First pick
Forêt Domaniale de Vouillé-Saint-Hilaire
Wood or forest
957 ha10.7 km of path
2 h 25 minto walk all 10.7 km of path
4.7 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Yzergues · CC BY-SA 4.021%woodland
Outdoors in Vouillé · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Vouillé is within 800 m of a park or wood
17 km of footpaths cross Vouillé (0.5 km per km²). No protected area reaches Vouillé; the nearest, Plaines du Mirebalais et du Neuvillois (Natura 2000), is 5 km from the town center. 21% of Vouillé 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: Plaines du Mirebalais et du Neuvillois, 5 km
Woodland
21%
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
8.8 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: Forêt Domaniale de Vouillé-Saint-Hilaire
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 Vouillé?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyPlaines du Mirebalais et du Neuvillois (Natura 2000) is 5 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.5 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Vouillé apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Vouillé 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
Woodland21%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
65out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
14out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
43out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Vouillé has the 10th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,669 to 3,725 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sochaux (5.8 km per km²) to Étrépagny (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sochaux Doubs | 5.8 | 6.7% | 0% | 418 km |
| 2 | Cabourg Calvados | 4.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 0.8 km |
| 3 | Étupes Doubs | 3.5 | 54% | 0% | 417 km |
| 4 | Ligny-en-Barrois Meuse | 2.7 | 80% | 0% | 312 km |
| 5 | Dampmart Seine-et-Marne | 2.6 | 26% | 18% | 163 km |
| 6 | Blanzat Puy-de-Dôme | 2.5 | 24% | 0.1% | 263 km |
| 7 | Templemars Nord | 2.1 | 0.6% | 0% | 68 km |
| 8 | Ganges Hérault | 2 | 30% | 65% | 48 km |
| 9 | Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 2 | 9.2% | 36% | 116 km |
| 10 | Fillinges Haute-Savoie | 2 | 45% | 3.2% | 280 km |
| 11 | Meurchin Pas-de-Calais | 1.9 | 7.8% | 0% | 70 km |
| 12 | Latresne Gironde | 1.7 | 8.9% | 21% | 25 km |
| 13 | Veyre-Monton Puy-de-Dôme | 1.5 | 6.6% | 1.6% | 245 km |
| 14 | Isneauville Seine-Maritime | 1.5 | 6.7% | 0% | 47 km |
| 15 | La Chapelle-Saint-Ursin Cher | 1.3 | 3.5% | 11% | 277 km |
| 16 | Breteil Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.3 | 1.4% | 0% | 39 km |
| 17 | La Rivière-de-Corps Aube | 1.3 | 4.3% | 0% | 271 km |
| 18 | Moncé-en-Belin Sarthe | 1.1 | 34% | 0% | 141 km |
| 19 | Plobannalec-Lesconil Finistère | 1.1 | 3.3% | 0% | On it |
| 20 | Houdan Yvelines | 0.9 | 1.9% | 0% | 115 km |
| 21 | Morschwiller-le-Bas Haut-Rhin | 0.9 | 9.4% | 13% | 439 km |
| 22 | Penta-di-Casinca Haute-Corse | 0.9 | 40% | 0.2% | On it |
| 23 | Bouzonville Moselle | 0.8 | 27% | 2.8% | 332 km |
| 24 | Flassans-sur-Issole Var | 0.7 | 58% | 0.8% | 28 km |
| 25 | Pont-de-l'Isère Drôme | 0.7 | 2.2% | 0% | 173 km |
| 26 | Objat Corrèze | 0.7 | 8.2% | 0% | 160 km |
| 27 | Pleyben Finistère | 0.7 | 13% | 100% | 9.4 km |
| 28 | Créhange Moselle | 0.7 | 5.5% | 0% | 353 km |
| 29 | Peyrehorade Landes | 0.6 | 36% | 0% | 29 km |
| 30 | Coulanges-lès-Nevers Nièvre | 0.6 | 7.8% | 5.1% | 338 km |
| 31 | Bonnétable Sarthe | 0.6 | 34% | 0% | 130 km |
| 32 | Vouillé Vienne | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 107 km |
| 33 | Montamisé Vienne | 0.5 | 37% | 38% | 124 km |
| 34 | Quincieux Rhône | 0.5 | 4.2% | 0% | 267 km |
| 35 | Lectoure Gers | 0.4 | 10% | 0% | 154 km |
| 36 | Neuvic Dordogne | 0.3 | 36% | 10% | 84 km |
| 37 | Estrablin Isère | 0.3 | 8.8% | 0% | 228 km |
| 38 | Ardentes Indre | 0.3 | 24% | 0% | 231 km |
| 39 | Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze Gard | 0.2 | 1.3% | 91% | 11 km |
| 40 | Montastruc-la-Conseillère Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 8.4% | 0% | 142 km |
| 41 | Étrépagny Eure | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 78 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 Vouillé
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt Domaniale de Vouillé-Saint-Hilaire leads, at 957 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Plaines du Mirebalais et du Neuvillois is the nearest protected area, 5 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
Plaines du Mirebalais et du Neuvillois
5 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 9 km of hiking routes cross Vouillé
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
8.8 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
21%
about 7.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
VouilléVienne medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
VouilléVienne medianFrance median
Woodland21%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 86% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 65% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 95% of Vouillé’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Via Sancti Martini - Chemin de Ligugé26 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Vouillé: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Vouille, 2.2 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) | 8 | 10 | 15 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 60 | 45 | 42 | 48 | 56 | 55 | 46 | 42 | 50 | 69 | 74 | 68 |
March is the driest month (42 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 74 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Vouillé →
Neighbors
Next to Vouillé
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
CisséNeuville-de-PoitouVouneuil-sous-BiardMigné-AuxancesSaint-Martin-la-PalluBoivre-la-ValléeVouillé
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vouillé | 0% | 21% | 0.5 |
| Cissé 2,869 · 5.6 km | 0% | 0.7% | 0.3 |
| Neuville-de-Poitou 5,513 · 7.7 km | 26% | 0.3% | 1 |
| Vouneuil-sous-Biard 6,290 · 9.9 km | 0% | 28% | 1.2 |
| Migné-Auxances 6,285 · 11 km | 16% | 7.4% | 1.1 |
| Saint-Martin-la-Pallu 5,713 · 12 km | 11% | 8.6% | 0.2 |
| Boivre-la-Vallée 3,024 · 12 km | 0% | 11% | 0.1 |
Neuville-de-Poitou, Migné-Auxances and Saint-Martin-la-Pallu have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Vouillé
Is Vouillé in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Plaines du Mirebalais et du Neuvillois, 5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Vouillé?
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); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Vouillé is woodland?
21% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Vouillé near the sea?
No: the coast is 107 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Vouillé?
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.