First pick
Forêt du Parc Soubise
Wood or forest
715 ha2 km of path
25 minto walk all 2 km of path
4.3 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Julie de Coop Atlantique · CC BY-SA 4.012%woodland
Outdoors in Mouchamps · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Mouchamps is within 800 m of a park or wood
15 km of footpaths cross Mouchamps (0.3 km per km²). No protected area reaches Mouchamps; the nearest, Marais Poitevin Regional Nature Park, is 27 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 12% of Mouchamps. 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 Poitevin Regional Nature Park, 27 km
Woodland
12%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
15 km
0.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
19 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt du Parc Soubise
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 Mouchamps 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
Woodland12%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
46out of 100
Footpaths0.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
5out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
49out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Mouchamps has the 5th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,984 to 3,050 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Margency (7.4 km per km²) to Montesquieu-Volvestre (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Margency Val-d'Oise | 7.4 | 0.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 2 | Montlignon Val-d'Oise | 5.5 | 50% | 0% | 133 km |
| 3 | Brax Haute-Garonne | 3.4 | 29% | 0% | 162 km |
| 4 | Feucherolles Yvelines | 3.2 | 33% | 0% | 133 km |
| 5 | La Turbie Alpes-Maritimes | 3.1 | 32% | 18% | 2 km |
| 6 | Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes Isère | 3 | 37% | 30% | 206 km |
| 7 | Emmerin Nord | 2.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 64 km |
| 8 | Pont-à-Marcq Nord | 2.6 | 1% | 0% | 75 km |
| 9 | Soues Hautes-Pyrénées | 2.4 | 7.2% | 5.9% | 134 km |
| 10 | Drumettaz-Clarafond Savoie | 2.1 | 42% | 5% | 243 km |
| 11 | Gandrange Moselle | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 313 km |
| 12 | Courcelles-Chaussy Moselle | 1.9 | 37% | 0% | 340 km |
| 13 | Paimbœuf Loire-Atlantique | 1.9 | 0.6% | 70% | 10 km |
| 14 | Agon-Coutainville Manche | 1.7 | 1.1% | 15% | On it |
| 15 | Belleville-sur-Meuse Meuse | 1.6 | 42% | 39% | 288 km |
| 16 | Gruchet-le-Valasse Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 53% | 0% | 16 km |
| 17 | Retournac Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 55% | 85% | 184 km |
| 18 | Valmont Moselle | 1.2 | 28% | 0% | 357 km |
| 19 | Yenne Savoie | 1.2 | 35% | 19% | 252 km |
| 20 | Boën-sur-Lignon Loire | 1.2 | 12% | 4.3% | 243 km |
| 21 | Villeneuve-de-Berg Ardèche | 1.2 | 5.9% | 0% | 116 km |
| 22 | Zonza Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 40% | 75% | On it |
| 23 | Aubusson Creuse | 1 | 42% | 0% | 235 km |
| 24 | Saint-Ouen Loir-et-Cher | 0.9 | 14% | 0% | 186 km |
| 25 | Saint-Venant Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 2.5% | 0% | 48 km |
| 26 | Senonches Eure-et-Loir | 0.7 | 68% | 100% | 109 km |
| 27 | Pommeuse Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 19% | 0% | 179 km |
| 28 | Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres Gard | 0.6 | 28% | 0% | 68 km |
| 29 | Ailly-sur-Somme Somme | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 46 km |
| 30 | Lapeyrouse-Fossat Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 146 km |
| 31 | Iteuil Vienne | 0.5 | 23% | 0% | 112 km |
| 32 | Murviel-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 33 | Boisseuil Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 166 km |
| 34 | Lorris Loiret | 0.4 | 54% | 31% | 234 km |
| 35 | Crouy Aisne | 0.3 | 23% | 0% | 148 km |
| 36 | Brienon-sur-Armançon Yonne | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | 281 km |
| 37 | Mouchamps Vendée | 0.3 | 12% | 0% | 53 km |
| 38 | Cintegabelle Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 1.4% | 128 km |
| 39 | Barjols Var | 0.2 | 69% | 18% | 49 km |
| 40 | Rue Somme | 0.2 | 7.7% | 100% | 5.7 km |
| 41 | Montesquieu-Volvestre Haute-Garonne | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 151 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 Mouchamps
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt du Parc Soubise leads, at 715 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois des Bouchauds
Wood or forest · 70 m outside the commune
82 ha
3.4 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Marais Poitevin Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 27 km away
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
27 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
15 km of footpaths and 19 km of hiking routes cross Mouchamps
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
0.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
19 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
12%
about 6.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MouchampsVendée medianFrance median
Footpaths0.3
Hiking routes0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MouchampsVendée medianFrance median
Woodland12%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 95% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 54% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Mouchamps’ residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Boucle des Collines27 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Mouchamps: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at La Roche sur Yon, 26 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) | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 95 | 71 | 64 | 66 | 62 | 45 | 48 | 52 | 72 | 99 | 108 | 104 |
June is the driest month (45 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 108 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 33 nights a year. The climate in Mouchamps →
Neighbors
Next to Mouchamps
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Les HerbiersLe BoupèreChantonnaySaint-Martin-des-NoyersSaint-FulgentEssarts-en-BocageMouchamps
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mouchamps | 0% | 12% | 0.3 | 53 km |
| Les Herbiers 16,521 · 9.7 km | 0% | 6.5% | 1.1 | 62 km |
| Le Boupère 3,151 · 9.8 km | 0% | 5.6% | 0.2 | 56 km |
| Chantonnay 8,557 · 11 km | 0% | 12% | 0.5 | 42 km |
| Saint-Martin-des-Noyers 2,560 · 12 km | 0% | 11% | 0.1 | 43 km |
| Saint-Fulgent 3,994 · 12 km | 0% | 5.8% | 0.5 | 57 km |
| Essarts-en-Bocage 6,851 · 14 km | 0% | 4.1% | 0.3 | 46 km |
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 Mouchamps
Is Mouchamps in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais Poitevin Regional Nature Park, 27 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Mouchamps?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 19 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Mouchamps is woodland?
12% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Mouchamps near the sea?
No: the coast is 53 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Mouchamps?
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 9, 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.