First pick
Garenne de Chaillauroy
Wood or forest · 20 m outside the commune
3.2 ha
4.6 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: AirScott · CC BY-SA 4.05.7%of the land protected
Outdoors in Buzançais · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Buzançais is within 800 m of a park or wood
4 km of footpaths cross Buzançais (0.1 km per km²). 28% of Buzançais is mapped woodland. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 11 km in Buzançais. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
5.7%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
28%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
4 km
0.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Garenne de Chaillauroy
Throughout this page, the Indre 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 Buzançais 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 areas5.7%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
66out of 100
Woodland28%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
73out of 100
Footpaths0.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
0out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
36out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Buzançais has the fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,325 to 4,386 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sevrier (4.3 km per km²) to Buzançais (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sevrier Haute-Savoie | 4.3 | 49% | 100% | 255 km |
| 2 | Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost Ain | 4 | 21% | 17% | 262 km |
| 3 | Tigery Essonne | 3.6 | 41% | 0% | 176 km |
| 4 | Villard-de-Lans Isère | 3.4 | 57% | 100% | 188 km |
| 5 | Nilvange Moselle | 3.3 | 27% | 0% | 304 km |
| 6 | Gattières Alpes-Maritimes | 2.7 | 27% | 80% | 9.5 km |
| 7 | Niederbronn-les-Bains Bas-Rhin | 2.6 | 74% | 100% | 417 km |
| 8 | Le Tréport Seine-Maritime | 2.6 | 4.9% | 3.1% | On it |
| 9 | Poulx Gard | 2.5 | 0.1% | 56% | 47 km |
| 10 | Saulxures-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.3 | 31% | 0% | 369 km |
| 11 | Aime-la-Plagne Savoie | 2.2 | 33% | 2.4% | 209 km |
| 12 | Steenvoorde Nord | 1.8 | 1.9% | 0% | 29 km |
| 13 | Pins-Justaret Haute-Garonne | 1.8 | 3% | 2.1% | 145 km |
| 14 | Villeneuve Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 74 km |
| 15 | Cheval-Blanc Vaucluse | 1.7 | 19% | 100% | 42 km |
| 16 | Hillion Côtes-d'Armor | 1.6 | 6.9% | 9% | On it |
| 17 | Le Château-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.5 | 7.5% | 50% | On it |
| 18 | Le Val Var | 1.5 | 63% | 7.3% | 37 km |
| 19 | Kaysersberg Vignoble Haut-Rhin | 1.5 | 69% | 100% | 464 km |
| 20 | Louverné Mayenne | 1.5 | 3.9% | 0% | 74 km |
| 21 | Ormes Loiret | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 198 km |
| 22 | Cadenet Vaucluse | 1.1 | 28% | 100% | 42 km |
| 23 | La Brède Gironde | 1.1 | 46% | 6.5% | 37 km |
| 24 | Camon Somme | 1.1 | 5.6% | 14% | 57 km |
| 25 | Morlaàs Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 20% | 0% | 101 km |
| 26 | Ham Somme | 0.9 | 6.1% | 0% | 111 km |
| 27 | Beaumont-lès-Valence Drôme | 0.8 | 9.8% | 0% | 157 km |
| 28 | Égletons Corrèze | 0.8 | 51% | 0.1% | 212 km |
| 29 | Morestel Isère | 0.8 | 16% | 12% | 252 km |
| 30 | Pons Charente-Maritime | 0.8 | 10% | 13% | 22 km |
| 31 | Riec-sur-Bélon Finistère | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | On it |
| 32 | Langeais Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 71% | 100% | 163 km |
| 33 | Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 24% | 1.4% | 181 km |
| 34 | Saint-Georges-lès-Baillargeaux Vienne | 0.5 | 35% | 34% | 125 km |
| 35 | Sarralbe Moselle | 0.5 | 29% | 10% | 381 km |
| 36 | Valence-en-Poitou Vienne | 0.4 | 20% | 0% | 100 km |
| 37 | Rives de l'Yon Vendée | 0.3 | 7.1% | 0% | 25 km |
| 38 | Prigonrieux Dordogne | 0.3 | 21% | 1.2% | 80 km |
| 39 | Roullet-Saint-Estèphe Charente | 0.2 | 16% | 3.1% | 65 km |
| 40 | Bassillac et Auberoche Dordogne | 0.1 | 49% | 0% | 116 km |
| 41 | Buzançais Indre | 0.1 | 28% | 5.7% | 206 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 Buzançais
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Garenne de Chaillauroy leads, at 3.2 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc des Grands jardins
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Buzançais
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
5.7% of Buzançais 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
Brenne Regional Nature Park
3.1 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de l’Indre
3.8% of the commune0.1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Grande Brenne
1.9% of the commune3.1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Brenne
1.8% of the commune3.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area5.7%
Natura 2000 site5.7%
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.
5.7% of Buzançais’ land is protected, more than in 66% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Indre has 2.1%. 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
4 km of footpaths and 11 km of hiking routes cross Buzançais
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 km
0.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
28%
about 16.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BuzançaisIndre medianFrance median
Footpaths0.1
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BuzançaisIndre medianFrance median
Woodland28%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 99% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 73% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Buzançais’ residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
De Tours à Toulouse 01, Tours - Châteauroux18 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Buzançais: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pellevoisin, 9.6 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 | 15.0 | 15.9 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 27 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 73 | 60 | 56 | 67 | 70 | 57 | 56 | 59 | 60 | 79 | 80 | 82 |
July is the driest month (56 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 82 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 45 nights a year. The climate in Buzançais →
Neighbors
Next to Buzançais
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Villedieu-sur-IndreLevrouxSaint-MaurDéolsChâteaurouxLe PoinçonnetBuzançais
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buzançais | 5.7% | 28% | 0.1 |
| Villedieu-sur-Indre 2,583 · 9.7 km | 1.5% | 18% | 0.1 |
| Levroux 2,797 · 17 km | 0% | 8.7% | 0 |
| Saint-Maur 3,537 · 19 km | 2.1% | 33% | 0.5 |
| Déols 7,600 · 22 km | 6.9% | 4.6% | 0.6 |
| Châteauroux 42,963 · 23 km | 4.8% | 3.8% | 2.3 |
| Le Poinçonnet 5,855 · 26 km | 0% | 66% | 0.5 |
Le Poinçonnet is 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 Buzançais
Is Buzançais in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 5.7% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Buzançais?
OpenStreetMap maps 4 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 11 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Buzançais is woodland?
28% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Buzançais near the sea?
No: the coast is 206 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Buzançais?
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.