First pick
Les Fieux
Wood or forest · 10 m outside the commune
453 ha4.9 km of path
1 h 5 minto walk all 4.9 km of path
3.9 km eastfrom the center
Chemin des Pinsougnes
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Père Igor · CC BY-SA 3.051%woodland
Outdoors in Champcevinel · protected areas, woods and footpaths
51% of Champcevinel is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 24 km in Champcevinel. Footpaths add up to 20 km across Champcevinel (1.1 km per km²). No protected area reaches Champcevinel; the nearest, Vallée de l’Isle de Périgueux à sa confluence avec la Dordogne (Natura 2000), is 10 km from the town center. 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’Isle de Périgueux à sa confluence avec la Dordogne, 10 km
Woodland
51%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
20 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
24 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: Les Fieux
Throughout this page, the Dordogne 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 Champcevinel?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune51% mapped woodland, more than in 92% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes24 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyVallée de l’Isle de Périgueux à sa confluence avec la Dordogne (Natura 2000) is 10 km from the town center.
What sets Champcevinel apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Champcevinel 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
Woodland51%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
92out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
35out of 100
Hiking routes1.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
89out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Champcevinel has the 21st fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,103 to 3,151 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Étiolles (3.7 km per km²) to La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Étiolles Essonne | 3.7 | 72% | 0% | 175 km |
| 2 | Sérézin-du-Rhône Rhône | 3.5 | 20% | 0% | 237 km |
| 3 | Spicheren Moselle | 3.1 | 39% | 0% | 362 km |
| 4 | Donville-les-Bains Manche | 3.1 | 2.8% | 0% | On it |
| 5 | Asnières-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 51% | 100% | 125 km |
| 6 | La Tranche-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.8 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Morainvilliers Yvelines | 2.4 | 32% | 0% | 127 km |
| 8 | Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 9 | Solaize Rhône | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 239 km |
| 10 | La Flotte Charente-Maritime | 2.2 | 37% | 1.2% | On it |
| 11 | Béthisy-Saint-Pierre Oise | 2.1 | 37% | 21% | 127 km |
| 12 | La Sentinelle Nord | 1.9 | 3.3% | 0.5% | 104 km |
| 13 | Le Touvet Isère | 1.9 | 48% | 58% | 212 km |
| 14 | Éloyes Vosges | 1.8 | 59% | 0% | 428 km |
| 15 | Gilly-sur-Isère Savoie | 1.6 | 13% | 0.1% | 228 km |
| 16 | Chorges Hautes-Alpes | 1.5 | 34% | 16% | 122 km |
| 17 | Arbois Jura | 1.4 | 51% | 12% | 373 km |
| 18 | Plancoët Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 13% | 100% | 3.9 km |
| 19 | Besse-sur-Issole Var | 1.3 | 36% | 0.7% | 26 km |
| 20 | Moyenmoutier Vosges | 1.2 | 72% | 2.8% | 426 km |
| 21 | Champcevinel Dordogne | 1.1 | 51% | 0% | 106 km |
| 22 | Le Plan-de-la-Tour Var | 1.1 | 40% | 0% | 7.3 km |
| 23 | Appoigny Yonne | 1 | 46% | 2.7% | 289 km |
| 24 | Vémars Val-d'Oise | 0.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 25 | Arleux Nord | 0.9 | 7.5% | 0% | 99 km |
| 26 | Quarouble Nord | 0.9 | 19% | 100% | 106 km |
| 27 | Boussois Nord | 0.9 | 5.1% | 100% | 131 km |
| 28 | Saint-Thibéry Hérault | 0.8 | 6.2% | 0.2% | 12 km |
| 29 | Thézan-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.8 | 0.9% | 0% | 22 km |
| 30 | Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal Seine-Maritime | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 54 km |
| 31 | Le Molay-Littry Calvados | 0.5 | 10% | 0.1% | 14 km |
| 32 | Montfrin Gard | 0.5 | 3.1% | 14% | 47 km |
| 33 | Valensole Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.4 | 44% | 100% | 75 km |
| 34 | Gimont Gers | 0.4 | 6.2% | 0% | 184 km |
| 35 | Château-Landon Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 13% | 0.2% | 224 km |
| 36 | Saint-Hippolyte Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 0% | 68% | 6.1 km |
| 37 | Maringues Puy-de-Dôme | 0.3 | 11% | 40% | 269 km |
| 38 | Merdrignac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 32% | 0% | 39 km |
| 39 | Lapalisse Allier | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 301 km |
| 40 | Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure Charente | 0.1 | 23% | 0% | 103 km |
| 41 | La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois Cher | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 321 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 Champcevinel
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Les Fieux leads, at 453 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Square du 19 Mars 1962
Park or garden · 70 m outside the commune
0.5 ha0.1 km of path
1.9 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’Isle de Périgueux à sa confluence avec la Dordogne is the nearest protected area, 10 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’Isle de Périgueux à sa confluence avec la Dordogne
10 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
20 km of footpaths and 24 km of hiking routes cross Champcevinel
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
20 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
24 km
waymarked: 1.3 km per km²
Woodland
51%
about 9.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ChampcevinelDordogne medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes1.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ChampcevinelDordogne medianFrance median
Woodland51%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 65% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 92% 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 Champcevinel is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Boucle de Chantecoucou13 km
Voie de Vézelay, Châlus - Bergerac11 km
De la Manche aux Pyrénées 16, Champcevinel - Les Eyzies-de-Taillac10 km
Liaison Champcevinel Agonac3.7 km
De la Manche aux Pyrénées 15, Puymoyen - Champcevinel3.3 km
Boucle de l'Abbaye0.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Champcevinel: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St Martin Rib., 28 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 | 9.4 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 23 | 19 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 89 | 69 | 68 | 88 | 78 | 68 | 58 | 62 | 75 | 72 | 91 | 99 |
July is the driest month (58 mm) and the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 99 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 35 nights a year. The climate in Champcevinel →
Neighbors
Next to Champcevinel
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PérigueuxTrélissacCoulounieix-ChamiersChanceladeBoulazac Isle ManoireMarsac-sur-l'IsleChampcevinel
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champcevinel | 0% | 51% | 1.1 |
| Périgueux 29,055 · 3.1 km | 0% | 10% | 3.1 |
| Trélissac 7,372 · 3.4 km | 0% | 43% | 0.9 |
| Coulounieix-Chamiers 7,832 · 5.2 km | 0% | 33% | 0.7 |
| Chancelade 4,468 · 5.8 km | 0% | 48% | 0.7 |
| Boulazac Isle Manoire 10,759 · 6.3 km | 0% | 48% | 0.7 |
| Marsac-sur-l'Isle 3,187 · 7.4 km | 0% | 33% | 1.2 |
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 Champcevinel
Is Champcevinel in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée de l’Isle de Périgueux à sa confluence avec la Dordogne, 10 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Champcevinel?
OpenStreetMap maps 20 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 24 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Champcevinel is woodland?
51% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Champcevinel near the sea?
No: the coast is 106 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Champcevinel?
May 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.