First pick
Forêt communale du Canton de Boutuges
Wood or forest
161 ha0.5 km of path
8 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Renhour48 · CC0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Avensan · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Avensan lies inside Médoc Regional Nature Park
100% of Avensan’s land lies in protected areas. 78% of Avensan is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 17 km across Avensan (0.3 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
78%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
17 km
0.3 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
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt communale du Canton de Boutuges
The sea
7.2 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 Avensan?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Médoc Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune78% mapped woodland, more than in 99% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Near the seaThe coast is 7.2 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.3 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Avensan apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Avensan 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
Woodland78%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
99out of 100
Footpaths0.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
7out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Avensan has the 9th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,117 to 3,163 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sérézin-du-Rhône (3.5 km per km²) to La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sérézin-du-Rhône Rhône | 3.5 | 20% | 0% | 237 km |
| 2 | Saint-Mammès Seine-et-Marne | 3.1 | 28% | 1.8% | 212 km |
| 3 | Spicheren Moselle | 3.1 | 39% | 0% | 362 km |
| 4 | Donville-les-Bains Manche | 3.1 | 2.8% | 0% | On it |
| 5 | Asnières-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 51% | 100% | 125 km |
| 6 | La Tranche-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.8 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Morainvilliers Yvelines | 2.4 | 32% | 0% | 127 km |
| 8 | Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 9 | Solaize Rhône | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 239 km |
| 10 | La Flotte Charente-Maritime | 2.2 | 37% | 1.2% | On it |
| 11 | Éloyes Vosges | 1.8 | 59% | 0% | 428 km |
| 12 | Gilly-sur-Isère Savoie | 1.6 | 13% | 0.1% | 228 km |
| 13 | Chorges Hautes-Alpes | 1.5 | 34% | 16% | 122 km |
| 14 | Besse-sur-Issole Var | 1.3 | 36% | 0.7% | 26 km |
| 15 | Moyenmoutier Vosges | 1.2 | 72% | 2.8% | 426 km |
| 16 | Champcevinel Dordogne | 1.1 | 51% | 0% | 106 km |
| 17 | Le Plan-de-la-Tour Var | 1.1 | 40% | 0% | 7.3 km |
| 18 | Saint-Georges-sur-Baulche Yonne | 1 | 31% | 0% | 296 km |
| 19 | Vémars Val-d'Oise | 0.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 20 | Arleux Nord | 0.9 | 7.5% | 0% | 99 km |
| 21 | Quarouble Nord | 0.9 | 19% | 100% | 106 km |
| 22 | Boussois Nord | 0.9 | 5.1% | 100% | 131 km |
| 23 | Saint-Thibéry Hérault | 0.8 | 6.2% | 0.2% | 12 km |
| 24 | Thézan-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.8 | 0.9% | 0% | 22 km |
| 25 | Échenoz-la-Méline Haute-Saône | 0.7 | 50% | 10% | 435 km |
| 26 | Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal Seine-Maritime | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 54 km |
| 27 | Le Molay-Littry Calvados | 0.5 | 10% | 0.1% | 14 km |
| 28 | Montfrin Gard | 0.5 | 3.1% | 14% | 47 km |
| 29 | Valensole Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.4 | 44% | 100% | 75 km |
| 30 | Gimont Gers | 0.4 | 6.2% | 0% | 184 km |
| 31 | Château-Landon Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 13% | 0.2% | 224 km |
| 32 | Saint-Hippolyte Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 0% | 68% | 6.1 km |
| 33 | Avensan Gironde | 0.3 | 78% | 100% | 7.2 km |
| 34 | Berlaimont Nord | 0.3 | 7.2% | 100% | 130 km |
| 35 | Longperrier Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 16% | 0% | 144 km |
| 36 | Maringues Puy-de-Dôme | 0.3 | 11% | 40% | 269 km |
| 37 | Merdrignac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 32% | 0% | 39 km |
| 38 | Lapalisse Allier | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 301 km |
| 39 | Médis Charente-Maritime | 0.2 | 9.4% | 0.6% | 5.1 km |
| 40 | Mauron Morbihan | 0.2 | 11% | 0% | 51 km |
| 41 | La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois Cher | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 321 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 Avensan
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt communale du Canton de Boutuges leads, at 161 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 Avensan
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
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Marais du Haut Médoc
2.9% of the commune1.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site2.9%
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 Avensan’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
17 km of footpaths cross Avensan
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
17 km
0.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
78%
about 41.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AvensanGironde medianFrance median
Footpaths0.3
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AvensanGironde medianFrance median
Woodland78%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 93% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 99% 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 Avensan 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
Étape 5 • Chemin d'Amadour4.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Avensan: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Salaunes, 12 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) | 11 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 24 | 20 | 14 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 104 | 81 | 72 | 78 | 75 | 72 | 48 | 59 | 79 | 90 | 127 | 123 |
July is the driest month (48 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 127 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. The climate in Avensan →
Neighbors
Next to Avensan
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Castelnau-de-MédocMargaux-CantenacListrac-MédocArsacMacauLe Pian-MédocAvensan
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avensan | 100% | 78% | 0.3 | 7.2 km |
| Castelnau-de-Médoc 4,907 · 3.4 km | 100% | 82% | 0.2 | 10 km |
| Margaux-Cantenac 2,845 · 5.8 km | 100% | 18% | 0.4 | On it |
| Listrac-Médoc 2,807 · 5.9 km | 100% | 72% | 0 | 8.3 km |
| Arsac 4,124 · 6.5 km | 100% | 59% | 0.9 | 6.4 km |
| Macau 4,576 · 11 km | 100% | 13% | 0.5 | On it |
| Le Pian-Médoc 7,292 · 12 km | 100% | 60% | 1.6 | 8.2 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 Avensan
Is Avensan in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Avensan lies in Médoc Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Avensan?
OpenStreetMap maps 17 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Avensan is woodland?
78% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Avensan near the sea?
No: the coast is 7.2 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Avensan?
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.