First pick
Jardin des Prés Fichaux
Park or garden · 390 m outside the commune
4.5 ha3.3 km of path
45 minto walk all 3.3 km of path
2.7 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Anthony Levrot · CC BY-SA 4.07.2%of the land protected
Outdoors in Saint-Doulchard · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Saint-Doulchard
16 km of footpaths cross Saint-Doulchard (0.7 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 8.8% of Saint-Doulchard. Protected areas cover 7.2% of Saint-Doulchard’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
7.2%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
8.8%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
16 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
Green space nearby
93%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
Throughout this page, the Cher 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 Saint-Doulchard 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 areas7.2%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
68out of 100
Woodland8.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
36out 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
Green space nearby93%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
11out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Doulchard has the 9th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (9,477 to 9,808 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bures-sur-Yvette (8.5 km per km²) to Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bures-sur-Yvette Essonne | 8.5 | 26% | 0.2% | 155 km |
| 2 | Ville-la-Grand Haute-Savoie | 6 | 14% | 0% | 287 km |
| 3 | Crosne Essonne | 5.8 | 12% | 0% | 167 km |
| 4 | Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 4.4 | 10% | 0.1% | 123 km |
| 5 | Darnétal Seine-Maritime | 4.2 | 37% | 0% | 53 km |
| 6 | Montlhéry Essonne | 4.1 | 9.8% | 0% | 165 km |
| 7 | Redon Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.8 | 10% | 32% | 28 km |
| 8 | Aytré Charente-Maritime | 3.7 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 9 | Saint-Jean-le-Blanc Loiret | 3.6 | 4.8% | 11% | 207 km |
| 10 | Lesquin Nord | 3.5 | 4.8% | 0% | 68 km |
| 11 | Vernouillet Yvelines | 3.5 | 19% | 0% | 124 km |
| 12 | Séné Morbihan | 3.3 | 10% | 90% | On it |
| 13 | Frouzins Haute-Garonne | 3.3 | 7.7% | 11% | 152 km |
| 14 | Montigny-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 7.7% | 0% | 78 km |
| 15 | Portet-sur-Garonne Haute-Garonne | 3 | 9.8% | 15% | 146 km |
| 16 | Grand-Couronne Seine-Maritime | 2.9 | 42% | 0.2% | 48 km |
| 17 | Quincy-sous-Sénart Essonne | 2.8 | 57% | 0% | 174 km |
| 18 | Leers Nord | 2.6 | 1.6% | 0% | 64 km |
| 19 | Aucamville Haute-Garonne | 2.5 | 2.3% | 0% | 151 km |
| 20 | Basse-Goulaine Loire-Atlantique | 2.5 | 14% | 14% | 44 km |
| 21 | Savenay Loire-Atlantique | 2.3 | 14% | 7.7% | 20 km |
| 22 | Bondues Nord | 2.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 56 km |
| 23 | Figeac Lot | 2.1 | 27% | 0% | 182 km |
| 24 | Pérols Hérault | 1.9 | 0.6% | 37% | 2.2 km |
| 25 | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.4 | 23% | 100% | 37 km |
| 26 | Nort-sur-Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 9% | 6.6% | 53 km |
| 27 | Aire-sur-la-Lys Pas-de-Calais | 1.2 | 2.8% | 0% | 43 km |
| 28 | Merville Nord | 1 | 2% | 0% | 48 km |
| 29 | Bernay Eure | 0.9 | 15% | 4.7% | 42 km |
| 30 | Elne Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.8 | 0.2% | 3% | On it |
| 31 | Albert Somme | 0.8 | 1.1% | 0% | 72 km |
| 32 | L'Isle-Jourdain Gers | 0.7 | 7% | 0% | 173 km |
| 33 | Saint-Doulchard Cher | 0.7 | 8.8% | 7.2% | 282 km |
| 34 | Revel Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 4.3% | 0% | 99 km |
| 35 | Vallet Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 7.8% | 0% | 56 km |
| 36 | Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe Tarn | 0.6 | 6.1% | 1.1% | 138 km |
| 37 | Saint-Jean-d'Illac Gironde | 0.5 | 79% | 0.5% | 23 km |
| 38 | Mézidon Vallée d'Auge Calvados | 0.5 | 8.1% | 0% | 24 km |
| 39 | Audenge Gironde | 0.4 | 72% | 100% | On it |
| 40 | Petit-Caux Seine-Maritime | 0.3 | 4.6% | 1.1% | On it |
| 41 | Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire Nièvre | 0.3 | 24% | 3.8% | 295 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 Saint-Doulchard
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin des Prés Fichaux leads, at 4.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Saint-Doulchard 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).
93% within 800 m6.5% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
Saint-DoulchardCher medianFrance median
Within 800 m93%
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
7.2% of Saint-Doulchard 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
Vallée de l’Yèvre
7.2% of the commune1.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area7.2%
Natura 2000 site7.2%
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.
7.2% of Saint-Doulchard’s land is protected, more than in 68% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Cher has 0.3%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
16 km of footpaths cross Saint-Doulchard
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
16 km
0.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
8.8%
about 2.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-DoulchardCher medianFrance median
Footpaths0.7
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-DoulchardCher medianFrance median
Woodland8.8%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 79% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 64% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saint-Doulchard: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bourges, 5.1 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) | 8.9 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 15.9 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 51 | 53 | 62 | 76 | 58 | 64 | 54 | 57 | 74 | 69 | 67 |
February is the driest month (51 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 76 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 45 nights a year. The climate in Saint-Doulchard →
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Doulchard
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BourgesLa Chapelle-Saint-UrsinTrouySaint-Germain-du-PuySaint-Martin-d'AuxignyMehun-sur-YèvreSaint-Doulchard
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Doulchard | 7.2% | 8.8% | 0.7 |
| Bourges 64,186 · 3.5 km | 0.4% | 4.9% | 2.3 |
| La Chapelle-Saint-Ursin 3,681 · 5.5 km | 11% | 3.5% | 1.3 |
| Trouy 4,055 · 8 km | 0.1% | 2.7% | 0.4 |
| Saint-Germain-du-Puy 4,779 · 8.9 km | 0% | 7.4% | 0.4 |
| Saint-Martin-d'Auxigny 2,546 · 11 km | 16% | 35% | 0.9 |
| Mehun-sur-Yèvre 6,380 · 12 km | 0% | 7.1% | 0.7 |
Saint-Martin-d'Auxigny has at least twice as much protected land. Saint-Martin-d'Auxigny 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 Saint-Doulchard
Is Saint-Doulchard in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 7.2% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Saint-Doulchard?
OpenStreetMap maps 16 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 Saint-Doulchard is woodland?
8.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Doulchard near the sea?
No: the coast is 282 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saint-Doulchard?
April and June 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.