First pick
Parc de l'Épinette
Park or garden
2.6 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Libourne
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Marcel Roblin · CC BY-SA 4.014%of the land protected
Outdoors in Libourne · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Libourne is within 800 m of a park or wood
2.5% of Libourne is mapped woodland. Protected areas cover 14% of Libourne’s land. 42 km of footpaths cross Libourne (2 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
14%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
2.5%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
42 km
2 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
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc de l'Épinette
The sea
30 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 Libourne 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 areas14%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
75out of 100
Woodland2.5%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
12out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
58out 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
Libourne has the 13th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (23,840 to 26,241 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Les Ulis (10.9 km per km²) to Sainte-Suzanne (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Les Ulis Essonne | 10.9 | 13% | 0.2% | 156 km |
| 2 | Villeneuve-la-Garenne Hauts-de-Seine | 9.8 | 4.2% | 0% | 141 km |
| 3 | Vichy Allier | 8.8 | 1.3% | 12% | 290 km |
| 4 | Les Lilas Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.6 | 4.4% | 0% | 150 km |
| 5 | Fontenay-aux-Roses Hauts-de-Seine | 6.1 | 1.8% | 0% | 153 km |
| 6 | Rodez Aveyron | 5.9 | 5.5% | 0% | 136 km |
| 7 | Le Kremlin-Bicêtre Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 154 km |
| 8 | Brunoy Essonne | 5.2 | 18% | 0% | 170 km |
| 9 | Eaubonne Val-d'Oise | 5 | 1.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 10 | Montbéliard Doubs | 4.9 | 22% | 0% | 418 km |
| 11 | Alençon Orne | 4.8 | 2.3% | 5.5% | 97 km |
| 12 | Marseille 2e Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.8 | 0% | 0% | On it |
| 13 | Lormont Gironde | 4.7 | 12% | 7.4% | 16 km |
| 14 | Montgeron Essonne | 4.6 | 46% | 0% | 168 km |
| 15 | Castelnau-le-Lez Hérault | 4.6 | 4.5% | 1.2% | 11 km |
| 16 | Miramas Bouches-du-Rhône | 4 | 9.2% | 5.7% | 18 km |
| 17 | Béthune Pas-de-Calais | 4 | 4% | 0% | 60 km |
| 18 | Orly Val-de-Marne | 3.9 | 5% | 0% | 162 km |
| 19 | Eysines Gironde | 3.9 | 7.6% | 3.1% | 15 km |
| 20 | Hénin-Beaumont Pas-de-Calais | 3.8 | 5.6% | 0% | 80 km |
| 21 | Biarritz Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.5 | 11% | 3.5% | On it |
| 22 | Le Grand-Quevilly Seine-Maritime | 3.4 | 4.9% | 0.1% | 50 km |
| 23 | Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône Val-d'Oise | 3.2 | 7.4% | 0% | 123 km |
| 24 | Vertou Loire-Atlantique | 3.1 | 19% | 0% | 41 km |
| 25 | Le Bouscat Gironde | 3 | 1.4% | 0% | 16 km |
| 26 | Aurillac Cantal | 2.7 | 2.9% | 0.2% | 195 km |
| 27 | Vernon Eure | 2.5 | 56% | 3.5% | 90 km |
| 28 | Dole Jura | 2.5 | 36% | 37% | 400 km |
| 29 | Libourne Gironde | 2 | 2.5% | 14% | 30 km |
| 30 | Saintes Charente-Maritime | 1.9 | 12% | 9.3% | 26 km |
| 31 | Les Pavillons-sous-Bois Seine-Saint-Denis | 1.9 | 0% | 0% | 151 km |
| 32 | Frontignan Hérault | 1.8 | 0.9% | 29% | On it |
| 33 | Saumur Maine-et-Loire | 1.5 | 15% | 100% | 133 km |
| 34 | Muret Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 10% | 3.2% | 150 km |
| 35 | Couëron Loire-Atlantique | 1.3 | 6.6% | 33% | 28 km |
| 36 | Cavaillon Vaucluse | 1.1 | 3.2% | 100% | 45 km |
| 37 | Laon Aisne | 1.1 | 16% | 0% | 156 km |
| 38 | Vierzon Cher | 0.8 | 44% | 0% | 265 km |
| 39 | Sèvremoine Maine-et-Loire | 0.6 | 5.3% | 0% | 70 km |
| 40 | Beaupréau-en-Mauges Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 5.1% | 0% | 78 km |
| 41 | Sainte-Suzanne Réunion | 0.4 | 31% | 49% | On it |
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 Libourne
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de l'Épinette leads, at 2.6 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Square du 15e Dragon
Park or garden
1 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
0.7 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin du Poilu
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Libourne
Jardin du Poilu
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin Henriette de Kermartin
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Libourne
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
14% of Libourne 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
Vallée de l’Isle de Périgueux à sa confluence avec la Dordogne
8.7% of the commune1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
La Dordogne
5.4% of the commune1.2 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area14%
Natura 2000 site14%
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.
14% of Libourne’s land is protected, more than in 75% 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
42 km of footpaths cross Libourne
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
42 km
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
2.5%
about 0.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LibourneGironde medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LibourneGironde medianFrance median
Woodland2.5%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 58% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 88% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 97% of Libourne’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Libourne: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St Emilion, 3.7 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) | 10 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 78 | 62 | 58 | 72 | 68 | 58 | 48 | 55 | 62 | 61 | 91 | 84 |
July is the driest month (48 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 91 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 32 nights a year. The climate in Libourne →
Neighbors
Next to Libourne
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
VayresSaint-Denis-de-PileGalgonIzonSaint-Quentin-de-BaronSaint-Sulpice-et-CameyracLibourne
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Libourne | 14% | 2.5% | 2 | 30 km |
| Vayres 4,615 · 7 km | 11% | 2.2% | 0.2 | 24 km |
| Saint-Denis-de-Pile 5,955 · 8.6 km | 14% | 11% | 0.2 | 31 km |
| Galgon 3,144 · 8.8 km | 13% | 9.6% | 0.1 | 25 km |
| Izon 6,374 · 9.7 km | 49% | 5.7% | 0.6 | 21 km |
| Saint-Quentin-de-Baron 2,713 · 11 km | 0% | 11% | 0.2 | 31 km |
| Saint-Sulpice-et-Cameyrac 4,881 · 12 km | 7.7% | 6.2% | 0.3 | 20 km |
Izon 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 Libourne
Is Libourne in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 14% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Libourne?
OpenStreetMap maps 42 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Libourne is woodland?
2.5% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Libourne near the sea?
No: the coast is 30 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Libourne?
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 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.