First pick
Place Aristide Briand
Park or garden · 240 m outside the commune
3.3 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
1 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Kev22 · CC BY-SA 4.00%woodland
Outdoors in Le Coteau · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Le Coteau is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Le Coteau; the nearest, Milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de la Loire (Natura 2000), is 0.6 km from the town center. Le Coteau has almost no mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 7 km across Le Coteau (1.4 km per km²). 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: Milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de la Loire, 0.6 km
Woodland
0%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
6.7 km
1.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Place Aristide Briand
Throughout this page, the Loire 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 Coteau?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyMilieux alluviaux et aquatiques de la Loire (Natura 2000) is 0.6 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Le Coteau apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Le Coteau 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
46out of 100
Woodland0%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
1out of 100
Footpaths1.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
43out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Le Coteau has the 20th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,775 to 6,924 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Jacou (10.3 km per km²) to Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacou Hérault | 10.3 | 16% | 0% | 13 km |
| 2 | Noyelles-sous-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 5 | 10% | 0% | 77 km |
| 3 | Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes Seine-et-Marne | 4.3 | 11% | 0% | 164 km |
| 4 | Lésigny Seine-et-Marne | 4.2 | 42% | 0% | 171 km |
| 5 | Domène Isère | 3.8 | 24% | 0% | 202 km |
| 6 | Lutterbach Haut-Rhin | 3.7 | 43% | 12% | 442 km |
| 7 | Castries Hérault | 3.6 | 9.3% | 0.1% | 14 km |
| 8 | Liancourt Oise | 3.4 | 26% | 0% | 110 km |
| 9 | Carnoux-en-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 31% | 0% | 5 km |
| 10 | Loos-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 3.6% | 0% | 71 km |
| 11 | Montfort-sur-Meu Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.5 | 30% | 0% | 40 km |
| 12 | Nyons Drôme | 2.5 | 44% | 100% | 103 km |
| 13 | Escalquens Haute-Garonne | 2.5 | 1.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 14 | Beuvrages Nord | 1.9 | 4.2% | 99% | 102 km |
| 15 | Les Essarts-le-Roi Yvelines | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 137 km |
| 16 | Auvers-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1.7 | 19% | 100% | 122 km |
| 17 | Poussan Hérault | 1.5 | 2.1% | 38% | 8.5 km |
| 18 | Changé Sarthe | 1.5 | 33% | 0% | 142 km |
| 19 | Acigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.4 | 11% | 0% | 52 km |
| 20 | Le Coteau Loire | 1.4 | 0% | 0% | 274 km |
| 21 | Laudun-l'Ardoise Gard | 1.3 | 19% | 2.1% | 73 km |
| 22 | Douvaine Haute-Savoie | 1.3 | 22% | 0.9% | 296 km |
| 23 | Brindas Rhône | 1.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 245 km |
| 24 | Saint-Maurice-l'Exil Isère | 1.2 | 11% | 5.4% | 211 km |
| 25 | Trans-en-Provence Var | 1.1 | 26% | 0% | 23 km |
| 26 | Ploeren Morbihan | 1.1 | 13% | 96% | 3.1 km |
| 27 | Saint-Jean-d'Angély Charente-Maritime | 1 | 8% | 0% | 35 km |
| 28 | Quesnoy-sur-Deûle Nord | 1 | 0.8% | 0% | 52 km |
| 29 | Surgères Charente-Maritime | 0.9 | 5% | 0% | 24 km |
| 30 | Veigné Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 35% | 0% | 179 km |
| 31 | Les Abrets en Dauphiné Isère | 0.7 | 17% | 0% | 238 km |
| 32 | Montluel Ain | 0.5 | 27% | 35% | 267 km |
| 33 | Lucciana Haute-Corse | 0.4 | 4.8% | 3% | On it |
| 34 | Chabeuil Drôme | 0.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 162 km |
| 35 | Loudun Vienne | 0.3 | 6.4% | 0% | 122 km |
| 36 | Essarts-en-Bocage Vendée | 0.3 | 4.1% | 0% | 46 km |
| 37 | Beaufort-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 12% | 100% | 141 km |
| 38 | Cadaujac Gironde | 0.2 | 14% | 45% | 29 km |
| 39 | Caussade Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 172 km |
| 40 | Le Controis-en-Sologne Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 24% | 6.7% | 229 km |
| 41 | Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche Haute-Vienne | 0.1 | 24% | 0% | 151 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 Coteau
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Place Aristide Briand leads, at 3.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Antoine Bécot
Park or garden
1.5 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
Centralin the middle of Le Coteau
Directionsto a point inside
Square Pierre Fernier
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Le Coteau
Directionsto a point inside
Square des Martyrs de la Résistance
Park or garden · 360 m outside the commune
0.4 ha
1.2 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
Milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de la Loire is the nearest protected area, 0.6 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
Milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de la Loire
0.6 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
7 km of footpaths cross Le Coteau
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
6.7 km
1.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Le CoteauLoire medianFrance median
Footpaths1.4
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Le CoteauLoire medianFrance median
Woodland0%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 57% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 99% 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 Coteau 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 Le Coteau: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Riorges - Man, 3.3 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) | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.4 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 42 | 33 | 38 | 53 | 78 | 74 | 73 | 70 | 68 | 69 | 68 | 45 |
February is the driest month (33 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 78 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 61 nights a year. The climate in Le Coteau →
Neighbors
Next to Le Coteau
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
RoanneCommelle-VernayRiorgesVillerestMablyRenaisonLe Coteau
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Roanne, Commelle-Vernay and Villerest have at least twice as much protected land. Renaison 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 Le Coteau
Is Le Coteau in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de la Loire, 0.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Le Coteau?
OpenStreetMap maps 7 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Le Coteau is woodland?
0% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Coteau near the sea?
No: the coast is 274 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Le Coteau?
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.