First pick
Bois de la Barbinière
Wood or forest · 280 m outside the commune
48 ha8 km of path
1 h 45 minto walk all 8 km of path
7 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Cramos · CC BY-SA 4.05.5%woodland
Outdoors in Chanverrie · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Chanverrie is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 40 km across Chanverrie (0.7 km per km²). No protected area reaches Chanverrie; the nearest, Marais de Goulaine (Natura 2000), is 37 km from the town center. 5.5% of Chanverrie is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Marais de Goulaine, 37 km
Woodland
5.5%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
40 km
0.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.8 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
9
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de la Barbinière
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.
Against French towns
How Chanverrie 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 areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland5.5%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
25out of 100
Footpaths0.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
20out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
33out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Chanverrie has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,605 to 5,701 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Rungis (6.2 km per km²) to Valdallière (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rungis Val-de-Marne | 6.2 | 3.6% | 0% | 159 km |
| 2 | Montbonnot-Saint-Martin Isère | 4.6 | 9.5% | 0% | 205 km |
| 3 | Challes-les-Eaux Savoie | 3.9 | 32% | 40% | 229 km |
| 4 | Cancale Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.8 | 10% | 22% | On it |
| 5 | Mourenx Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.6 | 20% | 9.2% | 73 km |
| 6 | L'Isle-d'Espagnac Charente | 3.4 | 13% | 0% | 78 km |
| 7 | Santes Nord | 3 | 11% | 0% | 62 km |
| 8 | La Ville-aux-Dames Indre-et-Loire | 2.9 | 19% | 13% | 189 km |
| 9 | Lèves Eure-et-Loir | 2.7 | 24% | 0% | 135 km |
| 10 | Saint-Georges-d'Orques Hérault | 2.7 | 0.3% | 0% | 14 km |
| 11 | Longueau Somme | 2.6 | 0.4% | 4% | 60 km |
| 12 | Saleilles Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.3 | 1.4% | 0% | 7.1 km |
| 13 | Parmain Val-d'Oise | 2.1 | 45% | 100% | 120 km |
| 14 | La Roquette-sur-Siagne Alpes-Maritimes | 2.1 | 22% | 0% | 4.6 km |
| 15 | Dainville Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 4.1% | 0% | 75 km |
| 16 | Delle Territoire de Belfort | 1.8 | 32% | 20% | 416 km |
| 17 | Rocbaron Var | 1.8 | 53% | 0% | 24 km |
| 18 | Altkirch Haut-Rhin | 1.6 | 23% | 0% | 427 km |
| 19 | Sainghin-en-Weppes Nord | 1.5 | 4.8% | 0% | 64 km |
| 20 | Caumont-sur-Durance Vaucluse | 1.4 | 16% | 18% | 50 km |
| 21 | Montrond-les-Bains Loire | 1.2 | 3.1% | 17% | 231 km |
| 22 | Mondelange Moselle | 1.2 | 2% | 0% | 316 km |
| 23 | Marcheprime Gironde | 1.2 | 83% | 100% | 14 km |
| 24 | Pouzauges Vendée | 1.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 57 km |
| 25 | Sauvian Hérault | 1 | 0.4% | 0.3% | 6 km |
| 26 | Sausheim Haut-Rhin | 1 | 30% | 25% | 445 km |
| 27 | Montval-sur-Loir Sarthe | 1 | 5.9% | 0% | 168 km |
| 28 | Sigean Aude | 0.9 | 6.3% | 98% | 7.1 km |
| 29 | Saint-Xandre Charente-Maritime | 0.9 | 1.2% | 7.3% | 5.2 km |
| 30 | La Gorgue Nord | 0.8 | 0.8% | 0% | 51 km |
| 31 | Bohain-en-Vermandois Aisne | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 129 km |
| 32 | Gannat Allier | 0.8 | 13% | 0% | 290 km |
| 33 | Wallers Nord | 0.8 | 28% | 99% | 99 km |
| 34 | Chanverrie Vendée | 0.7 | 5.5% | 0% | 72 km |
| 35 | La Crèche Deux-Sèvres | 0.6 | 3.7% | 0% | 63 km |
| 36 | Gan Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.5 | 38% | 4.7% | 97 km |
| 37 | Tournus Saône-et-Loire | 0.4 | 9.6% | 6.5% | 340 km |
| 38 | Cloyes-les-Trois-Rivières Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 16% | 1.8% | 173 km |
| 39 | Bédarrides Vaucluse | 0.3 | 5.1% | 6.2% | 65 km |
| 40 | Rives-du-Loir-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 17% | 26% | 131 km |
| 41 | Valdallière Calvados | 0.2 | 2% | 12% | 52 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 Chanverrie
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de la Barbinière leads, at 48 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Coulée Verte
Park or garden
6.2 ha2.6 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.6 km of path
0.8 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
La Coulée Verte
Park or garden · 200 m outside the commune
3.1 ha0.4 km of path
5.4 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Animalier de la Coulée Verte
Park or garden · 50 m outside the commune
1 ha0.2 km of path
5.3 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardins de la cure
Park or garden · 40 m outside the commune
0.6 ha0.3 km of path
5.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin Beaussire
Park or garden · 270 m outside the commune
0.3 ha0.3 km of path
5.3 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
All 9 named parks, gardens and woods
Bois de la BarbinièreWood or forest · 48 ha · 8 km of path · just outside
DirectionsCoulée VertePark or garden · 6.2 ha · 2.6 km of path
DirectionsBois de la GatièreWood or forest · 23 ha
DirectionsLa Coulée VertePark or garden · 3.1 ha · 0.4 km of path · just outside
DirectionsBois du BoisniardWood or forest · 8.8 ha
DirectionsParc Animalier de la Coulée VertePark or garden · 1 ha · 0.2 km of path · just outside
DirectionsJardins de la curePark or garden · 0.6 ha · 0.3 km of path · just outside
DirectionsJardin BeaussirePark or garden · 0.3 ha · 0.3 km of path · just outside
DirectionsLe Laurier-VertPark or garden · 0.6 ha · 0.2 km of path · just outside
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Marais de Goulaine is the nearest protected area, 37 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Marais de Goulaine
37 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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.
Footpaths and woods
40 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Chanverrie
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
0.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.8 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
5.5%
about 3.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ChanverrieVendée medianFrance median
Footpaths0.7
Hiking routes0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ChanverrieVendée medianFrance median
Woodland5.5%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 80% 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 Chanverrie’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Boucle du Bocage28 km
Boucle des Collines13 km
Circuit pedestre de Chambretaud5.9 km
Le circuit des éoliennes0.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Chanverrie: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cholet, 16 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) | 8.9 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 15.9 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 83 | 62 | 58 | 57 | 64 | 40 | 49 | 46 | 62 | 80 | 85 | 86 |
June is the driest month (40 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 86 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 34 nights a year. The climate in Chanverrie →
Neighbors
Next to Chanverrie
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Mortagne-sur-SèvreLa GaubretièreSaint-Laurent-sur-SèvreSaint-Christophe-du-BoisLes HerbiersLes Landes-GenussonChanverrie
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chanverrie | 0% | 5.5% | 0.7 |
| Mortagne-sur-Sèvre 6,057 · 5.3 km | 0% | 7.8% | 1.3 |
| La Gaubretière 3,225 · 5.6 km | 0% | 2.3% | 0.3 |
| Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre 3,550 · 7.4 km | 0% | 6.1% | 2 |
| Saint-Christophe-du-Bois 2,828 · 9.1 km | 0% | 2.5% | 0.7 |
| Les Herbiers 16,521 · 9.7 km | 0% | 6.5% | 1.1 |
| Les Landes-Genusson 2,638 · 10 km | 0% | 2.4% | 0.4 |
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 Chanverrie
Is Chanverrie in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais de Goulaine, 37 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Chanverrie?
OpenStreetMap maps 40 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Chanverrie is woodland?
5.5% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Chanverrie near the sea?
No: the coast is 72 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Chanverrie?
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 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.