First pick
Jardin de la Bienheureuse Jeanne-Marie de Maillé
Park or garden
0.7 ha0.2 km of path
1.4 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Yricordel · CC BY-SA 3.03.5%of the land protected
Outdoors in Luynes · protected areas, woods and footpaths
39% of Luynes is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Luynes has 37 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 28 km across Luynes (0.8 km per km²). Protected areas cover 3.5% of Luynes’ land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
3.5%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
39%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
28 km
0.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
37 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: Jardin de la Bienheureuse Jeanne-Marie de Maillé
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 Luynes?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune39% mapped woodland, more than in 85% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes37 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Luynes apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Luynes 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 areas3.5%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
62out of 100
Woodland39%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
85out of 100
Footpaths0.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
26out of 100
Hiking routes1.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
86out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Luynes has the 12th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,014 to 5,111 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Giberville (5.1 km per km²) to Laventie (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giberville Calvados | 5.1 | 3.2% | 0% | 11 km |
| 2 | Pulnoy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.7 | 25% | 0% | 368 km |
| 3 | Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 4.3 | 45% | 17% | 95 km |
| 4 | Billy-Berclau Pas-de-Calais | 4 | 15% | 0% | 67 km |
| 5 | Bezannes Marne | 3.4 | 1.8% | 0.1% | 198 km |
| 6 | Ornex Ain | 3.2 | 22% | 0% | 299 km |
| 7 | Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Pas-de-Calais | 2.8 | 35% | 100% | On it |
| 8 | Sommières Gard | 2.8 | 21% | 1.3% | 25 km |
| 9 | Le Val d'Hazey Eure | 2.6 | 32% | 0.3% | 77 km |
| 10 | Châteaulin Finistère | 2.5 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 11 | Gruissan Aude | 2.5 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 12 | Haillicourt Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 63 km |
| 13 | Saint-Georges-de-Didonne Charente-Maritime | 2.3 | 19% | 37% | On it |
| 14 | Decazeville Aveyron | 2.2 | 40% | 0% | 168 km |
| 15 | La Mézière Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.1 | 7.5% | 0% | 36 km |
| 16 | Bonnières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.1 | 45% | 20% | 99 km |
| 17 | Hauts de Bienne Jura | 1.9 | 77% | 100% | 326 km |
| 18 | Champagne-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1.8 | 33% | 54% | 119 km |
| 19 | Baden Morbihan | 1.8 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 20 | Yffiniac Côtes-d'Armor | 1.5 | 4.4% | 0.1% | 1.8 km |
| 21 | La Ferté Macé Orne | 1.4 | 27% | 100% | 73 km |
| 22 | Petite-Forêt Nord | 1.3 | 1.8% | 1.4% | 102 km |
| 23 | Genlis Côte-d'Or | 1.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 418 km |
| 24 | Villefranche-de-Lauragais Haute-Garonne | 1.2 | 0.5% | 0% | 117 km |
| 25 | Plouigneau Finistère | 1.1 | 19% | 12% | 9 km |
| 26 | Cilaos Réunion | 1.1 | 43% | 100% | 18 km |
| 27 | Muzillac Morbihan | 1 | 4.9% | 7.8% | On it |
| 28 | Maen Roch Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 3.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 29 | Faulquemont Moselle | 0.9 | 22% | 0% | 354 km |
| 30 | Luynes Indre-et-Loire | 0.8 | 39% | 3.5% | 176 km |
| 31 | Aÿ-Champagne Marne | 0.7 | 16% | 100% | 211 km |
| 32 | Blaye Gironde | 0.7 | 2.7% | 58% | On it |
| 33 | Habsheim Haut-Rhin | 0.7 | 49% | 50% | 438 km |
| 34 | Saint-Sever Landes | 0.6 | 17% | 4.2% | 67 km |
| 35 | Pacy-sur-Eure Eure | 0.6 | 45% | 3.1% | 88 km |
| 36 | Val-de-Moder Bas-Rhin | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0.1% | 424 km |
| 37 | Morcenx-la-Nouvelle Landes | 0.4 | 64% | 12% | 34 km |
| 38 | Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche Corrèze | 0.2 | 25% | 0.3% | 161 km |
| 39 | Rambervillers Vosges | 0.2 | 38% | 0% | 414 km |
| 40 | Saint-James Manche | 0.2 | 6.3% | 0% | 12 km |
| 41 | Laventie Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.7% | 0% | 54 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 Luynes
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin de la Bienheureuse Jeanne-Marie de Maillé leads, at 0.7 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
3.5% of Luynes lies in protected areas
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
2.3 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
La Loire de Candes Saint Martin à Mosnes
3.5% of the commune2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de la Loire d’Indre-et-Loire
3.4% of the commune2 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area3.5%
Natura 2000 site3.5%
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.
3.5% of Luynes’ land is protected, more than in 62% 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
28 km of footpaths and 37 km of hiking routes cross Luynes
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
28 km
0.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
37 km
waymarked: 1.1 km per km²
Woodland
39%
about 13.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LuynesIndre-et-Loire medianFrance median
Footpaths0.8
Hiking routes1.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LuynesIndre-et-Loire medianFrance median
Woodland39%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 74% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 85% 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 Luynes is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
7 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit n°213 km
Via Sancti Martini - Chemin d'été de la Saint-Martin12 km
Circuit n°18.7 km
Boucle n°1 - Saint-Roch7.9 km
Sentier du Pont de Bresme6.3 km
Boucle n°24 km
Circuit de la Gâtine2.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Luynes: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Fondettes, 5.4 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 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 15.9 | 15.6 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.2 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 68 | 58 | 54 | 57 | 62 | 53 | 47 | 47 | 53 | 70 | 76 | 80 |
July is the driest month (47 mm) and the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 80 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 45 nights a year. The climate in Luynes →
Neighbors
Next to Luynes
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
FondettesSavonnièresBallan-MiréLa Membrolle-sur-ChoisilleLa RicheSaint-Cyr-sur-LoireLuynes
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luynes | 3.5% | 39% | 0.8 |
| Fondettes 10,954 · 4.4 km | 5.3% | 15% | 1.1 |
| Savonnières 3,392 · 5.6 km | 0% | 12% | 0.8 |
| Ballan-Miré 8,477 · 7.4 km | 0% | 30% | 2.2 |
| La Membrolle-sur-Choisille 3,290 · 7.9 km | 0% | 19% | 2.2 |
| La Riche 10,487 · 8 km | 16% | 4.5% | 4.2 |
| Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 17,029 · 8.6 km | 1.9% | 9.4% | 5 |
La Riche 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 Luynes
Is Luynes in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 3.5% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Luynes?
OpenStreetMap maps 28 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 37 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Luynes is woodland?
39% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Luynes near the sea?
No: the coast is 176 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Luynes?
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.