First pick
Forêt de Cauneille
Wood or forest
1,252 ha8.7 km of path
1 h 55 minto walk all 8.7 km of path
4.8 km south-westfrom the center
Ancienne ligne de Dax à Peyrehorade - Tramways de la Chalosse
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Gilles Guillamot · CC BY-SA 3.030%woodland
Outdoors in Pouillon · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Pouillon is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 30% of Pouillon. Footpaths add up to 18 km across Pouillon (0.4 km per km²). No protected area reaches Pouillon; the nearest, Barthes de l’Adour (Natura 2000), is 5.8 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Barthes de l’Adour, 5.8 km
Woodland
30%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
18 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.2 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt de Cauneille
The sea
36 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 Pouillon?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune30% mapped woodland, more than in 76% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyBarthes de l’Adour (Natura 2000) is 5.8 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Pouillon apart: its woods, then protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Pouillon 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 areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland30%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
76out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
8out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
24out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Pouillon has the 9th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,111 to 3,157 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sérézin-du-Rhône (3.5 km per km²) to La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sérézin-du-Rhône Rhône | 3.5 | 20% | 0% | 237 km |
| 2 | Spicheren Moselle | 3.1 | 39% | 0% | 362 km |
| 3 | Donville-les-Bains Manche | 3.1 | 2.8% | 0% | On it |
| 4 | Asnières-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 51% | 100% | 125 km |
| 5 | La Tranche-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.8 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 6 | Morainvilliers Yvelines | 2.4 | 32% | 0% | 127 km |
| 7 | Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 8 | Solaize Rhône | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 239 km |
| 9 | La Flotte Charente-Maritime | 2.2 | 37% | 1.2% | On it |
| 10 | Le Touvet Isère | 1.9 | 48% | 58% | 212 km |
| 11 | Éloyes Vosges | 1.8 | 59% | 0% | 428 km |
| 12 | Gilly-sur-Isère Savoie | 1.6 | 13% | 0.1% | 228 km |
| 13 | Chorges Hautes-Alpes | 1.5 | 34% | 16% | 122 km |
| 14 | Arbois Jura | 1.4 | 51% | 12% | 373 km |
| 15 | Besse-sur-Issole Var | 1.3 | 36% | 0.7% | 26 km |
| 16 | Moyenmoutier Vosges | 1.2 | 72% | 2.8% | 426 km |
| 17 | Champcevinel Dordogne | 1.1 | 51% | 0% | 106 km |
| 18 | Le Plan-de-la-Tour Var | 1.1 | 40% | 0% | 7.3 km |
| 19 | Appoigny Yonne | 1 | 46% | 2.7% | 289 km |
| 20 | Saint-Georges-sur-Baulche Yonne | 1 | 31% | 0% | 296 km |
| 21 | Vémars Val-d'Oise | 0.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 22 | Arleux Nord | 0.9 | 7.5% | 0% | 99 km |
| 23 | Quarouble Nord | 0.9 | 19% | 100% | 106 km |
| 24 | Boussois Nord | 0.9 | 5.1% | 100% | 131 km |
| 25 | Saint-Thibéry Hérault | 0.8 | 6.2% | 0.2% | 12 km |
| 26 | Thézan-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.8 | 0.9% | 0% | 22 km |
| 27 | Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal Seine-Maritime | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 54 km |
| 28 | Le Molay-Littry Calvados | 0.5 | 10% | 0.1% | 14 km |
| 29 | Montfrin Gard | 0.5 | 3.1% | 14% | 47 km |
| 30 | Valensole Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.4 | 44% | 100% | 75 km |
| 31 | Gimont Gers | 0.4 | 6.2% | 0% | 184 km |
| 32 | Château-Landon Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 13% | 0.2% | 224 km |
| 33 | Pouillon Landes | 0.4 | 30% | 0% | 36 km |
| 34 | Saint-Hippolyte Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 0% | 68% | 6.1 km |
| 35 | Longperrier Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 16% | 0% | 144 km |
| 36 | Maringues Puy-de-Dôme | 0.3 | 11% | 40% | 269 km |
| 37 | Merdrignac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 32% | 0% | 39 km |
| 38 | Lapalisse Allier | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 301 km |
| 39 | Médis Charente-Maritime | 0.2 | 9.4% | 0.6% | 5.1 km |
| 40 | Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure Charente | 0.1 | 23% | 0% | 103 km |
| 41 | La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois Cher | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 321 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 Pouillon
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Cauneille leads, at 1,252 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin d'essai du Bassecq
Park or garden
2.7 ha
3.9 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Arboretum du Bassecq 1
Park or garden
2.3 ha
3.8 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Chênes de Bastère
Park or garden · 350 m outside the commune
1.8 ha
3.9 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
Barthes de l’Adour is the nearest protected area, 5.8 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Barthes de l’Adour
5.8 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
18 km of footpaths cross Pouillon
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
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.2 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
30%
about 14.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PouillonLandes medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PouillonLandes medianFrance median
Woodland30%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 92% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 76% 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 Pouillon 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 Pouillon: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Dax, 11 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 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 25 | 21 | 15 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 113 | 90 | 86 | 104 | 93 | 74 | 63 | 63 | 89 | 108 | 157 | 117 |
July is the driest month (63 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 157 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 26 nights a year. The climate in Pouillon →
Neighbors
Next to Pouillon
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
NarrossePeyrehoradeDaxSaint-Paul-lès-DaxSalies-de-BéarnSaint-Vincent-de-PaulPouillon
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pouillon | 0% | 30% | 0.4 | 36 km |
| Narrosse 3,387 · 10 km | 10% | 25% | 1 | 34 km |
| Peyrehorade 3,700 · 11 km | 0% | 36% | 0.6 | 29 km |
| Dax 22,109 · 12 km | 37% | 21% | 2.5 | 30 km |
| Saint-Paul-lès-Dax 14,481 · 15 km | 5.3% | 62% | 1.6 | 29 km |
| Salies-de-Béarn 4,742 · 16 km | 27% | 34% | 0.5 | 46 km |
| Saint-Vincent-de-Paul 3,402 · 17 km | 21% | 62% | 0.7 | 34 km |
Dax, Salies-de-Béarn and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul have at least twice as much protected land. Saint-Paul-lès-Dax and Saint-Vincent-de-Paul 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 Pouillon
Is Pouillon in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Barthes de l’Adour, 5.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Pouillon?
OpenStreetMap maps 18 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Pouillon is woodland?
30% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Pouillon near the sea?
No: the coast is 36 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Pouillon?
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.