Photo: Xenophon75 · CC BY-SA 4.079% of Leucate’s land is protected for nature
Footpaths add up to 162 km across Leucate (3.4 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 2.1% of Leucate. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 4 km in Leucate. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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 outdoors place is Leucate?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Leucate apart: its protected countryside, then the sea. It is shorter on woodland.
How Leucate 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.
Leucate has the 5th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,515 to 4,612 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Gréasque (7.9 km per km²) to Cabannes (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gréasque Bouches-du-Rhône | 7.9 | 53% | 0% | 19 km |
| 2 | Villiers-sur-Orge Essonne | 4.7 | 7.5% | 0% | 166 km |
| 3 | La Frette-sur-Seine Val-d'Oise | 4.6 | 6.9% | 0% | 131 km |
| 4 | Bizanos Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.8 | 12% | 9.4% | 98 km |
| 5 | Leucate Aude | 3.4 | 2.1% | 79% | On it |
| 6 | Mandeure Doubs | 3 | 59% | 11% | 410 km |
| 7 | Annay Pas-de-Calais | 2.1 | 5.8% | 0% | 73 km |
| 8 | Plourin-lès-Morlaix Finistère | 2 | 22% | 0.5% | 5.4 km |
| 9 | Milly-la-Forêt Essonne | 1.9 | 53% | 100% | 192 km |
| 10 | Notre-Dame-d'Oé Indre-et-Loire | 1.9 | 2.7% | 0% | 189 km |
| 11 | Communay Rhône | 1.8 | 13% | 0% | 235 km |
| 12 | Grimaud Var | 1.7 | 41% | 4.5% | On it |
| 13 | Plougonvelin Finistère | 1.4 | 4.3% | 0.9% | On it |
| 14 | Chaponnay Rhône | 1.4 | 17% | 0% | 240 km |
| 15 | Biache-Saint-Vaast Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 9.2% | 0% | 90 km |
| 16 | Espalion Aveyron | 1.2 | 30% | 3.6% | 144 km |
| 17 | La Guerche-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.2 | 0.2% | 0% | 77 km |
| 18 | Jouques Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.2 | 61% | 92% | 40 km |
| 19 | Bonson Loire | 1.1 | 9.6% | 7.9% | 218 km |
| 20 | Bages Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.1 | 0.3% | 0% | 12 km |
| 21 | Jargeau Loiret | 1 | 7.3% | 20% | 218 km |
| 22 | Saint-Aunès Hérault | 1 | 4.7% | 0% | 10 km |
| 23 | Salaise-sur-Sanne Isère | 0.9 | 13% | 9.2% | 207 km |
| 24 | Puget-Ville Var | 0.9 | 23% | 19% | 20 km |
| 25 | Dieulouard Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.8 | 24% | 100% | 348 km |
| 26 | Castelmaurou Haute-Garonne | 0.8 | 20% | 0% | 143 km |
| 27 | Crespin Nord | 0.7 | 34% | 99% | 105 km |
| 28 | Saint-Martin-de-May Calvados | 0.7 | 2.9% | 0% | 21 km |
| 29 | Sainte-Marie-aux-Chênes Moselle | 0.6 | 2.2% | 0% | 314 km |
| 30 | Lescure-d'Albigeois Tarn | 0.6 | 16% | 0% | 119 km |
| 31 | Montagnac Hérault | 0.6 | 11% | 14% | 17 km |
| 32 | Retiers Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 79 km |
| 33 | Macau Gironde | 0.5 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 34 | Le Thillay Val-d'Oise | 0.5 | 2.5% | 0% | 141 km |
| 35 | Sézanne Marne | 0.4 | 22% | 1.7% | 220 km |
| 36 | Arnas Rhône | 0.4 | 8.7% | 2.2% | 277 km |
| 37 | Hœrdt Bas-Rhin | 0.4 | 3% | 0% | 444 km |
| 38 | Vivonne Vienne | 0.4 | 21% | 0% | 108 km |
| 39 | Camaret-sur-Aigues Vaucluse | 0.3 | 2.4% | 0.8% | 79 km |
| 40 | Tiercé Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 12% | 16% | 131 km |
| 41 | Cabannes Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.3 | 1.5% | 14% | 46 km |
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.
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Leucate
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Place du Ségala leads, at 0.6 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected land in and around Leucate
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Narbonnaise en Méditerranée Regional Nature Park
Complexe lagunaire de Salses-Leucate
Complexe lagunaire de Salses
Étang de Lapalme
Complexe lagunaire de Lapalme
Plateau de Leucate
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.
79% of Leucate’s land is protected, more than in 90% 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 10 protected areas
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
162 km of footpaths cross Leucate
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 more than in 79% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 89% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 98% of Leucate’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Leucate: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Torreilles, 15 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 | 15.0 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 11.0 | 9.7 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 13 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 39 | 40 | 50 | 42 | 22 | 14 | 25 | 52 | 88 | 76 | 50 |
July is the driest month (14 mm) and the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 88 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 15 nights a year. The climate in Leucate →
Next to Leucate
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leucate | 79% | 2.1% | 3.4 | On it |
| Le Barcarès 6,109 · 8.2 km | 35% | 3.4% | 4.4 | On it |
| Salses-le-Château 3,965 · 12 km | 34% | 4.1% | 0.3 | 10 km |
| Saint-Hippolyte 3,126 · 12 km | 68% | 0% | 0.3 | 6.1 km |
| Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque 9,898 · 13 km | 45% | 0.1% | 1.2 | 3.8 km |
| Torreilles 3,753 · 14 km | 20% | 0.4% | 1.5 | On it |
| Port-la-Nouvelle 5,852 · 15 km | 82% | 5.2% | 1.6 | On it |
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 Leucate
Is Leucate in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Leucate lies in Narbonnaise en Méditerranée Regional Nature Park (44% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Leucate?
OpenStreetMap maps 162 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Leucate is woodland?
2.1% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Leucate near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 0.5 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Leucate?
April 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.