First pick
Jardin de l'Amitié Loury-Lobbach
Park or garden · 390 m outside the commune
0.2 ha
3.3 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Croquant · CC BY-SA 3.021%of the land protected
Outdoors in Traînou · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Traînou is within 800 m of a park or wood
33% of Traînou is mapped woodland. 6 km of footpaths cross Traînou (0.2 km per km²). Protected areas cover 21% of Traînou’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
21%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
33%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
6.2 km
0.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
1 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: Jardin de l'Amitié Loury-Lobbach
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Traînou?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune33% mapped woodland, more than in 80% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Few mapped footpaths0.2 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Traînou apart: its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Traînou 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 areas21%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
79out of 100
Woodland33%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
80out of 100
Footpaths0.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
2out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
26out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Traînou has the 3rd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,371 to 3,431 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Mours-Saint-Eusèbe (3.7 km per km²) to Saint-Médard-d'Eyrans (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mours-Saint-Eusèbe Drôme | 3.7 | 12% | 0% | 180 km |
| 2 | Fontanil-Cornillon Isère | 3.5 | 42% | 36% | 210 km |
| 3 | Nantua Ain | 3 | 71% | 0% | 302 km |
| 4 | Anduze Gard | 2.9 | 49% | 100% | 55 km |
| 5 | Villiers-Saint-Frédéric Yvelines | 2.5 | 17% | 0% | 131 km |
| 6 | Essert Territoire de Belfort | 2.4 | 41% | 0% | 431 km |
| 7 | Auribeau-sur-Siagne Alpes-Maritimes | 2.3 | 48% | 16% | 8.4 km |
| 8 | Vals-près-le-Puy Haute-Loire | 2 | 17% | 0% | 164 km |
| 9 | Hégenheim Haut-Rhin | 2 | 11% | 0% | 420 km |
| 10 | Annet-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 1.8 | 24% | 23% | 158 km |
| 11 | Sainte-Marie-de-Ré Charente-Maritime | 1.7 | 7.5% | 0.4% | On it |
| 12 | Saint-Cast-le-Guildo Côtes-d'Armor | 1.7 | 12% | 100% | On it |
| 13 | Porcheville Yvelines | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 115 km |
| 14 | Plouër-sur-Rance Côtes-d'Armor | 1.6 | 25% | 100% | On it |
| 15 | Saint-Céré Lot | 1.6 | 28% | 0% | 196 km |
| 16 | Saint-Martin-du-Var Alpes-Maritimes | 1.5 | 23% | 16% | 15 km |
| 17 | Carpiquet Calvados | 1.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 16 km |
| 18 | Hulluch Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 7.9% | 0% | 69 km |
| 19 | Rupt-sur-Moselle Vosges | 1.3 | 67% | 100% | 441 km |
| 20 | Lespignan Hérault | 1.1 | 0.3% | 69% | 8.7 km |
| 21 | Narrosse Landes | 1 | 25% | 10% | 34 km |
| 22 | Vic-la-Gardiole Hérault | 1 | 4.8% | 70% | On it |
| 23 | Saint-André Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.9 | 1.3% | 0% | 6.3 km |
| 24 | Étain Meuse | 0.8 | 16% | 0% | 295 km |
| 25 | Thurins Rhône | 0.8 | 31% | 0% | 240 km |
| 26 | Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs Isère | 0.7 | 12% | 0% | 213 km |
| 27 | Vernet Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 4.5% | 1.7% | 141 km |
| 28 | Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Landes | 0.7 | 62% | 21% | 34 km |
| 29 | Vouvray Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 10% | 9.6% | 192 km |
| 30 | Pont-sur-Yonne Yonne | 0.6 | 20% | 0% | 238 km |
| 31 | Mont-près-Chambord Loir-et-Cher | 0.5 | 58% | 23% | 224 km |
| 32 | Brassac-les-Mines Puy-de-Dôme | 0.5 | 15% | 3.4% | 214 km |
| 33 | Saint-Romain-de-Jalionas Isère | 0.4 | 19% | 18% | 257 km |
| 34 | Landrecies Nord | 0.3 | 1.3% | 100% | 133 km |
| 35 | Feillens Ain | 0.3 | 12% | 18% | 315 km |
| 36 | Longages Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 8% | 0% | 153 km |
| 37 | Vescovato Haute-Corse | 0.2 | 16% | 2.9% | 5.9 km |
| 38 | Durtal Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 34% | 0% | 135 km |
| 39 | Traînou Loiret | 0.2 | 33% | 21% | 207 km |
| 40 | Iwuy Nord | 0.2 | 4.4% | 0% | 110 km |
| 41 | Saint-Médard-d'Eyrans Gironde | 0.2 | 29% | 36% | 33 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 Traînou
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin de l'Amitié Loury-Lobbach leads, at 0.2 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
21% of Traînou 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
Forêt d’Orléans
21% of the commune0.7 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Forêt d’Orléans et périphérie
0.7% of the commune2 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area21%
Natura 2000 site21%
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.
21% of Traînou’s land is protected, more than in 79% 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
6 km of footpaths cross Traînou
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
6.2 km
0.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
1 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
33%
about 11.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
TraînouLoiret medianFrance median
Footpaths0.2
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
TraînouLoiret medianFrance median
Woodland33%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 98% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 80% 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 Traînou is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 3B6.8 km
De Pithiviers à Orléans11 km
Via Turonensis par Orléans, Etréchy - Orléans11 km
GR 3B passes within 2 km of Traînou.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Traînou: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Loury, 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) | 8.8 | 10.2 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 62 | 55 | 53 | 56 | 75 | 65 | 56 | 58 | 59 | 70 | 72 | 78 |
March is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 78 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 56 nights a year. The climate in Traînou →
Neighbors
Next to Traînou
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
LouryFay-aux-LogesDonneryMardiéChécyNeuville-aux-BoisTraînou
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Traînou | 21% | 33% | 0.2 |
| Loury 2,616 · 3.5 km | 25% | 42% | 0.4 |
| Fay-aux-Loges 3,916 · 5.7 km | 12% | 36% | 0.8 |
| Donnery 2,873 · 7.2 km | 0% | 29% | 1.1 |
| Mardié 3,078 · 9.4 km | 2.8% | 35% | 1.5 |
| Chécy 9,083 · 10 km | 9.7% | 18% | 2.9 |
| Neuville-aux-Bois 4,987 · 11 km | 0% | 19% | 0.5 |
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 Traînou
Is Traînou in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 21% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Traînou?
OpenStreetMap maps 6 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 1 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Traînou is woodland?
33% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Traînou near the sea?
No: the coast is 207 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Traînou?
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 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.