First pick
Bois des Jarries
Wood or forest
130 ha3.8 km of path
50 minto walk all 3.8 km of path
4.4 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Llann Wé² · CC BY-SA 3.05.3%woodland
Outdoors in Sèvremont · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Sèvremont
29 km of footpaths cross Sèvremont (0.3 km per km²). Sèvremont has 73 km of waymarked hiking routes. 5.3% of Sèvremont is mapped woodland. 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: Vallée de l’Argenton, 32 km
Woodland
5.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
29 km
0.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
73 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
95%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
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 place
What kind of outdoors place is Sèvremont?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes73 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Few mapped footpaths0.3 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Sèvremont apart: its hiking routes. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Sèvremont 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
Woodland5.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
24out of 100
Footpaths0.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
7out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
77out of 100
Green space nearby95%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
13out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Sèvremont has the 2nd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,304 to 6,467 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Tronche (9 km per km²) to Auneau-Bleury-Saint-Symphorien (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Tronche Isère | 9 | 46% | 43% | 206 km |
| 2 | Bonsecours Seine-Maritime | 7.5 | 34% | 0% | 55 km |
| 3 | Ambilly Haute-Savoie | 6.6 | 1.9% | 0% | 287 km |
| 4 | Nandy Seine-et-Marne | 5.7 | 64% | 0% | 183 km |
| 5 | Le Mesnil-le-Roi Yvelines | 3.9 | 13% | 0% | 133 km |
| 6 | Saint-Laurent-Blangy Pas-de-Calais | 3.8 | 7.9% | 0% | 80 km |
| 7 | Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 3.3 | 15% | 0% | 255 km |
| 8 | Frouard Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.1 | 59% | 0% | 358 km |
| 9 | Dompierre-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 2.8 | 6.2% | 0% | 7 km |
| 10 | Thyez Haute-Savoie | 2.7 | 29% | 2.7% | 267 km |
| 11 | Péronnas Ain | 2.7 | 38% | 8.7% | 304 km |
| 12 | Jœuf Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.7 | 33% | 0% | 311 km |
| 13 | Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.4 | 21% | 0% | 257 km |
| 14 | Sciez Haute-Savoie | 2.1 | 38% | 4.6% | 297 km |
| 15 | Saint-Jorioz Haute-Savoie | 2 | 50% | 100% | 251 km |
| 16 | Avallon Yonne | 1.9 | 45% | 100% | 340 km |
| 17 | Magnanville Yvelines | 1.9 | 17% | 0% | 109 km |
| 18 | Embrun Hautes-Alpes | 1.8 | 37% | 100% | 114 km |
| 19 | Plescop Morbihan | 1.8 | 6.3% | 100% | 4.6 km |
| 20 | Cuincy Nord | 1.6 | 13% | 0% | 87 km |
| 21 | Vaugneray Rhône | 1.5 | 31% | 0% | 246 km |
| 22 | Saint-Rémy Saône-et-Loire | 1.5 | 9.7% | 0% | 361 km |
| 23 | Givet Ardennes | 1.5 | 23% | 100% | 179 km |
| 24 | Entrelacs Savoie | 1.3 | 37% | 9.9% | 254 km |
| 25 | Arpajon-sur-Cère Cantal | 1.2 | 24% | 0.2% | 192 km |
| 26 | Bréal-sous-Montfort Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.1 | 11% | 0% | 50 km |
| 27 | Mûrs-Erigné Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 6.9% | 21% | 117 km |
| 28 | Louhans-Châteaurenaud Saône-et-Loire | 0.9 | 19% | 1.1% | 353 km |
| 29 | Saint-Florent-sur-Cher Cher | 0.9 | 22% | 3.7% | 270 km |
| 30 | Baud Morbihan | 0.8 | 37% | 0% | 17 km |
| 31 | Saint-Flour Cantal | 0.7 | 10% | 15% | 180 km |
| 32 | Saint-André-de-Sangonis Hérault | 0.7 | 3.2% | 11% | 30 km |
| 33 | Mehun-sur-Yèvre Cher | 0.7 | 7.1% | 0% | 272 km |
| 34 | Bons-en-Chablais Haute-Savoie | 0.7 | 38% | 5.3% | 290 km |
| 35 | Plonéour-Lanvern Finistère | 0.6 | 10% | 0.8% | 5 km |
| 36 | Izon Gironde | 0.6 | 5.7% | 49% | 21 km |
| 37 | Combourg Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.5 | 9% | 0% | 19 km |
| 38 | Villemur-sur-Tarn Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 12% | 1.2% | 156 km |
| 39 | Courthézon Vaucluse | 0.4 | 5.9% | 2.4% | 70 km |
| 40 | Sèvremont Vendée | 0.3 | 5.3% | 0% | 62 km |
| 41 | Auneau-Bleury-Saint-Symphorien Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 12% | 1% | 148 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 Sèvremont
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois des Jarries leads, at 130 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Le Lac
Park or garden
4 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
1.6 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Les Lavandières
Park or garden
4.3 ha0.5 km of path
2.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Le Moulin Brochet
Park or garden
1.5 ha0.5 km of path
0.7 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Îlots
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.2 km of path
6.2 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
La Bergelière
Park or garden
0.6 ha0.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Sèvremont
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Sèvremont 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).
95% within 800 m5.3% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
SèvremontVendée medianFrance median
Within 800 m95%
0%50%100%
About 300 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.
Protected areas
Vallée de l’Argenton 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.
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de l’Argenton
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
29 km of footpaths and 73 km of hiking routes cross Sèvremont
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
29 km
0.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
73 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
5.3%
about 4.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
SèvremontVendée medianFrance median
Footpaths0.3
Hiking routes0.8
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
SèvremontVendée medianFrance median
Woodland5.3%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 93% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 76% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
7 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Boucle des Puys46 km
Boucle des Collines15 km
Boucle des Fiefs10 km
Sentier de la Sèvre nantaise5 km
Sentier des fourmis4.6 km
PR164.5 km
Chapelle de Maison Pré2.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Sèvremont: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bressuire, 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 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 92 | 68 | 65 | 64 | 67 | 52 | 51 | 51 | 59 | 97 | 89 | 98 |
July is the driest month (51 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 98 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Sèvremont →
Neighbors
Next to Sèvremont
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PouzaugesLes EpessesLe BoupèreLes HerbiersMauléonSaint-Laurent-sur-SèvreSèvremont
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sèvremont | 0% | 5.3% | 0.3 |
| Pouzauges 5,668 · 6.2 km | 0% | 8.4% | 1.1 |
| Les Epesses 2,983 · 6.4 km | 0% | 6.6% | 1.7 |
| Le Boupère 3,151 · 7.1 km | 0% | 5.6% | 0.2 |
| Les Herbiers 16,521 · 13 km | 0% | 6.5% | 1.1 |
| Mauléon 8,573 · 14 km | 0% | 6.8% | 0.4 |
| Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre 3,550 · 14 km | 0% | 6.1% | 2 |
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 Sèvremont
Is Sèvremont in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée de l’Argenton, 32 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Sèvremont?
OpenStreetMap maps 29 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); 73 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Sèvremont is woodland?
5.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Sèvremont near the sea?
No: the coast is 62 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Sèvremont?
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.