First pick
Parc de Cantefrêne
Park or garden
65 ha
1.4 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: No. 514 Squadron RAF · Public domain58%of the land protected
Outdoors in Ambès · protected areas, woods and footpaths
58% of Ambès’ land is protected for nature
2 km of footpaths cross Ambès (0.1 km per km²). 5.4% of Ambès is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
58%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
5.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
2.5 km
0.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
95%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
4.6 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Gironde 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 Ambès?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside58% of the land lies in protected areas.Near the seaThe coast is 4.6 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.1 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Ambès apart: its protected countryside, then the sea nearby. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Ambès 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 areas58%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
88out of 100
Woodland5.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
24out of 100
Footpaths0.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
1out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Green space nearby95%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
13out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Ambès has the fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,282 to 3,344 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Frépillon (4.3 km per km²) to Ambès (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frépillon Val-d'Oise | 4.3 | 19% | 0.2% | 126 km |
| 2 | Champ-sur-Drac Isère | 3.9 | 51% | 24% | 193 km |
| 3 | Bernin Isère | 3.7 | 28% | 14% | 207 km |
| 4 | Briis-sous-Forges Essonne | 3.5 | 22% | 0.1% | 157 km |
| 5 | Lavérune Hérault | 3.1 | 6.9% | 0% | 11 km |
| 6 | Saint-Maximin Oise | 3 | 54% | 88% | 120 km |
| 7 | Roscoff Finistère | 3 | 0% | 0.4% | On it |
| 8 | Houplin-Ancoisne Nord | 3 | 4.4% | 0% | 66 km |
| 9 | La Membrolle-sur-Choisille Indre-et-Loire | 2.2 | 19% | 0% | 184 km |
| 10 | Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon Loire-Atlantique | 2.2 | 18% | 31% | 29 km |
| 11 | Ceyzériat Ain | 2 | 41% | 0.6% | 305 km |
| 12 | Doubs Doubs | 2 | 37% | 0% | 361 km |
| 13 | Dieulefit Drôme | 2 | 66% | 0% | 120 km |
| 14 | Le Folgoët Finistère | 1.9 | 3.7% | 0% | 8.1 km |
| 15 | Vourles Rhône | 1.8 | 6.6% | 0% | 240 km |
| 16 | Merlimont Pas-de-Calais | 1.6 | 28% | 63% | On it |
| 17 | Mireval Hérault | 1.6 | 0.1% | 18% | 4.3 km |
| 18 | La Roche-Blanche Puy-de-Dôme | 1.5 | 12% | 7.8% | 249 km |
| 19 | Bernis Gard | 1.4 | 26% | 2.6% | 28 km |
| 20 | Rostrenen Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 18% | 0% | 45 km |
| 21 | Aigues-Vives Gard | 1.3 | 4.2% | 13% | 21 km |
| 22 | Bonifacio Corse-du-Sud | 1.1 | 11% | 18% | On it |
| 23 | Précy-sur-Oise Oise | 1 | 14% | 100% | 119 km |
| 24 | Carling Moselle | 0.9 | 11% | 0% | 351 km |
| 25 | Villelongue-de-la-Salanque Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.8 | 0.1% | 0% | 4.5 km |
| 26 | Montanay Rhône | 0.8 | 7.1% | 0% | 265 km |
| 27 | Wizernes Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 6.8% | 100% | 32 km |
| 28 | Rouans Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 5.5% | 30% | 18 km |
| 29 | Morhange Moselle | 0.5 | 7% | 0% | 367 km |
| 30 | Veuzain-sur-Loire Loir-et-Cher | 0.5 | 24% | 6.2% | 220 km |
| 31 | Sainte-Florine Haute-Loire | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 213 km |
| 32 | Chaumont-en-Vexin Oise | 0.5 | 18% | 0% | 93 km |
| 33 | Évry-Grégy-sur-Yerre Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 180 km |
| 34 | Malissard Drôme | 0.3 | 0.3% | 0% | 161 km |
| 35 | Palau-del-Vidre Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.2 | 1% | 2.8% | 7.1 km |
| 36 | Val-au-Perche Orne | 0.2 | 21% | 100% | 128 km |
| 37 | Airvault Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 13% | 18% | 95 km |
| 38 | Puiseaux Loiret | 0.2 | 2.6% | 1% | 207 km |
| 39 | Cérans-Foulletourte Sarthe | 0.2 | 34% | 0% | 139 km |
| 40 | Castillon-la-Bataille Gironde | 0.1 | 12% | 1.5% | 47 km |
| 41 | Ambès Gironde | 0.1 | 5.4% | 58% | 4.6 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 Ambès
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de Cantefrêne leads, at 65 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Citadelle de Bourg sur Gironde
Park or garden · 390 m outside the commune
1 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
4.1 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Place de la Révolution Française
Park or garden
0.3 ha
Centralin the middle of Ambès
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Ambès live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
95% within 800 m5.2% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
AmbèsGironde medianFrance median
Within 800 m95%
0%50%100%
About 200 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Ambès
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Médoc Regional Nature Park
2.4 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Marais du Bec d’Ambès
26% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
La Dordogne
22% of the commune0.4 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
La Garonne en Nouvelle-Aquitaine
10% of the commune2 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area58%
Natura 2000 site58%
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.
58% of Ambès’ land is protected, more than in 88% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Gironde has 7.7%. 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
2 km of footpaths cross Ambès
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
2.5 km
0.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
5.4%
about 1.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AmbèsGironde medianFrance median
Footpaths0.1
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AmbèsGironde medianFrance median
Woodland5.4%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 99% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 76% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Ambès: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St Gervais, 5 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) | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 24 | 20 | 14 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 84 | 61 | 61 | 67 | 64 | 64 | 45 | 52 | 63 | 76 | 99 | 92 |
July is the driest month (45 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 99 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 28 nights a year. The climate in Ambès →
Neighbors
Next to Ambès
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MacauLudon-MédocSaint-André-de-CubzacCubzac-les-PontsParempuyreAmbarès-et-LagraveAmbès
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambès | 58% | 5.4% | 0.1 | 4.6 km |
| Macau 4,576 · 7 km | 100% | 13% | 0.5 | On it |
| Ludon-Médoc 5,578 · 7.3 km | 100% | 5.6% | 0.2 | 3.7 km |
| Saint-André-de-Cubzac 12,626 · 7.4 km | 5.2% | 5.4% | 0.8 | 12 km |
| Cubzac-les-Ponts 2,693 · 7.6 km | 10% | 5.8% | 0.4 | 12 km |
| Parempuyre 10,672 · 8.7 km | 8.1% | 6.7% | 0.9 | 6.3 km |
| Ambarès-et-Lagrave 17,644 · 9 km | 35% | 4.8% | 0.4 | 11 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 Ambès
Is Ambès in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 58% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Ambès?
OpenStreetMap maps 2 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Ambès is woodland?
5.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Ambès near the sea?
No: the coast is 4.6 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Ambès?
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.