First pick
Jardin de la Libération
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
0.7 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Nebru09 · CC BY-SA 4.01.1%of the land protected
Outdoors in Pamiers · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Pamiers
Footpaths add up to 28 km across Pamiers (0.6 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 16% of Pamiers. Pamiers has 14 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
1.1%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
16%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
28 km
0.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
73%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
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.
Against French towns
How Pamiers 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 areas1.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
56out of 100
Woodland16%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
55out of 100
Footpaths0.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
18out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
46out of 100
Green space nearby73%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
2out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Pamiers has the 3rd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (15,910 to 17,029 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vauréal (12.3 km per km²) to Gaillac (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vauréal Val-d'Oise | 12.3 | 19% | 0% | 121 km |
| 2 | Noisiel Seine-et-Marne | 9.5 | 32% | 0.1% | 162 km |
| 3 | Saint-Leu-la-Forêt Val-d'Oise | 8.5 | 36% | 0.5% | 131 km |
| 4 | Marly-le-Roi Yvelines | 7.6 | 37% | 0% | 138 km |
| 5 | Bois-d'Arcy Yvelines | 7.4 | 38% | 0% | 140 km |
| 6 | Orsay Essonne | 7.3 | 27% | 0% | 157 km |
| 7 | Le Pecq Yvelines | 7.1 | 2.7% | 0% | 136 km |
| 8 | Les Clayes-sous-Bois Yvelines | 6.3 | 35% | 0% | 137 km |
| 9 | Le Pré-Saint-Gervais Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.8 | 0% | 0% | 149 km |
| 10 | Verneuil-sur-Seine Yvelines | 5.4 | 24% | 0% | 123 km |
| 11 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire Indre-et-Loire | 5 | 9.4% | 1.9% | 184 km |
| 12 | Lons-le-Saunier Jura | 4.9 | 8.8% | 1.8% | 356 km |
| 13 | Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 4.7 | 12% | 11% | 45 km |
| 14 | Le Bourget Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.5 | 2.2% | 0% | 145 km |
| 15 | Domont Val-d'Oise | 4.5 | 28% | 0% | 133 km |
| 16 | Landerneau Finistère | 4.4 | 18% | 1.2% | On it |
| 17 | Hennebont Morbihan | 4 | 25% | 0% | On it |
| 18 | Trélazé Maine-et-Loire | 3.9 | 13% | 0% | 122 km |
| 19 | Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle Loiret | 3.5 | 4.9% | 3% | 203 km |
| 20 | Mennecy Essonne | 3.3 | 19% | 8.2% | 180 km |
| 21 | Ambérieu-en-Bugey Ain | 3.3 | 49% | 0% | 281 km |
| 22 | Saint-Julien-en-Genevois Haute-Savoie | 3.2 | 13% | 0% | 286 km |
| 23 | Lucé Eure-et-Loir | 3 | 2.6% | 0% | 137 km |
| 24 | Sin-le-Noble Nord | 2.7 | 12% | 0.1% | 90 km |
| 25 | Rumilly Haute-Savoie | 2.3 | 18% | 0.7% | 262 km |
| 26 | Coulommiers Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 16% | 0% | 183 km |
| 27 | Sedan Ardennes | 2 | 17% | 0% | 222 km |
| 28 | Saint-Amand-les-Eaux Nord | 1.9 | 43% | 100% | 93 km |
| 29 | La Baule-Escoublac Loire-Atlantique | 1.7 | 9.6% | 37% | 0.8 km |
| 30 | Valserhône Ain | 1.7 | 59% | 19% | 292 km |
| 31 | Guérande Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 7.1% | 76% | On it |
| 32 | Verdun Meuse | 1.4 | 21% | 3.6% | 290 km |
| 33 | Montbrison Loire | 1.3 | 5.7% | 4.8% | 227 km |
| 34 | Les Herbiers Vendée | 1.1 | 6.5% | 0% | 62 km |
| 35 | Cestas Gironde | 1 | 58% | 0% | 28 km |
| 36 | Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne Mayenne | 0.9 | 3.1% | 0% | 102 km |
| 37 | Châteaurenard Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 2.1% | 8.3% | 47 km |
| 38 | Mauguio Hérault | 0.8 | 1.4% | 49% | On it |
| 39 | Pamiers Ariège | 0.6 | 16% | 1.1% | 118 km |
| 40 | Loire-Authion Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 10% | 100% | 130 km |
| 41 | Gaillac Tarn | 0.2 | 4.9% | 0% | 132 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 Pamiers
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin de la Libération leads, at 0.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc municipal du Challonge
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.5 km of path
0.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Une naissance, un arbre
Park or garden · 70 m outside the commune
0.9 ha
2.2 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
7 in 10 residents of Pamiers live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
73% within 800 m27% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
PamiersAriège medianFrance median
Within 800 m73%
0%50%100%
About 4,500 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
1.1% of Pamiers 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
Garonne, Ariège, Hers, Salat, Pique et Neste
1.1% of the commune1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area1.1%
Natura 2000 site1.1%
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.
1.1% of Pamiers’ land is protected, more than in 56% 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.
Footpaths and woods
28 km of footpaths and 14 km of hiking routes cross Pamiers
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
28 km
0.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
16%
about 7.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PamiersAriège medianFrance median
Footpaths0.6
Hiking routes0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PamiersAriège medianFrance median
Woodland16%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 82% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 55% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Pamiers: June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St-Ybars, 22 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 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 27 | 28 | 24 | 19 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 68 | 53 | 58 | 85 | 91 | 72 | 56 | 50 | 59 | 65 | 75 | 66 |
August is the driest month (50 mm) and the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 91 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 25 nights a year. The climate in Pamiers →
Neighbors
Next to Pamiers
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
La Tour-du-CrieuSaint-Jean-du-FalgaVarilhesSaverdunMazèresFoixPamiers
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pamiers | 1.1% | 16% | 0.6 |
| La Tour-du-Crieu 3,230 · 3.5 km | 0% | 0% | 0.4 |
| Saint-Jean-du-Falga 2,851 · 3.6 km | 2.2% | 3.1% | 1.2 |
| Varilhes 3,487 · 7.8 km | 2.6% | 17% | 0.6 |
| Saverdun 4,808 · 13 km | 0.7% | 13% | 0.2 |
| Mazères 3,852 · 15 km | 0.5% | 2% | 0.3 |
| Foix 9,934 · 17 km | 21% | 28% | 2.2 |
Foix has at least twice as much protected land. Foix 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 Pamiers
Is Pamiers in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 1.1% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Pamiers?
OpenStreetMap maps 28 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 14 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Pamiers is woodland?
16% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Pamiers near the sea?
No: the coast is 118 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Pamiers?
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.