First pick
Parc George Spénale
Park or garden
1.9 ha
0.7 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Teeppix · CC BY 3.01.1%of the land protected
Outdoors in Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe
15 km of footpaths cross Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe (0.6 km per km²). 6.1% of Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe is mapped woodland. Protected areas cover 1.1% of Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
1.1%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
6.1%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
15 km
0.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.5 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
87%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
Throughout this page, the Tarn 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-Sulpice-la-Pointe 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 areas1.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
56out of 100
Woodland6.1%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
27out of 100
Footpaths0.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
18out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
50out of 100
Green space nearby87%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
6out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe has the 7th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (9,543 to 9,899 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bures-sur-Yvette (8.5 km per km²) to Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bures-sur-Yvette Essonne | 8.5 | 26% | 0.2% | 155 km |
| 2 | Crosne Essonne | 5.8 | 12% | 0% | 167 km |
| 3 | Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 4.4 | 10% | 0.1% | 123 km |
| 4 | Beauchamp Val-d'Oise | 4.2 | 12% | 0% | 129 km |
| 5 | Darnétal Seine-Maritime | 4.2 | 37% | 0% | 53 km |
| 6 | Montlhéry Essonne | 4.1 | 9.8% | 0% | 165 km |
| 7 | Aytré Charente-Maritime | 3.7 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 8 | Saint-Jean-le-Blanc Loiret | 3.6 | 4.8% | 11% | 207 km |
| 9 | Lesquin Nord | 3.5 | 4.8% | 0% | 68 km |
| 10 | Vernouillet Yvelines | 3.5 | 19% | 0% | 124 km |
| 11 | Le Rheu Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 46 km |
| 12 | Séné Morbihan | 3.3 | 10% | 90% | On it |
| 13 | Frouzins Haute-Garonne | 3.3 | 7.7% | 11% | 152 km |
| 14 | Montigny-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 7.7% | 0% | 78 km |
| 15 | Portet-sur-Garonne Haute-Garonne | 3 | 9.8% | 15% | 146 km |
| 16 | Grand-Couronne Seine-Maritime | 2.9 | 42% | 0.2% | 48 km |
| 17 | Aucamville Haute-Garonne | 2.5 | 2.3% | 0% | 151 km |
| 18 | Basse-Goulaine Loire-Atlantique | 2.5 | 14% | 14% | 44 km |
| 19 | Savenay Loire-Atlantique | 2.3 | 14% | 7.7% | 20 km |
| 20 | Bondues Nord | 2.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 56 km |
| 21 | Ézanville Val-d'Oise | 2.2 | 0.7% | 0% | 134 km |
| 22 | Figeac Lot | 2.1 | 27% | 0% | 182 km |
| 23 | Pérols Hérault | 1.9 | 0.6% | 37% | 2.2 km |
| 24 | Roche-la-Molière Loire | 1.8 | 8.5% | 0% | 209 km |
| 25 | Saint-Lys Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 9.5% | 0% | 162 km |
| 26 | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.4 | 23% | 100% | 37 km |
| 27 | Saint-Amand-Montrond Cher | 1.3 | 10% | 6.4% | 282 km |
| 28 | Nort-sur-Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 9% | 6.6% | 53 km |
| 29 | Aire-sur-la-Lys Pas-de-Calais | 1.2 | 2.8% | 0% | 43 km |
| 30 | Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.2 | 0.1% | 45% | 3.8 km |
| 31 | Merville Nord | 1 | 2% | 0% | 48 km |
| 32 | Bernay Eure | 0.9 | 15% | 4.7% | 42 km |
| 33 | Saint-Doulchard Cher | 0.7 | 8.8% | 7.2% | 282 km |
| 34 | Revel Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 4.3% | 0% | 99 km |
| 35 | Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe Tarn | 0.6 | 6.1% | 1.1% | 138 km |
| 36 | Lorgues Var | 0.6 | 53% | 6.3% | 30 km |
| 37 | Saint-Jean-d'Illac Gironde | 0.5 | 79% | 0.5% | 23 km |
| 38 | Mézidon Vallée d'Auge Calvados | 0.5 | 8.1% | 0% | 24 km |
| 39 | Carmaux Tarn | 0.4 | 3.3% | 0% | 127 km |
| 40 | Audenge Gironde | 0.4 | 72% | 100% | On it |
| 41 | Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire Nièvre | 0.3 | 24% | 3.8% | 295 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-Sulpice-la-Pointe
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc George Spénale leads, at 1.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Castela
Park or garden
0.7 ha0.1 km of path
0.9 km north-eastfrom 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 Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe 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).
87% within 800 m13% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
Saint-Sulpice-la-PointeTarn medianFrance median
Within 800 m87%
0%50%100%
About 1,300 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
1.1% of Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Vallées du Tarn, de l’Aveyron, du Viaur, de l’Agout et du Gijou
1.1% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area1.1%
Natura 2000 site1.1%
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.
1.1% of Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe’s land is protected, more than in 56% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Tarn has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
15 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe
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
15 km
0.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.5 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
6.1%
about 1.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-Sulpice-la-PointeTarn medianFrance median
Footpaths0.6
Hiking routes0.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-Sulpice-la-PointeTarn medianFrance median
Woodland6.1%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 82% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 73% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe: July to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lavaur, 17 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) | 9.3 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 45 | 52 | 72 | 75 | 68 | 43 | 48 | 60 | 64 | 65 | 58 |
July is the driest month (43 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe →
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Buzet-sur-TarnCoufouleuxRabastensBessièresMontastruc-la-ConseillèreVerfeilSaint-Sulpice-la-Pointe
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe | 1.1% | 6.1% | 0.6 |
| Buzet-sur-Tarn 2,963 · 4.5 km | 0.9% | 33% | 2.9 |
| Coufouleux 3,057 · 5.5 km | 0.4% | 5.4% | 0.1 |
| Rabastens 5,867 · 7.3 km | 0.1% | 4.3% | 0.2 |
| Bessières 4,310 · 7.5 km | 2.4% | 9.9% | 0.6 |
| Montastruc-la-Conseillère 3,708 · 9.5 km | 0% | 8.4% | 0.2 |
| Verfeil 3,954 · 12 km | 0% | 7.7% | 0.4 |
Buzet-sur-Tarn 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-Sulpice-la-Pointe
Is Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 1.1% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe is woodland?
6.1% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe 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 Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe?
July 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.