First pick
Bois de Saint-Christophe
Wood or forest
147 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
6.4 km eastfrom the center
Chemin de La Vieille ValéeChemin de Sourdeval à Tinchebray
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Crochet.david · CC BY-SA 4.02.3%of the land protected
Outdoors in Sourdeval · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Sourdeval
2.8% of Sourdeval is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 35 km across Sourdeval (0.7 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 21 km in Sourdeval. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
2.3%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
2.8%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
35 km
0.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
21 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
89%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
34 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Manche 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 Sourdeval 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 areas2.3%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
60out of 100
Woodland2.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
14out of 100
Footpaths0.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
20out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
55out of 100
Green space nearby89%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
7out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Sourdeval has the 14th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,996 to 3,058 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Margency (7.4 km per km²) to Montesquieu-Volvestre (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Margency Val-d'Oise | 7.4 | 0.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 2 | Montlignon Val-d'Oise | 5.5 | 50% | 0% | 133 km |
| 3 | Albigny-sur-Saône Rhône | 4.8 | 25% | 0% | 263 km |
| 4 | Brax Haute-Garonne | 3.4 | 29% | 0% | 162 km |
| 5 | Feucherolles Yvelines | 3.2 | 33% | 0% | 133 km |
| 6 | La Turbie Alpes-Maritimes | 3.1 | 32% | 18% | 2 km |
| 7 | Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes Isère | 3 | 37% | 30% | 206 km |
| 8 | Emmerin Nord | 2.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 64 km |
| 9 | Pont-à-Marcq Nord | 2.6 | 1% | 0% | 75 km |
| 10 | Drumettaz-Clarafond Savoie | 2.1 | 42% | 5% | 243 km |
| 11 | Gandrange Moselle | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 313 km |
| 12 | Courcelles-Chaussy Moselle | 1.9 | 37% | 0% | 340 km |
| 13 | Paimbœuf Loire-Atlantique | 1.9 | 0.6% | 70% | 10 km |
| 14 | Agon-Coutainville Manche | 1.7 | 1.1% | 15% | On it |
| 15 | Belleville-sur-Meuse Meuse | 1.6 | 42% | 39% | 288 km |
| 16 | Gruchet-le-Valasse Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 53% | 0% | 16 km |
| 17 | Retournac Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 55% | 85% | 184 km |
| 18 | Valmont Moselle | 1.2 | 28% | 0% | 357 km |
| 19 | Yenne Savoie | 1.2 | 35% | 19% | 252 km |
| 20 | Boën-sur-Lignon Loire | 1.2 | 12% | 4.3% | 243 km |
| 21 | Villeneuve-de-Berg Ardèche | 1.2 | 5.9% | 0% | 116 km |
| 22 | Aubusson Creuse | 1 | 42% | 0% | 235 km |
| 23 | Saint-Ouen Loir-et-Cher | 0.9 | 14% | 0% | 186 km |
| 24 | Saint-Venant Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 2.5% | 0% | 48 km |
| 25 | Commelle-Vernay Loire | 0.7 | 6.3% | 34% | 271 km |
| 26 | Nontron Dordogne | 0.7 | 37% | 100% | 110 km |
| 27 | Breuillet Charente-Maritime | 0.7 | 20% | 13% | On it |
| 28 | Sourdeval Manche | 0.7 | 2.8% | 2.3% | 34 km |
| 29 | Senonches Eure-et-Loir | 0.7 | 68% | 100% | 109 km |
| 30 | Pommeuse Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 19% | 0% | 179 km |
| 31 | Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres Gard | 0.6 | 28% | 0% | 68 km |
| 32 | Ailly-sur-Somme Somme | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 46 km |
| 33 | Lapeyrouse-Fossat Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 146 km |
| 34 | Murviel-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 35 | Boisseuil Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 166 km |
| 36 | Lorris Loiret | 0.4 | 54% | 31% | 234 km |
| 37 | Crouy Aisne | 0.3 | 23% | 0% | 148 km |
| 38 | Brienon-sur-Armançon Yonne | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | 281 km |
| 39 | Cintegabelle Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 1.4% | 128 km |
| 40 | Gémozac Charente-Maritime | 0.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 13 km |
| 41 | Montesquieu-Volvestre Haute-Garonne | 0.1 | 22% | 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 Sourdeval
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Saint-Christophe leads, at 147 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Saint-Lys
Park or garden
1.5 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
Centralin the middle of Sourdeval
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Sourdeval live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
89% within 800 m11% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
SourdevalManche medianFrance median
Within 800 m89%
0%50%100%
About 300 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
2.3% of Sourdeval lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Normandie-Maine Regional Nature Park
6.3 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de la Sée
2.3% of the commune1.3 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area2.3%
Natura 2000 site2.3%
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.
2.3% of Sourdeval’s land is protected, more than in 60% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Manche has 0.6%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
35 km of footpaths and 21 km of hiking routes cross Sourdeval
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
35 km
0.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
21 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
2.8%
about 1.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
SourdevalManche medianFrance median
Footpaths0.7
Hiking routes0.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
SourdevalManche medianFrance median
Woodland2.8%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 80% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 86% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 22613 km
de Bagnoles-de-l'Orne à Saint-Pois6.2 km
La Forêt6 km
GR 226 passes within 2 km of Sourdeval.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Sourdeval: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Legast_Sapc, 12 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) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.1 | 15.8 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 127 | 104 | 95 | 81 | 86 | 72 | 83 | 94 | 88 | 136 | 136 | 169 |
June is the driest month (72 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 22 °C). 169 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 30 nights a year. The climate in Sourdeval →
Neighbors
Next to Sourdeval
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Mortain-BocageVire NormandieTinchebray-BocageNoues de SienneGrandparignyValdallièreSourdeval
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sourdeval | 2.3% | 2.8% | 0.7 | 34 km |
| Mortain-Bocage 2,961 · 11 km | 54% | 15% | 0.5 | 31 km |
| Vire Normandie 17,457 · 13 km | 0% | 3.9% | 0.6 | 41 km |
| Tinchebray-Bocage 4,813 · 14 km | 0% | 4.9% | 0.8 | 48 km |
| Noues de Sienne 4,207 · 15 km | 0% | 20% | 0.7 | 32 km |
| Grandparigny 2,605 · 19 km | 0% | 1.6% | 0.4 | 21 km |
| Valdallière 5,696 · 20 km | 12% | 2% | 0.2 | 52 km |
Mortain-Bocage and Valdallière have 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 Sourdeval
Is Sourdeval in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 2.3% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Sourdeval?
OpenStreetMap maps 35 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 21 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Sourdeval is woodland?
2.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Sourdeval near the sea?
No: the coast is 34 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Sourdeval?
May 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 October 30, 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.