First pick
Bois Communal de Toulenne
Park or garden · 160 m outside the commune
6.7 ha2.2 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.2 km of path
1.6 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Michel L. Vosges · CC03.9%of the land protected
Outdoors in Langon · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Langon
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 12 km in Langon. Footpaths add up to 13 km across Langon (1 km per km²). 3.9% of Langon’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
3.9%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
12%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
13 km
1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
12 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
87%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
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 Langon 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 areas3.9%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
63out of 100
Woodland12%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
46out of 100
Footpaths1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
31out of 100
Hiking routes0.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
79out of 100
Green space nearby87%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
6out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Langon has the 16th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,566 to 7,780 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Chessy (11.5 km per km²) to Lys-Haut-Layon (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chessy Seine-et-Marne | 11.5 | 14% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Émerainville Seine-et-Marne | 9 | 43% | 0% | 165 km |
| 3 | Saint-Prix Val-d'Oise | 8.4 | 64% | 0.5% | 132 km |
| 4 | Gérardmer Vosges | 6.3 | 70% | 100% | 445 km |
| 5 | Noisy-le-Roi Yvelines | 4.9 | 20% | 0% | 139 km |
| 6 | Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse Yvelines | 4.2 | 48% | 100% | 149 km |
| 7 | Sausset-les-Pins Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.2 | 5.8% | 51% | On it |
| 8 | Thann Haut-Rhin | 3.8 | 75% | 100% | 448 km |
| 9 | Lesneven Finistère | 3.4 | 4% | 0% | 6.8 km |
| 10 | Saint-Péray Ardèche | 3 | 27% | 11% | 165 km |
| 11 | Falaise Calvados | 2.8 | 4% | 0% | 43 km |
| 12 | Bidart Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.4 | 19% | 7.8% | On it |
| 13 | Villars Loire | 2.3 | 0.1% | 0% | 213 km |
| 14 | Wavrin Nord | 2 | 6.6% | 0% | 64 km |
| 15 | Bourg-Saint-Andéol Ardèche | 2 | 56% | 6.1% | 101 km |
| 16 | Saint-Marcellin Isère | 1.9 | 4.3% | 0% | 192 km |
| 17 | Cranves-Sales Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 28% | 5% | 284 km |
| 18 | Saint-Maixent-l'École Deux-Sèvres | 1.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 72 km |
| 19 | La Couronne Charente | 1.7 | 29% | 21% | 70 km |
| 20 | Tullins Isère | 1.6 | 27% | 0% | 211 km |
| 21 | Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc Gironde | 1.3 | 70% | 0% | 15 km |
| 22 | Saint-Denis-en-Val Loiret | 1.3 | 8.5% | 14% | 209 km |
| 23 | Mimizan Landes | 1.3 | 75% | 8.2% | On it |
| 24 | L'Aigle Orne | 1.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 78 km |
| 25 | Les Andelys Eure | 1.1 | 22% | 6.1% | 79 km |
| 26 | Langon Gironde | 1 | 12% | 3.9% | 58 km |
| 27 | Beynes Yvelines | 0.9 | 31% | 0% | 128 km |
| 28 | Nieppe Nord | 0.9 | 1.1% | 0% | 48 km |
| 29 | Parentis-en-Born Landes | 0.8 | 69% | 13% | 16 km |
| 30 | Biguglia Haute-Corse | 0.8 | 2.9% | 21% | On it |
| 31 | Hettange-Grande Moselle | 0.8 | 28% | 0.4% | 304 km |
| 32 | Pluvigner Morbihan | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 33 | Auxonne Côte-d'Or | 0.7 | 42% | 8.8% | 413 km |
| 34 | Bain-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 5% | 0% | 65 km |
| 35 | Déols Indre | 0.6 | 4.6% | 6.9% | 225 km |
| 36 | Machecoul-Saint-Même Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 12% | 27% | 13 km |
| 37 | Les Avenières Veyrins-Thuellin Isère | 0.4 | 22% | 11% | 249 km |
| 38 | Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 4.4% | 36% | 29 km |
| 39 | Loireauxence Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 8.3% | 10% | 84 km |
| 40 | Hasparren Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.3 | 22% | 7.5% | 22 km |
| 41 | Lys-Haut-Layon Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 6.8% | 0% | 105 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 Langon
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois Communal de Toulenne leads, at 6.7 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc des Vergers
Park or garden
5.9 ha1.7 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.7 km of path
1.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois de Blanche Neige
Wood or forest
8.6 ha2.3 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.3 km of path
0.8 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin de la Gravière
Park or garden
0.5 ha
1.4 km north-eastfrom the center
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 Langon 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).
87% within 800 m13% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
LangonGironde medianFrance median
Within 800 m87%
0%50%100%
About 1,000 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
3.9% of Langon lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Réseau hydrographique du Brion
2.8% of the commune0.4 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
La Garonne en Nouvelle-Aquitaine
1.1% of the commune1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area3.9%
Natura 2000 site3.9%
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.
3.9% of Langon’s land is protected, more than in 63% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Gironde has 7.7%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
13 km of footpaths and 12 km of hiking routes cross Langon
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
13 km
1 km per km²
Hiking routes
12 km
waymarked: 0.9 km per km²
Woodland
12%
about 1.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LangonGironde medianFrance median
Footpaths1
Hiking routes0.9
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LangonGironde medianFrance median
Woodland12%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 69% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 54% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
17 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Les Contrastes : circuit départemental15 km
De Ville en Vignes13 km
Via Sancti Martini - Camino de Zaragoza / Chemin de Saragosse12 km
La Feuille et le Grain : boucle locale8.1 km
Des Bords de Garonne : circuit départemental6.2 km
Les Arrius : circuit départemental4.8 km
Les Gabares : circuit départemental4 km
Les Palus : boucle locale3.3 km
Les Pescayres : boucle locale2.6 km
Les Bariattes : boucle locale2.5 km
Alternate for Circuit départemental Les Contrastes2 km
Les Hounts : boucle locale1.8 km
+5 more
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Langon: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Sauternes, 6 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 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 24 | 20 | 14 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 80 | 59 | 60 | 80 | 75 | 67 | 51 | 65 | 65 | 72 | 98 | 88 |
July is the driest month (51 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 98 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 30 nights a year. The climate in Langon →
Neighbors
Next to Langon
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ToulenneCadillac-sur-GaronneBazasPodensacLa RéolePortetsLangon
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Bazas and Portets 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 Langon
Is Langon in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 3.9% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Langon?
OpenStreetMap maps 13 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 12 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Langon is woodland?
12% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Langon near the sea?
No: the coast is 58 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Langon?
May 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.