First pick
Place Victor Hugo
Park or garden
0.3 ha
1.3 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jack ma · CC BY-SA 3.07%of the land protected
Outdoors in Rouillac · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Rouillac
11 km of footpaths cross Rouillac (0.2 km per km²). Rouillac has 4 km of waymarked hiking routes. 7% of Rouillac’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
7%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
11%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
11 km
0.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.5 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
80%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
Throughout this page, the Charente 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 Rouillac 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 areas7%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
68out of 100
Woodland11%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
42out of 100
Footpaths0.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
3out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
28out of 100
Green space nearby80%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
3out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Rouillac has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,893 to 2,943 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Gevrey-Chambertin (3.4 km per km²) to Avord (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gevrey-Chambertin Côte-d'Or | 3.4 | 39% | 30% | 408 km |
| 2 | Giromagny Territoire de Belfort | 3 | 42% | 100% | 443 km |
| 3 | Saint-Étienne-de-Fontbellon Ardèche | 3 | 30% | 0.6% | 118 km |
| 4 | Blaye-les-Mines Tarn | 2.5 | 10% | 0% | 127 km |
| 5 | Smarves Vienne | 2.3 | 37% | 0% | 116 km |
| 6 | Montblanc Hérault | 1.5 | 18% | 0.1% | 12 km |
| 7 | Charquemont Doubs | 1.5 | 39% | 100% | 385 km |
| 8 | Bruyères Vosges | 1.4 | 70% | 2.4% | 428 km |
| 9 | Abrest Allier | 1.4 | 19% | 14% | 286 km |
| 10 | Orcet Puy-de-Dôme | 1.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 248 km |
| 11 | Péron Ain | 1.3 | 56% | 100% | 295 km |
| 12 | Megève Haute-Savoie | 1.3 | 40% | 0% | 241 km |
| 13 | Drocourt Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 2.3% | 0% | 82 km |
| 14 | Tresserve Savoie | 1.3 | 6.1% | 66% | 245 km |
| 15 | Willems Nord | 1.3 | 7.6% | 0% | 69 km |
| 16 | Châteauneuf-du-Rhône Drôme | 1.2 | 16% | 0.8% | 116 km |
| 17 | Sérignan-du-Comtat Vaucluse | 1.2 | 28% | 1.7% | 82 km |
| 18 | Cany-Barville Seine-Maritime | 1.1 | 20% | 0% | 7.9 km |
| 19 | Contrexéville Vosges | 1.1 | 34% | 0% | 379 km |
| 20 | Bertrange Moselle | 0.9 | 21% | 0% | 313 km |
| 21 | Joinville Haute-Marne | 0.7 | 61% | 0% | 317 km |
| 22 | Saint-Priest-Taurion Haute-Vienne | 0.6 | 45% | 0% | 175 km |
| 23 | Balbigny Loire | 0.6 | 12% | 5.8% | 251 km |
| 24 | Allonnes Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 20% | 100% | 141 km |
| 25 | Argentré Mayenne | 0.5 | 3.1% | 0% | 80 km |
| 26 | Labouheyre Landes | 0.5 | 74% | 100% | 30 km |
| 27 | Saint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne Ain | 0.4 | 7.4% | 4% | 297 km |
| 28 | Neuville-sur-Escaut Nord | 0.4 | 0.8% | 0% | 105 km |
| 29 | La Ferté-en-Ouche Orne | 0.4 | 13% | 1.4% | 65 km |
| 30 | Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon Deux-Sèvres | 0.4 | 10% | 100% | 35 km |
| 31 | Lalinde Dordogne | 0.4 | 44% | 2.8% | 106 km |
| 32 | Pennautier Aude | 0.3 | 7.6% | 0% | 65 km |
| 33 | Sennecey-le-Grand Saône-et-Loire | 0.3 | 33% | 0% | 348 km |
| 34 | Rosières-en-Santerre Somme | 0.3 | 0.2% | 0% | 84 km |
| 35 | Thiant Nord | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 107 km |
| 36 | Yvrac Gironde | 0.3 | 7.7% | 0% | 17 km |
| 37 | Broons Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 9.2% | 0% | 26 km |
| 38 | Rouillac Charente | 0.2 | 11% | 7% | 66 km |
| 39 | Auneuil Oise | 0.2 | 17% | 4.7% | 88 km |
| 40 | Fresnay-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 0.2 | 6.9% | 0% | 112 km |
| 41 | Avord Cher | 0.1 | 3.2% | 0% | 300 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 Rouillac
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Place Victor Hugo leads, at 0.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
8 in 10 residents of Rouillac live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
80% within 800 m20% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
RouillacCharente medianFrance median
Within 800 m80%
0%50%100%
About 600 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
7% of Rouillac 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
Plaines de Barbezières à Gourville
7% of the commune3.9 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Côteaux calcaires entre les Bouchauds et Marsac
2.3 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area7%
Natura 2000 site7%
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.
7% of Rouillac’s land is protected, more than in 68% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Charente has 7.4%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
11 km of footpaths cross Rouillac
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
11 km
0.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.5 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
11%
about 6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RouillacCharente medianFrance median
Footpaths0.2
Hiking routes0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RouillacCharente medianFrance median
Woodland11%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 97% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 58% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Via Sancti Martini - Camino de Zaragoza / Chemin de Saragosse13 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Rouillac: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Tusson, 20 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) | 9 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 78 | 59 | 61 | 65 | 65 | 65 | 48 | 57 | 61 | 82 | 91 | 91 |
July is the driest month (48 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 91 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 55 nights a year. The climate in Rouillac →
Neighbors
Next to Rouillac
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
JarnacLa BoixeFléacSaint-Yrieix-sur-CharenteSaint-MichelChâteauneuf-sur-CharenteRouillac
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rouillac | 7% | 11% | 0.2 |
| Jarnac 4,486 · 14 km | 23% | 6.2% | 0.5 |
| La Boixe 2,841 · 15 km | 23% | 10% | 0.1 |
| Fléac 3,861 · 18 km | 3.7% | 12% | 1.4 |
| Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente 7,539 · 20 km | 8.7% | 20% | 2.5 |
| Saint-Michel 3,196 · 21 km | 3.2% | 12% | 2.3 |
| Châteauneuf-sur-Charente 3,550 · 21 km | 21% | 12% | 1.1 |
Jarnac, La Boixe and Châteauneuf-sur-Charente have at least twice as much protected land. Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente 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 Rouillac
Is Rouillac in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 7% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Rouillac?
OpenStreetMap maps 11 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); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Rouillac is woodland?
11% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Rouillac near the sea?
No: the coast is 66 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Rouillac?
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 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.