First pick
Aire des Ilettes
Park or garden
3.4 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
0.8 km northfrom the center
Chemin des Ilettes
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: AirScott · CC BY-SA 4.028%of the land protected
Outdoors in Montmorillon · protected areas, woods and footpaths
28% of Montmorillon’s land is protected for nature
24 km of footpaths cross Montmorillon (0.4 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 7 km in Montmorillon. 11% of Montmorillon is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
28%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
11%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
24 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.8 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Aire des Ilettes
Throughout this page, the Vienne 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 Montmorillon?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside28% of the land lies in protected areas.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Montmorillon apart: its protected countryside. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Montmorillon 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 areas28%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
82out of 100
Woodland11%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
42out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
11out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
32out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Montmorillon has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,780 to 5,862 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Buc (5.6 km per km²) to Le Barp (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buc Yvelines | 5.6 | 45% | 0% | 148 km |
| 2 | Chambourcy Yvelines | 4.7 | 37% | 0% | 133 km |
| 3 | Algrange Moselle | 3.6 | 48% | 0% | 302 km |
| 4 | Roquefort-la-Bédoule Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 50% | 40% | 5.6 km |
| 5 | Boé Lot-et-Garonne | 3.2 | 2.6% | 4.3% | 135 km |
| 6 | Simiane-Collongue Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 60% | 44% | 12 km |
| 7 | Fenouillet Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 6.2% | 8.1% | 154 km |
| 8 | Oberhausbergen Bas-Rhin | 3.1 | 6.2% | 0% | 446 km |
| 9 | Sillingy Haute-Savoie | 3.1 | 21% | 0% | 267 km |
| 10 | Ludres Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.9 | 24% | 0% | 369 km |
| 11 | Vergèze Gard | 2.9 | 17% | 19% | 23 km |
| 12 | Seloncourt Doubs | 2.8 | 36% | 0% | 412 km |
| 13 | Villabé Essonne | 2.6 | 22% | 0% | 179 km |
| 14 | Annezin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 10% | 0% | 59 km |
| 15 | Garéoult Var | 2.2 | 30% | 51% | 26 km |
| 16 | Calvi Haute-Corse | 2.2 | 5.6% | 11% | On it |
| 17 | Ventabren Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.9 | 8% | 45% | 20 km |
| 18 | Dol-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 6.4 km |
| 19 | Arradon Morbihan | 1.8 | 16% | 100% | On it |
| 20 | Nieul-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 1.8 | 0.2% | 4.5% | On it |
| 21 | Bédarieux Hérault | 1.6 | 23% | 100% | 41 km |
| 22 | Port-la-Nouvelle Aude | 1.6 | 5.2% | 82% | On it |
| 23 | Cessy Ain | 1.5 | 5.4% | 0.2% | 304 km |
| 24 | Oye-Plage Pas-de-Calais | 1.5 | 3% | 5% | On it |
| 25 | Gond-Pontouvre Charente | 1.4 | 15% | 16% | 77 km |
| 26 | Lannemezan Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.2 | 26% | 0% | 160 km |
| 27 | Kembs Haut-Rhin | 1.1 | 50% | 63% | 431 km |
| 28 | Saint-Just-en-Chaussée Oise | 0.8 | 7.8% | 0% | 92 km |
| 29 | Roye Somme | 0.8 | 3.5% | 0% | 96 km |
| 30 | Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 0.3% | 100% | 27 km |
| 31 | Viry Haute-Savoie | 0.7 | 30% | 0% | 284 km |
| 32 | Saint-Galmier Loire | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | 227 km |
| 33 | Bessan Hérault | 0.6 | 3.4% | 39% | 8.1 km |
| 34 | Mouroux Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 21% | 0% | 180 km |
| 35 | Le Poinçonnet Indre | 0.5 | 66% | 0% | 224 km |
| 36 | Briec Finistère | 0.5 | 6.1% | 0% | 14 km |
| 37 | Saint-Laurent-de-Mure Rhône | 0.4 | 3.2% | 0% | 248 km |
| 38 | Montmorillon Vienne | 0.4 | 11% | 28% | 152 km |
| 39 | Fismes Marne | 0.4 | 21% | 0% | 174 km |
| 40 | Sarrians Vaucluse | 0.4 | 5.2% | 2.5% | 71 km |
| 41 | Le Barp Gironde | 0.2 | 67% | 100% | 21 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 Montmorillon
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Aire des Ilettes leads, at 3.4 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Montmorillon
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Camp de Montmorillon, Landes de Sainte-Marie
28% of the commune2.7 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Brandes de Montmorillon
23% of the commune3.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area28%
Natura 2000 site28%
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.
28% of Montmorillon’s land is protected, more than in 82% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Vienne has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
24 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Montmorillon
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
24 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.8 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
11%
about 6.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MontmorillonVienne medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MontmorillonVienne medianFrance median
Woodland11%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 89% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 58% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Montmorillon’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 4813 km
GR 48 passes within 2 km of Montmorillon.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Montmorillon: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Montmorillon, 2.8 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) | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 15.8 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.6 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 27 | 23 | 17 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 70 | 56 | 55 | 66 | 73 | 64 | 48 | 55 | 58 | 78 | 79 | 79 |
July is the driest month (48 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 79 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 36 nights a year. The climate in Montmorillon →
Neighbors
Next to Montmorillon
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ValdivienneChauvignyLe BlancMontmorillon
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montmorillon | 28% | 11% | 0.4 |
| Valdivienne 2,715 · 20 km | 0% | 25% | 0.1 |
| Chauvigny 7,007 · 23 km | 0% | 24% | 0.4 |
| Le Blanc 6,164 · 28 km | 100% | 11% | 0.5 |
Le Blanc has at least twice as much protected land. Valdivienne and Chauvigny are more wooded.
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 Montmorillon
Is Montmorillon in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 28% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Montmorillon?
OpenStreetMap maps 24 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); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Montmorillon is woodland?
11% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Montmorillon near the sea?
No: the coast is 152 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Montmorillon?
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.