Photo: BastienM · CC BY-SA 3.034% of Mirepoix is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 10 km across Mirepoix (0.2 km per km²). 5.4% of Mirepoix’s land lies in protected areas. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 15 km in Mirepoix. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Ariège 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 Mirepoix?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Mirepoix apart: its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Mirepoix 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.
Mirepoix has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,152 to 3,192 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Mammès (3.1 km per km²) to Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Mammès Seine-et-Marne | 3.1 | 28% | 1.8% | 212 km |
| 2 | Voujeaucourt Doubs | 2.5 | 44% | 0% | 414 km |
| 3 | Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt Loir-et-Cher | 2.2 | 63% | 0% | 220 km |
| 4 | Lissieu Rhône | 2 | 19% | 0% | 260 km |
| 5 | Le Thillot Vosges | 1.6 | 49% | 100% | 451 km |
| 6 | Salomé Nord | 1.6 | 3% | 0% | 65 km |
| 7 | Lozanne Rhône | 1.6 | 17% | 0% | 259 km |
| 8 | Châteaugay Puy-de-Dôme | 1.6 | 4.7% | 5.2% | 265 km |
| 9 | Nay Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.6 | 14% | 8.5% | 109 km |
| 10 | Fontoy Moselle | 1.5 | 48% | 0% | 300 km |
| 11 | Toussieu Rhône | 1.5 | 6.8% | 0% | 243 km |
| 12 | La Machine Nièvre | 1.5 | 65% | 58% | 357 km |
| 13 | Saint-Georges-des-Groseillers Orne | 1.4 | 1.8% | 0% | 59 km |
| 14 | Marsac-sur-l'Isle Dordogne | 1.2 | 33% | 0% | 99 km |
| 15 | Escaudœuvres Nord | 1.1 | 6.3% | 0% | 112 km |
| 16 | Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie Gard | 1.1 | 44% | 0% | 61 km |
| 17 | Druelle Balsac Aveyron | 1.1 | 22% | 0% | 140 km |
| 18 | Breuil-le-Vert Oise | 1 | 31% | 0% | 105 km |
| 19 | Sallèles-d'Aude Aude | 1 | 7.8% | 1.7% | 21 km |
| 20 | La Loupe Eure-et-Loir | 1 | 9.5% | 100% | 118 km |
| 21 | Souillac Lot | 1 | 67% | 6.9% | 163 km |
| 22 | Ploemel Morbihan | 0.9 | 18% | 0% | 3.3 km |
| 23 | Camblanes-et-Meynac Gironde | 0.9 | 12% | 2.8% | 28 km |
| 24 | Baraqueville Aveyron | 0.8 | 13% | 0% | 134 km |
| 25 | Échenoz-la-Méline Haute-Saône | 0.7 | 50% | 10% | 435 km |
| 26 | Meschers-sur-Gironde Charente-Maritime | 0.6 | 7.4% | 60% | On it |
| 27 | Imphy Nièvre | 0.6 | 32% | 46% | 343 km |
| 28 | Mayet Sarthe | 0.5 | 38% | 40% | 155 km |
| 29 | Cossé-le-Vivien Mayenne | 0.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 83 km |
| 30 | Berlaimont Nord | 0.3 | 7.2% | 100% | 130 km |
| 31 | Saint-Siméon-de-Bressieux Isère | 0.3 | 15% | 0% | 211 km |
| 32 | Montsûrs Mayenne | 0.3 | 15% | 19% | 80 km |
| 33 | Longperrier Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 16% | 0% | 144 km |
| 34 | Sainte-Bazeille Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 12% | 5.5% | 76 km |
| 35 | Saint-Seurin-sur-l'Isle Gironde | 0.2 | 14% | 16% | 46 km |
| 36 | Médis Charente-Maritime | 0.2 | 9.4% | 0.6% | 5.1 km |
| 37 | Thierville-sur-Meuse Meuse | 0.2 | 6% | 2.4% | 288 km |
| 38 | Mirepoix Ariège | 0.2 | 34% | 5.4% | 97 km |
| 39 | Mauron Morbihan | 0.2 | 11% | 0% | 51 km |
| 40 | Tartas Landes | 0.2 | 11% | 3.1% | 47 km |
| 41 | Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde Gironde | 0.1 | 0.8% | 55% | On it |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
5.4% of Mirepoix lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Garonne, Ariège, Hers, Salat, Pique et Neste
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.
5.4% of Mirepoix’s land is protected, more than in 66% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Ariège has 1.5%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
10 km of footpaths and 15 km of hiking routes cross Mirepoix
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 less than in 97% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 81% 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 Mirepoix is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR 7 passes within 2 km of Mirepoix.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Mirepoix: June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Alaigne, 18 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) | 9.3 | 10.5 | 11.8 | 13.3 | 14.6 | 15.3 | 15.1 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 24 | 19 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 68 | 48 | 57 | 73 | 72 | 50 | 35 | 39 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 57 |
July is the driest month (35 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 73 mm of rain falls in April, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 17 nights a year. The climate in Mirepoix →
Next to Mirepoix
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mirepoix | 5.4% | 34% | 0.2 |
| Lavelanet 5,987 · 18 km | 0% | 40% | 2 |
| La Tour-du-Crieu 3,230 · 18 km | 0% | 0% | 0.4 |
| Saint-Jean-du-Falga 2,851 · 20 km | 2.2% | 3.1% | 1.2 |
| Varilhes 3,487 · 20 km | 2.6% | 17% | 0.6 |
| Pamiers 16,473 · 21 km | 1.1% | 16% | 0.6 |
| Mazères 3,852 · 24 km | 0.5% | 2% | 0.3 |
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 Mirepoix
Is Mirepoix in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 5.4% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Mirepoix?
OpenStreetMap maps 10 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 15 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Mirepoix is woodland?
34% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Mirepoix near the sea?
No: the coast is 97 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Mirepoix?
June 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 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.