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65%of the land protected
Outdoors in Pont-Audemer · protected areas, woods and footpaths

Pont-Audemer lies inside Boucles de la Seine Normande Regional Nature Park

Protected areas cover 65% of Pont-Audemer’s land. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 16 km in Pont-Audemer. Mapped woodland covers 20% of Pont-Audemer. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.

Protected areas
65%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
20%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
27 km
1.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
16 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: Jardin municipaux de Pont-Audemer
The sea
15 km
from the town center to the coast

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 Pont-Audemer?

Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.

What sets Pont-Audemer apart: the regional nature park around it, then its hiking routes.

Against French towns

How Pont-Audemer 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 areas65%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
NoneMedian 0.1%100
89out of 100
Woodland20%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
Median 13%0100
63out of 100
Footpaths1.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
Median 1.7 km per km²08+
54out of 100
Hiking routes1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
NoneMedian 0.3 km per km²3+
84out of 100

Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.

Towns its size

Pont-Audemer has the 18th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size

The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (9,858 to 10,195 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.

Pont-Audemer 1.8
MaxévilleSaint-Loubès
036 km per km²

From Maxéville (5.5 km per km²) to Saint-Loubès (0.2 km per km²).

Every town in the comparison
TownPaths (km/km²)WoodlandProtectedCoast
1Maxéville Meurthe-et-Moselle5.524%0%363 km
2Saint-Max Meurthe-et-Moselle5.14.9%0.3%366 km
3Villerupt Meurthe-et-Moselle4.230%0%288 km
4Saint-Grégoire Ille-et-Vilaine4.25%0%44 km
5Courrières Pas-de-Calais4.111%0%76 km
6Méry-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise3.635%0%124 km
7Grigny-sur-Rhône Rhône3.516%0%234 km
8Soyaux Charente3.335%9%78 km
9Voreppe Isère3.342%35%213 km
10Auchel Pas-de-Calais3.18.6%0%55 km
11Neuville-en-Ferrain Nord2.45.6%0%54 km
12Pierrelaye Val-d'Oise2.420%0%126 km
13Ézanville Val-d'Oise2.20.7%0%134 km
14Foix Ariège2.228%21%117 km
15Fillière Haute-Savoie2.149%20%266 km
16Parthenay Deux-Sèvres23.8%0.1%78 km
17Avranches Manche1.91.5%0%2.5 km
18Pont-Audemer Eure1.820%65%15 km
19Jeumont Nord1.825%0.1%133 km
20Ingré Loiret1.811%0%200 km
21Le Muy Var1.735%46%16 km
22Saint-Pierre-du-Mont Landes1.558%3.4%69 km
23Léguevin Haute-Garonne1.514%0%161 km
24Saint-Lys Haute-Garonne1.59.5%0%162 km
25Aniche Nord1.46.8%0.1%98 km
26Lambesc Bouches-du-Rhône1.332%65%33 km
27Saint-Amand-Montrond Cher1.310%6.4%282 km
28Apt Vaucluse1.229%100%58 km
29Chambly Oise1.25.4%0.1%117 km
30Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque Pyrénées-Orientales1.20.1%45%3.8 km
31Mazamet Tarn1.277%0.1%74 km
32Ploërmel Morbihan1.115%0%39 km
33La Farlède Var1.18.7%15%7.4 km
34Couzeix Haute-Vienne1.121%0%163 km
35Douchy-les-Mines Nord111%0%106 km
36Bourg-de-Péage Drôme0.90.4%0%176 km
37Lançon-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône0.72.7%80%23 km
38Loudéac Côtes-d'Armor0.714%0%35 km
39Lillers Pas-de-Calais0.57.8%0%53 km
40Carmaux Tarn0.43.3%0%127 km
41Saint-Loubès Gironde0.24%28%16 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.

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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 Pont-Audemer

Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin municipaux de Pont-Audemer leads, at 0.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.

First pick

Jardin municipaux de Pont-Audemer

Park or garden
0.9 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Pont-Audemer
Directionsto a point inside

Parc du Vivier

Park or garden
0.8 ha0.4 km of path
1 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.

Protected areas

Protected land in and around Pont-Audemer

The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.

Regional nature park

Boucles de la Seine Normande Regional Nature Park

65% of the commune
Natura 2000 site

Risle, Guiel, Charentonne

6.6% of the commune0.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site

Marais Vernier, Risle Maritime

0.6 km from the town center

Share of the commune’s land

Any protected area65%
Regional nature park65%
Natura 2000 site7.1%

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.

65% of Pont-Audemer’s land is protected, more than in 89% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Eure has 0.3%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.

Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.

Footpaths and woods

27 km of footpaths and 16 km of hiking routes cross Pont-Audemer

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
27 km
1.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
16 km
waymarked: 1 km per km²
Woodland
20%
about 3 km² of mapped woods

Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap

Pont-AudemerEure medianFrance median
Footpaths1.8
Hiking routes1
01.53 km per km²

Share of the land · mapped woods and forest

Pont-AudemerEure medianFrance median
Woodland20%
0%50%100%

That is more than in 54% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 63% 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 Pont-Audemer is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.

4 named hiking routes within 2 km

Other named walk
De Brionne à Pont-Audemer17 km
De Brionne à Pont-Audemer, variante rive droite14 km
De Trouville à Pont-Audemer8.3 km
De Pont-Audemer à Berville-sur-mer2.8 km

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).

When to get out

The best walking months in Pont-Audemer: April to September

Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Jumieges, 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)8.610.111.713.715.316.215.914.412.510.79.08.2
High (°C)9101317202325252217129
Rain (mm)7765615663576668638182105

April is the driest month (56 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 105 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 37 nights a year. The climate in Pont-Audemer →

Neighbors

Next to Pont-Audemer

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.

BeuzevillePort-Jérôme-sur-SeineLillebonneLa Rivière-Saint-SauveurHonfleurBourg-AchardPont-Audemer
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
TownProtectedWoodlandPaths (km/km²)Coast
Pont-Audemer65%20%1.815 km
Beuzeville
4,704 · 13 km
0%2.8%0.410 km
Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine
10,617 · 17 km
23%11%1.617 km
Lillebonne
8,541 · 19 km
0%18%1.616 km
La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur
2,527 · 19 km
29%14%1.8On it
Honfleur
6,640 · 21 km
4.7%9.2%3.2On it
Bourg-Achard
4,026 · 22 km
0%5.5%0.734 km
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 Pont-Audemer

Is Pont-Audemer in a national or regional nature park?

Yes: Pont-Audemer lies in Boucles de la Seine Normande Regional Nature Park (65% of the commune).

Are there good walks in Pont-Audemer?

OpenStreetMap maps 27 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 16 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.

How much of Pont-Audemer is woodland?

20% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.

Is Pont-Audemer near the sea?

No: the coast is 15 km from the town center, as the crow flies.

When is the best time for walking in Pont-Audemer?

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 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.