Photo: AirScott · CC BY-SA 4.0Almost every home in La Ferté-Bernard is within 800 m of a park or wood
1.2% of La Ferté-Bernard is mapped woodland. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 12 km in La Ferté-Bernard. No protected area reaches La Ferté-Bernard; the nearest, Perche Regional Nature Park, is 5.5 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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 outdoors place is La Ferté-Bernard?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets La Ferté-Bernard apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
How La Ferté-Bernard 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
La Ferté-Bernard has the 12th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,606 to 8,869 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From L'Île-Saint-Denis (6.6 km per km²) to Coutras (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L'Île-Saint-Denis Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.6 | 13% | 19% | 142 km |
| 2 | Beauzelle Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 9.2% | 25% | 154 km |
| 3 | Le Portel Pas-de-Calais | 5.5 | 3.3% | 6.7% | On it |
| 4 | Wingles Pas-de-Calais | 5.1 | 13% | 0% | 69 km |
| 5 | Crolles Isère | 4.6 | 26% | 19% | 207 km |
| 6 | Bessancourt Val-d'Oise | 4.6 | 29% | 0% | 127 km |
| 7 | Petit-Couronne Seine-Maritime | 4.2 | 40% | 0% | 49 km |
| 8 | Artigues-près-Bordeaux Gironde | 3.8 | 9.5% | 0% | 18 km |
| 9 | Essey-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.7 | 11% | 0% | 366 km |
| 10 | Gouvieux Oise | 3.5 | 43% | 100% | 122 km |
| 11 | Thorigné-Fouillard Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.1 | 10% | 3.1% | 48 km |
| 12 | Gretz-Armainvilliers Seine-et-Marne | 3 | 57% | 0% | 176 km |
| 13 | Marcoussis Essonne | 2.7 | 34% | 0% | 163 km |
| 14 | Saint-Jean-de-Monts Vendée | 2.2 | 13% | 73% | On it |
| 15 | Golbey Vosges | 2.2 | 26% | 0% | 411 km |
| 16 | Margny-lès-Compiègne Oise | 2.1 | 1.3% | 0% | 117 km |
| 17 | Lempdes Puy-de-Dôme | 2.1 | 1.8% | 0% | 254 km |
| 18 | Le Teil Ardèche | 2 | 37% | 0% | 120 km |
| 19 | Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 15% | 14% | 243 km |
| 20 | Ergué-Gabéric Finistère | 1.8 | 21% | 0% | 6.3 km |
| 21 | Aulnoye-Aymeries Nord | 1.7 | 1.2% | 100% | 132 km |
| 22 | Soustons Landes | 1.7 | 65% | 9.6% | On it |
| 23 | Pithiviers Loiret | 1.5 | 2.2% | 0% | 198 km |
| 24 | Monistrol-sur-Loire Haute-Loire | 1.4 | 34% | 16% | 192 km |
| 25 | La Chapelle-d'Armentières Nord | 1.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 52 km |
| 26 | Crest Drôme | 1.2 | 25% | 0% | 142 km |
| 27 | Isbergues Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 47 km |
| 28 | Saint-Chamas Bouches-du-Rhône | 1 | 8.1% | 50% | 15 km |
| 29 | Saint-Jory Haute-Garonne | 0.9 | 6.1% | 6.4% | 159 km |
| 30 | La Ferté-Bernard Sarthe | 0.9 | 1.2% | 0% | 135 km |
| 31 | Ombrée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 94 km |
| 32 | Plabennec Finistère | 0.7 | 2.3% | 0% | 7.8 km |
| 33 | Nangis Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 10% | 0% | 205 km |
| 34 | Souleuvre en Bocage Calvados | 0.6 | 10% | 21% | 45 km |
| 35 | Janzé Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 2.9% | 0% | 70 km |
| 36 | Domérat Allier | 0.5 | 8.5% | 0% | 275 km |
| 37 | Le Poiré-sur-Vie Vendée | 0.4 | 4.9% | 0% | 32 km |
| 38 | Aigues-Mortes Gard | 0.4 | 2.8% | 100% | 6 km |
| 39 | Les Hauts-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 4.5% | 4.1% | 121 km |
| 40 | Sarlat-la-Canéda Dordogne | 0.3 | 42% | 10% | 143 km |
| 41 | Coutras Gironde | 0.1 | 11% | 19% | 37 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Perche Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 5.5 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Perche Regional Nature Park
Share of the commune’s land
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.
13 km of footpaths and 12 km of hiking routes cross La Ferté-Bernard
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 72% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 93% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 97% of La Ferté-Bernard’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in La Ferté-Bernard: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cormes, 4.6 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 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 72 | 58 | 59 | 52 | 66 | 60 | 55 | 51 | 53 | 71 | 74 | 89 |
August is the driest month (51 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 89 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 62 nights a year. The climate in La Ferté-Bernard →
Next to La Ferté-Bernard
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Ferté-Bernard | 0% | 1.2% | 0.9 |
| Cherré-Au 2,758 · 1.6 km | 0% | 12% | 0.3 |
| Val-au-Perche 3,336 · 10 km | 100% | 21% | 0.2 |
| Vibraye 2,523 · 16 km | 5% | 43% | 1.1 |
| Bonnétable 3,703 · 16 km | 0% | 34% | 0.6 |
| Connerré 2,780 · 19 km | 0% | 23% | 0.7 |
| Nogent-le-Rotrou 9,292 · 19 km | 100% | 7.9% | 0.8 |
Val-au-Perche and Nogent-le-Rotrou have at least twice as much protected land. Val-au-Perche, Vibraye and Bonnétable are more wooded.
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 La Ferté-Bernard
Is La Ferté-Bernard in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Perche Regional Nature Park, 5.5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in La Ferté-Bernard?
OpenStreetMap maps 13 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 12 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of La Ferté-Bernard is woodland?
1.2% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is La Ferté-Bernard near the sea?
No: the coast is 135 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in La Ferté-Bernard?
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.