Photo: Babsy · CC BY-SA 3.070% of Le Cheylard is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 23 km in Le Cheylard. 43 km of footpaths cross Le Cheylard (3.2 km per km²). No protected area reaches Le Cheylard; the nearest, Monts d’Ardèche Regional Nature Park, is 1.3 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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.
What kind of outdoors place is Le Cheylard?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Le Cheylard apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
How Le Cheylard 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.
Le Cheylard has the 2nd most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,772 to 2,834 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Éleu-dit-Leauwette (5.5 km per km²) to Levroux (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Éleu-dit-Leauwette Pas-de-Calais | 5.5 | 16% | 0% | 76 km |
| 2 | Le Cheylard Ardèche | 3.2 | 70% | 0.4% | 152 km |
| 3 | Burbure Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 3.7% | 0% | 55 km |
| 4 | Pinsaguel Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 14% | 29% | 146 km |
| 5 | Cosnes-et-Romain Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.6 | 35% | 0% | 273 km |
| 6 | Montfort-l'Amaury Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 100% | 129 km |
| 7 | Saint-Saturnin Sarthe | 1.9 | 8.9% | 0% | 129 km |
| 8 | Candé Maine-et-Loire | 1.9 | 16% | 0% | 91 km |
| 9 | Peyruis Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 53% | 6.2% | 90 km |
| 10 | Arles-sur-Tech Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.7 | 72% | 6.8% | 36 km |
| 11 | Ibos Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.7 | 31% | 0% | 126 km |
| 12 | Anzin-Saint-Aubin Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 6.2% | 0% | 77 km |
| 13 | Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel Var | 1.6 | 80% | 0% | 9.2 km |
| 14 | Le Faouët Morbihan | 1.4 | 21% | 7.3% | 24 km |
| 15 | L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs Doubs | 1.4 | 50% | 0% | 413 km |
| 16 | Colombiers Hérault | 1.2 | 1.4% | 0% | 13 km |
| 17 | Charolles Saône-et-Loire | 1.2 | 20% | 0% | 320 km |
| 18 | Saint-Aignan Loir-et-Cher | 1 | 31% | 0% | 218 km |
| 19 | La Fère Aisne | 0.9 | 12% | 11% | 134 km |
| 20 | Ducey-Les Chéris Manche | 0.9 | 13% | 7.8% | 5.3 km |
| 21 | Amancy Haute-Savoie | 0.8 | 14% | 0% | 271 km |
| 22 | Connerré Sarthe | 0.7 | 23% | 0% | 144 km |
| 23 | Ayguesvives Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 8.4% | 0% | 128 km |
| 24 | Arcis-sur-Aube Aube | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 256 km |
| 25 | Uzerche Corrèze | 0.7 | 22% | 0.9% | 176 km |
| 26 | Meslay-du-Maine Mayenne | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 96 km |
| 27 | Bourron-Marlotte Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 42% | 22% | 211 km |
| 28 | Longny les Villages Orne | 0.5 | 35% | 100% | 104 km |
| 29 | Baixas Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0% | 3.9% | 19 km |
| 30 | Saint-Loup-sur-Semouse Haute-Saône | 0.5 | 46% | 46% | 422 km |
| 31 | Cour-Cheverny Loir-et-Cher | 0.4 | 41% | 29% | 229 km |
| 32 | Blangy-sur-Bresle Seine-Maritime | 0.4 | 32% | 0.5% | 23 km |
| 33 | Courville-sur-Eure Eure-et-Loir | 0.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 127 km |
| 34 | Grandvilliers Oise | 0.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 60 km |
| 35 | Rosières-aux-Salines Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.3 | 24% | 0% | 381 km |
| 36 | Buchy Seine-Maritime | 0.3 | 4.8% | 0% | 42 km |
| 37 | Rodilhan Gard | 0.2 | 0% | 24% | 40 km |
| 38 | Wignehies Nord | 0.1 | 0.5% | 100% | 156 km |
| 39 | Sérifontaine Oise | 0.1 | 21% | 0% | 80 km |
| 40 | Listrac-Médoc Gironde | 0 | 72% | 100% | 8.3 km |
| 41 | Levroux Indre | 0 | 8.7% | 0% | 222 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Monts d’Ardèche Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 1.3 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Monts d’Ardèche Regional Nature Park
Vallée de l’Eyrieux et ses affluents
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.
A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
43 km of footpaths and 23 km of hiking routes cross Le Cheylard
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 more than in 76% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 98% 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 Le Cheylard is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
52 named hiking routes within 2 km
+40 more
GR 420 passes within 2 km of Le Cheylard.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Le Cheylard: April to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cheylard Sa, 1.2 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) | 9.1 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 85 | 55 | 62 | 89 | 97 | 73 | 68 | 74 | 127 | 176 | 180 | 93 |
February is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 180 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 56 nights a year. The climate in Le Cheylard →
Next to Le Cheylard
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Cheylard | 0.4% | 70% | 3.2 |
| Le Chambon-sur-Lignon 2,501 · 19 km | 4.2% | 62% | 1.2 |
| Privas 8,538 · 24 km | 1.6% | 32% | 2.1 |
| Tence 3,111 · 25 km | 3.2% | 49% | 0.5 |
| Vals-les-Bains 3,474 · 28 km | 100% | 73% | 2 |
Vals-les-Bains has at least twice as much protected land.
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 Le Cheylard
Is Le Cheylard in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Monts d’Ardèche Regional Nature Park, 1.3 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Le Cheylard?
OpenStreetMap maps 43 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 23 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Le Cheylard is woodland?
70% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Cheylard 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 Le Cheylard?
April 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).
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