First pick
Parc Chavat
Park or garden
6.3 ha1.4 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Podensac
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Michel BUZE · CC BY-SA 4.04.6%of the land protected
Outdoors in Podensac · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Podensac is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 5 km across Podensac (0.5 km per km²). 4.6% of Podensac’s land lies in protected areas. Mapped woodland covers 14% of Podensac. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
4.6%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
14%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
4.6 km
0.5 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: Parc Chavat
The sea
44 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 Podensac 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 areas4.6%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
64out of 100
Woodland14%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
50out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
15out 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
Podensac has the 14th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,234 to 3,302 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Exincourt (3.3 km per km²) to Albias (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exincourt Doubs | 3.3 | 4% | 0% | 416 km |
| 2 | Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie Seine-Maritime | 3.2 | 24% | 3.5% | 56 km |
| 3 | Lavérune Hérault | 3.1 | 6.9% | 0% | 11 km |
| 4 | Volx Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 3.1 | 37% | 100% | 71 km |
| 5 | Les Noës-près-Troyes Aube | 3.1 | 0% | 0% | 270 km |
| 6 | Luc-sur-Mer Calvados | 3 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 7 | Lespinasse Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 1.6% | 0% | 156 km |
| 8 | Bousse Moselle | 2.6 | 33% | 0% | 316 km |
| 9 | La Membrolle-sur-Choisille Indre-et-Loire | 2.2 | 19% | 0% | 184 km |
| 10 | Carantec Finistère | 2.2 | 3.6% | 14% | On it |
| 11 | Jard-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.1 | 21% | 43% | On it |
| 12 | Dieulefit Drôme | 2 | 66% | 0% | 120 km |
| 13 | Bonne Haute-Savoie | 1.7 | 34% | 3.3% | 281 km |
| 14 | Mireval Hérault | 1.6 | 0.1% | 18% | 4.3 km |
| 15 | Pontpoint Oise | 1.5 | 41% | 100% | 120 km |
| 16 | Bernis Gard | 1.4 | 26% | 2.6% | 28 km |
| 17 | Rostrenen Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 18% | 0% | 45 km |
| 18 | La Chapelle-Longueville Eure | 1.3 | 31% | 0% | 86 km |
| 19 | Montmorot Jura | 1.3 | 17% | 0% | 357 km |
| 20 | Romilly-sur-Andelle Eure | 1.1 | 39% | 5.8% | 66 km |
| 21 | Magnac-sur-Touvre Charente | 1 | 22% | 3.1% | 82 km |
| 22 | Carling Moselle | 0.9 | 11% | 0% | 351 km |
| 23 | Boves Somme | 0.8 | 24% | 8.8% | 63 km |
| 24 | Offranville Seine-Maritime | 0.8 | 4.5% | 0% | 5.3 km |
| 25 | Moussy-le-Neuf Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 26% | 0.2% | 141 km |
| 26 | Frévent Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | 44 km |
| 27 | Anould Vosges | 0.6 | 49% | 0.1% | 443 km |
| 28 | Podensac Gironde | 0.5 | 14% | 4.6% | 44 km |
| 29 | Gouville-sur-Mer Manche | 0.5 | 2.6% | 0.4% | 2.9 km |
| 30 | Rouans Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 5.5% | 30% | 18 km |
| 31 | Sainte-Florine Haute-Loire | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 213 km |
| 32 | Bavay Nord | 0.4 | 4% | 100% | 121 km |
| 33 | Dordives Loiret | 0.4 | 30% | 0% | 228 km |
| 34 | Azay-sur-Cher Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 15% | 0% | 189 km |
| 35 | Sarrola-Carcopino Corse-du-Sud | 0.3 | 6.7% | 0% | 6.1 km |
| 36 | Vonnas Ain | 0.3 | 9.9% | 0% | 304 km |
| 37 | Aix-Villemaur-Pâlis Aube | 0.3 | 26% | 0.9% | 263 km |
| 38 | Malissard Drôme | 0.3 | 0.3% | 0% | 161 km |
| 39 | Puiseaux Loiret | 0.2 | 2.6% | 1% | 207 km |
| 40 | Argentonnay Deux-Sèvres | 0.1 | 5.2% | 4.8% | 91 km |
| 41 | Albias Tarn-et-Garonne | 0 | 4.8% | 1.4% | 173 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 Podensac
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Chavat leads, at 6.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
4.6% of Podensac 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
La Garonne en Nouvelle-Aquitaine
4.6% of the commune0.6 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area4.6%
Natura 2000 site4.6%
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.
4.6% of Podensac’s land is protected, more than in 64% 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
5 km of footpaths cross Podensac
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
4.6 km
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
14%
about 1.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PodensacGironde medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PodensacGironde medianFrance median
Woodland14%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 85% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 50% 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 Podensac is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Boucle locale de Cérons7.1 km
Via Sancti Martini - Camino de Zaragoza / Chemin de Saragosse5.8 km
Boucle locale de Béguey5.6 km
Des Bords de Garonne : circuit départemental4.5 km
Boucle locale de Cadillac3.4 km
Boucle locale d'Arbanats1.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Podensac: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Sauternes, 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) | 9.2 | 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 Podensac →
Neighbors
Next to Podensac
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Cadillac-sur-GaronnePortetsCastres-GirondeSaint-SelveSaint-Caprais-de-BordeauxToulennePodensac
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Podensac | 4.6% | 14% | 0.5 | 44 km |
| Cadillac-sur-Garonne 2,670 · 3.9 km | 5.4% | 7.2% | 0.3 | 47 km |
| Portets 2,618 · 6.6 km | 5.9% | 32% | 0.4 | 38 km |
| Castres-Gironde 2,695 · 8.3 km | 12% | 50% | 1 | 37 km |
| Saint-Selve 3,746 · 9.6 km | 5.6% | 65% | 1.3 | 39 km |
| Saint-Caprais-de-Bordeaux 3,450 · 13 km | 0% | 29% | 0.6 | 31 km |
| Toulenne 2,881 · 13 km | 7.5% | 8.9% | 1.1 | 56 km |
Castres-Gironde has at least twice as much protected land. Portets, Castres-Gironde and Saint-Selve 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 Podensac
Is Podensac in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 4.6% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Podensac?
OpenStreetMap maps 5 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Podensac is woodland?
14% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Podensac near the sea?
No: the coast is 44 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Podensac?
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.