First pick
Parc Daniel Bernardet
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
33 ha4.5 km of path
1 hto walk all 4.5 km of path
1.5 km south-westfrom the center
Rue du Rochat
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Floppy36 · CC BY-SA 3.06.9%of the land protected
Outdoors in Déols · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Déols is within 800 m of a park or wood
18 km of footpaths cross Déols (0.6 km per km²). 4.6% of Déols is mapped woodland. Protected areas cover 6.9% of Déols’ land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
6.9%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
4.6%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
18 km
0.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Daniel Bernardet
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 Déols 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 areas6.9%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
68out of 100
Woodland4.6%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
21out of 100
Footpaths0.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
17out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
42out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Déols has the 5th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,499 to 7,706 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Émerainville (9 km per km²) to Hasparren (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Émerainville Seine-et-Marne | 9 | 43% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Saint-Prix Val-d'Oise | 8.4 | 64% | 0.5% | 132 km |
| 3 | Gérardmer Vosges | 6.3 | 70% | 100% | 445 km |
| 4 | Sausset-les-Pins Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.2 | 5.8% | 51% | On it |
| 5 | Lesneven Finistère | 3.4 | 4% | 0% | 6.8 km |
| 6 | Saint-Apollinaire Côte-d'Or | 3.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 403 km |
| 7 | Saint-Péray Ardèche | 3 | 27% | 11% | 165 km |
| 8 | Falaise Calvados | 2.8 | 4% | 0% | 43 km |
| 9 | Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente Charente | 2.5 | 20% | 8.7% | 74 km |
| 10 | Bidart Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.4 | 19% | 7.8% | On it |
| 11 | Faverges-Seythenex Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 65% | 100% | 239 km |
| 12 | Crozon Finistère | 2.4 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 13 | Villars Loire | 2.3 | 0.1% | 0% | 213 km |
| 14 | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Savoie | 2.2 | 37% | 0% | 190 km |
| 15 | Châteaubourg Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.1 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 16 | Bourg-Saint-Andéol Ardèche | 2 | 56% | 6.1% | 101 km |
| 17 | Saint-Marcellin Isère | 1.9 | 4.3% | 0% | 192 km |
| 18 | Saint-Maixent-l'École Deux-Sèvres | 1.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 72 km |
| 19 | Villard-Bonnot Isère | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 203 km |
| 20 | Céret Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.7 | 61% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 21 | Tullins Isère | 1.6 | 27% | 0% | 211 km |
| 22 | Wissembourg Bas-Rhin | 1.6 | 54% | 67% | 429 km |
| 23 | Mimizan Landes | 1.3 | 75% | 8.2% | On it |
| 24 | Melesse Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.1 | 3.7% | 0% | 38 km |
| 25 | L'Aigle Orne | 1.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 78 km |
| 26 | Les Andelys Eure | 1.1 | 22% | 6.1% | 79 km |
| 27 | Langon Gironde | 1 | 12% | 3.9% | 58 km |
| 28 | Beynes Yvelines | 0.9 | 31% | 0% | 128 km |
| 29 | Jaunay-Marigny Vienne | 0.9 | 9.6% | 27% | 123 km |
| 30 | Parentis-en-Born Landes | 0.8 | 69% | 13% | 16 km |
| 31 | Sucé-sur-Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 13% | 25% | 48 km |
| 32 | Biguglia Haute-Corse | 0.8 | 2.9% | 21% | On it |
| 33 | Rosporden Finistère | 0.8 | 4.7% | 0% | 11 km |
| 34 | Pluvigner Morbihan | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 35 | Auxonne Côte-d'Or | 0.7 | 42% | 8.8% | 413 km |
| 36 | Bain-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 5% | 0% | 65 km |
| 37 | Déols Indre | 0.6 | 4.6% | 6.9% | 225 km |
| 38 | Machecoul-Saint-Même Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 12% | 27% | 13 km |
| 39 | Les Avenières Veyrins-Thuellin Isère | 0.4 | 22% | 11% | 249 km |
| 40 | Loireauxence Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 8.3% | 10% | 84 km |
| 41 | Hasparren Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.3 | 22% | 7.5% | 22 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 Déols
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Daniel Bernardet leads, at 33 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de l'Abbaye
Park or garden
1.7 ha0.4 km of path
1.3 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square Léon Borget
Park or garden · 320 m outside the commune
0.3 ha
2.1 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
6.9% of Déols lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de l’Indre
6.9% of the commune0.7 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area6.9%
Natura 2000 site6.9%
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.
6.9% of Déols’ land is protected, more than in 68% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Indre has 2.1%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
18 km of footpaths and 8 km of hiking routes cross Déols
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
18 km
0.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
8 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
4.6%
about 1.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
DéolsIndre medianFrance median
Footpaths0.6
Hiking routes0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
DéolsIndre medianFrance median
Woodland4.6%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 83% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 79% 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 Déols is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
De Tours à Toulouse 01, Tours - Châteauroux6.6 km
De Tours à Toulouse 02, Châteauroux - Aubusson3.9 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Déols: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Chateauroux Deols, 4.9 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 | 15.8 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 47 | 50 | 66 | 73 | 58 | 57 | 57 | 60 | 72 | 66 | 67 |
February is the driest month (47 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 73 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Déols →
Neighbors
Next to Déols
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ChâteaurouxSaint-MaurLe PoinçonnetVilledieu-sur-IndreArdentesLevrouxDéols
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Déols | 6.9% | 4.6% | 0.6 |
| Châteauroux 42,963 · 3.3 km | 4.8% | 3.8% | 2.3 |
| Saint-Maur 3,537 · 5.1 km | 2.1% | 33% | 0.5 |
| Le Poinçonnet 5,855 · 7.2 km | 0% | 66% | 0.5 |
| Villedieu-sur-Indre 2,583 · 13 km | 1.5% | 18% | 0.1 |
| Ardentes 3,715 · 14 km | 0% | 24% | 0.3 |
| Levroux 2,797 · 18 km | 0% | 8.7% | 0 |
Saint-Maur, Le Poinçonnet and Ardentes are 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 Déols
Is Déols in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 6.9% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Déols?
OpenStreetMap maps 18 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Déols is woodland?
4.6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Déols near the sea?
No: the coast is 225 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Déols?
April and June 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 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.