First pick
Jardin public
Park or garden
0.3 ha
Centralin the middle of Saint-Céré
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: MOSSOT · CC BY-SA 3.028%woodland
Outdoors in Saint-Céré · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Saint-Céré is within 800 m of a park or wood
Saint-Céré has 30 km of waymarked hiking routes. 28% of Saint-Céré is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Saint-Céré; the nearest, Causses du Quercy Regional Nature Park, is 6.3 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: Causses du Quercy Regional Nature Park, 6.3 km
Woodland
28%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
18 km
1.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
30 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: Jardin public
Throughout this page, the Lot 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 Saint-Céré?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes30 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyCausses du Quercy Regional Nature Park is 6.3 km from the town center.
What sets Saint-Céré apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Saint-Céré 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
Woodland28%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
74out of 100
Footpaths1.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
47out of 100
Hiking routes2.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
98out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Céré has the 16th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,404 to 3,455 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 | Verquin Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 5.5% | 0% | 62 km |
| 5 | Choisy-au-Bac Oise | 2.5 | 62% | 56% | 119 km |
| 6 | Essert Territoire de Belfort | 2.4 | 41% | 0% | 431 km |
| 7 | Hégenheim Haut-Rhin | 2 | 11% | 0% | 420 km |
| 8 | Ligugé Vienne | 1.8 | 38% | 0% | 114 km |
| 9 | Annet-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 1.8 | 24% | 23% | 158 km |
| 10 | Culoz-Béon Ain | 1.8 | 57% | 22% | 267 km |
| 11 | Sainte-Marie-de-Ré Charente-Maritime | 1.7 | 7.5% | 0.4% | On it |
| 12 | Aubin Aveyron | 1.7 | 49% | 2.3% | 166 km |
| 13 | La Boisse Ain | 1.7 | 16% | 0% | 265 km |
| 14 | Plouër-sur-Rance Côtes-d'Armor | 1.6 | 25% | 100% | On it |
| 15 | Saint-Sulpice-de-Royan Charente-Maritime | 1.6 | 16% | 16% | On it |
| 16 | Saint-Céré Lot | 1.6 | 28% | 0% | 196 km |
| 17 | Saint-Martin-du-Var Alpes-Maritimes | 1.5 | 23% | 16% | 15 km |
| 18 | Mauriac Cantal | 1.4 | 22% | 17% | 227 km |
| 19 | Carpiquet Calvados | 1.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 16 km |
| 20 | Rupt-sur-Moselle Vosges | 1.3 | 67% | 100% | 441 km |
| 21 | Azay-le-Rideau Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 27% | 100% | 162 km |
| 22 | Lespignan Hérault | 1.1 | 0.3% | 69% | 8.7 km |
| 23 | Saint-Ambroix Gard | 1 | 30% | 100% | 78 km |
| 24 | Vic-la-Gardiole Hérault | 1 | 4.8% | 70% | On it |
| 25 | Troarn Calvados | 1 | 19% | 0% | 11 km |
| 26 | Ruffec Charente | 0.9 | 30% | 0% | 91 km |
| 27 | Thurins Rhône | 0.8 | 31% | 0% | 240 km |
| 28 | Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs Isère | 0.7 | 12% | 0% | 213 km |
| 29 | Andeville Oise | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 105 km |
| 30 | Vouvray Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 10% | 9.6% | 192 km |
| 31 | Brassac-les-Mines Puy-de-Dôme | 0.5 | 15% | 3.4% | 214 km |
| 32 | Moult-Chicheboville Calvados | 0.5 | 8.3% | 6% | 19 km |
| 33 | Saint-Romain-de-Jalionas Isère | 0.4 | 19% | 18% | 257 km |
| 34 | Bournezeau Vendée | 0.3 | 9.3% | 0% | 35 km |
| 35 | Landrecies Nord | 0.3 | 1.3% | 100% | 133 km |
| 36 | Feillens Ain | 0.3 | 12% | 18% | 315 km |
| 37 | Villeneuve-la-Guyard Yonne | 0.2 | 18% | 0.2% | 227 km |
| 38 | Steenwerck Nord | 0.2 | 0.8% | 0% | 47 km |
| 39 | Vescovato Haute-Corse | 0.2 | 16% | 2.9% | 5.9 km |
| 40 | Bellevigne-les-Châteaux Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 28% | 100% | 128 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 Saint-Céré
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin public leads, at 0.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Actipole
Park or garden · 10 m outside the commune
0.2 ha
1.8 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
Causses du Quercy Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 6.3 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Causses du Quercy Regional Nature Park
6.3 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 and 30 km of hiking routes cross Saint-Céré
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
1.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
30 km
waymarked: 2.7 km per km²
Woodland
28%
about 3.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-CéréLot medianFrance median
Footpaths1.6
Hiking routes2.7
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-CéréLot medianFrance median
Woodland28%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 53% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 74% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Saint-Céré’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Le Mont Saint-Jospeh4 km
Lentillac et la chapelle de Verdale1.2 km
Sentier des Arts0.9 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saint-Céré: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Argentat, 27 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) | 9.1 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.0 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 29 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 104 | 87 | 87 | 108 | 103 | 89 | 74 | 74 | 85 | 101 | 119 | 116 |
August is the driest month (74 mm) and the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 119 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 68 nights a year. The climate in Saint-Céré →
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Céré
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GramatArgentat-sur-DordogneSaint-Céré
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Céré | 0% | 28% | 1.6 |
| Gramat 3,512 · 16 km | 100% | 39% | 0.4 |
| Argentat-sur-Dordogne 2,881 · 27 km | 2.2% | 59% | 1.4 |
Gramat has at least twice as much protected land. Argentat-sur-Dordogne 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 Saint-Céré
Is Saint-Céré in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Causses du Quercy Regional Nature Park, 6.3 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Saint-Céré?
OpenStreetMap maps 18 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 30 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saint-Céré is woodland?
28% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Céré near the sea?
No: the coast is 196 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saint-Céré?
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.