First pick
Parc de la Préfecture
Park or garden
5.4 ha
0.6 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: F. Lavie · CC BY-SA 3.034%woodland
Outdoors in Tulle · protected areas, woods and footpaths
34% of Tulle is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
No protected area reaches Tulle; the nearest, Vallée de la Montane vers Gimel-les-Cascades (Natura 2000), is 5.4 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 24 km across Tulle (1 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 Montane vers Gimel-les-Cascades, 5.4 km
Woodland
34%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
24 km
1 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
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc de la Préfecture
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Tulle?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune34% mapped woodland, more than in 81% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyVallée de la Montane vers Gimel-les-Cascades (Natura 2000) is 5.4 km from the town center.
What sets Tulle apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Tulle 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
Woodland34%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
81out of 100
Footpaths1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
31out 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
Tulle has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (13,012 to 13,803 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-André-lez-Lille (8.6 km per km²) to Gien (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-André-lez-Lille Nord | 8.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 59 km |
| 2 | Avon Seine-et-Marne | 6.4 | 30% | 27% | 206 km |
| 3 | Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande Ille-et-Vilaine | 5.9 | 8.1% | 0% | 50 km |
| 4 | Anzin Nord | 5.4 | 3.1% | 0.5% | 103 km |
| 5 | Fleury-Mérogis Essonne | 4.2 | 35% | 0% | 170 km |
| 6 | Gex Ain | 4.2 | 63% | 72% | 306 km |
| 7 | Lons Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 4.2 | 7.7% | 9% | 92 km |
| 8 | Freyming-Merlebach Moselle | 4.1 | 19% | 0% | 358 km |
| 9 | Saint-Jean-de-Védas Hérault | 3.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 9 km |
| 10 | Fontenay-le-Fleury Yvelines | 3.3 | 8% | 0% | 141 km |
| 11 | Villeneuve-lès-Avignon Gard | 3.1 | 13% | 22% | 58 km |
| 12 | Val-de-Reuil Eure | 3.1 | 16% | 24% | 64 km |
| 13 | Mouvaux Nord | 3 | 3.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 14 | Les Ponts-de-Cé Maine-et-Loire | 2.8 | 6.5% | 33% | 120 km |
| 15 | Lourdes Hautes-Pyrénées | 2.8 | 52% | 6.8% | 129 km |
| 16 | Kingersheim Haut-Rhin | 2.7 | 13% | 0% | 445 km |
| 17 | Plougastel-Daoulas Finistère | 2.6 | 28% | 6.5% | On it |
| 18 | Canet-en-Roussillon Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.6 | 1.1% | 50% | On it |
| 19 | Outreau Pas-de-Calais | 2.6 | 4.8% | 0% | 1.7 km |
| 20 | Carros Alpes-Maritimes | 2.3 | 25% | 64% | 11 km |
| 21 | Claye-Souilly Seine-et-Marne | 2.3 | 30% | 0% | 155 km |
| 22 | Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez Vendée | 2.3 | 12% | 48% | On it |
| 23 | Plouzané Finistère | 2.2 | 8% | 0% | On it |
| 24 | Bonneville Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 47% | 5.2% | 269 km |
| 25 | Seclin Nord | 1.8 | 3.3% | 0% | 69 km |
| 26 | Auriol Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 49% | 75% | 19 km |
| 27 | Argentan Orne | 1.7 | 2.2% | 11% | 62 km |
| 28 | Cuers Var | 1.5 | 32% | 0% | 16 km |
| 29 | Autun Saône-et-Loire | 1.3 | 43% | 100% | 377 km |
| 30 | Genas Rhône | 1.3 | 2.3% | 0% | 252 km |
| 31 | Tergnier Aisne | 1.2 | 9% | 4.8% | 130 km |
| 32 | Amilly Loiret | 1.2 | 33% | 0% | 240 km |
| 33 | Moissac Tarn-et-Garonne | 1 | 27% | 2.5% | 167 km |
| 34 | Tulle Corrèze | 1 | 34% | 0% | 187 km |
| 35 | Cusset Allier | 0.9 | 18% | 1.4% | 290 km |
| 36 | Pierrelatte Drôme | 0.7 | 2.8% | 4.4% | 103 km |
| 37 | Monteux Vaucluse | 0.7 | 2.6% | 26% | 65 km |
| 38 | Petite-Île Réunion | 0.6 | 22% | 4.9% | On it |
| 39 | Bras-Panon Réunion | 0.6 | 69% | 83% | On it |
| 40 | Graulhet Tarn | 0.3 | 9.2% | 0% | 116 km |
| 41 | Gien Loiret | 0.3 | 35% | 1.8% | 256 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 Tulle
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Préfecture leads, at 5.4 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de la Mairie
Park or garden
0.7 ha0.3 km of path
0.6 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Puy Saint-Clair
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.2 km of path
0.9 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vallée de la Montane vers Gimel-les-Cascades is the nearest protected area, 5.4 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 Montane vers Gimel-les-Cascades
5.4 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
24 km of footpaths cross Tulle
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
24 km
1 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
34%
about 8.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
TulleCorrèze medianFrance median
Footpaths1
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
TulleCorrèze medianFrance median
Woodland34%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 69% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 81% 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 Tulle 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
Le Transcorrézien3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Tulle: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Tulle, 3.3 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 | 14.9 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 23 | 19 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 118 | 96 | 97 | 111 | 101 | 93 | 77 | 78 | 92 | 110 | 131 | 132 |
July is the driest month (77 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 132 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 67 nights a year. The climate in Tulle →
Neighbors
Next to Tulle
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MalemortDonzenacCosnacUssacBrive-la-GaillardeArgentat-sur-DordogneTulle
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tulle | 0% | 34% | 1 |
| Malemort 8,239 · 18 km | 0% | 27% | 0.7 |
| Donzenac 2,733 · 19 km | 0% | 34% | 0.4 |
| Cosnac 3,044 · 20 km | 0% | 41% | 0.9 |
| Ussac 4,322 · 21 km | 0% | 24% | 0.4 |
| Brive-la-Gaillarde 47,095 · 22 km | 0% | 27% | 1.2 |
| Argentat-sur-Dordogne 2,881 · 23 km | 2.2% | 59% | 1.4 |
Argentat-sur-Dordogne 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 Tulle
Is Tulle in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée de la Montane vers Gimel-les-Cascades, 5.4 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Tulle?
OpenStreetMap maps 24 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Tulle is woodland?
34% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Tulle near the sea?
No: the coast is 187 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Tulle?
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.