First pick
Bois de la Barbinière
Wood or forest · 180 m outside the commune
48 ha8 km of path
1 h 45 minto walk all 8 km of path
11 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: AirScott · CC BY-SA 4.06.8%woodland
Outdoors in Mauléon · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Mauléon is within 800 m of a park or wood
44 km of footpaths cross Mauléon (0.4 km per km²). No protected area reaches Mauléon; the nearest, Vallée de l’Argenton (Natura 2000), is 21 km from the town center. 6.8% of Mauléon is mapped woodland. 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 l’Argenton, 21 km
Woodland
6.8%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
44 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
10 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de la Barbinière
Throughout this page, the Deux-Sèvres 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 Mauléon 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
Woodland6.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
30out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
8out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
30out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Mauléon has the fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,479 to 8,667 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Plessis-Bouchard (5.8 km per km²) to Mauléon (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Plessis-Bouchard Val-d'Oise | 5.8 | 1.2% | 0% | 132 km |
| 2 | Crolles Isère | 4.6 | 26% | 19% | 207 km |
| 3 | La Salvetat-Saint-Gilles Haute-Garonne | 4.3 | 12% | 0% | 158 km |
| 4 | Rouvroy Pas-de-Calais | 3.3 | 5% | 0% | 81 km |
| 5 | Thorigné-Fouillard Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.1 | 10% | 3.1% | 48 km |
| 6 | Saint-Renan Finistère | 2.9 | 5% | 0% | 8 km |
| 7 | Marcoussis Essonne | 2.7 | 34% | 0% | 163 km |
| 8 | Vendin-le-Vieil Pas-de-Calais | 2.7 | 11% | 0% | 72 km |
| 9 | Varces-Allières-et-Risset Isère | 2.4 | 33% | 32% | 194 km |
| 10 | Sautron Loire-Atlantique | 2.3 | 16% | 0% | 34 km |
| 11 | Privas Ardèche | 2.1 | 32% | 1.6% | 136 km |
| 12 | Bormes-les-Mimosas Var | 2.1 | 38% | 8.3% | On it |
| 13 | Pont-l'Abbé Finistère | 1.9 | 13% | 2% | On it |
| 14 | Puget-sur-Argens Var | 1.9 | 9.8% | 54% | 6.5 km |
| 15 | Vif Isère | 1.8 | 48% | 7% | 189 km |
| 16 | Ergué-Gabéric Finistère | 1.8 | 21% | 0% | 6.3 km |
| 17 | Aulnoye-Aymeries Nord | 1.7 | 1.2% | 100% | 132 km |
| 18 | Lillebonne Seine-Maritime | 1.6 | 18% | 0% | 16 km |
| 19 | Le Grau-du-Roi Gard | 1.6 | 3.9% | 89% | On it |
| 20 | Uzès Gard | 1.6 | 6.9% | 0% | 57 km |
| 21 | Unieux Loire | 1.5 | 23% | 16% | 205 km |
| 22 | Peymeinade Alpes-Maritimes | 1.4 | 31% | 20% | 13 km |
| 23 | Crest Drôme | 1.2 | 25% | 0% | 142 km |
| 24 | Isbergues Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 47 km |
| 25 | Sérignan Hérault | 1.1 | 0.2% | 34% | On it |
| 26 | Éguilles Bouches-du-Rhône | 1 | 12% | 54% | 23 km |
| 27 | Saint-Jory Haute-Garonne | 0.9 | 6.1% | 6.4% | 159 km |
| 28 | Theix-Noyalo Morbihan | 0.9 | 11% | 98% | On it |
| 29 | Talmont-Saint-Hilaire Vendée | 0.6 | 6.9% | 8.5% | On it |
| 30 | Roussillon Isère | 0.6 | 12% | 0% | 209 km |
| 31 | Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.6 | 1.2% | 81% | On it |
| 32 | Châteauneuf-sur-Loire Loiret | 0.6 | 49% | 22% | 222 km |
| 33 | Le Loroux-Bottereau Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 6.4% | 8.8% | 53 km |
| 34 | Saint-Vallier Saône-et-Loire | 0.6 | 19% | 0% | 344 km |
| 35 | Souleuvre en Bocage Calvados | 0.6 | 10% | 21% | 45 km |
| 36 | Janzé Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 2.9% | 0% | 70 km |
| 37 | Thaon-les-Vosges Vosges | 0.6 | 41% | 0% | 406 km |
| 38 | Domérat Allier | 0.5 | 8.5% | 0% | 275 km |
| 39 | Chantonnay Vendée | 0.5 | 12% | 0% | 42 km |
| 40 | Le Poiré-sur-Vie Vendée | 0.4 | 4.9% | 0% | 32 km |
| 41 | Mauléon Deux-Sèvres | 0.4 | 6.8% | 0% | 76 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 Mauléon
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de la Barbinière leads, at 48 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de la Blandinière
Wood or forest
74 ha0.1 km of path
2.4 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Mignauderie
Park or garden
1.7 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
2.1 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vallée de l’Argenton is the nearest protected area, 21 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 l’Argenton
21 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
44 km of footpaths and 10 km of hiking routes cross Mauléon
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
44 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
10 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
6.8%
about 8.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MauléonDeux-Sèvres medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MauléonDeux-Sèvres medianFrance median
Woodland6.8%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 92% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 70% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 98% of Mauléon’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Boucle du Bocage12 km
Au pays de La Rochejaquelein8.5 km
Lac du Verdon6.9 km
Sur les pas des géants1.1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Mauléon: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Nueil-Les-Aubiers, 13 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) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 89 | 66 | 60 | 61 | 65 | 47 | 50 | 47 | 60 | 88 | 86 | 94 |
June is the driest month (47 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 94 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Mauléon →
Neighbors
Next to Mauléon
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MaulévrierLa TessoualleSaint-Laurent-sur-SèvreLes EpessesNueil-les-AubiersSèvremontMauléon
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauléon | 0% | 6.8% | 0.4 |
| Maulévrier 3,172 · 8.2 km | 0% | 2.9% | 0.9 |
| La Tessoualle 3,167 · 9.9 km | 0% | 1.6% | 1 |
| Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre 3,550 · 10 km | 0% | 6.1% | 2 |
| Les Epesses 2,983 · 12 km | 0% | 6.6% | 1.7 |
| Nueil-les-Aubiers 5,483 · 13 km | 0% | 4.2% | 0.2 |
| Sèvremont 6,385 · 14 km | 0% | 5.3% | 0.3 |
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 Mauléon
Is Mauléon in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée de l’Argenton, 21 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Mauléon?
OpenStreetMap maps 44 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 10 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Mauléon is woodland?
6.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Mauléon near the sea?
No: the coast is 76 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Mauléon?
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.