First pick
Parc Henri Coullaud
Park or garden · 100 m outside the commune
10 ha1.8 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.8 km of path
1.3 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: travail personnel (own work) · CC BY-SA 3.020%of the land protected
Outdoors in Jargeau · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Jargeau is within 800 m of a park or wood
20% of Jargeau’s land lies in protected areas. 7.3% of Jargeau is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 15 km across Jargeau (1 km per km²). 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
7.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
15 km
1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.1 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: Parc Henri Coullaud
Throughout this page, the Loiret median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
Against French towns
How Jargeau 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
Woodland7.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
31out of 100
Footpaths1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
33out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
39out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Jargeau has the 21st fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,568 to 4,650 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Frette-sur-Seine (4.6 km per km²) to Vayres (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Frette-sur-Seine Val-d'Oise | 4.6 | 6.9% | 0% | 131 km |
| 2 | La Tremblade Charente-Maritime | 4.3 | 72% | 89% | On it |
| 3 | Bizanos Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.8 | 12% | 9.4% | 98 km |
| 4 | Ars-sur-Moselle Moselle | 3.7 | 59% | 100% | 327 km |
| 5 | La Tour-de-Salvagny Rhône | 3.3 | 28% | 0% | 255 km |
| 6 | Mandeure Doubs | 3 | 59% | 11% | 410 km |
| 7 | Évin-Malmaison Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 19% | 0% | 80 km |
| 8 | Guesnain Nord | 2.3 | 3% | 0% | 93 km |
| 9 | Auchy-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 2.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 66 km |
| 10 | Annay Pas-de-Calais | 2.1 | 5.8% | 0% | 73 km |
| 11 | Angres Pas-de-Calais | 2.1 | 14% | 0% | 75 km |
| 12 | Auberchicourt Nord | 1.9 | 2% | 0.3% | 97 km |
| 13 | Plouha Côtes-d'Armor | 1.9 | 15% | 0.1% | On it |
| 14 | Saint-Leu-d'Esserent Oise | 1.8 | 22% | 0.3% | 119 km |
| 15 | Trouville-sur-Mer Calvados | 1.8 | 7.9% | 0.5% | On it |
| 16 | Grimaud Var | 1.7 | 41% | 4.5% | On it |
| 17 | La Fouillouse Loire | 1.3 | 26% | 0% | 217 km |
| 18 | Biache-Saint-Vaast Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 9.2% | 0% | 90 km |
| 19 | Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu Rhône | 1.2 | 14% | 0% | 243 km |
| 20 | Espalion Aveyron | 1.2 | 30% | 3.6% | 144 km |
| 21 | Jargeau Loiret | 1 | 7.3% | 20% | 218 km |
| 22 | Montville Seine-Maritime | 1 | 39% | 0% | 41 km |
| 23 | Bouloc Haute-Garonne | 1 | 22% | 0% | 158 km |
| 24 | Véretz Indre-et-Loire | 1 | 13% | 0% | 188 km |
| 25 | Salaise-sur-Sanne Isère | 0.9 | 13% | 9.2% | 207 km |
| 26 | Bas-en-Basset Haute-Loire | 0.9 | 54% | 97% | 194 km |
| 27 | Puget-Ville Var | 0.9 | 23% | 19% | 20 km |
| 28 | Dieulouard Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.8 | 24% | 100% | 348 km |
| 29 | Lescure-d'Albigeois Tarn | 0.6 | 16% | 0% | 119 km |
| 30 | Montbard Côte-d'Or | 0.6 | 74% | 0% | 344 km |
| 31 | Macau Gironde | 0.5 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 32 | Hagetmau Landes | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 68 km |
| 33 | Pluméliau-Bieuzy Morbihan | 0.4 | 16% | 0% | 26 km |
| 34 | Dompierre-sur-Yon Vendée | 0.4 | 8.7% | 0% | 39 km |
| 35 | Sézanne Marne | 0.4 | 22% | 1.7% | 220 km |
| 36 | Arnas Rhône | 0.4 | 8.7% | 2.2% | 277 km |
| 37 | Hœrdt Bas-Rhin | 0.4 | 3% | 0% | 444 km |
| 38 | Tiercé Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 12% | 16% | 131 km |
| 39 | Villers-Bretonneux Somme | 0.3 | 8.8% | 0% | 69 km |
| 40 | Cabannes Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.3 | 1.5% | 14% | 46 km |
| 41 | Vayres Gironde | 0.2 | 2.2% | 11% | 24 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 Jargeau
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Henri Coullaud leads, at 10 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Abbé Picard
Park or garden · 280 m outside the commune
0.2 ha0.1 km of path
3 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
20% of Jargeau 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
Vallée de la Loire du Loiret
19% of the commune0.7 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de la Loire de Tavers à Belleville-sur-Loire
14% of the commune0.7 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area20%
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 Jargeau’s land is protected, more than in 78% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Loiret has 4%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
15 km of footpaths cross Jargeau
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
15 km
1 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.1 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
7.3%
about 1.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
JargeauLoiret medianFrance median
Footpaths1
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
JargeauLoiret medianFrance median
Woodland7.3%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 67% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 69% 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 Jargeau is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Tour de Bou via Mardié12 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Jargeau: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St-Benoit/Loire, 15 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) | 8.8 | 10.2 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 55 | 51 | 47 | 55 | 70 | 50 | 56 | 49 | 53 | 62 | 68 | 70 |
March is the driest month (47 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 70 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 55 nights a year. The climate in Jargeau →
Neighbors
Next to Jargeau
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Denis-de-l'HôtelDonneryMardiéSandillonChâteauneuf-sur-LoireFay-aux-LogesJargeau
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jargeau | 20% | 7.3% | 1 |
| Saint-Denis-de-l'Hôtel 3,065 · 1.3 km | 4% | 38% | 0.4 |
| Donnery 2,873 · 5.4 km | 0% | 29% | 1.1 |
| Mardié 3,078 · 5.9 km | 2.8% | 35% | 1.5 |
| Sandillon 4,300 · 7.3 km | 17% | 20% | 0.5 |
| Châteauneuf-sur-Loire 8,546 · 7.4 km | 22% | 49% | 0.6 |
| Fay-aux-Loges 3,916 · 7.8 km | 12% | 36% | 0.8 |
Saint-Denis-de-l'Hôtel, Donnery and Mardié 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 Jargeau
Is Jargeau 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 Jargeau?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 3 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Jargeau is woodland?
7.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Jargeau near the sea?
No: the coast is 218 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Jargeau?
April and June 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.