First pick
Le Jardin de la Méditation
Park or garden
0.7 ha
Centralin the middle of Saint-Venant
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Felouch Kotek · CC BY-SA 3.02.5%woodland
Outdoors in Saint-Venant · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Saint-Venant
2.5% of Saint-Venant is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Saint-Venant; the nearest, Pelouses, bois acides à neutrocalcicoles, landes nord-atlantiques du plateau d’Helfaut et système alluvial de la moyenne vallée de l’Aa (Natura 2000), is 15 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 12 km across Saint-Venant (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: Pelouses, bois acides à neutrocalcicoles, landes nord-atlantiques du plateau d’Helfaut et système alluvial de la moyenne vallée de l’Aa, 15 km
Woodland
2.5%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
12 km
0.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.5 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
86%
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 Pas-de-Calais 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 Saint-Venant 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
Woodland2.5%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
13out of 100
Footpaths0.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
26out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
53out of 100
Green space nearby86%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
5out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Venant has the 14th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,961 to 3,037 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lezennes (8.6 km per km²) to Rue (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lezennes Nord | 8.6 | 3.6% | 0% | 66 km |
| 2 | Margency Val-d'Oise | 7.4 | 0.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 3 | Gorcy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.6 | 37% | 0% | 269 km |
| 4 | Brax Haute-Garonne | 3.4 | 29% | 0% | 162 km |
| 5 | Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes Isère | 3 | 37% | 30% | 206 km |
| 6 | Emmerin Nord | 2.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 64 km |
| 7 | Pont-à-Marcq Nord | 2.6 | 1% | 0% | 75 km |
| 8 | Soues Hautes-Pyrénées | 2.4 | 7.2% | 5.9% | 134 km |
| 9 | Drumettaz-Clarafond Savoie | 2.1 | 42% | 5% | 243 km |
| 10 | Gandrange Moselle | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 313 km |
| 11 | Courcelles-Chaussy Moselle | 1.9 | 37% | 0% | 340 km |
| 12 | Aniane Hérault | 1.7 | 43% | 14% | 31 km |
| 13 | Agon-Coutainville Manche | 1.7 | 1.1% | 15% | On it |
| 14 | Belleville-sur-Meuse Meuse | 1.6 | 42% | 39% | 288 km |
| 15 | Tourrettes Var | 1.5 | 64% | 1.8% | 21 km |
| 16 | Quillan Aude | 1.4 | 49% | 100% | 70 km |
| 17 | Gruchet-le-Valasse Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 53% | 0% | 16 km |
| 18 | Retournac Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 55% | 85% | 184 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 | Hésingue Haut-Rhin | 1.2 | 17% | 0% | 421 km |
| 23 | Mauléon-Licharre Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.1 | 35% | 2.8% | 62 km |
| 24 | Zonza Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 40% | 75% | On it |
| 25 | Aubusson Creuse | 1 | 42% | 0% | 235 km |
| 26 | Vimoutiers Orne | 0.9 | 2.2% | 0% | 46 km |
| 27 | Bias Lot-et-Garonne | 0.9 | 2.5% | 0% | 121 km |
| 28 | Saint-Venant Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 2.5% | 0% | 48 km |
| 29 | Venerque Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 13% | 1.4% | 139 km |
| 30 | Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres Gard | 0.6 | 28% | 0% | 68 km |
| 31 | Ailly-sur-Somme Somme | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 46 km |
| 32 | Iteuil Vienne | 0.5 | 23% | 0% | 112 km |
| 33 | Murviel-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 34 | Boisseuil Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 166 km |
| 35 | Mortain-Bocage Manche | 0.5 | 15% | 54% | 31 km |
| 36 | Lorris Loiret | 0.4 | 54% | 31% | 234 km |
| 37 | Brienon-sur-Armançon Yonne | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | 281 km |
| 38 | Cintegabelle Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 1.4% | 128 km |
| 39 | Barjols Var | 0.2 | 69% | 18% | 49 km |
| 40 | Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 2.1% | 100% | 45 km |
| 41 | Rue Somme | 0.2 | 7.7% | 100% | 5.7 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-Venant
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Le Jardin de la Méditation leads, at 0.7 ha. Directions go to 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 Saint-Venant 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).
86% within 800 m14% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
Saint-VenantPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Within 800 m86%
0%50%100%
About 400 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
Pelouses, bois acides à neutrocalcicoles, landes nord-atlantiques du plateau d’Helfaut et système alluvial de la moyenne vallée de l’Aa is the nearest protected area, 15 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Pelouses, bois acides à neutrocalcicoles, landes nord-atlantiques du plateau d’Helfaut et système alluvial de la moyenne vallée de l’Aa
15 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
12 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Saint-Venant
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
12 km
0.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.5 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
2.5%
about 0.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-VenantPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Footpaths0.8
Hiking routes0.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-VenantPas-de-Calais medianFrance median
Woodland2.5%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 74% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 87% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Tour de la Lys23 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saint-Venant: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Watten, 33 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) | 8.4 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.5 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 70 | 58 | 50 | 44 | 56 | 59 | 67 | 73 | 72 | 84 | 97 | 93 |
April is the driest month (44 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 97 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Saint-Venant →
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Venant
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
IsberguesGonnehemMorbecqueMervilleLillersChocquesSaint-Venant
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Morbecque 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-Venant
Is Saint-Venant in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Pelouses, bois acides à neutrocalcicoles, landes nord-atlantiques du plateau d’Helfaut et système alluvial de la moyenne vallée de l’Aa, 15 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Saint-Venant?
OpenStreetMap maps 12 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); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saint-Venant is woodland?
2.5% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Venant 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 Saint-Venant?
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.