First pick
La Forêt du Parc
Wood or forest · 100 m outside the commune
568 ha
10 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Dacia 1410 Sport · CC BY-SA 4.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Le Blanc · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Le Blanc lies inside Brenne Regional Nature Park
100% of Le Blanc’s land lies in protected areas. Footpaths add up to 27 km across Le Blanc (0.5 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 11% of Le Blanc. 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
11%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
27 km
0.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: La Forêt du Parc
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Le Blanc?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Brenne Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.Few mapped footpaths0.5 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Le Blanc apart: the regional nature park around it. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Le Blanc 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
Woodland11%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
44out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
13out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
46out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Le Blanc has the 3rd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,095 to 6,221 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Menucourt (5.4 km per km²) to Livarot-Pays-d'Auge (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Menucourt Val-d'Oise | 5.4 | 40% | 0.3% | 119 km |
| 2 | Le Barcarès Pyrénées-Orientales | 4.4 | 3.4% | 35% | On it |
| 3 | Quint-Fonsegrives Haute-Garonne | 4.4 | 9.5% | 0% | 139 km |
| 4 | Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.2 | 25% | 30% | 5.2 km |
| 5 | Prades-le-Lez Hérault | 4 | 37% | 7.8% | 18 km |
| 6 | Dourges Pas-de-Calais | 3.9 | 11% | 0% | 79 km |
| 7 | Blainville-sur-Orne Calvados | 3.9 | 7.2% | 0% | 7 km |
| 8 | Jonage Rhône | 3.6 | 16% | 33% | 260 km |
| 9 | Palavas-les-Flots Hérault | 3.6 | 0% | 72% | On it |
| 10 | Petite-Rosselle Moselle | 3.3 | 33% | 0% | 356 km |
| 11 | Ostricourt Nord | 3.2 | 34% | 0% | 78 km |
| 12 | Prades Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.7 | 33% | 0.3% | 50 km |
| 13 | Saint-Quentin-Fallavier Isère | 2.5 | 13% | 0% | 243 km |
| 14 | Behren-lès-Forbach Moselle | 2.4 | 14% | 0% | 363 km |
| 15 | Bruguières Haute-Garonne | 2.3 | 11% | 0% | 154 km |
| 16 | Aurec-sur-Loire Haute-Loire | 2.3 | 55% | 47% | 201 km |
| 17 | Saint-Genest-Lerpt Loire | 2 | 20% | 0% | 211 km |
| 18 | Franqueville-Saint-Pierre Seine-Maritime | 2 | 5.6% | 0.9% | 58 km |
| 19 | Saint-Marcel Saône-et-Loire | 2 | 6% | 0% | 363 km |
| 20 | Haute-Goulaine Loire-Atlantique | 1.6 | 12% | 31% | 46 km |
| 21 | Feytiat Haute-Vienne | 1.6 | 27% | 0% | 167 km |
| 22 | Oraison Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.4 | 45% | 29% | 78 km |
| 23 | Pont-Évêque Isère | 1.4 | 17% | 0% | 229 km |
| 24 | Saint-Symphorien-d'Ozon Rhône | 1.3 | 7.2% | 0% | 239 km |
| 25 | Sainte-Sigolène Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 40% | 1.3% | 188 km |
| 26 | Vendenheim Bas-Rhin | 1.3 | 21% | 0% | 443 km |
| 27 | Terrasson-Lavilledieu Dordogne | 0.9 | 39% | 7.1% | 149 km |
| 28 | Saint-Denis-lès-Bourg Ain | 0.9 | 5.5% | 0% | 306 km |
| 29 | Saint-Cannat Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 21% | 34% | 29 km |
| 30 | Malaunay Seine-Maritime | 0.7 | 24% | 0% | 43 km |
| 31 | Mallemort Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 4.4% | 20% | 38 km |
| 32 | Saint-Marcel-lès-Valence Drôme | 0.7 | 3.2% | 0% | 169 km |
| 33 | Guer Morbihan | 0.7 | 20% | 0% | 50 km |
| 34 | Octeville-sur-Mer Seine-Maritime | 0.6 | 0.3% | 5.1% | On it |
| 35 | Marennes-Hiers-Brouage Charente-Maritime | 0.6 | 3.2% | 75% | On it |
| 36 | Thue et Mue Calvados | 0.6 | 1.2% | 0% | 15 km |
| 37 | Fayence Var | 0.6 | 46% | 9.6% | 22 km |
| 38 | Horbourg-Wihr Haut-Rhin | 0.6 | 5% | 0% | 475 km |
| 39 | Le Blanc Indre | 0.5 | 11% | 100% | 173 km |
| 40 | Aire-sur-l'Adour Landes | 0.4 | 22% | 2.6% | 93 km |
| 41 | Livarot-Pays-d'Auge Calvados | 0.3 | 14% | 0.9% | 38 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 Le Blanc
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: La Forêt du Parc leads, at 568 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Mis et Thiennot
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
0.9 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square de Bechhofen
Park or garden
0.7 ha0.3 km of path
0.8 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Le Blanc
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
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Brenne
12% of the commune5.1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Grande Brenne
11% of the commune5.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de la Creuse et affluents
3% of the commune0.4 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site15%
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 Le Blanc’s land is protected, more than in 99% 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
27 km of footpaths and 17 km of hiking routes cross Le Blanc
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
27 km
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
11%
about 6.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Le BlancIndre medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Le BlancIndre medianFrance median
Woodland11%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 87% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 56% 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 Le Blanc is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin de Szombathely, Montluçon - Tournon-Saint-Martin14 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Le Blanc: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Blanc, 0.4 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 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 15.8 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.6 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 68 | 54 | 56 | 61 | 75 | 62 | 51 | 54 | 58 | 78 | 79 | 81 |
July is the driest month (51 mm) and the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 81 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Le Blanc →
Neighbors
Next to Le Blanc
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MontmorillonLe Blanc
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Blanc | 100% | 11% | 0.5 |
| Montmorillon 5,821 · 28 km | 28% | 11% | 0.4 |
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 Le Blanc
Is Le Blanc in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Le Blanc lies in Brenne Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Le Blanc?
OpenStreetMap maps 27 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 17 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Le Blanc is woodland?
11% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Blanc near the sea?
No: the coast is 173 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Le Blanc?
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 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.