First pick
Les jardins du bourg
Park or garden
2.9 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
0.8 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Alasjourn · CC BY-SA 3.020%of the land protected
Outdoors in Labenne · protected areas, woods and footpaths
54% of Labenne is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 99 km across Labenne (4 km per km²). Protected areas cover 20% of Labenne’s land. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 9 km in Labenne. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
20%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
54%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
99 km
4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
9.3 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: Les jardins du bourg
The sea
2.8 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Landes 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 Labenne?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune54% mapped woodland, more than in 93% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.A place of footpaths4 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.A nature reserveMarais d’Orx nature reserve covers 18% of the commune.Near the seaThe coast is 2.8 km from the town center.
What sets Labenne apart: its woods, then its footpaths.
Against French towns
How Labenne 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 areas20%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
78out of 100
Woodland54%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
93out of 100
Footpaths4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
85out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
52out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Labenne has the 4th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,090 to 7,282 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Guingamp (6.8 km per km²) to Herbignac (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guingamp Côtes-d'Armor | 6.8 | 16% | 0% | 16 km |
| 2 | Colombelles Calvados | 4.9 | 3.1% | 0% | 9.7 km |
| 3 | Saint-Ismier Isère | 4.5 | 40% | 31% | 206 km |
| 4 | Labenne Landes | 4 | 54% | 20% | 2.8 km |
| 5 | Écouen Val-d'Oise | 4 | 16% | 0% | 135 km |
| 6 | Égly Essonne | 3.9 | 13% | 0% | 167 km |
| 7 | Balaruc-les-Bains Hérault | 3.5 | 0.7% | 33% | 3.8 km |
| 8 | Vendargues Hérault | 3.3 | 11% | 0% | 12 km |
| 9 | Eckbolsheim Bas-Rhin | 3.1 | 7.3% | 0% | 448 km |
| 10 | Ugine Savoie | 2.2 | 58% | 2.4% | 236 km |
| 11 | Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis Yvelines | 2.2 | 13% | 100% | 140 km |
| 12 | Waziers Nord | 2.2 | 4.9% | 0% | 88 km |
| 13 | Wissous Essonne | 2.1 | 5.8% | 0% | 159 km |
| 14 | Chauray Deux-Sèvres | 2 | 2.4% | 0% | 58 km |
| 15 | La Gaude Alpes-Maritimes | 1.8 | 44% | 2.8% | 7.1 km |
| 16 | Montauroux Var | 1.8 | 61% | 9.8% | 16 km |
| 17 | Bourg-Saint-Maurice Savoie | 1.8 | 15% | 0.4% | 211 km |
| 18 | Bagnères-de-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.6 | 30% | 42% | 144 km |
| 19 | Kervignac Morbihan | 1.5 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 20 | La Talaudière Loire | 1.5 | 6.6% | 0% | 215 km |
| 21 | Templeuve-en-Pévèle Nord | 1.4 | 11% | 0% | 76 km |
| 22 | Eyguières Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.4 | 13% | 100% | 30 km |
| 23 | Pont-Saint-Martin Loire-Atlantique | 1.3 | 17% | 1.7% | 33 km |
| 24 | Caudan Morbihan | 1.2 | 16% | 3.4% | On it |
| 25 | Mably Loire | 1.2 | 6.8% | 4.4% | 279 km |
| 26 | Pleurtuit Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.2 | 9.8% | 100% | On it |
| 27 | Divatte-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 7.5% | 5.6% | 56 km |
| 28 | Orgeval Yvelines | 1.1 | 27% | 0% | 129 km |
| 29 | Les Trois-Bassins Réunion | 1 | 20% | 82% | On it |
| 30 | Lodève Hérault | 1 | 51% | 100% | 47 km |
| 31 | Péronne Somme | 1 | 6.5% | 12% | 94 km |
| 32 | Montoir-de-Bretagne Loire-Atlantique | 0.9 | 0.2% | 50% | On it |
| 33 | Trégunc Finistère | 0.9 | 9.6% | 6.1% | On it |
| 34 | Salazie Réunion | 0.9 | 63% | 100% | 16 km |
| 35 | Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.6 | 37% | 6.3% | 8.8 km |
| 36 | Aubigny-Les Clouzeaux Vendée | 0.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 24 km |
| 37 | Sainte-Pazanne Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 4.9% | 0% | 15 km |
| 38 | Viriat Ain | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 311 km |
| 39 | Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton Eure | 0.4 | 20% | 1.5% | 87 km |
| 40 | Saint-Pierre-en-Auge Calvados | 0.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 32 km |
| 41 | Herbignac Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 14% | 100% | 7.8 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 Labenne
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Les jardins du bourg leads, at 2.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
20% of Labenne lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Marais d’Orx nature reserve
18% of the commune2.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Zones humides associées au marais d’Orx
18% of the commune1.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Domaine d’Orx
17% of the commune2.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Dunes modernes du littoral landais de Capbreton à Tarnos
1.5% of the commune1.8 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area20%
Nature reserve18%
Natura 2000 site20%
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.
20% of Labenne’s land is protected, more than in 78% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Landes has 8.2%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
99 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Labenne
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
99 km
4 km per km²
Hiking routes
9.3 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
54%
about 13.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LabenneLandes medianFrance median
Footpaths4
Hiking routes0.4
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LabenneLandes medianFrance median
Woodland54%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 85% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 93% 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 Labenne 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
SLR Longarisse - Bayonne9.7 km
Pinède Ondres Jaune9.1 km
Pinède Ondres Rouge5.5 km
Ondres et sa forêt4.5 km
Circuit du Marais Burret2.7 km
Pinède Ondres vert2.4 km
Sentier Saveurs et Senteurs2.1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Labenne: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Soorts-Hossegor, 8.4 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) | 9.3 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 12 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 121 | 91 | 84 | 95 | 86 | 76 | 60 | 65 | 97 | 115 | 170 | 123 |
July is the driest month (60 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 170 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 21 nights a year. The climate in Labenne →
Neighbors
Next to Labenne
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
OndresCapbretonTarnosBénesse-MaremneSaint-Martin-de-SeignanxSoorts-HossegorLabenne
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labenne | 20% | 54% | 4 | 2.8 km |
| Ondres 6,533 · 3.5 km | 5.2% | 59% | 2.5 | On it |
| Capbreton 9,184 · 5.5 km | 11% | 58% | 5.9 | On it |
| Tarnos 12,957 · 6.6 km | 21% | 41% | 2.3 | On it |
| Bénesse-Maremne 3,780 · 7.3 km | 0.1% | 42% | 0.7 | 6.6 km |
| Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx 6,238 · 7.6 km | 33% | 51% | 0.7 | 9.2 km |
| Soorts-Hossegor 3,817 · 8 km | 0% | 30% | 4.9 | On it |
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 Labenne
Is Labenne in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 20% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Labenne?
OpenStreetMap maps 99 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Labenne is woodland?
54% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Labenne near the sea?
No: the coast is 2.8 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Labenne?
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 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.