First pick
Plaine des Jeux de Tujac
Park or garden
23 ha3.7 km of path
50 minto walk all 3.7 km of path
2.8 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Florent Chouffot · CC BY-SA 3.027%woodland
Outdoors in Brive-la-Gaillarde · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Brive-la-Gaillarde is within 800 m of a park or wood
27% of Brive-la-Gaillarde is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Brive-la-Gaillarde; the nearest, Vallée de la Vézère d’Uzerche à la limite départementale 19/24 (Natura 2000), is 5.1 km from the town center. 58 km of footpaths cross Brive-la-Gaillarde (1.2 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Vallée de la Vézère d’Uzerche à la limite départementale 19/24, 5.1 km
Woodland
27%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
58 km
1.2 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
7
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Plaine des Jeux de Tujac
Throughout this page, the Corrèze 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 Brive-la-Gaillarde 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 areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland27%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
72out of 100
Footpaths1.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
38out 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
Brive-la-Gaillarde has the 2nd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (44,002 to 50,595 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Puteaux (18.9 km per km²) to Istres (1.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puteaux Hauts-de-Seine | 18.9 | 1.5% | 0% | 142 km |
| 2 | Lyon 6e Rhône | 12.3 | 7% | 0% | 253 km |
| 3 | Bagneux Hauts-de-Seine | 9.6 | 1.1% | 0% | 154 km |
| 4 | Meudon Hauts-de-Seine | 9.3 | 44% | 0% | 150 km |
| 5 | Suresnes Hauts-de-Seine | 9.2 | 5.9% | 0% | 143 km |
| 6 | Marseille 5e Bouches-du-Rhône | 8.9 | 0% | 0% | 1.9 km |
| 7 | Talence Gironde | 7.8 | 5.2% | 0% | 22 km |
| 8 | Belfort Territoire de Belfort | 7.5 | 34% | 0.4% | 431 km |
| 9 | Paris 7e Paris | 6.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 148 km |
| 10 | Saint-Germain-en-Laye Yvelines | 6.8 | 68% | 0% | 135 km |
| 11 | Chalon-sur-Saône Saône-et-Loire | 6.7 | 4.2% | 0% | 364 km |
| 12 | Choisy-le-Roi Val-de-Marne | 6.4 | 2.7% | 0% | 161 km |
| 13 | Marseille 4e Bouches-du-Rhône | 6.4 | 0.8% | 0% | 2.5 km |
| 14 | Lyon 5e Rhône | 5.9 | 8.8% | 0% | 251 km |
| 15 | La Courneuve Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.8 | 15% | 23% | 145 km |
| 16 | Alfortville Val-de-Marne | 5.7 | 0.1% | 0% | 157 km |
| 17 | Montrouge Hauts-de-Seine | 5.5 | 0.1% | 0% | 152 km |
| 18 | Vincennes Val-de-Marne | 5.5 | 0.1% | 0% | 154 km |
| 19 | Saint-Brieuc Côtes-d'Armor | 5.3 | 14% | 2.1% | On it |
| 20 | Bondy Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.1 | 1.6% | 0% | 151 km |
| 21 | Rosny-sous-Bois Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.1 | 3.2% | 2.7% | 154 km |
| 22 | Charleville-Mézières Ardennes | 5 | 32% | 0.5% | 207 km |
| 23 | Melun Seine-et-Marne | 4.6 | 6.4% | 0% | 191 km |
| 24 | Noisy-le-Sec Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 151 km |
| 25 | Laval Mayenne | 4.5 | 8.6% | 0% | 76 km |
| 26 | Saint-Priest Rhône | 4.4 | 4.1% | 0% | 247 km |
| 27 | Blois Loir-et-Cher | 4.3 | 30% | 5.8% | 216 km |
| 28 | Évreux Eure | 3.6 | 26% | 12% | 74 km |
| 29 | Saint-Malo Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.5 | 3.8% | 33% | On it |
| 30 | Tarbes Hautes-Pyrénées | 3.4 | 2.8% | 0.8% | 131 km |
| 31 | Livry-Gargan Seine-Saint-Denis | 3.1 | 10% | 0.7% | 152 km |
| 32 | Martigues Bouches-du-Rhône | 3 | 13% | 0.2% | On it |
| 33 | Les Sables-d'Olonne Vendée | 2.8 | 16% | 26% | On it |
| 34 | Bastia Haute-Corse | 2.8 | 0.3% | 0% | On it |
| 35 | Alès Gard | 2.2 | 8% | 0% | 63 km |
| 36 | Sète Hérault | 2 | 0.6% | 67% | On it |
| 37 | Aubagne Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.8 | 30% | 13% | 8.9 km |
| 38 | Carcassonne Aude | 1.4 | 8.4% | 0% | 62 km |
| 39 | Salon-de-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.4 | 4.8% | 59% | 26 km |
| 40 | Brive-la-Gaillarde Corrèze | 1.2 | 27% | 0% | 167 km |
| 41 | Istres Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.1 | 3.3% | 49% | 9.7 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 Brive-la-Gaillarde
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Plaine des Jeux de Tujac leads, at 23 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
La Guierle
Park or garden
2.7 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
1 km north-eastfrom the center
Promenade des TilleulsAllée Etienne Patier
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de Lestrade
Park or garden · 380 m outside the commune
2.5 ha
5.2 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Simone Veil
Park or garden
0.8 ha0.5 km of path
0.9 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square Marcel Cerdan
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
1 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square Auboiroux
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Brive-la-Gaillarde
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vallée de la Vézère d’Uzerche à la limite départementale 19/24 is the nearest protected area, 5.1 km away
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 la Vézère d’Uzerche à la limite départementale 19/24
5.1 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
58 km of footpaths cross Brive-la-Gaillarde
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
58 km
1.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
27%
about 12.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Brive-la-GaillardeCorrèze medianFrance median
Footpaths1.2
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Brive-la-GaillardeCorrèze medianFrance median
Woodland27%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 62% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 72% 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 Brive-la-Gaillarde is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
De Tours à Toulouse 04, Brive-la-Gaillarde - Vers5.8 km
De Tours à Toulouse 03, Aubusson - Brive-la-Gaillarde2.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Brive-la-Gaillarde: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Brive, 4.4 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 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 24 | 19 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 74 | 60 | 66 | 88 | 87 | 78 | 63 | 67 | 73 | 80 | 85 | 83 |
February is the driest month (60 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 88 mm of rain falls in April, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 58 nights a year. The climate in Brive-la-Gaillarde →
Neighbors
Next to Brive-la-Gaillarde
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
UssacMalemortCosnacSaint-Pantaléon-de-LarcheDonzenacAllassacBrive-la-Gaillarde
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Cosnac 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 Brive-la-Gaillarde
Is Brive-la-Gaillarde in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée de la Vézère d’Uzerche à la limite départementale 19/24, 5.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Brive-la-Gaillarde?
OpenStreetMap maps 58 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Brive-la-Gaillarde is woodland?
27% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Brive-la-Gaillarde near the sea?
No: the coast is 167 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Brive-la-Gaillarde?
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.