First pick
Labyrinthe Végétal
Wood or forest
3.9 ha1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
1.5 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Sequajectrof · CC BY-SA 3.06.7%woodland
Outdoors in Charmes-sur-Rhône · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Charmes-sur-Rhône is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Charmes-sur-Rhône; the nearest, Massifs de Crussol, Soyons, Cornas-Chateaubourg (Natura 2000), is 0.9 km from the town center. 6.7% of Charmes-sur-Rhône is mapped woodland. 8 km of footpaths cross Charmes-sur-Rhône (1.4 km per km²). 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: Massifs de Crussol, Soyons, Cornas-Chateaubourg, 0.9 km
Woodland
6.7%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
8.3 km
1.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 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: Labyrinthe Végétal
Throughout this page, the Ardèche 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 Charmes-sur-Rhône 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
47out of 100
Woodland6.7%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
29out of 100
Footpaths1.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
43out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Charmes-sur-Rhône has the 14th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,120 to 3,167 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sérézin-du-Rhône (3.5 km per km²) to La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sérézin-du-Rhône Rhône | 3.5 | 20% | 0% | 237 km |
| 2 | Saint-Mammès Seine-et-Marne | 3.1 | 28% | 1.8% | 212 km |
| 3 | Spicheren Moselle | 3.1 | 39% | 0% | 362 km |
| 4 | Donville-les-Bains Manche | 3.1 | 2.8% | 0% | On it |
| 5 | Asnières-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 51% | 100% | 125 km |
| 6 | La Tranche-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.8 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Morainvilliers Yvelines | 2.4 | 32% | 0% | 127 km |
| 8 | Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 9 | Solaize Rhône | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 239 km |
| 10 | La Flotte Charente-Maritime | 2.2 | 37% | 1.2% | On it |
| 11 | Éloyes Vosges | 1.8 | 59% | 0% | 428 km |
| 12 | Gilly-sur-Isère Savoie | 1.6 | 13% | 0.1% | 228 km |
| 13 | Chorges Hautes-Alpes | 1.5 | 34% | 16% | 122 km |
| 14 | Charmes-sur-Rhône Ardèche | 1.4 | 6.7% | 0% | 157 km |
| 15 | Besse-sur-Issole Var | 1.3 | 36% | 0.7% | 26 km |
| 16 | Moyenmoutier Vosges | 1.2 | 72% | 2.8% | 426 km |
| 17 | Champcevinel Dordogne | 1.1 | 51% | 0% | 106 km |
| 18 | Le Plan-de-la-Tour Var | 1.1 | 40% | 0% | 7.3 km |
| 19 | Saint-Georges-sur-Baulche Yonne | 1 | 31% | 0% | 296 km |
| 20 | Vémars Val-d'Oise | 0.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 21 | Arleux Nord | 0.9 | 7.5% | 0% | 99 km |
| 22 | Quarouble Nord | 0.9 | 19% | 100% | 106 km |
| 23 | Boussois Nord | 0.9 | 5.1% | 100% | 131 km |
| 24 | Saint-Thibéry Hérault | 0.8 | 6.2% | 0.2% | 12 km |
| 25 | Thézan-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.8 | 0.9% | 0% | 22 km |
| 26 | Échenoz-la-Méline Haute-Saône | 0.7 | 50% | 10% | 435 km |
| 27 | Le Molay-Littry Calvados | 0.5 | 10% | 0.1% | 14 km |
| 28 | Montfrin Gard | 0.5 | 3.1% | 14% | 47 km |
| 29 | Valensole Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.4 | 44% | 100% | 75 km |
| 30 | Gimont Gers | 0.4 | 6.2% | 0% | 184 km |
| 31 | Château-Landon Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 13% | 0.2% | 224 km |
| 32 | Saint-Hippolyte Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 0% | 68% | 6.1 km |
| 33 | Berlaimont Nord | 0.3 | 7.2% | 100% | 130 km |
| 34 | Longperrier Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 16% | 0% | 144 km |
| 35 | Maringues Puy-de-Dôme | 0.3 | 11% | 40% | 269 km |
| 36 | Merdrignac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 32% | 0% | 39 km |
| 37 | Saint-Seurin-sur-l'Isle Gironde | 0.2 | 14% | 16% | 46 km |
| 38 | Lapalisse Allier | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 301 km |
| 39 | Médis Charente-Maritime | 0.2 | 9.4% | 0.6% | 5.1 km |
| 40 | Mauron Morbihan | 0.2 | 11% | 0% | 51 km |
| 41 | La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois Cher | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 321 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 Charmes-sur-Rhône
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Labyrinthe Végétal leads, at 3.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Massifs de Crussol, Soyons, Cornas-Chateaubourg is the nearest protected area, 0.9 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
Massifs de Crussol, Soyons, Cornas-Chateaubourg
0.9 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
8 km of footpaths cross Charmes-sur-Rhône
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
8.3 km
1.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
6.7%
about 0.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Charmes-sur-RhôneArdèche medianFrance median
Footpaths1.4
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Charmes-sur-RhôneArdèche medianFrance median
Woodland6.7%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 57% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 71% 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 Charmes-sur-Rhône is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 426.1 km
GR 42 passes within 2 km of Charmes-sur-Rhône.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Charmes-sur-Rhône: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St-Laurent Pape, 8.8 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) | 9.1 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.0 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 19 | 13 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 72 | 50 | 55 | 82 | 93 | 61 | 60 | 77 | 112 | 152 | 143 | 72 |
February is the driest month (50 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 30 °C). 152 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Charmes-sur-Rhône →
Neighbors
Next to Charmes-sur-Rhône
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Portes-lès-ValenceÉtoile-sur-RhôneLa Voulte-sur-RhôneGuilherand-GrangesSaint-PérayBeaumont-lès-ValenceCharmes-sur-Rhône
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charmes-sur-Rhône | 0% | 6.7% | 1.4 |
| Portes-lès-Valence 10,477 · 3.4 km | 0% | 5.9% | 2.7 |
| Étoile-sur-Rhône 5,468 · 5.1 km | 1.6% | 8.7% | 0.5 |
| La Voulte-sur-Rhône 4,854 · 7.7 km | 33% | 15% | 1.5 |
| Guilherand-Granges 11,235 · 8 km | 17% | 1.9% | 5 |
| Saint-Péray 7,580 · 8.3 km | 11% | 27% | 3 |
| Beaumont-lès-Valence 4,337 · 8.6 km | 0% | 9.8% | 0.8 |
La Voulte-sur-Rhône, Guilherand-Granges and Saint-Péray have at least twice as much protected land. Saint-Péray is 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 Charmes-sur-Rhône
Is Charmes-sur-Rhône in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Massifs de Crussol, Soyons, Cornas-Chateaubourg, 0.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Charmes-sur-Rhône?
OpenStreetMap maps 8 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Charmes-sur-Rhône is woodland?
6.7% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Charmes-sur-Rhône near the sea?
No: the coast is 157 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Charmes-sur-Rhône?
April and June to August: 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.