First pick
Parc de l'Étang Salin
Park or garden
16 ha
1.8 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Christian Ferrer · CC BY-SA 4.012%of the land protected
Outdoors in Coursan · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Coursan
4 km of footpaths cross Coursan (0.2 km per km²). Coursan has almost no mapped woodland. Protected areas cover 12% of Coursan’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
12%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
0%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
4.5 km
0.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
87%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
12 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Aude 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 Coursan 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 areas12%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
74out of 100
Woodland0%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
0out of 100
Footpaths0.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
2out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Green space nearby87%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
6out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Coursan has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,695 to 5,779 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Canéjan (5.5 km per km²) to Missillac (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canéjan Gironde | 5.5 | 50% | 0% | 28 km |
| 2 | Montbonnot-Saint-Martin Isère | 4.6 | 9.5% | 0% | 205 km |
| 3 | Carry-le-Rouet Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.3 | 19% | 59% | On it |
| 4 | Mourenx Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.6 | 20% | 9.2% | 73 km |
| 5 | Revin Ardennes | 3.3 | 88% | 100% | 188 km |
| 6 | Le Palais-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 3.2 | 27% | 0% | 169 km |
| 7 | Ensuès-la-Redonne Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.1 | 15% | 76% | On it |
| 8 | Peypin Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.9 | 34% | 8.5% | 18 km |
| 9 | Beaucouzé Maine-et-Loire | 2.7 | 15% | 0% | 113 km |
| 10 | Épernon Eure-et-Loir | 2.4 | 16% | 0% | 133 km |
| 11 | Saleilles Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.3 | 1.4% | 0% | 7.1 km |
| 12 | Orgères Ille-et-Vilaine | 2 | 13% | 0% | 60 km |
| 13 | Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 34% | 0.1% | 242 km |
| 14 | Saint-Privat-des-Vieux Gard | 1.4 | 24% | 0% | 65 km |
| 15 | Piolenc Vaucluse | 1.4 | 20% | 1.9% | 81 km |
| 16 | Plouay Morbihan | 1.3 | 31% | 4% | 10 km |
| 17 | Magny-en-Vexin Val-d'Oise | 1.3 | 13% | 100% | 100 km |
| 18 | Mondelange Moselle | 1.2 | 2% | 0% | 316 km |
| 19 | Lannilis Finistère | 1.2 | 5.5% | 14% | On it |
| 20 | Marcheprime Gironde | 1.2 | 83% | 100% | 14 km |
| 21 | Marolles-en-Hurepoix Essonne | 1.2 | 14% | 0% | 172 km |
| 22 | Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef Loire-Atlantique | 1.1 | 5.6% | 0.1% | On it |
| 23 | Cugand-la-Bernardière Vendée | 1 | 7.5% | 0% | 55 km |
| 24 | Bannalec Finistère | 0.9 | 9.6% | 0% | 9.7 km |
| 25 | Gournay-en-Bray Seine-Maritime | 0.8 | 2.6% | 4.7% | 66 km |
| 26 | Melle Deux-Sèvres | 0.8 | 8.9% | 6.1% | 71 km |
| 27 | Lacanau Gironde | 0.8 | 79% | 100% | On it |
| 28 | La Cadière-d'Azur Var | 0.7 | 19% | 68% | 4.5 km |
| 29 | Aimargues Gard | 0.7 | 1.6% | 19% | 17 km |
| 30 | Flines-lez-Raches Nord | 0.6 | 21% | 100% | 87 km |
| 31 | Thizy-les-Bourgs Rhône | 0.6 | 22% | 0% | 276 km |
| 32 | Erdre-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 107 km |
| 33 | Tournus Saône-et-Loire | 0.4 | 9.6% | 6.5% | 340 km |
| 34 | Doullens Somme | 0.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 47 km |
| 35 | Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët Manche | 0.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 19 km |
| 36 | Valdahon Doubs | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 385 km |
| 37 | Valdallière Calvados | 0.2 | 2% | 12% | 52 km |
| 38 | Coursan Aude | 0.2 | 0% | 12% | 12 km |
| 39 | Saint-Martin-la-Pallu Vienne | 0.2 | 8.6% | 11% | 117 km |
| 40 | Mazé-Milon Maine-et-Loire | 0.1 | 11% | 100% | 138 km |
| 41 | Missillac Loire-Atlantique | 0 | 19% | 100% | 16 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 Coursan
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de l'Étang Salin leads, at 16 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Déodat de Séverac
Park or garden
0.2 ha
Centralin the middle of Coursan
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Coursan 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).
87% within 800 m13% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
CoursanAude medianFrance median
Within 800 m87%
0%50%100%
About 700 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
12% of Coursan 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
Étang de Capestang
7.5% of the commune3.7 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Cours inférieur de l’Aude
4.6% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area12%
Natura 2000 site12%
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.
12% of Coursan’s land is protected, more than in 74% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Aude has 9.6%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
4 km of footpaths cross Coursan
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
4.5 km
0.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CoursanAude medianFrance median
Footpaths0.2
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CoursanAude medianFrance median
Woodland0%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 98% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 99% 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 Coursan: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lespignan, 9.8 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 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 12 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 30 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 53 | 51 | 49 | 56 | 46 | 31 | 15 | 27 | 67 | 96 | 66 | 48 |
July is the driest month (15 mm) and the warmest (highs of 30 °C). 96 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 20 nights a year. Summer highs reach 30 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Coursan →
Neighbors
Next to Coursan
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
VinassanSalles-d'AudeCuxac-d'AudeNarbonneFleuryNissan-lez-EnseruneCoursan
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coursan | 12% | 0% | 0.2 | 12 km |
| Vinassan 2,662 · 3.4 km | 65% | 20% | 1.7 | 9.2 km |
| Salles-d'Aude 3,369 · 4.8 km | 19% | 12% | 1.7 | 9 km |
| Cuxac-d'Aude 4,079 · 5.2 km | 14% | 4.6% | 0.4 | 17 km |
| Narbonne 57,587 · 7.2 km | 63% | 11% | 1.2 | On it |
| Fleury 4,246 · 7.8 km | 98% | 0.7% | 1.5 | On it |
| Nissan-lez-Enserune 4,124 · 8.2 km | 38% | 4.6% | 1.1 | 12 km |
Vinassan, Narbonne and Fleury have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Coursan
Is Coursan in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 12% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Coursan?
OpenStreetMap maps 4 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).
How much of Coursan is woodland?
0% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Coursan near the sea?
No: the coast is 12 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Coursan?
April to June: 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.