First pick
Moussoué Santi Tabiki
Wood or forest · 60 m outside the commune
650 ha
64 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Polo973 · CC BY-SA 3.03.8%of the land protected
Outdoors in Apatou · protected areas, woods and footpaths
98% of Apatou is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
2 km of footpaths cross Apatou (0 km per km²). 3.8% of Apatou’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
3.8%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
98%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
2.3 km
0 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
6
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Moussoué Santi Tabiki
Throughout this page, the French Guiana 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 Apatou?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune98% mapped woodland, more than in 99% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Few mapped footpaths0 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Apatou apart: its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Apatou 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 areas3.8%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
63out of 100
Woodland98%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
100out of 100
Footpaths0 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
0out 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
Apatou has the fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (10,140 to 10,476 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Mondeville (5.2 km per km²) to Apatou (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mondeville Calvados | 5.2 | 5.4% | 0% | 13 km |
| 2 | Aubière Puy-de-Dôme | 5.2 | 0.4% | 0% | 254 km |
| 3 | Serris Seine-et-Marne | 5.1 | 2.1% | 0% | 168 km |
| 4 | Courrières Pas-de-Calais | 4.1 | 11% | 0% | 76 km |
| 5 | Cabestany Pyrénées-Orientales | 4 | 1.8% | 0% | 7.9 km |
| 6 | Villebon-sur-Yvette Essonne | 3.8 | 23% | 0% | 159 km |
| 7 | Oignies Pas-de-Calais | 3.7 | 12% | 0% | 77 km |
| 8 | Cabriès Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 28% | 1.6% | 11 km |
| 9 | Feyzin Rhône | 3.4 | 12% | 0% | 242 km |
| 10 | Saint-Gély-du-Fesc Hérault | 3.4 | 39% | 0% | 21 km |
| 11 | Thorigny-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 3.4 | 15% | 12% | 162 km |
| 12 | Marly Moselle | 3 | 4.4% | 0% | 332 km |
| 13 | Sainte-Savine Aube | 2.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 271 km |
| 14 | Beaumont-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 2.4 | 26% | 35% | 121 km |
| 15 | Buxerolles Vienne | 2.3 | 10% | 0% | 119 km |
| 16 | Pfastatt Haut-Rhin | 2.2 | 22% | 0.1% | 443 km |
| 17 | Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 2.1 | 1.4% | 0% | 51 km |
| 18 | Divonne-les-Bains Ain | 2.1 | 52% | 57% | 306 km |
| 19 | Fouesnant Finistère | 2 | 3.5% | 9.8% | On it |
| 20 | Miribel Ain | 2 | 17% | 14% | 262 km |
| 21 | Parthenay Deux-Sèvres | 2 | 3.8% | 0.1% | 78 km |
| 22 | Avranches Manche | 1.9 | 1.5% | 0% | 2.5 km |
| 23 | La Ferté-sous-Jouarre Seine-et-Marne | 1.9 | 30% | 0% | 172 km |
| 24 | Fuveau Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.9 | 36% | 0% | 21 km |
| 25 | Gignac-la-Nerthe Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.9 | 2.5% | 0.7% | 5.8 km |
| 26 | Jeumont Nord | 1.8 | 25% | 0.1% | 133 km |
| 27 | Le Beausset Var | 1.5 | 18% | 69% | 7.1 km |
| 28 | Andrézieux-Bouthéon Loire | 1.4 | 3.5% | 7.1% | 219 km |
| 29 | Apt Vaucluse | 1.2 | 29% | 100% | 58 km |
| 30 | Lézignan-Corbières Aude | 1.2 | 14% | 7% | 31 km |
| 31 | Ploërmel Morbihan | 1.1 | 15% | 0% | 39 km |
| 32 | Couzeix Haute-Vienne | 1.1 | 21% | 0% | 163 km |
| 33 | Marck Pas-de-Calais | 0.9 | 3.4% | 0% | On it |
| 34 | Borgo Haute-Corse | 0.8 | 11% | 28% | On it |
| 35 | Aizenay Vendée | 0.8 | 8.2% | 0% | 24 km |
| 36 | Gerzat Puy-de-Dôme | 0.8 | 0.5% | 0% | 261 km |
| 37 | Auterive Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 4.6% | 1.2% | 134 km |
| 38 | Blain Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 15% | 0% | 37 km |
| 39 | Lillers Pas-de-Calais | 0.5 | 7.8% | 0% | 53 km |
| 40 | Carentan-les-Marais Manche | 0.3 | 0.2% | 100% | On it |
| 41 | Apatou French Guiana | 0 | 98% | 3.8% | 77 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 Apatou
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Moussoué Santi Tabiki leads, at 650 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Langa Tabiki
Wood or forest · 110 m outside the commune
256 ha
19 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
3.8% of Apatou lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Lucifer - Dékou-Dékou nature reserve
3.8% of the commune50 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area3.8%
Nature reserve3.8%
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.
3.8% of Apatou’s land is protected, more than in 63% of compared French towns; the median compared town in French Guiana has –. Natura 2000 doesn’t apply in the overseas départements.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
2 km of footpaths cross Apatou
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
2.3 km
0 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
98%
about 2,103.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ApatouFrench Guiana medianFrance median
Footpaths0
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ApatouFrench Guiana medianFrance median
Woodland98%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 99% 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. The center of Apatou is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood (INSEE’s population grid doesn’t cover French Guiana).
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The walking year in Apatou
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Charvein, 67 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) | 11.9 | 12.0 | 12.1 | 12.2 | 12.4 | 12.4 | 12.4 | 12.3 | 12.1 | 12.0 | 11.9 | 11.8 |
| High (°C) | 30 | 30 | 30 | 31 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 33 | 31 |
| Rain (mm) | 265 | 241 | 209 | 347 | 447 | 352 | 249 | 166 | 82 | 68 | 141 | 272 |
October is the driest month (68 mm) and the warmest (highs of 34 °C). 447 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 34 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Apatou →
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 Apatou
Is Apatou in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 3.8% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Apatou?
OpenStreetMap maps 2 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Apatou is woodland?
98% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Apatou near the sea?
No: the coast is 77 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
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.