First pick
Forêt de Saint-Clair
Wood or forest
593 ha13.3 km of path
2 h 55 minto walk all 13.3 km of path
11 km south-eastfrom the center
Grande LigneLigne du CotyChemin Rural du Cotis+2 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: hamon jp · CC BY-SA 3.04.9%woodland
Outdoors in Tinchebray-Bocage · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Tinchebray-Bocage
4.9% of Tinchebray-Bocage is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Tinchebray-Bocage; the nearest, Normandie-Maine Regional Nature Park, is 6.7 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 73 km across Tinchebray-Bocage (0.8 km per km²). 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: Normandie-Maine Regional Nature Park, 6.7 km
Woodland
4.9%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
73 km
0.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
39 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
94%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
48 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Orne 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 Tinchebray-Bocage 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
48out of 100
Woodland4.9%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
22out of 100
Footpaths0.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
25out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
56out of 100
Green space nearby94%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Tinchebray-Bocage has the 16th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,777 to 4,850 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Marolles-en-Brie (6.1 km per km²) to Vitry-en-Artois (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marolles-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.1 | 42% | 0% | 169 km |
| 2 | Pompey Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.3 | 68% | 0% | 356 km |
| 3 | Rosières-près-Troyes Aube | 4 | 9.4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 4 | Phalempin Nord | 4 | 32% | 0% | 72 km |
| 5 | Teyran Hérault | 3.2 | 11% | 10% | 15 km |
| 6 | La Turballe Loire-Atlantique | 2.7 | 13% | 24% | On it |
| 7 | Dagneux Ain | 2.5 | 18% | 0% | 266 km |
| 8 | Die Drôme | 2.4 | 60% | 100% | 150 km |
| 9 | Paron Yonne | 2 | 26% | 1.2% | 249 km |
| 10 | L'Horme Loire | 2 | 3.4% | 0% | 217 km |
| 11 | Robion Vaucluse | 1.8 | 24% | 100% | 48 km |
| 12 | La Grand-Combe Gard | 1.7 | 71% | 0% | 73 km |
| 13 | Charly Rhône | 1.7 | 0.2% | 0% | 239 km |
| 14 | Rilhac-Rancon Haute-Vienne | 1.6 | 33% | 0% | 170 km |
| 15 | Bourgbarré Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 62 km |
| 16 | Saint-Romain-de-Colbosc Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 3.5% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 17 | Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues Gard | 1.3 | 49% | 0% | 67 km |
| 18 | Le Coudray-Montceaux Essonne | 1.2 | 19% | 0% | 182 km |
| 19 | Cléon Seine-Maritime | 1.1 | 16% | 2% | 51 km |
| 20 | Cerizay Deux-Sèvres | 1.1 | 3.5% | 0% | 67 km |
| 21 | Vittel Vosges | 1.1 | 23% | 0% | 381 km |
| 22 | Pignans Var | 1 | 50% | 43% | 20 km |
| 23 | Desvres Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 56% | 100% | 18 km |
| 24 | Milizac-Guipronvel Finistère | 0.9 | 6.1% | 0% | 9.1 km |
| 25 | Cysoing Nord | 0.8 | 26% | 0% | 74 km |
| 26 | Tinchebray-Bocage Orne | 0.8 | 4.9% | 0% | 48 km |
| 27 | Maraussan Hérault | 0.6 | 1.3% | 0% | 17 km |
| 28 | Les Monts d'Aunay Calvados | 0.6 | 23% | 25% | 37 km |
| 29 | Ruy-Montceau Isère | 0.4 | 21% | 12% | 240 km |
| 30 | Saint-Germain-du-Puy Cher | 0.4 | 7.4% | 0% | 290 km |
| 31 | Conches-en-Ouche Eure | 0.4 | 51% | 0% | 68 km |
| 32 | Billom Puy-de-Dôme | 0.4 | 7.1% | 100% | 247 km |
| 33 | Saint-Jean-de-Bournay Isère | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 229 km |
| 34 | Argenton-sur-Creuse Indre | 0.3 | 25% | 3.9% | 205 km |
| 35 | Monnaie Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 197 km |
| 36 | Bornel Oise | 0.3 | 33% | 0.1% | 112 km |
| 37 | Vic-en-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 0.3 | 20% | 2.2% | 125 km |
| 38 | Saverdun Ariège | 0.2 | 13% | 0.7% | 123 km |
| 39 | Legé Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 33 km |
| 40 | Salbris Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 81% | 100% | 256 km |
| 41 | Vitry-en-Artois Pas-de-Calais | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 90 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 Tinchebray-Bocage
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Saint-Clair leads, at 593 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois des Huttereaux
Wood or forest
48 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
7.1 km south-eastfrom the center
Chemin de Huttereaux
Directionsto a point inside
Champ de foire
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.4 km of path
1.6 km north-westfrom the center
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 Tinchebray-Bocage 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).
94% within 800 m6.1% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
Tinchebray-BocageOrne medianFrance median
Within 800 m94%
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
Normandie-Maine Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 6.7 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
Normandie-Maine Regional Nature Park
6.7 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.
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
73 km of footpaths and 39 km of hiking routes cross Tinchebray-Bocage
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
73 km
0.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
39 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
4.9%
about 4.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Tinchebray-BocageOrne medianFrance median
Footpaths0.8
Hiking routes0.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Tinchebray-BocageOrne medianFrance median
Woodland4.9%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 75% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 78% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
7 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 22630 km
GR 22B13 km
Chemin de l'Egrenne11 km
Le Ruslé5.4 km
Jardins extraordinaires5.1 km
La Forêt4.9 km
de Bagnoles-de-l'Orne à Saint-Pois1.6 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Tinchebray-Bocage: GR 226 and GR 22B.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Tinchebray-Bocage: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Legast_Sapc, 23 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 Tinchebray-Bocage →
Neighbors
Next to Tinchebray-Bocage
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Georges-des-GroseillersFlersValdallièreSourdevalVire NormandieCondé-en-NormandieTinchebray-Bocage
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tinchebray-Bocage | 0% | 4.9% | 0.8 | 48 km |
| Saint-Georges-des-Groseillers 3,173 · 11 km | 0% | 1.8% | 1.4 | 59 km |
| Flers 14,432 · 12 km | 0% | 2.5% | 1.6 | 59 km |
| Valdallière 5,696 · 12 km | 12% | 2% | 0.2 | 52 km |
| Sourdeval 3,026 · 14 km | 2.3% | 2.8% | 0.7 | 34 km |
| Vire Normandie 17,457 · 15 km | 0% | 3.9% | 0.6 | 41 km |
| Condé-en-Normandie 5,985 · 17 km | 18% | 8.1% | 0.7 | 52 km |
Valdallière and Condé-en-Normandie 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 Tinchebray-Bocage
Is Tinchebray-Bocage in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Normandie-Maine Regional Nature Park, 6.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Tinchebray-Bocage?
OpenStreetMap maps 73 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 39 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Tinchebray-Bocage is woodland?
4.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Tinchebray-Bocage near the sea?
No: the coast is 48 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Tinchebray-Bocage?
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 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.