First pick
Bois des Sources du Peugue
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
116 ha18.4 km of path
4 h 5 minto walk all 18.4 km of path
4.1 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Floska33 · CC BY-SA 4.058%woodland
Outdoors in Cestas · protected areas, woods and footpaths
58% of Cestas is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
No protected area reaches Cestas; the nearest, Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Park, is 8.9 km from the town center. 103 km of footpaths cross Cestas (1 km per km²). 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: Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Park, 8.9 km
Woodland
58%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
103 km
1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.2 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois des Sources du Peugue
The sea
28 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 Cestas?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune58% mapped woodland, more than in 95% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyLandes de Gascogne Regional Nature Park is 8.9 km from the town center.
What sets Cestas apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Cestas 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
46out of 100
Woodland58%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
95out of 100
Footpaths1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
33out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
24out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Cestas has the 9th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (16,065 to 17,274 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vauréal (12.3 km per km²) to Gaillac (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vauréal Val-d'Oise | 12.3 | 19% | 0% | 121 km |
| 2 | Viroflay Yvelines | 9.5 | 42% | 0% | 148 km |
| 3 | Saint-Leu-la-Forêt Val-d'Oise | 8.5 | 36% | 0.5% | 131 km |
| 4 | Marly-le-Roi Yvelines | 7.6 | 37% | 0% | 138 km |
| 5 | Bois-d'Arcy Yvelines | 7.4 | 38% | 0% | 140 km |
| 6 | Orsay Essonne | 7.3 | 27% | 0% | 157 km |
| 7 | Les Clayes-sous-Bois Yvelines | 6.3 | 35% | 0% | 137 km |
| 8 | Le Pré-Saint-Gervais Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.8 | 0% | 0% | 149 km |
| 9 | Verneuil-sur-Seine Yvelines | 5.4 | 24% | 0% | 123 km |
| 10 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire Indre-et-Loire | 5 | 9.4% | 1.9% | 184 km |
| 11 | Lons-le-Saunier Jura | 4.9 | 8.8% | 1.8% | 356 km |
| 12 | Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 4.7 | 12% | 11% | 45 km |
| 13 | Domont Val-d'Oise | 4.5 | 28% | 0% | 133 km |
| 14 | Landerneau Finistère | 4.4 | 18% | 1.2% | On it |
| 15 | Trélazé Maine-et-Loire | 3.9 | 13% | 0% | 122 km |
| 16 | Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle Loiret | 3.5 | 4.9% | 3% | 203 km |
| 17 | Mennecy Essonne | 3.3 | 19% | 8.2% | 180 km |
| 18 | Saint-Julien-en-Genevois Haute-Savoie | 3.2 | 13% | 0% | 286 km |
| 19 | Firminy Loire | 3 | 25% | 0% | 204 km |
| 20 | Sin-le-Noble Nord | 2.7 | 12% | 0.1% | 90 km |
| 21 | Rumilly Haute-Savoie | 2.3 | 18% | 0.7% | 262 km |
| 22 | Annonay Ardèche | 2.3 | 30% | 0.2% | 193 km |
| 23 | Coulommiers Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 16% | 0% | 183 km |
| 24 | Sedan Ardennes | 2 | 17% | 0% | 222 km |
| 25 | Montceau-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire | 1.8 | 6.6% | 0% | 347 km |
| 26 | La Baule-Escoublac Loire-Atlantique | 1.7 | 9.6% | 37% | 0.8 km |
| 27 | Valserhône Ain | 1.7 | 59% | 19% | 292 km |
| 28 | Blanquefort Gironde | 1.7 | 15% | 7.6% | 11 km |
| 29 | Guérande Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 7.1% | 76% | On it |
| 30 | Verdun Meuse | 1.4 | 21% | 3.6% | 290 km |
| 31 | Montbrison Loire | 1.3 | 5.7% | 4.8% | 227 km |
| 32 | Les Herbiers Vendée | 1.1 | 6.5% | 0% | 62 km |
| 33 | Cestas Gironde | 1 | 58% | 0% | 28 km |
| 34 | Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne Mayenne | 0.9 | 3.1% | 0% | 102 km |
| 35 | Châteaurenard Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 2.1% | 8.3% | 47 km |
| 36 | Mauguio Hérault | 0.8 | 1.4% | 49% | On it |
| 37 | Lamballe-Armor Côtes-d'Armor | 0.8 | 5% | 2% | On it |
| 38 | Pamiers Ariège | 0.6 | 16% | 1.1% | 118 km |
| 39 | Orée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 11% | 12% | 66 km |
| 40 | Loire-Authion Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 10% | 100% | 130 km |
| 41 | Gaillac Tarn | 0.2 | 4.9% | 0% | 132 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 Cestas
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois des Sources du Peugue leads, at 116 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de Monsalut
Park or garden
43 ha3.7 km of path
50 minto walk all 3.7 km of path
2.3 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 8.9 km away
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
8.9 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.
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
103 km of footpaths cross Cestas
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
103 km
1 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.2 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
58%
about 58.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CestasGironde medianFrance median
Footpaths1
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CestasGironde medianFrance median
Woodland58%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 67% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 95% 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 Cestas is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Cestas: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bordeaux-Merignac, 9.1 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 | 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 Cestas →
Neighbors
Next to Cestas
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
CanéjanPessacGradignanLéognanVillenave-d'OrnonTalenceCestas
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Villenave-d'Ornon has at least twice as much protected land.
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 Cestas
Is Cestas in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Park, 8.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Cestas?
OpenStreetMap maps 103 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Cestas is woodland?
58% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Cestas near the sea?
No: the coast is 28 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Cestas?
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 8, 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.