First pick
Bois Communaux de Ravières
Wood or forest
4,849 ha2.1 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.1 km of path
14 km northfrom the center
Sentier de Chaumotte
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Pline · CC BY-SA 3.074%woodland
Outdoors in Montbard · protected areas, woods and footpaths
74% of Montbard is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
28 km of footpaths cross Montbard (0.6 km per km²). No protected area reaches Montbard; the nearest, Eboulis calcaires de la vallée de l’Armançon (Natura 2000), is 11 km from the town center. Montbard has 9 km of waymarked hiking routes. 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: Eboulis calcaires de la vallée de l’Armançon, 11 km
Woodland
74%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
28 km
0.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.6 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois Communaux de Ravières
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Montbard?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune74% mapped woodland, more than in 99% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Few mapped footpaths0.6 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Montbard apart: its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Montbard 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
Woodland74%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
99out of 100
Footpaths0.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
17out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
36out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Montbard has the 10th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,610 to 4,672 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Tremblade (4.3 km per km²) to Vayres (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Tremblade Charente-Maritime | 4.3 | 72% | 89% | On it |
| 2 | Auzeville-Tolosane Haute-Garonne | 3.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 140 km |
| 3 | L'Huisserie Mayenne | 3.8 | 16% | 0% | 80 km |
| 4 | Ars-sur-Moselle Moselle | 3.7 | 59% | 100% | 327 km |
| 5 | La Tour-de-Salvagny Rhône | 3.3 | 28% | 0% | 255 km |
| 6 | Mandeure Doubs | 3 | 59% | 11% | 410 km |
| 7 | Sangatte Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 1.7% | 99% | On it |
| 8 | Évin-Malmaison Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 19% | 0% | 80 km |
| 9 | Ascain Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.6 | 20% | 51% | 5.2 km |
| 10 | Guesnain Nord | 2.3 | 3% | 0% | 93 km |
| 11 | Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 5.8% | 0% | 258 km |
| 12 | Auchy-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 2.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 66 km |
| 13 | Angres Pas-de-Calais | 2.1 | 14% | 0% | 75 km |
| 14 | Auberchicourt Nord | 1.9 | 2% | 0.3% | 97 km |
| 15 | Plouha Côtes-d'Armor | 1.9 | 15% | 0.1% | On it |
| 16 | Saint-Leu-d'Esserent Oise | 1.8 | 22% | 0.3% | 119 km |
| 17 | Trouville-sur-Mer Calvados | 1.8 | 7.9% | 0.5% | On it |
| 18 | Bar-sur-Aube Aube | 1.5 | 14% | 22% | 309 km |
| 19 | Blénod-lès-Pont-à-Mousson Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 20% | 11% | 343 km |
| 20 | La Fouillouse Loire | 1.3 | 26% | 0% | 217 km |
| 21 | Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu Rhône | 1.2 | 14% | 0% | 243 km |
| 22 | Neufchâtel-en-Bray Seine-Maritime | 1.2 | 17% | 3.7% | 32 km |
| 23 | Jargeau Loiret | 1 | 7.3% | 20% | 218 km |
| 24 | Montville Seine-Maritime | 1 | 39% | 0% | 41 km |
| 25 | Soucieu-en-Jarrest Rhône | 1 | 15% | 0% | 240 km |
| 26 | Bouloc Haute-Garonne | 1 | 22% | 0% | 158 km |
| 27 | Véretz Indre-et-Loire | 1 | 13% | 0% | 188 km |
| 28 | Bas-en-Basset Haute-Loire | 0.9 | 54% | 97% | 194 km |
| 29 | Les Garennes sur Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.9 | 12% | 23% | 121 km |
| 30 | Puget-Ville Var | 0.9 | 23% | 19% | 20 km |
| 31 | Bédée Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 0.5% | 0% | 35 km |
| 32 | Montbard Côte-d'Or | 0.6 | 74% | 0% | 344 km |
| 33 | La Bouëxière Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 35% | 0% | 48 km |
| 34 | Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas Gard | 0.6 | 4.6% | 0% | 59 km |
| 35 | Hagetmau Landes | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 68 km |
| 36 | Pluméliau-Bieuzy Morbihan | 0.4 | 16% | 0% | 26 km |
| 37 | Dompierre-sur-Yon Vendée | 0.4 | 8.7% | 0% | 39 km |
| 38 | Saint-Méen-le-Grand Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 36 km |
| 39 | Villers-Bretonneux Somme | 0.3 | 8.8% | 0% | 69 km |
| 40 | Soullans Vendée | 0.2 | 5.9% | 51% | 11 km |
| 41 | Vayres Gironde | 0.2 | 2.2% | 11% | 24 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 Montbard
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois Communaux de Ravières leads, at 4,849 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Buffon
Park or garden
1.1 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Montbard
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Eboulis calcaires de la vallée de l’Armançon is the nearest protected area, 11 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
Eboulis calcaires de la vallée de l’Armançon
11 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
28 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Montbard
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
28 km
0.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.6 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
74%
about 34.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MontbardCôte-d'Or medianFrance median
Footpaths0.6
Hiking routes0.2
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MontbardCôte-d'Or medianFrance median
Woodland74%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 83% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 99% 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 Montbard is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Chamesson - Guillon18 km
Circuit de l'Abbaye11 km
Circuit d'Arlette7.7 km
Combe de l'étang2.6 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Montbard: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Montbard_Sapc, 0.6 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) | 8.8 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 72 | 63 | 65 | 68 | 79 | 65 | 70 | 58 | 70 | 81 | 81 | 82 |
August is the driest month (58 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 82 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 65 nights a year. The climate in Montbard →
Neighbors
Next to Montbard
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Venarey-les-LaumesSemur-en-AuxoisMontbard
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montbard | 0% | 74% | 0.6 |
| Venarey-les-Laumes 2,747 · 13 km | 2.2% | 18% | 1.5 |
| Semur-en-Auxois 3,986 · 15 km | 0% | 21% | 0.9 |
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 Montbard
Is Montbard in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Eboulis calcaires de la vallée de l’Armançon, 11 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Montbard?
OpenStreetMap maps 28 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Montbard is woodland?
74% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Montbard near the sea?
No: the coast is 344 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Montbard?
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.