First pick
Parc de l'île Girodet
Park or garden · 320 m outside the commune
15 ha4 km of path
55 minto walk all 4 km of path
3.9 km eastfrom the center
Allée André Revol
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Yzergues · CC BY-SA 4.011%of the land protected
Outdoors in Saint-Péray · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Saint-Péray is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 71 km across Saint-Péray (3 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 27% of Saint-Péray. Protected areas cover 11% of Saint-Péray’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
11%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
27%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
71 km
3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.9 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc de l'île Girodet
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 Saint-Péray 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 areas11%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
73out of 100
Woodland27%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
73out of 100
Footpaths3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
74out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
49out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Péray has the 9th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,469 to 7,698 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Émerainville (9 km per km²) to Hasparren (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Émerainville Seine-et-Marne | 9 | 43% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Saint-Prix Val-d'Oise | 8.4 | 64% | 0.5% | 132 km |
| 3 | Gérardmer Vosges | 6.3 | 70% | 100% | 445 km |
| 4 | Huningue Haut-Rhin | 4.9 | 0.9% | 0% | 423 km |
| 5 | Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil Essonne | 4.8 | 28% | 0% | 177 km |
| 6 | Sausset-les-Pins Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.2 | 5.8% | 51% | On it |
| 7 | Lesneven Finistère | 3.4 | 4% | 0% | 6.8 km |
| 8 | Saint-Apollinaire Côte-d'Or | 3.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 403 km |
| 9 | Saint-Péray Ardèche | 3 | 27% | 11% | 165 km |
| 10 | Falaise Calvados | 2.8 | 4% | 0% | 43 km |
| 11 | Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente Charente | 2.5 | 20% | 8.7% | 74 km |
| 12 | Bidart Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.4 | 19% | 7.8% | On it |
| 13 | Faverges-Seythenex Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 65% | 100% | 239 km |
| 14 | Crozon Finistère | 2.4 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 15 | Villars Loire | 2.3 | 0.1% | 0% | 213 km |
| 16 | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Savoie | 2.2 | 37% | 0% | 190 km |
| 17 | Châteaubourg Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.1 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 18 | Bourg-Saint-Andéol Ardèche | 2 | 56% | 6.1% | 101 km |
| 19 | Saint-Maixent-l'École Deux-Sèvres | 1.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 72 km |
| 20 | Villard-Bonnot Isère | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 203 km |
| 21 | Céret Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.7 | 61% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 22 | Tullins Isère | 1.6 | 27% | 0% | 211 km |
| 23 | Wissembourg Bas-Rhin | 1.6 | 54% | 67% | 429 km |
| 24 | Saint-Berthevin Mayenne | 1.5 | 17% | 0% | 74 km |
| 25 | Mimizan Landes | 1.3 | 75% | 8.2% | On it |
| 26 | Melesse Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.1 | 3.7% | 0% | 38 km |
| 27 | L'Aigle Orne | 1.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 78 km |
| 28 | Langon Gironde | 1 | 12% | 3.9% | 58 km |
| 29 | Jaunay-Marigny Vienne | 0.9 | 9.6% | 27% | 123 km |
| 30 | Parentis-en-Born Landes | 0.8 | 69% | 13% | 16 km |
| 31 | Sucé-sur-Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 13% | 25% | 48 km |
| 32 | Biguglia Haute-Corse | 0.8 | 2.9% | 21% | On it |
| 33 | Rosporden Finistère | 0.8 | 4.7% | 0% | 11 km |
| 34 | Pluvigner Morbihan | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 35 | Auxonne Côte-d'Or | 0.7 | 42% | 8.8% | 413 km |
| 36 | Bain-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 5% | 0% | 65 km |
| 37 | Déols Indre | 0.6 | 4.6% | 6.9% | 225 km |
| 38 | Machecoul-Saint-Même Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 12% | 27% | 13 km |
| 39 | Les Avenières Veyrins-Thuellin Isère | 0.4 | 22% | 11% | 249 km |
| 40 | Loireauxence Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 8.3% | 10% | 84 km |
| 41 | Hasparren Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.3 | 22% | 7.5% | 22 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 Saint-Péray
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de l'île Girodet leads, at 15 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de Chavaran
Park or garden
4.5 ha1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
Centralin the middle of Saint-Péray
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de Marcale
Park or garden
0.6 ha0.2 km of path
0.7 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Mazet
Park or garden · 390 m outside the commune
0.4 ha0.3 km of path
2.5 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Espace Adrien Gilles
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.1 km of path
1 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
11% of Saint-Péray lies in protected areas
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
6% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Affluents rive droite du Rhône
5% of the commune2.6 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area11%
Natura 2000 site11%
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.
11% of Saint-Péray’s land is protected, more than in 73% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Ardèche has 8.6%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
71 km of footpaths and 8 km of hiking routes cross Saint-Péray
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
71 km
3 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.9 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
27%
about 6.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-PérayArdèche medianFrance median
Footpaths3
Hiking routes0.3
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-PérayArdèche medianFrance median
Woodland27%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 74% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 73% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Saint-Péray’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 4222 km
GR 4205.3 km
GR 4223.7 km
3 GR routes pass within 2 km of Saint-Péray: GR 42, GR 420 and GR 422.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saint-Péray: June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Valence-Chabeui, 11 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 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 27 | 29 | 29 | 24 | 19 | 12 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 47 | 54 | 74 | 89 | 57 | 55 | 68 | 83 | 124 | 109 | 58 |
February is the driest month (47 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 124 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 45 nights a year. The climate in Saint-Péray →
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Péray
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Guilherand-GrangesBourg-lès-ValenceValencePont-de-l'IsèrePortes-lès-ValenceCharmes-sur-RhôneSaint-Péray
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Péray | 11% | 27% | 3 |
| Guilherand-Granges 11,235 · 2.8 km | 17% | 1.9% | 5 |
| Bourg-lès-Valence 19,992 · 4.9 km | 0% | 1.8% | 1.8 |
| Valence 64,458 · 5.3 km | 0% | 3.3% | 2.1 |
| Pont-de-l'Isère 3,681 · 7.8 km | 0% | 2.2% | 0.7 |
| Portes-lès-Valence 10,477 · 8.2 km | 0% | 5.9% | 2.7 |
| Charmes-sur-Rhône 3,143 · 8.3 km | 0% | 6.7% | 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 Saint-Péray
Is Saint-Péray in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 11% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Saint-Péray?
OpenStreetMap maps 71 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saint-Péray is woodland?
27% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Péray near the sea?
No: the coast is 165 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saint-Péray?
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 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.