First pick
Parc de Bourigaille
Park or garden
74 ha
5 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Thérèse Gaigé · CC05.1%of the land protected
Outdoors in Seillans · protected areas, woods and footpaths
35% of Seillans is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
40 km of footpaths cross Seillans (0.4 km per km²). 5.1% of Seillans’ land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
5.1%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
35%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
40 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 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: Parc de Bourigaille
The sea
24 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Var 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 Seillans?
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.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Seillans apart: its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Seillans 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 areas5.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
65out 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
12out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Seillans has the 15th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,911 to 2,972 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Gorcy (3.6 km per km²) to Sancoins (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gorcy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.6 | 37% | 0% | 269 km |
| 2 | Gevrey-Chambertin Côte-d'Or | 3.4 | 39% | 30% | 408 km |
| 3 | Saint-Étienne-de-Fontbellon Ardèche | 3 | 30% | 0.6% | 118 km |
| 4 | Smarves Vienne | 2.3 | 37% | 0% | 116 km |
| 5 | Montblanc Hérault | 1.5 | 18% | 0.1% | 12 km |
| 6 | Bruyères Vosges | 1.4 | 70% | 2.4% | 428 km |
| 7 | Abrest Allier | 1.4 | 19% | 14% | 286 km |
| 8 | Péron Ain | 1.3 | 56% | 100% | 295 km |
| 9 | Drocourt Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 2.3% | 0% | 82 km |
| 10 | Willems Nord | 1.3 | 7.6% | 0% | 69 km |
| 11 | Châteauneuf-du-Rhône Drôme | 1.2 | 16% | 0.8% | 116 km |
| 12 | Hésingue Haut-Rhin | 1.2 | 17% | 0% | 421 km |
| 13 | Sérignan-du-Comtat Vaucluse | 1.2 | 28% | 1.7% | 82 km |
| 14 | Mauléon-Licharre Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.1 | 35% | 2.8% | 62 km |
| 15 | Contrexéville Vosges | 1.1 | 34% | 0% | 379 km |
| 16 | Ottange Moselle | 1 | 53% | 0% | 294 km |
| 17 | Bertrange Moselle | 0.9 | 21% | 0% | 313 km |
| 18 | Tourouvre au Perche Orne | 0.8 | 43% | 98% | 93 km |
| 19 | Grandvillars Territoire de Belfort | 0.8 | 45% | 11% | 419 km |
| 20 | Port-sur-Saône Haute-Saône | 0.7 | 52% | 13% | 423 km |
| 21 | Joinville Haute-Marne | 0.7 | 61% | 0% | 317 km |
| 22 | Montmeyran Drôme | 0.7 | 5.3% | 0% | 154 km |
| 23 | Balbigny Loire | 0.6 | 12% | 5.8% | 251 km |
| 24 | Diémoz Isère | 0.5 | 9.8% | 0% | 238 km |
| 25 | Allonnes Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 20% | 100% | 141 km |
| 26 | Mortain-Bocage Manche | 0.5 | 15% | 54% | 31 km |
| 27 | Seillans Var | 0.4 | 35% | 5.1% | 24 km |
| 28 | Saint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne Ain | 0.4 | 7.4% | 4% | 297 km |
| 29 | Saint-Calais Sarthe | 0.4 | 2.9% | 0% | 165 km |
| 30 | La Ferté-en-Ouche Orne | 0.4 | 13% | 1.4% | 65 km |
| 31 | Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon Deux-Sèvres | 0.4 | 10% | 100% | 35 km |
| 32 | Lalinde Dordogne | 0.4 | 44% | 2.8% | 106 km |
| 33 | Saint-Lyé Aube | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 264 km |
| 34 | Dompierre-sur-Besbre Allier | 0.3 | 13% | 46% | 330 km |
| 35 | Thiant Nord | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 107 km |
| 36 | Broons Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 9.2% | 0% | 26 km |
| 37 | Rouillac Charente | 0.2 | 11% | 7% | 66 km |
| 38 | Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 2.1% | 100% | 45 km |
| 39 | Fresnay-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 0.2 | 6.9% | 0% | 112 km |
| 40 | Dangé-Saint-Romain Vienne | 0.1 | 20% | 0% | 150 km |
| 41 | Sancoins Cher | 0.1 | 11% | 0% | 315 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 Seillans
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de Bourigaille leads, at 74 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
5.1% of Seillans lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Verdon Regional Nature Park
8.8 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Colle du Rouet
4.4% of the commune4 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Montagne de Malay
0.7% of the commune7.1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Forêt de Palayson - bois du Rouet
5.5 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area5.1%
Natura 2000 site5.1%
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.
5.1% of Seillans’ land is protected, more than in 65% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Var has 19%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
40 km of footpaths cross Seillans
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
40 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
35%
about 30.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
SeillansVar medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
SeillansVar medianFrance median
Woodland35%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 88% 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 Seillans is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Seillans: May, June and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Seillans, 5.2 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) | 12 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 28 | 31 | 31 | 27 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 69 | 57 | 63 | 83 | 73 | 55 | 18 | 33 | 70 | 127 | 165 | 102 |
July is the driest month (18 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 165 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 32 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Seillans →
Neighbors
Next to Seillans
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
FayenceTourrettesCallianBagnols-en-ForêtMontaurouxSaint-Cézaire-sur-SiagneSeillans
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seillans | 5.1% | 35% | 0.4 | 24 km |
| Fayence 6,157 · 3.7 km | 9.6% | 46% | 0.6 | 22 km |
| Tourrettes 2,972 · 5.7 km | 1.8% | 64% | 1.5 | 21 km |
| Callian 3,823 · 8.6 km | 10% | 59% | 1.7 | 19 km |
| Bagnols-en-Forêt 3,194 · 10 km | 36% | 67% | 2.5 | 14 km |
| Montauroux 7,183 · 11 km | 9.8% | 61% | 1.8 | 16 km |
| Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne 4,056 · 13 km | 100% | 70% | 2.2 | 18 km |
Callian, Bagnols-en-Forêt and Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne have at least twice as much protected land. Tourrettes, Callian and Bagnols-en-Forêt are 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 Seillans
Is Seillans in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 5.1% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Seillans?
OpenStreetMap maps 40 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).
How much of Seillans is woodland?
35% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Seillans near the sea?
No: the coast is 24 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Seillans?
May, June and 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.