First pick
île Moulin Sart
Park or garden · 20 m outside the commune
4.5 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
1.7 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Yodaspirine · CC BY-SA 4.035%woodland
Outdoors in Guécélard · protected areas, woods and footpaths
35% of Guécélard is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Guécélard has 11 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 4 km across Guécélard (0.4 km per km²). No protected area reaches Guécélard; the nearest, Châtaigneraies à Osmoderma eremita au sud du Mans (Natura 2000), is 14 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: Châtaigneraies à Osmoderma eremita au sud du Mans, 14 km
Woodland
35%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
4.5 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: île Moulin Sart
Throughout this page, the Sarthe 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 Guécélard?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune35% mapped woodland, more than in 81% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes11 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Guécélard apart: its woods, then its hiking routes. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Guécélard 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
Woodland35%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
81out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
9out of 100
Hiking routes0.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
81out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Guécélard has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,182 to 3,222 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 Illiers-Combray (0.3 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 | Ville-di-Pietrabugno Haute-Corse | 2.7 | 25% | 0% | On it |
| 5 | Saint-Michel Charente | 2.3 | 12% | 3.2% | 71 km |
| 6 | Magland Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 44% | 19% | 257 km |
| 7 | Dolus-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.9 | 31% | 40% | On it |
| 8 | Knutange Moselle | 1.9 | 64% | 0% | 303 km |
| 9 | Fretin Nord | 1.8 | 3.1% | 0% | 72 km |
| 10 | Montagny Rhône | 1.7 | 25% | 0% | 235 km |
| 11 | Proville Nord | 1.6 | 15% | 9.5% | 109 km |
| 12 | Salomé Nord | 1.6 | 3% | 0% | 65 km |
| 13 | Lozanne Rhône | 1.6 | 17% | 0% | 259 km |
| 14 | Châteaugay Puy-de-Dôme | 1.6 | 4.7% | 5.2% | 265 km |
| 15 | Nay Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.6 | 14% | 8.5% | 109 km |
| 16 | Fontoy Moselle | 1.5 | 48% | 0% | 300 km |
| 17 | La Machine Nièvre | 1.5 | 65% | 58% | 357 km |
| 18 | Bréviandes Aube | 1.4 | 26% | 0% | 277 km |
| 19 | Rochecorbon Indre-et-Loire | 1.3 | 21% | 7.3% | 190 km |
| 20 | Marsac-sur-l'Isle Dordogne | 1.2 | 33% | 0% | 99 km |
| 21 | Davézieux Ardèche | 1.2 | 4.3% | 0% | 195 km |
| 22 | Saint-Paul-de-Vence Alpes-Maritimes | 1.1 | 32% | 0% | 5 km |
| 23 | Saône Doubs | 1.1 | 43% | 28% | 397 km |
| 24 | Druelle Balsac Aveyron | 1.1 | 22% | 0% | 140 km |
| 25 | Veynes Hautes-Alpes | 1.1 | 51% | 63% | 137 km |
| 26 | Breuil-le-Vert Oise | 1 | 31% | 0% | 105 km |
| 27 | La Loupe Eure-et-Loir | 1 | 9.5% | 100% | 118 km |
| 28 | Souillac Lot | 1 | 67% | 6.9% | 163 km |
| 29 | Haveluy Nord | 0.8 | 4.2% | 99% | 101 km |
| 30 | Creuzier-le-Vieux Allier | 0.8 | 10% | 3% | 293 km |
| 31 | Saint-Sauveur-Villages Manche | 0.8 | 2% | 35% | 13 km |
| 32 | Seltz Bas-Rhin | 0.6 | 36% | 57% | 447 km |
| 33 | Imphy Nièvre | 0.6 | 32% | 46% | 343 km |
| 34 | Flixecourt Somme | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 34 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 | Montendre Charente-Maritime | 0.4 | 17% | 15% | 23 km |
| 38 | Guécélard Sarthe | 0.4 | 35% | 0% | 138 km |
| 39 | Saint-Siméon-de-Bressieux Isère | 0.3 | 15% | 0% | 211 km |
| 40 | Montsûrs Mayenne | 0.3 | 15% | 19% | 80 km |
| 41 | Illiers-Combray Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 142 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 Guécélard
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: île Moulin Sart leads, at 4.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Châtaigneraies à Osmoderma eremita au sud du Mans is the nearest protected area, 14 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
Châtaigneraies à Osmoderma eremita au sud du Mans
14 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
4 km of footpaths and 11 km of hiking routes cross Guécélard
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
4.5 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked: 0.9 km per km²
Woodland
35%
about 4.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GuécélardSarthe medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0.9
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GuécélardSarthe medianFrance median
Woodland35%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 91% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 81% 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 Guécélard is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Le circuit des Buttes11 km
Boucle le ruisseau des Fillières11 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Guécélard: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Mans, 8.5 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) | 8.8 | 10.2 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 66 | 49 | 52 | 51 | 63 | 55 | 49 | 49 | 51 | 66 | 67 | 75 |
August is the driest month (49 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Guécélard →
Neighbors
Next to Guécélard
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
SpayMoncé-en-BelinRoëzé-sur-SartheLaigné-Saint-GervaisArnageCérans-FoulletourteGuécélard
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guécélard | 0% | 35% | 0.4 |
| Spay 2,808 · 4.9 km | 0% | 10% | 0.7 |
| Moncé-en-Belin 3,697 · 5.3 km | 0% | 34% | 1.1 |
| Roëzé-sur-Sarthe 2,514 · 5.3 km | 0% | 20% | 0.2 |
| Laigné-Saint-Gervais 4,252 · 6.6 km | 0% | 19% | 0.3 |
| Arnage 5,445 · 7.1 km | 0% | 11% | 1.6 |
| Cérans-Foulletourte 3,341 · 7.2 km | 0% | 34% | 0.2 |
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 Guécélard
Is Guécélard in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Châtaigneraies à Osmoderma eremita au sud du Mans, 14 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Guécélard?
OpenStreetMap maps 4 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 11 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Guécélard is woodland?
35% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Guécélard near the sea?
No: the coast is 138 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Guécélard?
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 4, 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.