Photo: Gitouche · CC BY-SA 4.0Salles lies inside Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Salles’ land. Mapped woodland covers 86% of Salles. 67 km of footpaths cross Salles (0.5 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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 outdoors place is Salles?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Salles apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Salles 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Salles has the 3rd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,092 to 8,321 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Seyssins (7.1 km per km²) to Donges (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seyssins Isère | 7.1 | 44% | 45% | 201 km |
| 2 | Boussy-Saint-Antoine Essonne | 6.6 | 28% | 0% | 172 km |
| 3 | Bihorel Seine-Maritime | 5.5 | 4.8% | 0% | 51 km |
| 4 | Coulaines Sarthe | 5.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 134 km |
| 5 | La Ville-du-Bois Essonne | 4.4 | 28% | 0% | 164 km |
| 6 | Harfleur Seine-Maritime | 4.1 | 14% | 0% | 6.6 km |
| 7 | Paray-Vieille-Poste Essonne | 3.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 164 km |
| 8 | Mazingarbe Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 7.4% | 0% | 68 km |
| 9 | Ballancourt-sur-Essonne Essonne | 2.9 | 28% | 0.1% | 179 km |
| 10 | Guilers Finistère | 2.9 | 11% | 0% | 5.1 km |
| 11 | Vern-sur-Seiche Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.9 | 13% | 0% | 57 km |
| 12 | Téteghem-Coudekerque-Village Nord | 2.8 | 9.1% | 0% | 4.1 km |
| 13 | Brunstatt-Didenheim Haut-Rhin | 2.7 | 25% | 0% | 438 km |
| 14 | Souffelweyersheim Bas-Rhin | 2.7 | 1.7% | 0% | 447 km |
| 15 | Le Mesnil-Esnard Seine-Maritime | 2.6 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 16 | Rochefort-du-Gard Gard | 2.6 | 40% | 0% | 59 km |
| 17 | Charnay-lès-Mâcon Saône-et-Loire | 2.4 | 5.7% | 0% | 311 km |
| 18 | Coutances Manche | 2.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 5.7 km |
| 19 | Bandol Var | 1.8 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 20 | Cavalaire-sur-Mer Var | 1.8 | 45% | 0.1% | On it |
| 21 | Sorbiers Loire | 1.8 | 14% | 0% | 217 km |
| 22 | Verrières-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 1.8 | 7.4% | 0% | 127 km |
| 23 | Val de Briey Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.7 | 55% | 0% | 305 km |
| 24 | Anse Rhône | 1.7 | 16% | 0% | 269 km |
| 25 | La Colle-sur-Loup Alpes-Maritimes | 1.7 | 39% | 28% | 5.1 km |
| 26 | Talange Moselle | 1.6 | 2.5% | 0% | 318 km |
| 27 | Saint-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 1.5 | 5.4% | 1.3% | 53 km |
| 28 | La Tour-du-Pin Isère | 1.2 | 4.7% | 0% | 240 km |
| 29 | Les Arcs Var | 1.1 | 35% | 12% | 21 km |
| 30 | Pégomas Alpes-Maritimes | 1 | 49% | 0% | 6.4 km |
| 31 | Linselles Nord | 1 | 0.7% | 0% | 53 km |
| 32 | Chinon Indre-et-Loire | 1 | 15% | 100% | 142 km |
| 33 | Meximieux Ain | 1 | 12% | 2.7% | 274 km |
| 34 | Thuir Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 23 km |
| 35 | Tournan-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 178 km |
| 36 | Malemort Corrèze | 0.7 | 27% | 0% | 171 km |
| 37 | Tonnay-Charente Charente-Maritime | 0.6 | 3.3% | 17% | 6.9 km |
| 38 | Questembert Morbihan | 0.6 | 19% | 0% | 16 km |
| 39 | Salles Gironde | 0.5 | 86% | 100% | 17 km |
| 40 | Évron Mayenne | 0.3 | 7.3% | 19% | 88 km |
| 41 | Donges Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 2.8% | 58% | 8.5 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Protected land in and around Salles
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Park
Vallées de la Grande et de la Petite Leyre
Share of the commune’s land
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.
100% of Salles’ land is protected, more than in 97% 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.
67 km of footpaths and 11 km of hiking routes cross Salles
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 87% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 99% 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 Salles 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).
The best walking months in Salles: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cazaux, 22 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) | 11 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 27 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 99 | 74 | 67 | 73 | 63 | 66 | 44 | 61 | 76 | 88 | 128 | 109 |
July is the driest month (44 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 128 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 35 nights a year. The climate in Salles →
Next to Salles
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salles | 100% | 86% | 0.5 | 17 km |
| Mios 12,043 · 8.4 km | 100% | 81% | 0.8 | 9.9 km |
| Belin-Béliet 6,275 · 8.8 km | 100% | 86% | 0.4 | 26 km |
| Le Barp 5,806 · 9.8 km | 100% | 67% | 0.2 | 21 km |
| Biganos 11,431 · 13 km | 100% | 71% | 1.1 | On it |
| Le Teich 9,180 · 16 km | 100% | 81% | 0.6 | On it |
| Marcheprime 5,696 · 16 km | 100% | 83% | 1.2 | 14 km |
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 Salles
Is Salles in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Salles lies in Landes de Gascogne Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Salles?
OpenStreetMap maps 67 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); 11 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Salles is woodland?
86% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Salles near the sea?
No: the coast is 17 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Salles?
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 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.