 km	37%	19%	2.3	On it
Saujon 7,440 · 8 km	14%	4%	1.8	4.1 km
Royan 19,425 · 9.1 km	12%	8.7%	2.8	On it
Saint-Sulpice-de-Royan 3,446 · 10 km	16%	16%	1.6	On it

Meschers-sur-Gironde, Saint-Georges-de-Didonne and Saujon have at least twice as much protected land.

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 Semussac

Is Semussac in a national or regional nature park?

No, but 6.9% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.

Are there good walks in Semussac?

OpenStreetMap maps 7 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).

How much of Semussac is woodland?

3.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.

Is Semussac near the sea?

No: the coast is 5.1 km from the town center, as the crow flies.

When is the best time for walking in Semussac?

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.