First pick
Base de Loisirs de Montmeillan
Park or garden · 150 m outside the commune
41 ha2.5 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.5 km of path
1.7 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Vpe · Public domain37%woodland
Outdoors in Le Teil · protected areas, woods and footpaths
37% of Le Teil is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 20 km in Le Teil. No protected area reaches Le Teil; the nearest, Milieux alluviaux du Rhône aval (Natura 2000), is 4.7 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 54 km across Le Teil (2 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: Milieux alluviaux du Rhône aval, 4.7 km
Woodland
37%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
54 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
20 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Base de Loisirs de Montmeillan
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 place
What kind of outdoors place is Le Teil?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune37% mapped woodland, more than in 83% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyMilieux alluviaux du Rhône aval (Natura 2000) is 4.7 km from the town center.
What sets Le Teil apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Le Teil 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
Woodland37%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
83out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
58out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
75out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Le Teil has the 15th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,588 to 8,856 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From L'Île-Saint-Denis (6.6 km per km²) to Coutras (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L'Île-Saint-Denis Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.6 | 13% | 19% | 142 km |
| 2 | Beauzelle Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 9.2% | 25% | 154 km |
| 3 | Le Portel Pas-de-Calais | 5.5 | 3.3% | 6.7% | On it |
| 4 | Wingles Pas-de-Calais | 5.1 | 13% | 0% | 69 km |
| 5 | Crolles Isère | 4.6 | 26% | 19% | 207 km |
| 6 | Petit-Couronne Seine-Maritime | 4.2 | 40% | 0% | 49 km |
| 7 | Artigues-près-Bordeaux Gironde | 3.8 | 9.5% | 0% | 18 km |
| 8 | Essey-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.7 | 11% | 0% | 366 km |
| 9 | Thorigné-Fouillard Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.1 | 10% | 3.1% | 48 km |
| 10 | Gretz-Armainvilliers Seine-et-Marne | 3 | 57% | 0% | 176 km |
| 11 | Marcoussis Essonne | 2.7 | 34% | 0% | 163 km |
| 12 | Golbey Vosges | 2.2 | 26% | 0% | 411 km |
| 13 | Margny-lès-Compiègne Oise | 2.1 | 1.3% | 0% | 117 km |
| 14 | Lempdes Puy-de-Dôme | 2.1 | 1.8% | 0% | 254 km |
| 15 | Le Teil Ardèche | 2 | 37% | 0% | 120 km |
| 16 | Puget-sur-Argens Var | 1.9 | 9.8% | 54% | 6.5 km |
| 17 | Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 15% | 14% | 243 km |
| 18 | Ergué-Gabéric Finistère | 1.8 | 21% | 0% | 6.3 km |
| 19 | Aulnoye-Aymeries Nord | 1.7 | 1.2% | 100% | 132 km |
| 20 | Soustons Landes | 1.7 | 65% | 9.6% | On it |
| 21 | Le Grau-du-Roi Gard | 1.6 | 3.9% | 89% | On it |
| 22 | Pithiviers Loiret | 1.5 | 2.2% | 0% | 198 km |
| 23 | Monistrol-sur-Loire Haute-Loire | 1.4 | 34% | 16% | 192 km |
| 24 | La Chapelle-d'Armentières Nord | 1.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 52 km |
| 25 | Crest Drôme | 1.2 | 25% | 0% | 142 km |
| 26 | Isbergues Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 47 km |
| 27 | Sérignan Hérault | 1.1 | 0.2% | 34% | On it |
| 28 | Saint-Chamas Bouches-du-Rhône | 1 | 8.1% | 50% | 15 km |
| 29 | Saint-Jory Haute-Garonne | 0.9 | 6.1% | 6.4% | 159 km |
| 30 | La Ferté-Bernard Sarthe | 0.9 | 1.2% | 0% | 135 km |
| 31 | Ombrée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 94 km |
| 32 | Plabennec Finistère | 0.7 | 2.3% | 0% | 7.8 km |
| 33 | Roussillon Isère | 0.6 | 12% | 0% | 209 km |
| 34 | Souleuvre en Bocage Calvados | 0.6 | 10% | 21% | 45 km |
| 35 | Janzé Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 2.9% | 0% | 70 km |
| 36 | Domérat Allier | 0.5 | 8.5% | 0% | 275 km |
| 37 | Le Poiré-sur-Vie Vendée | 0.4 | 4.9% | 0% | 32 km |
| 38 | Aigues-Mortes Gard | 0.4 | 2.8% | 100% | 6 km |
| 39 | Les Hauts-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 4.5% | 4.1% | 121 km |
| 40 | Sarlat-la-Canéda Dordogne | 0.3 | 42% | 10% | 143 km |
| 41 | Coutras Gironde | 0.1 | 11% | 19% | 37 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 Le Teil
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Base de Loisirs de Montmeillan leads, at 41 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Square de la Violette
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.1 km of path
1.8 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Milieux alluviaux du Rhône aval is the nearest protected area, 4.7 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
Milieux alluviaux du Rhône aval
4.7 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
54 km of footpaths and 20 km of hiking routes cross Le Teil
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
54 km
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
20 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
37%
about 9.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Le TeilArdèche medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes0.8
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Le TeilArdèche medianFrance median
Woodland37%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 58% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 83% 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 Teil is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
30 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 4219 km
SPHC, étape 179.7 km
SPHC, étape 169.3 km
L'Auche - Tronquette4.8 km
Mont Rosier - Montagut4.1 km
Saint-Thomé - Montfaucon4 km
Fontbonne - Montagut3.7 km
Liotard - Larein3.5 km
Foucholle - Blachon3.2 km
La Roche - Le Devois3.1 km
Liotard - Les Audouards3 km
La Rouvière - Montfaucon2.3 km
+18 more
GR 42 passes within 2 km of Le Teil.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Le Teil: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Montelimar, 5.5 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) | 9.2 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 30 | 24 | 19 | 13 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 69 | 43 | 49 | 74 | 78 | 57 | 55 | 56 | 116 | 133 | 129 | 62 |
February is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 30 °C). 133 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 24 nights a year. The climate in Le Teil →
Neighbors
Next to Le Teil
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MontélimarChâteauneuf-du-RhôneViviersMontboucher-sur-JabronDonzèreCruasLe Teil
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Teil | 0% | 37% | 2 |
| Montélimar 40,595 · 5.4 km | 0.9% | 8% | 1.8 |
| Châteauneuf-du-Rhône 2,917 · 6.7 km | 0.8% | 16% | 1.2 |
| Viviers 3,633 · 7.1 km | 2.6% | 49% | 1.3 |
| Montboucher-sur-Jabron 2,592 · 10 km | 0% | 3.1% | 0.5 |
| Donzère 6,008 · 12 km | 8.5% | 22% | 1.2 |
| Cruas 2,898 · 14 km | 1.5% | 47% | 1.4 |
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 Le Teil
Is Le Teil in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Milieux alluviaux du Rhône aval, 4.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Le Teil?
OpenStreetMap maps 54 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 20 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Le Teil is woodland?
37% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Teil near the sea?
No: the coast is 120 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Le Teil?
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 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.