Photo: A.BourgeoisP · CC BY-SA 4.059% of Mandeure is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Mandeure has 14 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 45 km across Mandeure (3 km per km²). 11% of Mandeure’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Doubs 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 Mandeure?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Mandeure apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
How Mandeure 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.
Mandeure has the 5th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,570 to 4,654 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 | Bizanos Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.8 | 12% | 9.4% | 98 km |
| 3 | Ars-sur-Moselle Moselle | 3.7 | 59% | 100% | 327 km |
| 4 | La Tour-de-Salvagny Rhône | 3.3 | 28% | 0% | 255 km |
| 5 | Mandeure Doubs | 3 | 59% | 11% | 410 km |
| 6 | Évin-Malmaison Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 19% | 0% | 80 km |
| 7 | Guesnain Nord | 2.3 | 3% | 0% | 93 km |
| 8 | Auchy-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 2.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 66 km |
| 9 | Annay Pas-de-Calais | 2.1 | 5.8% | 0% | 73 km |
| 10 | Angres Pas-de-Calais | 2.1 | 14% | 0% | 75 km |
| 11 | Auberchicourt Nord | 1.9 | 2% | 0.3% | 97 km |
| 12 | Plouha Côtes-d'Armor | 1.9 | 15% | 0.1% | On it |
| 13 | Saint-Leu-d'Esserent Oise | 1.8 | 22% | 0.3% | 119 km |
| 14 | Trouville-sur-Mer Calvados | 1.8 | 7.9% | 0.5% | On it |
| 15 | Grimaud Var | 1.7 | 41% | 4.5% | On it |
| 16 | La Fouillouse Loire | 1.3 | 26% | 0% | 217 km |
| 17 | Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu Rhône | 1.2 | 14% | 0% | 243 km |
| 18 | Espalion Aveyron | 1.2 | 30% | 3.6% | 144 km |
| 19 | Jargeau Loiret | 1 | 7.3% | 20% | 218 km |
| 20 | Montville Seine-Maritime | 1 | 39% | 0% | 41 km |
| 21 | Bouloc Haute-Garonne | 1 | 22% | 0% | 158 km |
| 22 | Véretz Indre-et-Loire | 1 | 13% | 0% | 188 km |
| 23 | Salaise-sur-Sanne Isère | 0.9 | 13% | 9.2% | 207 km |
| 24 | Bas-en-Basset Haute-Loire | 0.9 | 54% | 97% | 194 km |
| 25 | Puget-Ville Var | 0.9 | 23% | 19% | 20 km |
| 26 | Dieulouard Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.8 | 24% | 100% | 348 km |
| 27 | Lescure-d'Albigeois Tarn | 0.6 | 16% | 0% | 119 km |
| 28 | Montbard Côte-d'Or | 0.6 | 74% | 0% | 344 km |
| 29 | Macau Gironde | 0.5 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 30 | Hagetmau Landes | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 68 km |
| 31 | Pluméliau-Bieuzy Morbihan | 0.4 | 16% | 0% | 26 km |
| 32 | Dompierre-sur-Yon Vendée | 0.4 | 8.7% | 0% | 39 km |
| 33 | Sézanne Marne | 0.4 | 22% | 1.7% | 220 km |
| 34 | Arnas Rhône | 0.4 | 8.7% | 2.2% | 277 km |
| 35 | Saint-Méen-le-Grand Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 36 km |
| 36 | Hœrdt Bas-Rhin | 0.4 | 3% | 0% | 444 km |
| 37 | Tiercé Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 12% | 16% | 131 km |
| 38 | Villers-Bretonneux Somme | 0.3 | 8.8% | 0% | 69 km |
| 39 | Cabannes Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.3 | 1.5% | 14% | 46 km |
| 40 | Soullans Vendée | 0.2 | 5.9% | 51% | 11 km |
| 41 | Vayres Gironde | 0.2 | 2.2% | 11% | 24 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
11% of Mandeure lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Côte de Champvermol
Côte de Champvermol
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.
11% of Mandeure’s land is protected, more than in 73% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Doubs has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
45 km of footpaths and 14 km of hiking routes cross Mandeure
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 more than in 73% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 95% 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 Mandeure is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Mandeure: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Joncherey, 16 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 | 15.9 | 15.6 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.2 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 83 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 102 | 93 | 84 | 98 | 83 | 101 | 98 | 109 |
February is the driest month (78 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 109 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 95 nights a year. The climate in Mandeure →
Next to Mandeure
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mandeure | 11% | 59% | 3 |
| Valentigney 10,501 · 2.2 km | 0% | 36% | 3.8 |
| Seloncourt 5,854 · 3.5 km | 0% | 36% | 2.8 |
| Audincourt 14,071 · 4.1 km | 0% | 36% | 5.3 |
| Voujeaucourt 3,174 · 4.7 km | 0% | 44% | 2.5 |
| Hérimoncourt 3,508 · 5.1 km | 0% | 57% | 2.5 |
| Exincourt 3,277 · 5.7 km | 0% | 4% | 3.3 |
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 Mandeure
Is Mandeure in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 11% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Mandeure?
OpenStreetMap maps 45 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 14 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Mandeure is woodland?
59% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Mandeure near the sea?
No: the coast is 410 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Mandeure?
April and June 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 4, 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.