First pick
Verger des Écoliers
Park or garden
1.3 ha0.1 km of path
0.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jcb-caz-11 · CC BY-SA 4.010%woodland
Outdoors in Lectoure · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Lectoure is within 800 m of a park or wood
31 km of footpaths cross Lectoure (0.4 km per km²). No protected area reaches Lectoure; the nearest, Cavités et coteaux associés en Quercy-Gascogne (Natura 2000), is 16 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 10% of Lectoure. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Cavités et coteaux associés en Quercy-Gascogne, 16 km
Woodland
10%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
31 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
28 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Verger des Écoliers
Throughout this page, the Gers median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
Against French towns
How Lectoure 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%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland10%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
40out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
9out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
48out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Lectoure has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,644 to 3,697 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Étupes (3.5 km per km²) to Étrépagny (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Étupes Doubs | 3.5 | 54% | 0% | 417 km |
| 2 | Ligny-en-Barrois Meuse | 2.7 | 80% | 0% | 312 km |
| 3 | Dampmart Seine-et-Marne | 2.6 | 26% | 18% | 163 km |
| 4 | Saint-Erblon Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 58 km |
| 5 | Ézy-sur-Eure Eure | 2.3 | 42% | 8.3% | 100 km |
| 6 | Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey Alpes-Maritimes | 2.1 | 64% | 100% | 19 km |
| 7 | Templemars Nord | 2.1 | 0.6% | 0% | 68 km |
| 8 | Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 2 | 9.2% | 36% | 116 km |
| 9 | Fillinges Haute-Savoie | 2 | 45% | 3.2% | 280 km |
| 10 | Meurchin Pas-de-Calais | 1.9 | 7.8% | 0% | 70 km |
| 11 | Gallargues-le-Montueux Gard | 1.3 | 2% | 2% | 19 km |
| 12 | La Chapelle-Saint-Ursin Cher | 1.3 | 3.5% | 11% | 277 km |
| 13 | Breteil Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.3 | 1.4% | 0% | 39 km |
| 14 | La Rivière-de-Corps Aube | 1.3 | 4.3% | 0% | 271 km |
| 15 | Champagney Haute-Saône | 1.1 | 76% | 100% | 440 km |
| 16 | Moncé-en-Belin Sarthe | 1.1 | 34% | 0% | 141 km |
| 17 | Châteauneuf-du-Faou Finistère | 1 | 9.4% | 8% | 20 km |
| 18 | Martillac Gironde | 1 | 18% | 0% | 32 km |
| 19 | Arcangues Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 32% | 7.3% | 5.2 km |
| 20 | Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerch Finistère | 1 | 27% | 100% | On it |
| 21 | Estrées-Saint-Denis Oise | 1 | 2% | 0% | 109 km |
| 22 | Belleu Aisne | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 150 km |
| 23 | Morschwiller-le-Bas Haut-Rhin | 0.9 | 9.4% | 13% | 439 km |
| 24 | Penta-di-Casinca Haute-Corse | 0.9 | 40% | 0.2% | On it |
| 25 | Salindres Gard | 0.8 | 4.3% | 0% | 68 km |
| 26 | Pont-de-l'Isère Drôme | 0.7 | 2.2% | 0% | 173 km |
| 27 | Pleyben Finistère | 0.7 | 13% | 100% | 9.4 km |
| 28 | Créhange Moselle | 0.7 | 5.5% | 0% | 353 km |
| 29 | Saint-Philbert-de-Bouaine Vendée | 0.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 35 km |
| 30 | Champagné Sarthe | 0.7 | 40% | 3.5% | 142 km |
| 31 | Coulanges-lès-Nevers Nièvre | 0.6 | 7.8% | 5.1% | 338 km |
| 32 | Vouillé Vienne | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 107 km |
| 33 | Quincieux Rhône | 0.5 | 4.2% | 0% | 267 km |
| 34 | Lectoure Gers | 0.4 | 10% | 0% | 154 km |
| 35 | Neuvic Dordogne | 0.3 | 36% | 10% | 84 km |
| 36 | Estrablin Isère | 0.3 | 8.8% | 0% | 228 km |
| 37 | Garchizy Nièvre | 0.3 | 9% | 12% | 333 km |
| 38 | Montoire-sur-le-Loir Loir-et-Cher | 0.3 | 14% | 0.4% | 185 km |
| 39 | Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze Gard | 0.2 | 1.3% | 91% | 11 km |
| 40 | Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont Seine-Maritime | 0.2 | 14% | 2.4% | 9.8 km |
| 41 | Étrépagny Eure | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 78 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 Lectoure
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Verger des Écoliers leads, at 1.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Cavités et coteaux associés en Quercy-Gascogne is the nearest protected area, 16 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
Cavités et coteaux associés en Quercy-Gascogne
16 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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
31 km of footpaths and 28 km of hiking routes cross Lectoure
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
31 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
28 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
10%
about 8.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LectoureGers medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LectoureGers medianFrance median
Woodland10%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 91% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 60% 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 Lectoure is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Cœur de Gascogne29 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Lectoure: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Mauroux, 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) | 9.2 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 25 | 19 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 59 | 45 | 45 | 65 | 68 | 63 | 51 | 51 | 56 | 54 | 63 | 59 |
February is the driest month (45 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 68 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 23 nights a year. The climate in Lectoure →
Neighbors
Next to Lectoure
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
FleuranceCondomLayracBoéLe PassageValenceLectoure
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Layrac is more wooded.
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 Lectoure
Is Lectoure in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Cavités et coteaux associés en Quercy-Gascogne, 16 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Lectoure?
OpenStreetMap maps 31 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 28 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Lectoure is woodland?
10% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lectoure near the sea?
No: the coast is 154 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Lectoure?
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.