First pick
Parc du Champ de Foire
Park or garden
0.5 ha
Centralin the middle of Angles
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Éduarel · CC BY-SA 3.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Angles · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Angles lies inside Marais Poitevin Regional Nature Park
100% of Angles’ land lies in protected areas. Footpaths add up to 7 km across Angles (0.2 km per km²). Angles has almost no mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
0.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
7.3 km
0.2 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 du Champ de Foire
The sea
6.7 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Vendée 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 Angles?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Marais Poitevin Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.Near the seaThe coast is 6.7 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0.3% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Angles apart: the regional nature park around it, then the sea nearby. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Angles 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
96out of 100
Woodland0.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
3out of 100
Footpaths0.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
4out 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
Angles has the 3rd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,089 to 3,141 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Étiolles (3.7 km per km²) to Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Étiolles Essonne | 3.7 | 72% | 0% | 175 km |
| 2 | Buhl Haut-Rhin | 3.7 | 74% | 100% | 461 km |
| 3 | Sérézin-du-Rhône Rhône | 3.5 | 20% | 0% | 237 km |
| 4 | Asnières-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 51% | 100% | 125 km |
| 5 | La Tranche-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.8 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 6 | Morainvilliers Yvelines | 2.4 | 32% | 0% | 127 km |
| 7 | Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 8 | Beaumont Haute-Savoie | 2.2 | 40% | 48% | 280 km |
| 9 | Béthisy-Saint-Pierre Oise | 2.1 | 37% | 21% | 127 km |
| 10 | Custines Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2 | 38% | 0% | 355 km |
| 11 | La Sentinelle Nord | 1.9 | 3.3% | 0.5% | 104 km |
| 12 | Le Touvet Isère | 1.9 | 48% | 58% | 212 km |
| 13 | Éloyes Vosges | 1.8 | 59% | 0% | 428 km |
| 14 | Arbois Jura | 1.4 | 51% | 12% | 373 km |
| 15 | Plancoët Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 13% | 100% | 3.9 km |
| 16 | Besse-sur-Issole Var | 1.3 | 36% | 0.7% | 26 km |
| 17 | Moyenmoutier Vosges | 1.2 | 72% | 2.8% | 426 km |
| 18 | Saint-Genix-les-Villages Savoie | 1.2 | 33% | 4.4% | 247 km |
| 19 | Champcevinel Dordogne | 1.1 | 51% | 0% | 106 km |
| 20 | Le Plan-de-la-Tour Var | 1.1 | 40% | 0% | 7.3 km |
| 21 | Appoigny Yonne | 1 | 46% | 2.7% | 289 km |
| 22 | Vémars Val-d'Oise | 0.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 23 | Arleux Nord | 0.9 | 7.5% | 0% | 99 km |
| 24 | Boussois Nord | 0.9 | 5.1% | 100% | 131 km |
| 25 | Saint-Thibéry Hérault | 0.8 | 6.2% | 0.2% | 12 km |
| 26 | Anor Nord | 0.8 | 37% | 100% | 162 km |
| 27 | Thézan-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.8 | 0.9% | 0% | 22 km |
| 28 | Colayrac-Saint-Cirq Lot-et-Garonne | 0.7 | 14% | 3.8% | 126 km |
| 29 | Soulac-sur-Mer Gironde | 0.7 | 23% | 100% | On it |
| 30 | Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal Seine-Maritime | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 54 km |
| 31 | Le Molay-Littry Calvados | 0.5 | 10% | 0.1% | 14 km |
| 32 | Montfrin Gard | 0.5 | 3.1% | 14% | 47 km |
| 33 | Valensole Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.4 | 44% | 100% | 75 km |
| 34 | Saint-Hippolyte Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 0% | 68% | 6.1 km |
| 35 | Maringues Puy-de-Dôme | 0.3 | 11% | 40% | 269 km |
| 36 | Merdrignac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 32% | 0% | 39 km |
| 37 | Lapalisse Allier | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 301 km |
| 38 | Dissay Vienne | 0.2 | 34% | 24% | 127 km |
| 39 | Angles Vendée | 0.2 | 0.3% | 100% | 6.7 km |
| 40 | Lailly-en-Val Loiret | 0.1 | 52% | 60% | 210 km |
| 41 | Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure Charente | 0.1 | 23% | 0% | 103 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 Angles
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Champ de Foire leads, at 0.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Angles
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Marais Poitevin Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Marais poitevin
71% of the commune1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Marais Poitevin
71% of the commune1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site71%
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.
100% of Angles’ land is protected, more than in 96% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Vendée has 0%. 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
7 km of footpaths cross Angles
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
7.3 km
0.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.3%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AnglesVendée medianFrance median
Footpaths0.2
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AnglesVendée medianFrance median
Woodland0.3%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 96% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 97% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 98% of Angles’ residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Angles: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Angles, 0.5 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) | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 15.8 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.6 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 24 | 19 | 14 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 90 | 71 | 63 | 63 | 53 | 44 | 47 | 49 | 68 | 102 | 113 | 108 |
June is the driest month (44 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 113 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 33 nights a year. The climate in Angles →
Neighbors
Next to Angles
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Longeville-sur-MerLa Tranche-sur-MerL'Aiguillon-la-Presqu'îleJard-sur-MerLuçonTalmont-Saint-HilaireAngles
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angles | 100% | 0.3% | 0.2 | 6.7 km |
| Longeville-sur-Mer 2,625 · 6.4 km | 100% | 18% | 1.3 | On it |
| La Tranche-sur-Mer 3,136 · 6.9 km | 100% | 18% | 2.8 | On it |
| L'Aiguillon-la-Presqu'île 2,845 · 11 km | 100% | 7.9% | 2.3 | On it |
| Jard-sur-Mer 3,235 · 14 km | 43% | 21% | 2.1 | On it |
| Luçon 9,417 · 19 km | 100% | 1.1% | 0.9 | 16 km |
| Talmont-Saint-Hilaire 8,492 · 19 km | 8.5% | 6.9% | 0.6 | On it |
Jard-sur-Mer 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 Angles
Is Angles in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Angles lies in Marais Poitevin Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Angles?
OpenStreetMap maps 7 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Angles is woodland?
0.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Angles near the sea?
No: the coast is 6.7 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Angles?
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 October 30, 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.