First pick
Parc de Beaupuy
Park or garden
33 ha4.1 km of path
55 minto walk all 4.1 km of path
1.7 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Mairie Mouilleron le Captif · CC BY-SA 4.06.8%woodland
Outdoors in Mouilleron-le-Captif · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Mouilleron-le-Captif is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Mouilleron-le-Captif; the nearest, Marais Poitevin Regional Nature Park, is 18 km from the town center. 6.8% of Mouilleron-le-Captif is mapped woodland. Mouilleron-le-Captif has 8 km of waymarked hiking routes. 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, 18 km
Woodland
6.8%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
36 km
1.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.9 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
8
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc de Beaupuy
The sea
33 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.
Against French towns
How Mouilleron-le-Captif 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
Woodland6.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
30out of 100
Footpaths1.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
53out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
54out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Mouilleron-le-Captif has the 16th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,211 to 5,335 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Clément-de-Rivière (6.3 km per km²) to Mormant (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Clément-de-Rivière Hérault | 6.3 | 43% | 2.7% | 18 km |
| 2 | Barberaz Savoie | 4.4 | 26% | 50% | 232 km |
| 3 | Bethoncourt Doubs | 4.4 | 38% | 0% | 420 km |
| 4 | Le Rove Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.3 | 0% | 86% | On it |
| 5 | Bauvin Nord | 3.9 | 12% | 0% | 69 km |
| 6 | Moulins-lès-Metz Moselle | 3.5 | 17% | 0% | 328 km |
| 7 | Mundolsheim Bas-Rhin | 3.5 | 6.5% | 0% | 445 km |
| 8 | Séméac Hautes-Pyrénées | 3.2 | 21% | 0.4% | 134 km |
| 9 | Mulsanne Sarthe | 2.8 | 47% | 0% | 143 km |
| 10 | Le Bourget-du-Lac Savoie | 2.8 | 57% | 13% | 244 km |
| 11 | Pont-Sainte-Marie Aube | 2.7 | 7.9% | 0.9% | 272 km |
| 12 | Nuits-Saint-Georges Côte-d'Or | 2.1 | 25% | 69% | 403 km |
| 13 | Nans-les-Pins Var | 2 | 39% | 100% | 23 km |
| 14 | Villers-le-Lac Doubs | 2 | 45% | 100% | 370 km |
| 15 | Valleiry Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 30% | 0% | 286 km |
| 16 | Mouilleron-le-Captif Vendée | 1.8 | 6.8% | 0% | 33 km |
| 17 | Forcalquier Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 17% | 100% | 76 km |
| 18 | Laillé Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 21% | 0% | 61 km |
| 19 | Tresses Gironde | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0% | 20 km |
| 20 | Farébersviller Moselle | 1.2 | 1.7% | 0% | 363 km |
| 21 | Brebières Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 8% | 0% | 90 km |
| 22 | Gambsheim Bas-Rhin | 0.9 | 13% | 13% | 450 km |
| 23 | Condat-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 160 km |
| 24 | Cazouls-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.9 | 5.7% | 0% | 22 km |
| 25 | Valence Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.9 | 8.2% | 0.6% | 154 km |
| 26 | Mignaloux-Beauvoir Vienne | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 121 km |
| 27 | Mouy Oise | 0.8 | 34% | 0% | 106 km |
| 28 | Blotzheim Haut-Rhin | 0.8 | 16% | 0% | 424 km |
| 29 | Villette-d'Anthon Isère | 0.8 | 14% | 1.8% | 260 km |
| 30 | Le Pellerin Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 2.7% | 64% | 24 km |
| 31 | Marquise Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 1.2% | 100% | 6.8 km |
| 32 | Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne Ain | 0.7 | 4.1% | 5.8% | 293 km |
| 33 | Audruicq Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 0.2% | 0% | 12 km |
| 34 | Surzur Morbihan | 0.7 | 8.8% | 100% | On it |
| 35 | Guémené-Penfao Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.4% | 2.7% | 44 km |
| 36 | Florensac Hérault | 0.6 | 3.6% | 0.8% | 10 km |
| 37 | Saint-Lyphard Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 6.2% | 100% | 8.4 km |
| 38 | Vindry-sur-Turdine Rhône | 0.4 | 17% | 0% | 260 km |
| 39 | Champniers Charente | 0.3 | 9.7% | 0% | 81 km |
| 40 | Plessé Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 15% | 0.9% | 35 km |
| 41 | Mormant Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 7.5% | 0% | 195 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 Mouilleron-le-Captif
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de Beaupuy leads, at 33 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc des Étangs
Park or garden
13 ha3.2 km of path
45 minto walk all 3.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Mouilleron-le-Captif
Passage de la Croix
Directionsto a point inside
Le Bois de Soulouze
Wood or forest · 380 m outside the commune
32 ha0.2 km of path
5.1 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Guyon
Park or garden · 150 m outside the commune
5.6 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
5.3 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Mollerie
Park or garden
5.3 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
0.9 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Oiseaux
Park or garden
2.4 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
Centralin the middle of Mouilleron-le-Captif
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Pensées
Park or garden · 250 m outside the commune
2.9 ha0.3 km of path
2.9 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois de la Pérette
Wood or forest · 250 m outside the commune
5.8 ha
3.5 km westfrom 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, 18 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
18 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
36 km of footpaths and 8 km of hiking routes cross Mouilleron-le-Captif
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
36 km
1.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.9 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
6.8%
about 1.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Mouilleron-le-CaptifVendée medianFrance median
Footpaths1.8
Hiking routes0.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Mouilleron-le-CaptifVendée medianFrance median
Woodland6.8%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 53% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 70% 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 Mouilleron-le-Captif is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Du Roche s/Yon au Poiré s/Vie17 km
De Beaulieu à La Roche s/Yon8.6 km
De La Chaize au Roche s/Yon5.2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Mouilleron-le-Captif: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at La Roche sur Yon, 6.1 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 Mouilleron-le-Captif →
Neighbors
Next to Mouilleron-le-Captif
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Le Poiré-sur-VieDompierre-sur-YonLa Roche-sur-YonVenansaultBellevignyLa FerrièreMouilleron-le-Captif
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mouilleron-le-Captif | 0% | 6.8% | 1.8 | 33 km |
| Le Poiré-sur-Vie 8,649 · 5.6 km | 0% | 4.9% | 0.4 | 32 km |
| Dompierre-sur-Yon 4,625 · 5.8 km | 0% | 8.7% | 0.4 | 39 km |
| La Roche-sur-Yon 54,849 · 6.1 km | 0% | 7.5% | 2.2 | 30 km |
| Venansault 4,757 · 6.3 km | 0% | 6.2% | 0.5 | 27 km |
| Bellevigny 6,240 · 8.1 km | 0% | 7.1% | 0.9 | 38 km |
| La Ferrière 5,454 · 10 km | 0% | 9.6% | 0.7 | 38 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 Mouilleron-le-Captif
Is Mouilleron-le-Captif in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais Poitevin Regional Nature Park, 18 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Mouilleron-le-Captif?
OpenStreetMap maps 36 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Mouilleron-le-Captif is woodland?
6.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Mouilleron-le-Captif near the sea?
No: the coast is 33 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Mouilleron-le-Captif?
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.