First pick
Parc de la Mairie Leonhard Bosch
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Bourgueil
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Nick · CC BY 2.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Bourgueil · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Bourgueil lies inside Loire-Anjou-Touraine Regional Nature Park
100% of Bourgueil’s land lies in protected areas. Mapped woodland covers 49% of Bourgueil. Bourgueil has 33 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
49%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
36 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
33 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 de la Mairie Leonhard Bosch
Throughout this page, the Indre-et-Loire 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 Bourgueil?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Loire-Anjou-Touraine Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune49% mapped woodland, more than in 92% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes33 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Bourgueil apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Bourgueil 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
99out of 100
Woodland49%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
92out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
35out of 100
Hiking routes1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
83out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Bourgueil has the 19th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,609 to 3,659 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Vaudreuil (3.9 km per km²) to Vald'Yerre (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Vaudreuil Eure | 3.9 | 43% | 6.2% | 64 km |
| 2 | Champhol Eure-et-Loir | 3.7 | 9.3% | 0% | 137 km |
| 3 | Apprieu Isère | 3 | 45% | 0% | 222 km |
| 4 | Cournonsec Hérault | 2.5 | 0.2% | 49% | 13 km |
| 5 | Orcines Puy-de-Dôme | 2.5 | 59% | 100% | 259 km |
| 6 | Saint-Erblon Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 58 km |
| 7 | Ézy-sur-Eure Eure | 2.3 | 42% | 8.3% | 100 km |
| 8 | Plestin-les-Grèves Côtes-d'Armor | 2.3 | 16% | 6% | On it |
| 9 | Saint-Léger-du-Bourg-Denis Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 39% | 4.6% | 55 km |
| 10 | Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey Alpes-Maritimes | 2.1 | 64% | 100% | 19 km |
| 11 | Saint-Germain-du-Corbéis Orne | 1.8 | 11% | 4.1% | 98 km |
| 12 | Saint-Jean-de-Moirans Isère | 1.8 | 5.5% | 0% | 217 km |
| 13 | Saint-Brès Hérault | 1.8 | 0.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 14 | Montrichard Val de Cher Loir-et-Cher | 1.7 | 60% | 0% | 211 km |
| 15 | Forges-les-Eaux Seine-Maritime | 1.7 | 24% | 4.9% | 47 km |
| 16 | Pradines Lot | 1.6 | 32% | 0% | 169 km |
| 17 | Boujan-sur-Libron Hérault | 1.6 | 9.8% | 0% | 14 km |
| 18 | Montussan Gironde | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 19 km |
| 19 | Villers-Semeuse Ardennes | 1.5 | 7.8% | 0% | 210 km |
| 20 | Gallargues-le-Montueux Gard | 1.3 | 2% | 2% | 19 km |
| 21 | Viviers Ardèche | 1.3 | 49% | 2.6% | 113 km |
| 22 | Gelos Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.3 | 37% | 7.4% | 96 km |
| 23 | Bourgueil Indre-et-Loire | 1.1 | 49% | 100% | 148 km |
| 24 | Champagney Haute-Saône | 1.1 | 76% | 100% | 440 km |
| 25 | Châteauneuf-du-Faou Finistère | 1 | 9.4% | 8% | 20 km |
| 26 | Martillac Gironde | 1 | 18% | 0% | 32 km |
| 27 | Arcangues Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 32% | 7.3% | 5.2 km |
| 28 | Belleu Aisne | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 150 km |
| 29 | Canet Hérault | 0.8 | 2.7% | 2.8% | 27 km |
| 30 | Salindres Gard | 0.8 | 4.3% | 0% | 68 km |
| 31 | Saint-Clair-de-la-Tour Isère | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 240 km |
| 32 | Saint-Philbert-de-Bouaine Vendée | 0.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 35 km |
| 33 | Gouffern en Auge Orne | 0.6 | 25% | 33% | 59 km |
| 34 | Marzy Nièvre | 0.6 | 8.6% | 20% | 332 km |
| 35 | Lizy-sur-Ourcq Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 17% | 0% | 161 km |
| 36 | Saint-Jean-d'Hermine Vendée | 0.4 | 9.2% | 2.4% | 27 km |
| 37 | Rivery Somme | 0.4 | 6.1% | 9.4% | 56 km |
| 38 | Chauffailles Saône-et-Loire | 0.4 | 32% | 0% | 295 km |
| 39 | Garchizy Nièvre | 0.3 | 9% | 12% | 333 km |
| 40 | Montoire-sur-le-Loir Loir-et-Cher | 0.3 | 14% | 0.4% | 185 km |
| 41 | Vald'Yerre Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 | 6.5% | 0.1% | 159 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 Bourgueil
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Mairie Leonhard Bosch leads, at 1.2 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Bourgueil
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Loire-Anjou-Touraine Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Lac de Rillé et forêts voisines d’Anjou et de Touraine
53% of the commune1.4 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Complexe du Changeon et de la Roumer
4.5% of the commune3.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de la Loire d’Indre-et-Loire
3.2% of the commune2.3 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site56%
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 Bourgueil’s land is protected, more than in 99% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Indre-et-Loire has 1.9%. 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.
Footpaths and woods
36 km of footpaths and 33 km of hiking routes cross Bourgueil
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
36 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
33 km
waymarked: 1 km per km²
Woodland
49%
about 16.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BourgueilIndre-et-Loire medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BourgueilIndre-et-Loire medianFrance median
Woodland49%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 65% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 92% 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 Bourgueil is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Via Sancti Martini - Chemin d'été de la Saint-Martin8.4 km
La Double Vie du Coteau - Benais3 km
Circuit des Manoirs1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bourgueil: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Savigny - Veron, 6.8 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) | 8.9 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 15.1 | 15.9 | 15.6 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.2 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 27 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 45 | 46 | 52 | 52 | 46 | 49 | 44 | 50 | 64 | 67 | 65 |
August is the driest month (44 mm) and the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 67 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 38 nights a year. The climate in Bourgueil →
Neighbors
Next to Bourgueil
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Beaumont-en-VéronAllonnesChinonLangeaisVivySaumurBourgueil
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Bourgueil
Is Bourgueil in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Bourgueil lies in Loire-Anjou-Touraine Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Bourgueil?
OpenStreetMap maps 36 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 33 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Bourgueil is woodland?
49% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bourgueil near the sea?
No: the coast is 148 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bourgueil?
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.