First pick
Champans
Wood or forest · 0 m outside the commune
41 ha
4.2 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Stefan Bauer, http://www.ferras.at · CC BY-SA 2.525%of the land protected
Outdoors in Beaune · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Beaune is within 800 m of a park or wood
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 29 km in Beaune. Protected areas cover 25% of Beaune’s land. 80 km of footpaths cross Beaune (2.6 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
25%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
16%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
80 km
2.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
29 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
8
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Champans
Throughout this page, the Côte-d'Or 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 Beaune 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 areas25%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
80out of 100
Woodland16%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
55out of 100
Footpaths2.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
67out of 100
Hiking routes0.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
81out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Beaune has the 10th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (19,782 to 20,921 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sceaux (11.7 km per km²) to Bressuire (0.6 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sceaux Hauts-de-Seine | 11.7 | 17% | 0% | 154 km |
| 2 | Chaville Hauts-de-Seine | 8.3 | 46% | 0% | 148 km |
| 3 | Gentilly Val-de-Marne | 8 | 1.8% | 0% | 153 km |
| 4 | Mont-Saint-Aignan Seine-Maritime | 7.3 | 12% | 0% | 50 km |
| 5 | La Celle-Saint-Cloud Yvelines | 6.6 | 29% | 0% | 142 km |
| 6 | Maurepas Yvelines | 5.8 | 29% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 7 | Chevilly-Larue Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 3.8% | 0% | 158 km |
| 8 | Carrières-sous-Poissy Yvelines | 5.3 | 5.6% | 0% | 129 km |
| 9 | Coudekerque-Branche Nord | 5.1 | 14% | 0% | 2.2 km |
| 10 | Fougères Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 33 km |
| 11 | Paris 2e Paris | 4.6 | 0% | 0% | 148 km |
| 12 | Joinville-le-Pont Val-de-Marne | 4.4 | 1.7% | 0% | 158 km |
| 13 | Chilly-Mazarin Essonne | 4.2 | 2.8% | 0% | 163 km |
| 14 | Albertville Savoie | 4.1 | 47% | 0% | 228 km |
| 15 | Bouguenais Loire-Atlantique | 4 | 18% | 8.4% | 33 km |
| 16 | Mougins Alpes-Maritimes | 4 | 28% | 0% | 5.1 km |
| 17 | La Chapelle-sur-Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 3.8 | 20% | 1.9% | 43 km |
| 18 | Bruges Gironde | 3.7 | 9.3% | 23% | 14 km |
| 19 | Ronchin Nord | 3.7 | 1.8% | 0% | 66 km |
| 20 | Lingolsheim Bas-Rhin | 3.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 450 km |
| 21 | Forbach Moselle | 3.5 | 32% | 0% | 359 km |
| 22 | Croix Nord | 3.4 | 4.6% | 0% | 61 km |
| 23 | Cournon-d'Auvergne Puy-de-Dôme | 3.3 | 6.6% | 6.3% | 251 km |
| 24 | Denain Nord | 3.2 | 5.9% | 0.1% | 103 km |
| 25 | Cugnaux Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 6.8% | 0% | 151 km |
| 26 | Wasquehal Nord | 3.1 | 4.7% | 0% | 60 km |
| 27 | Le Creusot Saône-et-Loire | 3 | 23% | 0% | 361 km |
| 28 | Concarneau Finistère | 2.8 | 13% | 0.3% | On it |
| 29 | Grande-Synthe Nord | 2.8 | 5.3% | 7.4% | On it |
| 30 | Sarreguemines Moselle | 2.6 | 32% | 0.9% | 374 km |
| 31 | Chaumont Haute-Marne | 2.6 | 52% | 0.3% | 342 km |
| 32 | Beaune Côte-d'Or | 2.6 | 16% | 25% | 389 km |
| 33 | Halluin Nord | 2.5 | 4.8% | 0% | 50 km |
| 34 | Carquefou Loire-Atlantique | 2.5 | 14% | 5% | 47 km |
| 35 | Lannion Côtes-d'Armor | 2.3 | 15% | 5.9% | On it |
| 36 | Vence Alpes-Maritimes | 2.2 | 28% | 64% | 8.3 km |
| 37 | Cahors Lot | 1.9 | 42% | 0% | 172 km |
| 38 | Bourg-lès-Valence Drôme | 1.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 166 km |
| 39 | Mitry-Mory Seine-et-Marne | 1 | 4.8% | 0% | 151 km |
| 40 | L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue Vaucluse | 0.8 | 4.8% | 7.3% | 54 km |
| 41 | Bressuire Deux-Sèvres | 0.6 | 2.4% | 0% | 77 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 Beaune
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Champans leads, at 41 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Les Mondes Rondes
Wood or forest
26 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
2.6 km north-westfrom the center
Chemin de la Pomme de Pin
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Chartreuse
Park or garden
5.2 ha2.4 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.4 km of path
1.9 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Bouzaize
Park or garden
4.5 ha2.2 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.2 km of path
1.1 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Saint-Jacques
Park or garden
3.3 ha0.9 km of path
15 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
1.5 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square des Lions
Park or garden
0.8 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Beaune
Directionsto a point inside
Place Carnot
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Beaune
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
25% of Beaune 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
Arrière côte de Dijon et de Beaune
25% of the commune1.9 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Les habitats naturels de l’arrière côte de Beaune
3.4 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area25%
Natura 2000 site25%
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.
25% of Beaune’s land is protected, more than in 80% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Côte-d'Or has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
80 km of footpaths and 29 km of hiking routes cross Beaune
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
80 km
2.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
29 km
waymarked: 0.9 km per km²
Woodland
16%
about 4.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BeauneCôte-d'Or medianFrance median
Footpaths2.6
Hiking routes0.9
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BeauneCôte-d'Or medianFrance median
Woodland16%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 67% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 55% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 97% of Beaune’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Sentier des Biques14 km
Montagne de Beaune9.1 km
Chemin des Vignes7.6 km
Premiers Crus de Beaune6.2 km
Promenade des Remparts1.6 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Beaune: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Savigny les Bea, 3.5 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) | 6 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 59 | 49 | 52 | 57 | 69 | 62 | 67 | 56 | 55 | 76 | 80 | 69 |
February is the driest month (49 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 80 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 49 nights a year. The climate in Beaune →
Neighbors
Next to Beaune
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ChagnyNuits-Saint-GeorgesGergyChampforgeuilGevrey-ChambertinChâtenoy-le-RoyalBeaune
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaune | 25% | 16% | 2.6 |
| Chagny 5,350 · 15 km | 0.8% | 38% | 0.8 |
| Nuits-Saint-Georges 5,235 · 15 km | 69% | 25% | 2.1 |
| Gergy 2,566 · 19 km | 0% | 45% | 0.5 |
| Champforgeuil 2,637 · 23 km | 0% | 23% | 1.4 |
| Gevrey-Chambertin 2,917 · 25 km | 30% | 39% | 3.4 |
| Châtenoy-le-Royal 6,267 · 26 km | 0% | 16% | 1.5 |
Nuits-Saint-Georges has at least twice as much protected land. Chagny, Nuits-Saint-Georges and Gergy are 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 Beaune
Is Beaune in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 25% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Beaune?
OpenStreetMap maps 80 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 29 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Beaune is woodland?
16% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Beaune near the sea?
No: the coast is 389 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Beaune?
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.