First pick
Bois du Défend
Wood or forest
139 ha5.2 km of path
1 h 10 minto walk all 5.2 km of path
3.9 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Tom Drake · Public domain5.8%woodland
Outdoors in Saint-Fulgent · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Saint-Fulgent is within 800 m of a park or wood
17 km of footpaths cross Saint-Fulgent (0.5 km per km²). No protected area reaches Saint-Fulgent; the nearest, Bocage Humide des Cailleries nature reserve, is 32 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 5.8% of Saint-Fulgent. 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: Bocage Humide des Cailleries nature reserve, 32 km
Woodland
5.8%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
17 km
0.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
21 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois du Défend
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 Saint-Fulgent 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
Woodland5.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
26out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
13out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
66out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Fulgent has the 6th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,971 to 4,017 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vaux-sur-Mer (5.3 km per km²) to Grand Bourgtheroulde (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vaux-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 5.3 | 10% | 0.2% | On it |
| 2 | Presles Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 47% | 100% | 124 km |
| 3 | Neuville-Saint-Rémy Nord | 3 | 4% | 0% | 109 km |
| 4 | Limonest Rhône | 3 | 30% | 0% | 258 km |
| 5 | Vaulnaveys-le-Haut Isère | 2.2 | 67% | 0% | 195 km |
| 6 | Erdeven Morbihan | 2.1 | 14% | 22% | On it |
| 7 | Allevard Isère | 2 | 55% | 0% | 211 km |
| 8 | Pujaut Gard | 2 | 10% | 0% | 62 km |
| 9 | Pléneuf-Val-André Côtes-d'Armor | 1.8 | 10% | 2.6% | On it |
| 10 | Oberhoffen-sur-Moder Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 25% | 11% | 442 km |
| 11 | Rives-en-Seine Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 42% | 100% | 28 km |
| 12 | Avesnes-sur-Helpe Nord | 1.4 | 1.7% | 100% | 142 km |
| 13 | Le Plessis-Belleville Oise | 1.4 | 1.5% | 0.1% | 143 km |
| 14 | Porte-de-Savoie Savoie | 1.4 | 18% | 86% | 224 km |
| 15 | Erquy Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 6.8% | 15% | On it |
| 16 | Duclair Seine-Maritime | 1.3 | 8.1% | 100% | 37 km |
| 17 | Boos Seine-Maritime | 1.2 | 21% | 0% | 60 km |
| 18 | Cinq-Mars-la-Pile Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 28% | 14% | 167 km |
| 19 | Rousies Nord | 1.2 | 20% | 100% | 132 km |
| 20 | Ingwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 61% | 100% | 414 km |
| 21 | La Gacilly Morbihan | 1.1 | 27% | 4.9% | 34 km |
| 22 | Fourchambault Nièvre | 1.1 | 16% | 11% | 332 km |
| 23 | Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu Loire-Atlantique | 1.1 | 30% | 19% | 29 km |
| 24 | Cordemais Loire-Atlantique | 1 | 7.6% | 24% | 24 km |
| 25 | Propriano Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 19% | 3.7% | On it |
| 26 | Fontaine-le-Comte Vienne | 0.9 | 20% | 0% | 110 km |
| 27 | Semur-en-Auxois Côte-d'Or | 0.9 | 21% | 0% | 357 km |
| 28 | Masny Nord | 0.9 | 4% | 0% | 95 km |
| 29 | Cires-lès-Mello Oise | 0.8 | 36% | 0% | 112 km |
| 30 | Sailly-sur-la-Lys Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 1.3% | 0.9% | 51 km |
| 31 | Le Bignon Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 14% | 0% | 37 km |
| 32 | Gravigny Eure | 0.7 | 47% | 0% | 73 km |
| 33 | Raimbeaucourt Nord | 0.7 | 16% | 99% | 83 km |
| 34 | Villeveyrac Hérault | 0.6 | 7% | 85% | 12 km |
| 35 | Le Lude Sarthe | 0.5 | 23% | 7.6% | 157 km |
| 36 | Saint-Fulgent Vendée | 0.5 | 5.8% | 0% | 57 km |
| 37 | Châtelaudren-Plouagat Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 4.2% | 0% | 14 km |
| 38 | Les Villages Vovéens Eure-et-Loir | 0.4 | 7.4% | 5% | 159 km |
| 39 | Poligny Jura | 0.4 | 77% | 0.1% | 368 km |
| 40 | Layrac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 21% | 0.9% | 139 km |
| 41 | Grand Bourgtheroulde Eure | 0.3 | 4.2% | 0% | 40 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 Saint-Fulgent
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois du Défend leads, at 139 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Rolin
Wood or forest
11 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
1.6 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Bocage Humide des Cailleries nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 32 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Bocage Humide des Cailleries nature reserve
32 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
17 km of footpaths and 21 km of hiking routes cross Saint-Fulgent
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
17 km
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
21 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
5.8%
about 2.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-FulgentVendée medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0.6
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-FulgentVendée medianFrance median
Woodland5.8%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 87% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 74% 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 Saint-Fulgent is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Boucle du Bocage25 km
Boucle des Collines9.3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saint-Fulgent: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at La Roche sur Yon, 23 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 | 8.5 |
| 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 Saint-Fulgent →
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Fulgent
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Chavagnes-en-PaillersChauchéEssarts-en-BocageLes BrouzilsMouchampsLes HerbiersSaint-Fulgent
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Fulgent | 0% | 5.8% | 0.5 | 57 km |
| Chavagnes-en-Paillers 3,726 · 6.6 km | 0% | 6.2% | 0.6 | 56 km |
| Chauché 2,613 · 7.8 km | 0% | 9.1% | 0.2 | 51 km |
| Essarts-en-Bocage 6,851 · 10 km | 0% | 4.1% | 0.3 | 46 km |
| Les Brouzils 2,938 · 12 km | 0% | 13% | 0.3 | 51 km |
| Mouchamps 3,015 · 12 km | 0% | 12% | 0.3 | 53 km |
| Les Herbiers 16,521 · 12 km | 0% | 6.5% | 1.1 | 62 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 Saint-Fulgent
Is Saint-Fulgent in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Bocage Humide des Cailleries nature reserve, 32 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Saint-Fulgent?
OpenStreetMap maps 17 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 21 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saint-Fulgent is woodland?
5.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Fulgent near the sea?
No: the coast is 57 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saint-Fulgent?
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 8, 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.