First pick
Parc Delmas
Park or garden
0.7 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Souillac
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Patrick Nouhailler's… · CC BY-SA 3.06.9%of the land protected
Outdoors in Souillac · protected areas, woods and footpaths
67% of Souillac is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 17 km in Souillac. Footpaths add up to 26 km across Souillac (1 km per km²). 6.9% of Souillac’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
6.9%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
67%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
26 km
1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Delmas
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.
Against French towns
How Souillac 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 areas6.9%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
68out of 100
Woodland67%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
97out of 100
Footpaths1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
32out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
71out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Souillac has the 16th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,173 to 3,210 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Fonbeauzard (4.4 km per km²) to Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fonbeauzard Haute-Garonne | 4.4 | 10% | 0% | 151 km |
| 2 | Saint-Michel Aisne | 3.4 | 55% | 62% | 170 km |
| 3 | Gagnac-sur-Garonne Haute-Garonne | 3 | 15% | 38% | 156 km |
| 4 | Voujeaucourt Doubs | 2.5 | 44% | 0% | 414 km |
| 5 | Saint-Michel Charente | 2.3 | 12% | 3.2% | 71 km |
| 6 | Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt Loir-et-Cher | 2.2 | 63% | 0% | 220 km |
| 7 | Lissieu Rhône | 2 | 19% | 0% | 260 km |
| 8 | Dolus-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.9 | 31% | 40% | On it |
| 9 | Knutange Moselle | 1.9 | 64% | 0% | 303 km |
| 10 | Proville Nord | 1.6 | 15% | 9.5% | 109 km |
| 11 | Salomé Nord | 1.6 | 3% | 0% | 65 km |
| 12 | Lozanne Rhône | 1.6 | 17% | 0% | 259 km |
| 13 | Châteaugay Puy-de-Dôme | 1.6 | 4.7% | 5.2% | 265 km |
| 14 | Nay Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.6 | 14% | 8.5% | 109 km |
| 15 | Fontoy Moselle | 1.5 | 48% | 0% | 300 km |
| 16 | Toussieu Rhône | 1.5 | 6.8% | 0% | 243 km |
| 17 | La Machine Nièvre | 1.5 | 65% | 58% | 357 km |
| 18 | Marsac-sur-l'Isle Dordogne | 1.2 | 33% | 0% | 99 km |
| 19 | Davézieux Ardèche | 1.2 | 4.3% | 0% | 195 km |
| 20 | Saint-Paul-de-Vence Alpes-Maritimes | 1.1 | 32% | 0% | 5 km |
| 21 | Saône Doubs | 1.1 | 43% | 28% | 397 km |
| 22 | Druelle Balsac Aveyron | 1.1 | 22% | 0% | 140 km |
| 23 | Breuil-le-Vert Oise | 1 | 31% | 0% | 105 km |
| 24 | Sallèles-d'Aude Aude | 1 | 7.8% | 1.7% | 21 km |
| 25 | La Loupe Eure-et-Loir | 1 | 9.5% | 100% | 118 km |
| 26 | Souillac Lot | 1 | 67% | 6.9% | 163 km |
| 27 | Ploemel Morbihan | 0.9 | 18% | 0% | 3.3 km |
| 28 | Camblanes-et-Meynac Gironde | 0.9 | 12% | 2.8% | 28 km |
| 29 | Baraqueville Aveyron | 0.8 | 13% | 0% | 134 km |
| 30 | Creuzier-le-Vieux Allier | 0.8 | 10% | 3% | 293 km |
| 31 | Saint-Sauveur-Villages Manche | 0.8 | 2% | 35% | 13 km |
| 32 | Meschers-sur-Gironde Charente-Maritime | 0.6 | 7.4% | 60% | On it |
| 33 | Seltz Bas-Rhin | 0.6 | 36% | 57% | 447 km |
| 34 | Imphy Nièvre | 0.6 | 32% | 46% | 343 km |
| 35 | Crêches-sur-Saône Saône-et-Loire | 0.6 | 5.5% | 16% | 303 km |
| 36 | Mayet Sarthe | 0.5 | 38% | 40% | 155 km |
| 37 | Cossé-le-Vivien Mayenne | 0.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 83 km |
| 38 | Saint-Siméon-de-Bressieux Isère | 0.3 | 15% | 0% | 211 km |
| 39 | Montsûrs Mayenne | 0.3 | 15% | 19% | 80 km |
| 40 | Illiers-Combray Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 142 km |
| 41 | Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde Gironde | 0.1 | 0.8% | 55% | On it |
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 Souillac
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Delmas leads, at 0.7 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Plaine des Jeux
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.2 km of path
0.7 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Abbé Pierre Fayret
Park or garden
0.2 ha
Centralin the middle of Souillac
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
6.9% of Souillac 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 Dordogne quercynoise
6.9% of the commune0.6 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
La Dordogne
2.7 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area6.9%
Natura 2000 site6.9%
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.
6.9% of Souillac’s land is protected, more than in 68% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Lot has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
26 km of footpaths and 17 km of hiking routes cross Souillac
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
26 km
1 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
67%
about 17.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
SouillacLot medianFrance median
Footpaths1
Hiking routes0.7
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
SouillacLot medianFrance median
Woodland67%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 68% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 97% 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 Souillac is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit des viaducs13 km
Étape 20 • Chemin d'Amadour10 km
Étape 21 • Chemin d'Amadour5.8 km
Boucle des Moulins1.1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Souillac: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Brive, 28 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 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 24 | 19 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 74 | 60 | 66 | 88 | 87 | 78 | 63 | 67 | 73 | 80 | 85 | 83 |
February is the driest month (60 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 88 mm of rain falls in April, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 58 nights a year. The climate in Souillac →
Neighbors
Next to Souillac
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GourdonSarlat-la-CanédaGramatSaint-Pantaléon-de-LarcheCosnacSouillac
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Souillac | 6.9% | 67% | 1 |
| Gourdon 4,206 · 19 km | 0% | 42% | 0.7 |
| Sarlat-la-Canéda 8,763 · 20 km | 10% | 42% | 0.3 |
| Gramat 3,512 · 24 km | 100% | 39% | 0.4 |
| Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche 5,091 · 27 km | 0.3% | 25% | 0.2 |
| Cosnac 3,044 · 28 km | 0% | 41% | 0.9 |
Gramat has at least twice as much protected land.
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 Souillac
Is Souillac in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 6.9% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Souillac?
OpenStreetMap maps 26 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 17 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Souillac is woodland?
67% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Souillac near the sea?
No: the coast is 163 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Souillac?
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.