First pick
Forêt de Flosaille
Wood or forest
69 ha
3.1 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jmnil · CC BY-SA 3.015%of the land protected
Outdoors in Saint-Savin · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Saint-Savin is within 800 m of a park or wood
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 32 km in Saint-Savin. 12 km of footpaths cross Saint-Savin (0.5 km per km²). 15% of Saint-Savin’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
15%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
17%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
12 km
0.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
32 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: Forêt de Flosaille
Throughout this page, the Isère 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 Saint-Savin?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes32 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Few mapped footpaths0.5 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Saint-Savin apart: its hiking routes. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Saint-Savin 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 areas15%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
75out of 100
Woodland17%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
57out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
13out of 100
Hiking routes1.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
89out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Savin has the 9th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,286 to 4,361 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 | Agneaux Manche | 3.5 | 10% | 0% | 25 km |
| 5 | Villard-de-Lans Isère | 3.4 | 57% | 100% | 188 km |
| 6 | Nilvange Moselle | 3.3 | 27% | 0% | 304 km |
| 7 | Gattières Alpes-Maritimes | 2.7 | 27% | 80% | 9.5 km |
| 8 | Niederbronn-les-Bains Bas-Rhin | 2.6 | 74% | 100% | 417 km |
| 9 | Poulx Gard | 2.5 | 0.1% | 56% | 47 km |
| 10 | Saulxures-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.3 | 31% | 0% | 369 km |
| 11 | Coignières Yvelines | 2.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 12 | Châtenois Bas-Rhin | 2 | 33% | 0% | 458 km |
| 13 | Steenvoorde Nord | 1.8 | 1.9% | 0% | 29 km |
| 14 | Lanvallay Côtes-d'Armor | 1.8 | 17% | 100% | 4.9 km |
| 15 | Villeneuve Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 74 km |
| 16 | Is-sur-Tille Côte-d'Or | 1.6 | 41% | 0% | 388 km |
| 17 | Millery Rhône | 1.6 | 14% | 0% | 237 km |
| 18 | Hillion Côtes-d'Armor | 1.6 | 6.9% | 9% | On it |
| 19 | Le Val Var | 1.5 | 63% | 7.3% | 37 km |
| 20 | Louverné Mayenne | 1.5 | 3.9% | 0% | 74 km |
| 21 | Camon Somme | 1.1 | 5.6% | 14% | 57 km |
| 22 | Saint-Aubin-d'Aubigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 38 km |
| 23 | Beaumont-lès-Valence Drôme | 0.8 | 9.8% | 0% | 157 km |
| 24 | Égletons Corrèze | 0.8 | 51% | 0.1% | 212 km |
| 25 | Chabanière Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 230 km |
| 26 | Morestel Isère | 0.8 | 16% | 12% | 252 km |
| 27 | Pons Charente-Maritime | 0.8 | 10% | 13% | 22 km |
| 28 | Rang-du-Fliers Pas-de-Calais | 0.6 | 23% | 13% | 4.7 km |
| 29 | Nozay Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.7% | 0% | 52 km |
| 30 | Cours Rhône | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 283 km |
| 31 | Bessières Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 9.9% | 2.4% | 145 km |
| 32 | Friville-Escarbotin Somme | 0.5 | 2.1% | 100% | 7.2 km |
| 33 | Saint-Savin Isère | 0.5 | 17% | 15% | 244 km |
| 34 | Eyragues Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 43 km |
| 35 | Valence-en-Poitou Vienne | 0.4 | 20% | 0% | 100 km |
| 36 | Ussac Corrèze | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 167 km |
| 37 | Montélier Drôme | 0.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 165 km |
| 38 | Rives de l'Yon Vendée | 0.3 | 7.1% | 0% | 25 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 Saint-Savin
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Flosaille leads, at 69 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Place du 8 Mai 1945
Park or garden
0.3 ha
Centralin the middle of Saint-Savin
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
15% of Saint-Savin 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
L’Isle Crémieu
15% of the commune0.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area15%
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.
15% of Saint-Savin’s land is protected, more than in 75% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Isère has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
12 km of footpaths and 32 km of hiking routes cross Saint-Savin
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
12 km
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
32 km
waymarked: 1.3 km per km²
Woodland
17%
about 4.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-SavinIsère medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes1.3
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-SavinIsère medianFrance median
Woodland17%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 87% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 57% 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 Saint-Savin is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saint-Savin: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lyon-St Exupery, 22 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) | 9.1 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.4 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 27 | 23 | 17 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 55 | 47 | 54 | 72 | 83 | 71 | 67 | 71 | 87 | 101 | 92 | 63 |
February is the driest month (47 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 101 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Saint-Savin →
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Savin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-ChefRuy-MontceauBourgoin-JallieuNivolas-VermelleL'Isle-d'AbeauCessieuSaint-Savin
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Savin | 15% | 17% | 0.5 |
| Saint-Chef 3,921 · 4 km | 12% | 24% | 1 |
| Ruy-Montceau 4,805 · 4.5 km | 12% | 21% | 0.4 |
| Bourgoin-Jallieu 30,151 · 4.8 km | 0% | 13% | 2.7 |
| Nivolas-Vermelle 2,706 · 7.2 km | 0% | 18% | 1.4 |
| L'Isle-d'Abeau 17,515 · 7.4 km | 0% | 9.8% | 5.2 |
| Cessieu 3,259 · 8.1 km | 0% | 27% | 1 |
Cessieu 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 Saint-Savin
Is Saint-Savin in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 15% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Saint-Savin?
OpenStreetMap maps 12 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); 32 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saint-Savin is woodland?
17% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Savin near the sea?
No: the coast is 244 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saint-Savin?
April and June to August: 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.