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13 km of footpaths cross Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups (0.4 km per km²). No protected area reaches Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups; the nearest, Marais Poitevin Regional Nature Park, is 12 km from the town center. 8.9% of Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups is mapped woodland. 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.
How Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups 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.
Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups has the 10th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,561 to 2,609 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From École-Valentin (3.9 km per km²) to Hilsenheim (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | École-Valentin Doubs | 3.9 | 16% | 0% | 405 km |
| 2 | Josselin Morbihan | 3.7 | 15% | 0% | 36 km |
| 3 | Sainte-Feyre Creuse | 2.1 | 30% | 0% | 222 km |
| 4 | Tourville-la-Rivière Seine-Maritime | 2 | 15% | 15% | 55 km |
| 5 | Camiers Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 30% | 32% | On it |
| 6 | Sain-Bel Rhône | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 253 km |
| 7 | Damparis Jura | 1.6 | 35% | 0% | 401 km |
| 8 | Hardricourt Yvelines | 1.6 | 15% | 0.4% | 118 km |
| 9 | Longueil-Annel Oise | 1.5 | 21% | 0% | 116 km |
| 10 | Mornas Vaucluse | 1.5 | 35% | 5% | 84 km |
| 11 | Le Palais Morbihan | 1.5 | 5% | 26% | On it |
| 12 | Saint-Jean-du-Gard Gard | 1.4 | 84% | 100% | 62 km |
| 13 | Watten Nord | 1.4 | 24% | 100% | 18 km |
| 14 | Beautor Aisne | 1.3 | 3.6% | 40% | 133 km |
| 15 | Bessèges Gard | 1.3 | 66% | 100% | 81 km |
| 16 | Villenauxe-la-Grande Aube | 1.3 | 13% | 0% | 223 km |
| 17 | Cattenom Moselle | 1.1 | 37% | 0% | 308 km |
| 18 | Pîtres Eure | 0.9 | 47% | 0.2% | 64 km |
| 19 | Ivry-la-Bataille Eure | 0.8 | 2.6% | 3.2% | 101 km |
| 20 | Grâces Côtes-d'Armor | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 17 km |
| 21 | Villages du Lac de Paladru Isère | 0.8 | 21% | 0% | 230 km |
| 22 | La Calmette Gard | 0.7 | 29% | 0% | 43 km |
| 23 | Frelinghien Nord | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 51 km |
| 24 | Avelin Nord | 0.6 | 6.1% | 0% | 72 km |
| 25 | La Châtaigneraie Vendée | 0.6 | 4.5% | 0% | 48 km |
| 26 | Trélon Nord | 0.6 | 78% | 100% | 156 km |
| 27 | Le Cailar Gard | 0.4 | 2% | 68% | 17 km |
| 28 | Xertigny Vosges | 0.4 | 42% | 0% | 417 km |
| 29 | Frans Ain | 0.4 | 4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 30 | Baldersheim Haut-Rhin | 0.4 | 63% | 60% | 446 km |
| 31 | Toucy Yonne | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 288 km |
| 32 | Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups Vendée | 0.4 | 8.9% | 0% | 20 km |
| 33 | Saint-Yzan-de-Soudiac Gironde | 0.3 | 13% | 3% | 19 km |
| 34 | Charly-sur-Marne Aisne | 0.3 | 21% | 0% | 177 km |
| 35 | Clairac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 7.7% | 0% | 105 km |
| 36 | Semussac Charente-Maritime | 0.3 | 3.8% | 6.9% | 5.1 km |
| 37 | Vivy Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 15% | 100% | 140 km |
| 38 | Eymet Dordogne | 0.2 | 8.6% | 0.4% | 86 km |
| 39 | Athies-sous-Laon Aisne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 0% | 159 km |
| 40 | Cauchy-à-la-Tour Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.4% | 0% | 54 km |
| 41 | Hilsenheim Bas-Rhin | 0 | 28% | 18% | 465 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Marais Poitevin Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 12 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Marais Poitevin Regional Nature Park
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.
13 km of footpaths cross Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups
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 91% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 63% 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 Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at La Mothe Achard, 4.2 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 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 18 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 105 | 77 | 69 | 71 | 62 | 45 | 50 | 59 | 82 | 107 | 119 | 114 |
June is the driest month (45 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 119 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 26 nights a year. The climate in Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups →
Next to Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups | 0% | 8.9% | 0.4 | 20 km |
| Les Achards 5,518 · 6 km | 0% | 4.6% | 0.9 | 15 km |
| Nieul-le-Dolent 2,571 · 7.1 km | 0% | 4% | 0.2 | 18 km |
| Aubigny-Les Clouzeaux 7,191 · 7.6 km | 0% | 2.7% | 0.6 | 24 km |
| Venansault 4,757 · 8.9 km | 0% | 6.2% | 0.5 | 27 km |
| Sainte-Foy 2,717 · 12 km | 0.8% | 6.9% | 0.6 | 8.6 km |
| La Roche-sur-Yon 54,849 · 13 km | 0% | 7.5% | 2.2 | 30 km |
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 Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups
Is Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais Poitevin Regional Nature Park, 12 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups?
OpenStreetMap maps 13 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups is woodland?
8.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups near the sea?
No: the coast is 20 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups?
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.