Photo: Boris Vallaud · Public domainAlmost every home in Saint-Sever is within 800 m of a park or wood
30 km of footpaths cross Saint-Sever (0.6 km per km²). Saint-Sever has 23 km of waymarked hiking routes. Mapped woodland covers 17% of Saint-Sever. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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.
How Saint-Sever 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Saint-Sever has the 9th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,996 to 5,099 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Giberville (5.1 km per km²) to Laventie (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giberville Calvados | 5.1 | 3.2% | 0% | 11 km |
| 2 | Pulnoy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.7 | 25% | 0% | 368 km |
| 3 | Villefranche-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes | 4.2 | 19% | 26% | On it |
| 4 | Billy-Berclau Pas-de-Calais | 4 | 15% | 0% | 67 km |
| 5 | Bezannes Marne | 3.4 | 1.8% | 0.1% | 198 km |
| 6 | Ornex Ain | 3.2 | 22% | 0% | 299 km |
| 7 | Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Pas-de-Calais | 2.8 | 35% | 100% | On it |
| 8 | Sommières Gard | 2.8 | 21% | 1.3% | 25 km |
| 9 | Luzarches Val-d'Oise | 2.6 | 47% | 100% | 130 km |
| 10 | Châteaulin Finistère | 2.5 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 11 | Gruissan Aude | 2.5 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 12 | Haillicourt Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 63 km |
| 13 | Saint-Georges-de-Didonne Charente-Maritime | 2.3 | 19% | 37% | On it |
| 14 | Decazeville Aveyron | 2.2 | 40% | 0% | 168 km |
| 15 | La Mézière Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.1 | 7.5% | 0% | 36 km |
| 16 | Bonnières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.1 | 45% | 20% | 99 km |
| 17 | Hauts de Bienne Jura | 1.9 | 77% | 100% | 326 km |
| 18 | Champagne-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1.8 | 33% | 54% | 119 km |
| 19 | Baden Morbihan | 1.8 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 20 | Yffiniac Côtes-d'Armor | 1.5 | 4.4% | 0.1% | 1.8 km |
| 21 | Mamers Sarthe | 1.4 | 0.9% | 0.1% | 110 km |
| 22 | La Ferté Macé Orne | 1.4 | 27% | 100% | 73 km |
| 23 | Petite-Forêt Nord | 1.3 | 1.8% | 1.4% | 102 km |
| 24 | Genlis Côte-d'Or | 1.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 418 km |
| 25 | Villefranche-de-Lauragais Haute-Garonne | 1.2 | 0.5% | 0% | 117 km |
| 26 | Plouigneau Finistère | 1.1 | 19% | 12% | 9 km |
| 27 | Cilaos Réunion | 1.1 | 43% | 100% | 18 km |
| 28 | Muzillac Morbihan | 1 | 4.9% | 7.8% | On it |
| 29 | Maen Roch Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 3.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 30 | Luynes Indre-et-Loire | 0.8 | 39% | 3.5% | 176 km |
| 31 | Blaye Gironde | 0.7 | 2.7% | 58% | On it |
| 32 | Habsheim Haut-Rhin | 0.7 | 49% | 50% | 438 km |
| 33 | Saint-Sever Landes | 0.6 | 17% | 4.2% | 67 km |
| 34 | Pacy-sur-Eure Eure | 0.6 | 45% | 3.1% | 88 km |
| 35 | Lestrem Pas-de-Calais | 0.5 | 1% | 0% | 52 km |
| 36 | Morcenx-la-Nouvelle Landes | 0.4 | 64% | 12% | 34 km |
| 37 | Beaurepaire Isère | 0.3 | 4.5% | 0% | 210 km |
| 38 | Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche Corrèze | 0.2 | 25% | 0.3% | 161 km |
| 39 | Rambervillers Vosges | 0.2 | 38% | 0% | 414 km |
| 40 | Saint-James Manche | 0.2 | 6.3% | 0% | 12 km |
| 41 | Laventie Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.7% | 0% | 54 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
4.2% of Saint-Sever lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
L’Adour
Share of the commune’s land
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.
4.2% of Saint-Sever’s land is protected, more than in 64% 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.
30 km of footpaths and 23 km of hiking routes cross Saint-Sever
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 81% 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. 96% of Saint-Sever’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Saint-Sever: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Grenade-Sur-Ad, 12 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) | 11 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 23 | 26 | 28 | 29 | 25 | 21 | 15 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 98 | 76 | 78 | 92 | 92 | 72 | 58 | 64 | 78 | 87 | 118 | 99 |
July is the driest month (58 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 118 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 37 nights a year. The climate in Saint-Sever →
Next to Saint-Sever
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Sever | 4.2% | 17% | 0.6 | 67 km |
| Hagetmau 4,624 · 11 km | 0% | 15% | 0.4 | 68 km |
| Saint-Pierre-du-Mont 10,092 · 14 km | 3.4% | 58% | 1.5 | 69 km |
| Mont-de-Marsan 31,592 · 16 km | 4.9% | 33% | 2.1 | 70 km |
| Tartas 3,169 · 20 km | 3.1% | 11% | 0.2 | 47 km |
| Aire-sur-l'Adour 6,211 · 26 km | 2.6% | 22% | 0.4 | 93 km |
| Villeneuve-de-Marsan 2,508 · 26 km | 10% | 46% | 0.5 | 84 km |
Saint-Pierre-du-Mont, Mont-de-Marsan and Villeneuve-de-Marsan are more wooded.
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-Sever
Is Saint-Sever in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 4.2% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Saint-Sever?
OpenStreetMap maps 30 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); 23 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saint-Sever is woodland?
17% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Sever near the sea?
No: the coast is 67 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saint-Sever?
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.