Photo: Henk Monster · CC BY 3.053% of Le Bugue is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 20 km across Le Bugue (0.7 km per km²). Protected areas cover 5.1% of Le Bugue’s land. Le Bugue has 9 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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 outdoors place is Le Bugue?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Le Bugue apart: its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Le Bugue 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Le Bugue has the 15th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,631 to 2,693 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Guilvinec (6.2 km per km²) to Richebourg (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guilvinec Finistère | 6.2 | 0.8% | 2.7% | On it |
| 2 | Étrembières Haute-Savoie | 4.1 | 32% | 22% | 284 km |
| 3 | Gassin Var | 3.5 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 4 | La Richardais Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.4 | 9.9% | 100% | On it |
| 5 | Morzine Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 33% | 36% | 274 km |
| 6 | Roissy-en-France Val-d'Oise | 2.1 | 4.3% | 0% | 144 km |
| 7 | Dorlisheim Bas-Rhin | 2.1 | 12% | 0% | 442 km |
| 8 | Les Vans Ardèche | 1.8 | 46% | 78% | 94 km |
| 9 | Coquelles Pas-de-Calais | 1.8 | 1.7% | 0.7% | 2.8 km |
| 10 | Vinassan Aude | 1.7 | 20% | 65% | 9.2 km |
| 11 | Souchez Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 9% | 0% | 75 km |
| 12 | Piriac-sur-Mer Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0.8% | On it |
| 13 | Râches Nord | 1.5 | 25% | 99% | 86 km |
| 14 | Saint-Yorre Allier | 1.4 | 23% | 15% | 283 km |
| 15 | Auboué Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.2 | 21% | 0% | 311 km |
| 16 | Cauffry Oise | 1.2 | 17% | 0% | 110 km |
| 17 | Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais Eure-et-Loir | 1.2 | 57% | 62% | 115 km |
| 18 | Verlinghem Nord | 1.1 | 6.3% | 0% | 55 km |
| 19 | Taden Côtes-d'Armor | 1.1 | 19% | 100% | 3.6 km |
| 20 | Villaines-la-Juhel Mayenne | 1 | 0.4% | 0% | 85 km |
| 21 | Masnières Nord | 1 | 4% | 0% | 109 km |
| 22 | Montréjeau Haute-Garonne | 0.9 | 5.7% | 2.6% | 175 km |
| 23 | Fourques Gard | 0.9 | 1.7% | 4.6% | 28 km |
| 24 | Marpent Nord | 0.7 | 15% | 0% | 133 km |
| 25 | Calenzana Haute-Corse | 0.7 | 12% | 100% | On it |
| 26 | Torcy Saône-et-Loire | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 359 km |
| 27 | Le Bugue Dordogne | 0.7 | 53% | 5.1% | 120 km |
| 28 | Brienne-le-Château Aube | 0.6 | 40% | 100% | 287 km |
| 29 | Soual Tarn | 0.6 | 1.4% | 0% | 95 km |
| 30 | Carignan Ardennes | 0.6 | 4% | 27% | 237 km |
| 31 | Rieux-Volvestre Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 6.6% | 7% | 154 km |
| 32 | Toury Eure-et-Loir | 0.5 | 0.8% | 0% | 180 km |
| 33 | Montayral Lot-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 10% | 8.3% | 137 km |
| 34 | Cubzac-les-Ponts Gironde | 0.4 | 5.8% | 10% | 12 km |
| 35 | Cadillac-sur-Garonne Gironde | 0.3 | 7.2% | 5.4% | 47 km |
| 36 | Noyers-sur-Cher Loir-et-Cher | 0.3 | 34% | 0.6% | 221 km |
| 37 | Criquetot-l'Esneval Seine-Maritime | 0.3 | 1.2% | 0% | 8.3 km |
| 38 | Villefranche-sur-Cher Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 60% | 45% | 247 km |
| 39 | Ailly-sur-Noye Somme | 0.2 | 22% | 0% | 68 km |
| 40 | Essômes-sur-Marne Aisne | 0.2 | 31% | 0% | 176 km |
| 41 | Richebourg Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.9% | 0% | 57 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
5.1% of Le Bugue lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
La Vézère
Coteaux calcaires de la vallée de la Vézère
Share of the commune’s land
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.
5.1% of Le Bugue’s land is protected, more than in 65% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Dordogne has 1.7%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
20 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Le Bugue
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 80% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 93% 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 Le Bugue is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
12 named hiking routes within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Le Bugue: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Belves, 15 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 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 27 | 23 | 19 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 80 | 63 | 67 | 88 | 84 | 72 | 56 | 63 | 67 | 76 | 88 | 85 |
July is the driest month (56 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 88 mm of rain falls in April, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 33 nights a year. The climate in Le Bugue →
Next to Le Bugue
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Bugue | 5.1% | 53% | 0.7 |
| Lalinde 2,931 · 17 km | 2.8% | 44% | 0.4 |
| Sarlat-la-Canéda 8,763 · 23 km | 10% | 42% | 0.3 |
| Montignac-Lascaux 2,762 · 25 km | 1.6% | 52% | 0.5 |
| Sanilhac 4,757 · 28 km | 0% | 56% | 0.1 |
Sarlat-la-Canéda has at least twice as much protected land.
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 Le Bugue
Is Le Bugue in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 5.1% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Le Bugue?
OpenStreetMap maps 20 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Le Bugue is woodland?
53% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Bugue near the sea?
No: the coast is 120 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Le Bugue?
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 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.