First pick
Square Barbara
Park or garden
0.5 ha
4.5 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Patrick Nouhailler's… · CC BY-SA 3.098%of the land protected
Outdoors in Fleury · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Fleury lies inside Narbonnaise en Méditerranée Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 98% of Fleury’s land. 0.7% of Fleury is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 78 km across Fleury (1.5 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
98%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
0.7%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
78 km
1.5 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
67%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 4.7 km from its center
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Fleury?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Narbonnaise en Méditerranée Regional Nature Park96% of the commune is in the regional nature park.On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 4.7 km from its center.Little mapped woodland0.7% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Fleury apart: the regional nature park around it, then the sea. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Fleury 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 areas98%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
91out of 100
Woodland0.7%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
5out of 100
Footpaths1.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
46out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Green space nearby67%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
1out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Fleury has the 19th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,211 to 4,281 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (5 km per km²) to Terres-de-Caux (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Touquet-Paris-Plage Pas-de-Calais | 5 | 23% | 9.8% | On it |
| 2 | Brives-Charensac Haute-Loire | 4.2 | 17% | 0% | 166 km |
| 3 | Mimet Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.9 | 49% | 44% | 16 km |
| 4 | Leuville-sur-Orge Essonne | 3.8 | 15% | 0% | 166 km |
| 5 | Corenc Isère | 3.8 | 50% | 45% | 206 km |
| 6 | Barbentane Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.1 | 36% | 8.1% | 50 km |
| 7 | Roquettes Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 4.1% | 4.3% | 147 km |
| 8 | Courseulles-sur-Mer Calvados | 2.7 | 1% | 0% | On it |
| 9 | Angoulins Charente-Maritime | 2.7 | 0.3% | 3.8% | On it |
| 10 | Pont-Péan Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.3 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 11 | Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny Savoie | 2.2 | 50% | 100% | 225 km |
| 12 | La Norville Essonne | 2.2 | 4% | 0% | 168 km |
| 13 | Combrit Finistère | 2.2 | 20% | 3.3% | On it |
| 14 | Plomelin Finistère | 2.1 | 19% | 0% | On it |
| 15 | Rouffach Haut-Rhin | 1.8 | 37% | 10% | 464 km |
| 16 | Pomponne Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 48% | 4% | 161 km |
| 17 | Wolfisheim Bas-Rhin | 1.6 | 7.5% | 0% | 446 km |
| 18 | Désertines Allier | 1.5 | 20% | 0% | 281 km |
| 19 | Fleury Aude | 1.5 | 0.7% | 98% | On it |
| 20 | Tonnerre Yonne | 1.5 | 41% | 0% | 308 km |
| 21 | Ecquevilly Yvelines | 1.4 | 26% | 0% | 124 km |
| 22 | Vimy Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 16% | 0% | 80 km |
| 23 | Saint-Just-Malmont Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 47% | 0.3% | 199 km |
| 24 | Maîche Doubs | 1.3 | 31% | 100% | 389 km |
| 25 | Beauvallon Rhône | 1.3 | 18% | 0% | 231 km |
| 26 | Rognonas Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.2 | 0% | 13% | 50 km |
| 27 | Pluguffan Finistère | 1.1 | 14% | 0% | 4.3 km |
| 28 | Grisolles Tarn-et-Garonne | 1 | 13% | 19% | 168 km |
| 29 | Rians Var | 0.9 | 70% | 70% | 45 km |
| 30 | Saint-Laurent-Nouan Loir-et-Cher | 0.6 | 42% | 26% | 213 km |
| 31 | Nailloux Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 5.1% | 0% | 123 km |
| 32 | Châteauneuf-sur-Isère Drôme | 0.6 | 6.5% | 2.1% | 173 km |
| 33 | Nanteuil-le-Haudouin Oise | 0.5 | 9.7% | 32% | 142 km |
| 34 | Sanvignes-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 12% | 0% | 345 km |
| 35 | Serémange-Erzange Moselle | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 307 km |
| 36 | Breteuil Oise | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 75 km |
| 37 | Pontorson Manche | 0.4 | 0.4% | 6.2% | On it |
| 38 | Jouarre Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 175 km |
| 39 | Betschdorf Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 41% | 49% | 436 km |
| 40 | Redessan Gard | 0.2 | 0% | 66% | 41 km |
| 41 | Terres-de-Caux Seine-Maritime | 0.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 19 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 Fleury
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Square Barbara leads, at 0.5 ha. Directions go to 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 Fleury 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).
67% within 800 m33% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
FleuryAude medianFrance median
Within 800 m67%
0%50%100%
About 1,400 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
Protected land in and around Fleury
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Narbonnaise en Méditerranée Regional Nature Park
96% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Montagne de la Clape
48% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Massif de la Clape
43% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Basse plaine de l’Aude
38% of the commune3.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Basse plaine de l’Aude
33% of the commune3.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Cours inférieur de l’Aude
2% of the commune4.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area98%
Regional nature park96%
Natura 2000 site87%
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.
98% of Fleury’s land is protected, more than in 91% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Aude has 9.6%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
All 8 protected areas
Côtes sableuses de l’infralittoral LanguedocienNatura 2000 site · 4.7 km
Côte languedocienneNatura 2000 site · 4.7 km
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
78 km of footpaths cross Fleury
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
78 km
1.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.7%
about 0.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
FleuryAude medianFrance median
Footpaths1.5
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
FleuryAude medianFrance median
Woodland0.7%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 54% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 95% 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 Fleury: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lespignan, 7.8 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 | 10.5 | 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 Fleury →
Neighbors
Next to Fleury
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Salles-d'AudeVinassanCoursanLespignanNissan-lez-EnseruneVendresFleury
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fleury | 98% | 0.7% | 1.5 | On it |
| Salles-d'Aude 3,369 · 4.4 km | 19% | 12% | 1.7 | 9 km |
| Vinassan 2,662 · 6 km | 65% | 20% | 1.7 | 9.2 km |
| Coursan 5,737 · 7.8 km | 12% | 0% | 0.2 | 12 km |
| Lespignan 3,414 · 7.9 km | 69% | 0.3% | 1.1 | 8.7 km |
| Nissan-lez-Enserune 4,124 · 9.3 km | 38% | 4.6% | 1.1 | 12 km |
| Vendres 2,616 · 9.7 km | 60% | 1.9% | 1 | On it |
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 Fleury
Is Fleury in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Fleury lies in Narbonnaise en Méditerranée Regional Nature Park (96% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Fleury?
OpenStreetMap maps 78 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Fleury is woodland?
0.7% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Fleury near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 4.7 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Fleury?
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.