First pick
Parcours santé de Lanton
Park or garden · 290 m outside the commune
17 ha0.9 km of path
15 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
2.7 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Philippe Billé · CC BY-SA 4.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Audenge · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Audenge lies inside Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Park
100% of Audenge’s land lies in protected areas. Mapped woodland covers 72% of Audenge. Footpaths add up to 32 km across Audenge (0.4 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
72%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
32 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parcours santé de Lanton
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 2.4 km from its center
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 Audenge?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune72% mapped woodland, more than in 98% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 2.4 km from its center.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Audenge apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Audenge 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
97out of 100
Woodland72%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
98out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
9out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
35out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Audenge has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (9,426 to 9,768 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bures-sur-Yvette (8.5 km per km²) to Tonneins (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bures-sur-Yvette Essonne | 8.5 | 26% | 0.2% | 155 km |
| 2 | Ville-la-Grand Haute-Savoie | 6 | 14% | 0% | 287 km |
| 3 | Crosne Essonne | 5.8 | 12% | 0% | 167 km |
| 4 | Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 4.4 | 10% | 0.1% | 123 km |
| 5 | Darnétal Seine-Maritime | 4.2 | 37% | 0% | 53 km |
| 6 | Redon Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.8 | 10% | 32% | 28 km |
| 7 | Aytré Charente-Maritime | 3.7 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 8 | Saint-Jean-le-Blanc Loiret | 3.6 | 4.8% | 11% | 207 km |
| 9 | Lesquin Nord | 3.5 | 4.8% | 0% | 68 km |
| 10 | Vernouillet Yvelines | 3.5 | 19% | 0% | 124 km |
| 11 | Séné Morbihan | 3.3 | 10% | 90% | On it |
| 12 | Arques Pas-de-Calais | 3.3 | 37% | 76% | 31 km |
| 13 | Montigny-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 7.7% | 0% | 78 km |
| 14 | Grand-Couronne Seine-Maritime | 2.9 | 42% | 0.2% | 48 km |
| 15 | Quincy-sous-Sénart Essonne | 2.8 | 57% | 0% | 174 km |
| 16 | Landivisiau Finistère | 2.8 | 12% | 0.8% | 14 km |
| 17 | Leers Nord | 2.6 | 1.6% | 0% | 64 km |
| 18 | Aucamville Haute-Garonne | 2.5 | 2.3% | 0% | 151 km |
| 19 | Basse-Goulaine Loire-Atlantique | 2.5 | 14% | 14% | 44 km |
| 20 | Savenay Loire-Atlantique | 2.3 | 14% | 7.7% | 20 km |
| 21 | Bondues Nord | 2.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 56 km |
| 22 | Clermont-l'Hérault Hérault | 2 | 22% | 46% | 32 km |
| 23 | Pérols Hérault | 1.9 | 0.6% | 37% | 2.2 km |
| 24 | Lescar Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.6 | 6.6% | 20% | 89 km |
| 25 | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.4 | 23% | 100% | 37 km |
| 26 | Nort-sur-Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 9% | 6.6% | 53 km |
| 27 | Aire-sur-la-Lys Pas-de-Calais | 1.2 | 2.8% | 0% | 43 km |
| 28 | Bernay Eure | 0.9 | 15% | 4.7% | 42 km |
| 29 | Elne Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.8 | 0.2% | 3% | On it |
| 30 | Albert Somme | 0.8 | 1.1% | 0% | 72 km |
| 31 | L'Isle-Jourdain Gers | 0.7 | 7% | 0% | 173 km |
| 32 | Saint-Doulchard Cher | 0.7 | 8.8% | 7.2% | 282 km |
| 33 | Revel Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 4.3% | 0% | 99 km |
| 34 | Vallet Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 7.8% | 0% | 56 km |
| 35 | Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe Tarn | 0.6 | 6.1% | 1.1% | 138 km |
| 36 | Saint-Jean-d'Illac Gironde | 0.5 | 79% | 0.5% | 23 km |
| 37 | Mézidon Vallée d'Auge Calvados | 0.5 | 8.1% | 0% | 24 km |
| 38 | Audenge Gironde | 0.4 | 72% | 100% | On it |
| 39 | Petit-Caux Seine-Maritime | 0.3 | 4.6% | 1.1% | On it |
| 40 | Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire Nièvre | 0.3 | 24% | 3.8% | 295 km |
| 41 | Tonneins Lot-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 2.8% | 3.5% | 99 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 Audenge
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parcours santé de Lanton leads, at 17 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Audenge
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Bassin d’Arcachon et banc d’Arguin
6.5% of the commune1.6 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Bassin d’Arcachon et Cap Ferret
6.5% of the commune1.6 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site6.5%
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.
100% of Audenge’s land is protected, more than in 97% 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
32 km of footpaths and 14 km of hiking routes cross Audenge
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
32 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
72%
about 58.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AudengeGironde medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AudengeGironde medianFrance median
Woodland72%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 91% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 98% 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 Audenge 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
SLR Longarisse - Bayonne21 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Audenge: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cazaux, 20 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 | 14.8 | 15.6 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 11 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 27 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 99 | 74 | 67 | 73 | 63 | 66 | 44 | 61 | 76 | 88 | 128 | 109 |
July is the driest month (44 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 128 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 35 nights a year. The climate in Audenge →
Neighbors
Next to Audenge
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
LantonBiganosLe TeichGujan-MestrasAndernos-les-BainsMiosAudenge
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audenge | 100% | 72% | 0.4 | On it |
| Lanton 7,337 · 4.7 km | 100% | 83% | 0.2 | On it |
| Biganos 11,431 · 5.3 km | 100% | 71% | 1.1 | On it |
| Le Teich 9,180 · 7.1 km | 100% | 81% | 0.6 | On it |
| Gujan-Mestras 22,153 · 8.9 km | 0.3% | 48% | 1.4 | On it |
| Andernos-les-Bains 12,710 · 9.4 km | 3.4% | 46% | 2.6 | On it |
| Mios 12,043 · 10 km | 100% | 81% | 0.8 | 9.9 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 Audenge
Is Audenge in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Audenge lies in Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Audenge?
OpenStreetMap maps 32 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); 14 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Audenge is woodland?
72% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Audenge near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 2.4 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Audenge?
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.