Photo: Mairiecommequiers · CC BY-SA 4.0Parks, woods and footpaths in Commequiers
5 km of footpaths cross Commequiers (0.1 km per km²). 4.6% of Commequiers is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Commequiers; the nearest, Marais Breton, baie de Bourgneuf, île de Noirmoutier et forêt de Monts (Natura 2000), is 3.1 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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 outdoors place is Commequiers?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Commequiers apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Commequiers 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.
Commequiers has the fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,706 to 3,765 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sochaux (5.8 km per km²) to Commequiers (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sochaux Doubs | 5.8 | 6.7% | 0% | 418 km |
| 2 | Bailly Yvelines | 5.5 | 31% | 0% | 140 km |
| 3 | Cabourg Calvados | 4.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 0.8 km |
| 4 | Doussard Haute-Savoie | 2.7 | 53% | 100% | 244 km |
| 5 | Pélussin Loire | 2.7 | 50% | 100% | 212 km |
| 6 | Bohars Finistère | 2.6 | 11% | 0% | 3.3 km |
| 7 | Lourches Nord | 2.5 | 5.6% | 0% | 103 km |
| 8 | Blanzat Puy-de-Dôme | 2.5 | 24% | 0.1% | 263 km |
| 9 | La Ferté-Alais Essonne | 2.3 | 26% | 100% | 181 km |
| 10 | Les Rousses Jura | 2.3 | 52% | 100% | 321 km |
| 11 | Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort Gard | 2.2 | 38% | 58% | 47 km |
| 12 | Audierne Finistère | 2.2 | 16% | 12% | On it |
| 13 | Ganges Hérault | 2 | 30% | 65% | 48 km |
| 14 | Latresne Gironde | 1.7 | 8.9% | 21% | 25 km |
| 15 | Malville Loire-Atlantique | 1.7 | 17% | 1.9% | 24 km |
| 16 | Veyre-Monton Puy-de-Dôme | 1.5 | 6.6% | 1.6% | 245 km |
| 17 | Isneauville Seine-Maritime | 1.5 | 6.7% | 0% | 47 km |
| 18 | Torreilles Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.5 | 0.4% | 20% | On it |
| 19 | Varennes-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 1.3 | 1.7% | 38% | 218 km |
| 20 | Échillais Charente-Maritime | 1.2 | 9% | 8.5% | On it |
| 21 | Rœulx Nord | 1.2 | 0.4% | 0% | 103 km |
| 22 | Plobannalec-Lesconil Finistère | 1.1 | 3.3% | 0% | On it |
| 23 | Saïx Tarn | 0.9 | 12% | 3.3% | 93 km |
| 24 | Houdan Yvelines | 0.9 | 1.9% | 0% | 115 km |
| 25 | Saint-Martin-la-Plaine Loire | 0.9 | 11% | 0% | 224 km |
| 26 | Brantôme en Périgord Dordogne | 0.8 | 48% | 20% | 104 km |
| 27 | Bouzonville Moselle | 0.8 | 27% | 2.8% | 332 km |
| 28 | Flassans-sur-Issole Var | 0.7 | 58% | 0.8% | 28 km |
| 29 | Objat Corrèze | 0.7 | 8.2% | 0% | 160 km |
| 30 | Bouxwiller Bas-Rhin | 0.7 | 11% | 0.3% | 418 km |
| 31 | Pannes Loiret | 0.7 | 8.9% | 0% | 233 km |
| 32 | Fougerolles-Saint-Valbert Haute-Saône | 0.7 | 36% | 100% | 429 km |
| 33 | Montamisé Vienne | 0.5 | 37% | 38% | 124 km |
| 34 | Sartène Corse-du-Sud | 0.4 | 17% | 39% | On it |
| 35 | Labastide-Saint-Pierre Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 3.4% | 1.5% | 169 km |
| 36 | Plémet Côtes-d'Armor | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | 35 km |
| 37 | Ribérac Dordogne | 0.3 | 9% | 12% | 77 km |
| 38 | Ardentes Indre | 0.3 | 24% | 0% | 231 km |
| 39 | Montreuil-Bellay Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 8.5% | 100% | 119 km |
| 40 | Montastruc-la-Conseillère Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 8.4% | 0% | 142 km |
| 41 | Commequiers Vendée | 0.1 | 4.6% | 0.2% | 11 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
9 in 10 residents of Commequiers 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).
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
About 500 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.
Marais Breton, baie de Bourgneuf, île de Noirmoutier et forêt de Monts 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.
Marais Breton, baie de Bourgneuf, île de Noirmoutier et forêt de Monts
Marais Breton, baie de Bourgneuf, île de Noirmoutier et forêt de Monts
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.
5 km of footpaths cross Commequiers
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 99% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 79% 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).
The best walking months in Commequiers: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Perrier, 14 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 | 15.8 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.6 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 22 | 18 | 13 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 80 | 62 | 51 | 56 | 52 | 43 | 37 | 44 | 63 | 92 | 92 | 89 |
July is the driest month (37 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 92 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 26 nights a year. The climate in Commequiers →
Next to Commequiers
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commequiers | 0.2% | 4.6% | 0.1 | 11 km |
| Soullans 4,654 · 6.5 km | 51% | 5.9% | 0.2 | 11 km |
| Le Fenouiller 4,978 · 7.7 km | 9.9% | 4.1% | 1 | 3.5 km |
| Saint-Christophe-du-Ligneron 2,727 · 9 km | 0% | 6.1% | 0.1 | 20 km |
| Coëx 3,428 · 9.1 km | 0% | 4.5% | 0.3 | 12 km |
| Challans 22,943 · 9.3 km | 0.9% | 10% | 0.9 | 15 km |
| Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez 13,074 · 10 km | 48% | 12% | 2.3 | On it |
Soullans and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Commequiers
Is Commequiers in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais Breton, baie de Bourgneuf, île de Noirmoutier et forêt de Monts, 3.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Commequiers?
OpenStreetMap maps 5 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Commequiers is woodland?
4.6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Commequiers near the sea?
No: the coast is 11 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Commequiers?
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.