Photo: Markus3 (Marc ROUSSEL) · CC BY-SA 3.0Almost every home in Doullens is within 800 m of a park or wood
14 km of footpaths cross Doullens (0.4 km per km²). No protected area reaches Doullens; the nearest, Vallée de l’Authie (Natura 2000), is 3.1 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 5.5% of Doullens. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Somme 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 Doullens?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Doullens apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Doullens 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.
Doullens has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,705 to 5,792 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Canéjan (5.5 km per km²) to Missillac (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canéjan Gironde | 5.5 | 50% | 0% | 28 km |
| 2 | Revin Ardennes | 3.3 | 88% | 100% | 188 km |
| 3 | Le Palais-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 3.2 | 27% | 0% | 169 km |
| 4 | Simiane-Collongue Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 60% | 44% | 12 km |
| 5 | Fenouillet Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 6.2% | 8.1% | 154 km |
| 6 | Ensuès-la-Redonne Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.1 | 15% | 76% | On it |
| 7 | Peypin Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.9 | 34% | 8.5% | 18 km |
| 8 | Vergèze Gard | 2.9 | 17% | 19% | 23 km |
| 9 | Beaucouzé Maine-et-Loire | 2.7 | 15% | 0% | 113 km |
| 10 | Épernon Eure-et-Loir | 2.4 | 16% | 0% | 133 km |
| 11 | Calvi Haute-Corse | 2.2 | 5.6% | 11% | On it |
| 12 | Fegersheim Bas-Rhin | 2 | 8.4% | 0% | 455 km |
| 13 | Orgères Ille-et-Vilaine | 2 | 13% | 0% | 60 km |
| 14 | Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 34% | 0.1% | 242 km |
| 15 | Oye-Plage Pas-de-Calais | 1.5 | 3% | 5% | On it |
| 16 | Piolenc Vaucluse | 1.4 | 20% | 1.9% | 81 km |
| 17 | Plouay Morbihan | 1.3 | 31% | 4% | 10 km |
| 18 | Magny-en-Vexin Val-d'Oise | 1.3 | 13% | 100% | 100 km |
| 19 | Lannilis Finistère | 1.2 | 5.5% | 14% | On it |
| 20 | Marolles-en-Hurepoix Essonne | 1.2 | 14% | 0% | 172 km |
| 21 | Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef Loire-Atlantique | 1.1 | 5.6% | 0.1% | On it |
| 22 | Cugand-la-Bernardière Vendée | 1 | 7.5% | 0% | 55 km |
| 23 | Wasselonne Bas-Rhin | 1 | 18% | 0% | 431 km |
| 24 | Bannalec Finistère | 0.9 | 9.6% | 0% | 9.7 km |
| 25 | Gournay-en-Bray Seine-Maritime | 0.8 | 2.6% | 4.7% | 66 km |
| 26 | Melle Deux-Sèvres | 0.8 | 8.9% | 6.1% | 71 km |
| 27 | Lacanau Gironde | 0.8 | 79% | 100% | On it |
| 28 | La Cadière-d'Azur Var | 0.7 | 19% | 68% | 4.5 km |
| 29 | Aimargues Gard | 0.7 | 1.6% | 19% | 17 km |
| 30 | Flines-lez-Raches Nord | 0.6 | 21% | 100% | 87 km |
| 31 | Thizy-les-Bourgs Rhône | 0.6 | 22% | 0% | 276 km |
| 32 | Erdre-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 107 km |
| 33 | Saint-Laurent-de-Mure Rhône | 0.4 | 3.2% | 0% | 248 km |
| 34 | Doullens Somme | 0.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 47 km |
| 35 | Sarrians Vaucluse | 0.4 | 5.2% | 2.5% | 71 km |
| 36 | Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët Manche | 0.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 19 km |
| 37 | Valdahon Doubs | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 385 km |
| 38 | Coursan Aude | 0.2 | 0% | 12% | 12 km |
| 39 | Saint-Martin-la-Pallu Vienne | 0.2 | 8.6% | 11% | 117 km |
| 40 | Mazé-Milon Maine-et-Loire | 0.1 | 11% | 100% | 138 km |
| 41 | Missillac Loire-Atlantique | 0 | 19% | 100% | 16 km |
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.
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Doullens
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Le Parc leads, at 16 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Vallée de l’Authie is the nearest protected area, 3.1 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Vallée de l’Authie
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.
14 km of footpaths and 10 km of hiking routes cross Doullens
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 89% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 75% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 98% of Doullens’ 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 Doullens: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bernaville, 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) | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.1 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 73 | 64 | 67 | 54 | 65 | 61 | 73 | 79 | 66 | 83 | 92 | 103 |
April is the driest month (54 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 23 °C). 103 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Doullens →
Next to Doullens
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doullens | 0% | 5.5% | 0.4 | 47 km |
| Frévent 3,259 · 14 km | 0% | 13% | 0.7 | 44 km |
| Auxi-le-Château 2,547 · 18 km | 1% | 25% | 0.3 | 31 km |
| Flixecourt 3,221 · 25 km | 0% | 26% | 0.6 | 34 km |
| Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise 4,677 · 25 km | 0% | 14% | 1 | 47 km |
| Ailly-sur-Somme 3,003 · 28 km | 0% | 26% | 0.6 | 46 km |
| Albert 9,521 · 28 km | 0% | 1.1% | 0.8 | 72 km |
Auxi-le-Château, Flixecourt and Ailly-sur-Somme 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 Doullens
Is Doullens in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée de l’Authie, 3.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Doullens?
OpenStreetMap maps 14 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); 10 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Doullens is woodland?
5.5% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Doullens near the sea?
No: the coast is 47 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Doullens?
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 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.