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7.6%of the land protected

Outdoors in Blanquefort · protected areas, woods and footpaths

Almost every home in Blanquefort is within 800 m of a park or wood

7.6% of Blanquefort’s land lies in protected areas. Blanquefort has 15 km of waymarked hiking routes. 57 km of footpaths cross Blanquefort (1.7 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.

7.6%protected 15%woodland 57km of footpaths 11 kmto the coast

Protected areas

7.6%

of the commune’s land

Compared town: 0.1%

Woodland

15%

of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap

Compared town: 13%

Footpaths

57 km

1.7 km per km²

Compared town: 1.7 km per km²

Hiking routes

15 km

waymarked, GR and others

Compared town: 0.3 km per km²

Parks & woods

named, in or within 400 m of the commune

First: Parc de Tanaïs

The sea

11 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.

Against French towns

How Blanquefort 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 areas7.6%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site

69out of 100

Woodland15%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap

52out of 100

Footpaths1.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune

50out of 100

Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune

57out of 100

Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.

Towns its size

Blanquefort has the 13th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size

The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (16,584 to 17,854 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.

Blanquefort 1.7

Jouy-le-MoutierMarmande

05.511 km per km²

From Jouy-le-Moutier (10.3 km per km²) to Marmande (0.3 km per km²).

Every town in the comparison

	Town	Paths (km/km²)	Woodland	Protected	Coast
1	Jouy-le-Moutier Val-d'Oise	10.3	23%	0%	123 km
2	Viroflay Yvelines	9.5	42%	0%	148 km
3	Marly-le-Roi Yvelines	7.6	37%	0%	138 km
4	Bois-d'Arcy Yvelines	7.4	38%	0%	140 km
5	Les Clayes-sous-Bois Yvelines	6.3	35%	0%	137 km
6	Le Pré-Saint-Gervais Seine-Saint-Denis	5.8	0%	0%	149 km
7	L'Isle-d'Abeau Isère	5.2	9.8%	0%	242 km
8	Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire Indre-et-Loire	5	9.4%	1.9%	184 km
9	Villeneuve-Loubet Alpes-Maritimes	5	30%	16%	On it
10	Lons-le-Saunier Jura	4.9	8.8%	1.8%	356 km
11	Boissy-Saint-Léger Val-de-Marne	4.4	50%	0%	166 km
12	Balma Haute-Garonne	4.2	6.4%	0%	142 km
13	Chamalières Puy-de-Dôme	4.1	3.4%	0.1%	258 km
14	Saran Loiret	3.9	24%	0%	200 km
15	Garches Hauts-de-Seine	3.7	2.5%	0%	144 km
16	Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle Loiret	3.5	4.9%	3%	203 km
17	Avion Pas-de-Calais	3.4	13%	0%	77 km
18	Firminy Loire	3	25%	0%	204 km
19	Cluses Haute-Savoie	2.8	33%	0%	264 km
20	Yutz Moselle	2.6	18%	0%	310 km
21	Annonay Ardèche	2.3	30%	0.2%	193 km
22	Fécamp Seine-Maritime	2.2	25%	2.9%	On it
23	Lattes Hérault	2.2	0.8%	22%	5.5 km
24	Sedan Ardennes	2	17%	0%	222 km
25	Sallanches Haute-Savoie	2	32%	35%	250 km
26	Montceau-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire	1.8	6.6%	0%	347 km
27	La Baule-Escoublac Loire-Atlantique	1.7	9.6%	37%	0.8 km
28	Valserhône Ain	1.7	59%	19%	292 km
29	Blanquefort Gironde	1.7	15%	7.6%	11 km
30	Guérande Loire-Atlantique	1.5	7.1%	76%	On it
31	Verdun Meuse	1.4	21%	3.6%	290 km
32	Cestas Gironde	1	58%	0%	28 km
33	Brignoles Var	0.9	48%	17%	34 km
34	Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne Mayenne	0.9	3.1%	0%	102 km
35	Lamballe-Armor Côtes-d'Armor	0.8	5%	2%	On it
36	Vire Normandie Calvados	0.6	3.9%	0%	41 km
37	Orée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire	0.5	11%	12%	66 km
38	Segré-en-Anjou Bleu Maine-et-Loire	0.5	4.6%	0%	108 km
39	Loire-Authion Maine-et-Loire	0.4	10%	100%	130 km
40	Ambarès-et-Lagrave Gironde	0.4	4.8%	35%	11 km
41	Marmande Lot-et-Garonne	0.3	11%	4%	82 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.

Park or garden

2.9 ha0.4 km of path

1.4 km south-westfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

Parc de Muratel

Park or garden

1.8 ha0.7 km of path

10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path

1 km southfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

Club de tir à l'arc Indian’s Arc

Park or garden

2.7 ha

1.8 km north-westfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

Parc de Corbeil

Park or garden

1 ha0.4 km of path

1.2 km southfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

All 13 named parks, gardens and woods

Parc de TanaïsPark or garden · 40 ha · 4.5 km of path

Directions

Parc de MajolanPark or garden · 19 ha · 4.5 km of path

Directions

Bois d'ArboudeauPark or garden · 14 ha · 4.8 km of path

Directions

Parc de FongraveyPark or garden · 15 ha · 2.9 km of path

Directions

Parc de DulamonPark or garden · 2.9 ha · 0.4 km of path

Directions

Parc de MuratelPark or garden · 1.8 ha · 0.7 km of path

Directions

Club de tir à l'arc Indian’s ArcPark or garden · 2.7 ha

Directions

Parc de CorbeilPark or garden · 1 ha · 0.4 km of path

Directions

Parc de CarpinetPark or garden · 0.8 ha · 0.5 km of path

Directions

Parc du MaurianPark or garden · 1.6 ha

Directions

Parc de CureganPark or garden · 0.9 ha · 0.3 km of path

Directions

Parc CambonPark or garden · 1.2 ha

Directions

Manège à chevauxPark or garden · 0.3 ha · 0.2 km of path

Directions

2.3 km from the town center

Natura 2000 site

Marais de Bruges

2.4 km from the town center

Share of the commune’s land

Any protected area7.6%

Natura 2000 site7.6%

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.

7.6% of Blanquefort’s land is protected, more than in 69% 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

57 km of footpaths and 15 km of hiking routes cross Blanquefort

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

57 km

1.7 km per km²

Hiking routes

15 km

waymarked: 0.4 km per km²

Woodland

15%

about 4.9 km² of mapped woods

Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap

BlanquefortGironde medianFrance median

Footpaths1.7

Hiking routes0.4

012 km per km²

Share of the land · mapped woods and forest

BlanquefortGironde medianFrance median

Woodland15%

0%50%100%

That is less than in 50% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 52% 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 Blanquefort is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.

2 named hiking routes within 2 km

Other named walk

Via Sancti Martini - Camino de Zaragoza / Chemin de Saragosse15 km

Étape 6 • Chemin d'Amadour14 km

When to get out

The best walking months in Blanquefort: April to September

Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bordeaux-Merignac, 11 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	28	24	20	14	11
Rain (mm)	87	67	63	76	71	70	49	57	81	83	115	106

July is the driest month (49 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 115 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 23 nights a year. The climate in Blanquefort →

Neighbors

Next to Blanquefort

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

Le Taillan-MédocParempuyreLe Pian-MédocEysinesBrugesLe HaillanBlanquefort

Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+

Town	Protected	Woodland	Paths (km/km²)	Coast
Blanquefort	7.6%	15%	1.7	11 km
Le Taillan-Médoc 11,073 · 3.8 km	13%	34%	2.3	13 km
Parempuyre 10,672 · 4.4 km	8.1%	6.7%	0.9	6.3 km
Le Pian-Médoc 7,292 · 4.6 km	100%	60%	1.6	8.2 km
Eysines 24,825 · 4.6 km	3.1%	7.6%	3.9	15 km
Bruges 20,020 · 5 km	23%	9.3%	3.7	14 km
Le Haillan 11,392 · 5.8 km	3.4%	18%	3.2	16 km

Le Pian-Médoc and Bruges have at least twice as much protected land. Le Taillan-Médoc and Le Pian-Médoc are 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 Blanquefort

Is Blanquefort in a national or regional nature park?

No, but 7.6% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.

Are there good walks in Blanquefort?

OpenStreetMap maps 57 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 15 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.

How much of Blanquefort is woodland?

15% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.

Is Blanquefort near the sea?

No: the coast is 11 km from the town center, as the crow flies.

When is the best time for walking in Blanquefort?

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.