First pick
Bois du Défend
Wood or forest
4,597 ha57.1 km of path
12 h 40 minto walk all 57.1 km of path
11 km south-westfrom the center
Route Forestière d'IncarvilleChemin des PestiférésChemin des Fontenelles
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Theoliane 13:36, 13 August 2007 (UTC) · Public domain55%woodland
Outdoors in Louviers · protected areas, woods and footpaths
55% of Louviers is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
75 km of footpaths cross Louviers (2.8 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 17 km in Louviers. No protected area reaches Louviers; the nearest, Vallée de l’Eure (Natura 2000), is 1.8 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.1%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Vallée de l’Eure, 1.8 km
Woodland
55%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
75 km
2.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
8
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois du Défend
Throughout this page, the Eure 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 Louviers?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune55% mapped woodland, more than in 94% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyVallée de l’Eure (Natura 2000) is 1.8 km from the town center.
What sets Louviers apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Louviers 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 areas0.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
50out of 100
Woodland55%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
94out of 100
Footpaths2.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
70out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
68out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Louviers has the 16th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (17,944 to 19,471 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Meylan (9.2 km per km²) to Mauges-sur-Loire (0.5 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meylan Isère | 9.2 | 18% | 12% | 205 km |
| 2 | Villefontaine Isère | 9.1 | 21% | 1.7% | 241 km |
| 3 | Juvisy-sur-Orge Essonne | 6.4 | 1.3% | 0% | 166 km |
| 4 | Moulins Allier | 6.1 | 3.3% | 11% | 338 km |
| 5 | Saint-Égrève Isère | 5.8 | 22% | 30% | 208 km |
| 6 | Bonneuil-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 3.6% | 0% | 163 km |
| 7 | Chennevières-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5.4 | 6.2% | 0% | 163 km |
| 8 | Floirac Gironde | 5.1 | 16% | 2.6% | 19 km |
| 9 | Bischheim Bas-Rhin | 5.1 | 3.6% | 0.6% | 449 km |
| 10 | Faches-Thumesnil Nord | 4.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 66 km |
| 11 | Éragny-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 4.1 | 15% | 0% | 124 km |
| 12 | Cesson-Sévigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.9 | 5.2% | 0% | 50 km |
| 13 | Moissy-Cramayel Seine-et-Marne | 3.9 | 4.7% | 0% | 180 km |
| 14 | Écully Rhône | 3.8 | 14% | 0% | 253 km |
| 15 | Bry-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 3.6 | 7% | 0% | 158 km |
| 16 | Cognac Charente | 3.5 | 13% | 17% | 43 km |
| 17 | Hendaye Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.4 | 8% | 26% | On it |
| 18 | Ploemeur Morbihan | 3.3 | 15% | 4.9% | On it |
| 19 | Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Vosges | 3.2 | 58% | 1.9% | 436 km |
| 20 | Osny Val-d'Oise | 3.2 | 14% | 0.1% | 119 km |
| 21 | Hem Nord | 3 | 5.1% | 0% | 64 km |
| 22 | Le Puy-en-Velay Haute-Loire | 2.9 | 12% | 0% | 165 km |
| 23 | Saint-Lô Manche | 2.9 | 5% | 0% | 26 km |
| 24 | Le Pontet Vaucluse | 2.9 | 2.8% | 3.4% | 56 km |
| 25 | Royan Charente-Maritime | 2.8 | 8.7% | 12% | On it |
| 26 | Louviers Eure | 2.8 | 55% | 0.1% | 64 km |
| 27 | Soisy-sous-Montmorency Val-d'Oise | 2.6 | 5% | 0% | 135 km |
| 28 | Digne-les-Bains Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 2.5 | 50% | 4% | 85 km |
| 29 | Pontarlier Doubs | 2.4 | 48% | 0% | 359 km |
| 30 | Saint-Fons Rhône | 2.3 | 4.1% | 0% | 246 km |
| 31 | Sanary-sur-Mer Var | 2.2 | 16% | 0% | On it |
| 32 | Vitré Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 33 | Lunéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.1 | 9% | 0.1% | 389 km |
| 34 | Châteauneuf-les-Martigues Bouches-du-Rhône | 2 | 17% | 27% | 6 km |
| 35 | Sorgues Vaucluse | 1.7 | 9.7% | 22% | 62 km |
| 36 | Bagnols-sur-Cèze Gard | 1.6 | 27% | 8.2% | 79 km |
| 37 | Brie-Comte-Robert Seine-et-Marne | 1.3 | 4.7% | 0% | 176 km |
| 38 | Riom Puy-de-Dôme | 1.1 | 2.4% | 1.3% | 269 km |
| 39 | Pornic Loire-Atlantique | 1 | 4.4% | 0% | On it |
| 40 | Romorantin-Lanthenay Loir-et-Cher | 0.8 | 30% | 100% | 249 km |
| 41 | Mauges-sur-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 4.7% | 11% | 88 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 Louviers
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois du Défend leads, at 4,597 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Forêt domaniale de Bord-Louviers
Wood or forest
1,860 ha50 km of path
11 h 5 minto walk all 50 km of path
5 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois du Defend
Wood or forest
58 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
1.9 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Stade Carrington
Park or garden
5 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
1.1 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin public Aristide Briand
Park or garden
1.1 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
Centralin the middle of Louviers
Directionsto a point inside
Jardins de Bigards
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Louviers
Jardins de Bigards
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Villa Calderón
Park or garden
0.9 ha
Centralin the middle of Louviers
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vallée de l’Eure is the nearest protected area, 1.8 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’Eure
1.8 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.1%
Natura 2000 site0.1%
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
75 km of footpaths and 17 km of hiking routes cross Louviers
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
75 km
2.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
55%
about 14.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LouviersEure medianFrance median
Footpaths2.8
Hiking routes0.6
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LouviersEure medianFrance median
Woodland55%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 70% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 94% 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 Louviers is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Evreux - Poses16 km
De Pacy-sur-Eure à Louviers (rive gauche)5.9 km
De Louviers à Pacy-sur-Eure (rive droite)5.8 km
De Pont de l'Arche à Louviers4.9 km
Au fil de la Seine, variante Saint-Pierre-du-Vauvray4.7 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Louviers: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Rouen - Jardin, 24 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) | 8.6 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 76 | 64 | 58 | 53 | 67 | 57 | 62 | 69 | 58 | 76 | 76 | 104 |
April is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 104 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 33 nights a year. The climate in Louviers →
Neighbors
Next to Louviers
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Le VaudreuilVal-de-ReuilPont-de-l'ArcheSaint-Pierre-lès-ElbeufPîtresLe Val d'HazeyLouviers
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louviers | 0.1% | 55% | 2.8 |
| Le Vaudreuil 3,624 · 5.9 km | 6.2% | 43% | 3.9 |
| Val-de-Reuil 13,245 · 7.1 km | 24% | 16% | 3.1 |
| Pont-de-l'Arche 4,133 · 10 km | 1.4% | 72% | 1.2 |
| Saint-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf 8,306 · 11 km | 1.3% | 5.4% | 1.5 |
| Pîtres 2,589 · 13 km | 0.2% | 47% | 0.9 |
| Le Val d'Hazey 5,111 · 13 km | 0.3% | 32% | 2.6 |
Val-de-Reuil has at least twice as much protected land.
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 Louviers
Is Louviers in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée de l’Eure, 1.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Louviers?
OpenStreetMap maps 75 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 17 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Louviers is woodland?
55% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Louviers near the sea?
No: the coast is 64 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Louviers?
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 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.