Photo: Père Igor · CC BY-SA 3.0Almost every home in Saint-Astier is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 33% of Saint-Astier. Footpaths add up to 37 km across Saint-Astier (1 km per km²). Protected areas cover 8% of Saint-Astier’s land. 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.
How Saint-Astier 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.
Saint-Astier has the 14th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,322 to 5,433 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Cormelles-le-Royal (7.2 km per km²) to Plessé (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cormelles-le-Royal Calvados | 7.2 | 2.2% | 0% | 15 km |
| 2 | Heillecourt Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.1 | 1.5% | 0% | 369 km |
| 3 | Mériel Val-d'Oise | 6 | 41% | 9.5% | 124 km |
| 4 | Marsannay-la-Côte Côte-d'Or | 6 | 47% | 49% | 405 km |
| 5 | Marles-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.6 | 3.7% | 0% | 57 km |
| 6 | Mundolsheim Bas-Rhin | 3.5 | 6.5% | 0% | 445 km |
| 7 | Le Cendre Puy-de-Dôme | 3.4 | 3.3% | 1.8% | 249 km |
| 8 | Levens Alpes-Maritimes | 3 | 64% | 12% | 17 km |
| 9 | Charbonnières-les-Bains Rhône | 2.8 | 16% | 0% | 252 km |
| 10 | La Balme-de-Sillingy Haute-Savoie | 2.6 | 41% | 0% | 269 km |
| 11 | Bretignolles-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.5 | 9.6% | 23% | On it |
| 12 | Peyrolles-en-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 63% | 69% | 38 km |
| 13 | Dechy Nord | 2.3 | 13% | 0% | 92 km |
| 14 | Plouhinec Morbihan | 2 | 24% | 32% | On it |
| 15 | Calonne-Ricouart Pas-de-Calais | 1.8 | 1.5% | 0% | 56 km |
| 16 | Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours Seine-et-Marne | 1.8 | 45% | 29% | 214 km |
| 17 | Wervicq-Sud Nord | 1.8 | 3% | 0% | 48 km |
| 18 | Rousset Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 7.1% | 7.7% | 27 km |
| 19 | Erquinghem-Lys Nord | 1.7 | 2.6% | 0% | 51 km |
| 20 | Cruseilles Haute-Savoie | 1.6 | 40% | 21% | 273 km |
| 21 | Idron Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.6 | 15% | 4.1% | 100 km |
| 22 | Flers-en-Escrebieux Nord | 1.5 | 12% | 1% | 85 km |
| 23 | Gray Haute-Saône | 1.4 | 47% | 28% | 418 km |
| 24 | Bordères-sur-l'Échez Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.4 | 22% | 0% | 128 km |
| 25 | Commercy Meuse | 1.3 | 64% | 5.6% | 324 km |
| 26 | Vic-le-Comte Puy-de-Dôme | 1.2 | 19% | 100% | 241 km |
| 27 | Lacroix-Saint-Ouen Oise | 1.2 | 73% | 76% | 121 km |
| 28 | Saint-Astier Dordogne | 1 | 33% | 8% | 89 km |
| 29 | Aiffres Deux-Sèvres | 1 | 3.4% | 14% | 54 km |
| 30 | Trèbes Aude | 1 | 9.6% | 0% | 54 km |
| 31 | Le Lion-d'Angers Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 5.4% | 0.8% | 115 km |
| 32 | Drusenheim Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 29% | 17% | 449 km |
| 33 | Chagny Saône-et-Loire | 0.8 | 38% | 0.8% | 376 km |
| 34 | Bléré Indre-et-Loire | 0.6 | 11% | 8.4% | 197 km |
| 35 | Mouguerre Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.5 | 40% | 7.9% | 11 km |
| 36 | Reichshoffen Bas-Rhin | 0.5 | 27% | 100% | 420 km |
| 37 | Garons Gard | 0.5 | 0.1% | 0% | 35 km |
| 38 | Parigné-l'Évêque Sarthe | 0.5 | 49% | 19% | 149 km |
| 39 | Ploumagoar Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 20% | 0% | 19 km |
| 40 | Reyrieux Ain | 0.4 | 11% | 2.2% | 270 km |
| 41 | Plessé Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 15% | 0.9% | 35 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
8% of Saint-Astier lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Vallée de l’Isle de Périgueux à sa confluence avec la Dordogne
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.
8% of Saint-Astier’s land is protected, more than in 69% 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.
37 km of footpaths and 10 km of hiking routes cross Saint-Astier
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 67% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 80% 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 Saint-Astier is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
18 named hiking routes within 2 km
+6 more
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Saint-Astier: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St Martin Rib., 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 | 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 Saint-Astier →
Next to Saint-Astier
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Astier | 8% | 33% | 1 |
| Neuvic 3,687 · 7.2 km | 10% | 36% | 0.3 |
| Marsac-sur-l'Isle 3,187 · 11 km | 0% | 33% | 1.2 |
| Chancelade 4,468 · 12 km | 0% | 48% | 0.7 |
| Coulounieix-Chamiers 7,832 · 13 km | 0% | 33% | 0.7 |
| Périgueux 29,055 · 16 km | 0% | 10% | 3.1 |
| Sanilhac 4,757 · 17 km | 0% | 56% | 0.1 |
Sanilhac is more wooded.
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 Saint-Astier
Is Saint-Astier in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 8% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Saint-Astier?
OpenStreetMap maps 37 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 10 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saint-Astier is woodland?
33% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Astier near the sea?
No: the coast is 89 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saint-Astier?
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.