First pick
Jardin de la Bouchière
Park or garden
2.7 ha
1.4 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Pinpin · CC BY-SA 3.026%woodland
Outdoors in Limoux · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Limoux is within 800 m of a park or wood
26% of Limoux is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Limoux; the nearest, Massif de la Malepère (Natura 2000), is 5.1 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 26 km across Limoux (0.8 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.1%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Massif de la Malepère, 5.1 km
Woodland
26%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
26 km
0.8 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
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Jardin de la Bouchière
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 Limoux 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 areas0.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
51out of 100
Woodland26%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
72out of 100
Footpaths0.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
25out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Limoux has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (10,395 to 10,684 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Voisins-le-Bretonneux (13.8 km per km²) to Seysses (0.5 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Voisins-le-Bretonneux Yvelines | 13.8 | 8.8% | 5.4% | 144 km |
| 2 | Eybens Isère | 7.6 | 17% | 0% | 201 km |
| 3 | Chantilly Oise | 6.8 | 70% | 100% | 124 km |
| 4 | Aubière Puy-de-Dôme | 5.2 | 0.4% | 0% | 254 km |
| 5 | La Riche Indre-et-Loire | 4.2 | 4.5% | 16% | 182 km |
| 6 | Cabestany Pyrénées-Orientales | 4 | 1.8% | 0% | 7.9 km |
| 7 | Biot Alpes-Maritimes | 3.8 | 34% | 11% | 3.7 km |
| 8 | Valentigney Doubs | 3.8 | 36% | 0% | 412 km |
| 9 | Longuenesse Pas-de-Calais | 3.7 | 8.8% | 100% | 29 km |
| 10 | Clermont Oise | 3.6 | 30% | 0% | 103 km |
| 11 | Chantepie Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.5 | 4% | 0% | 53 km |
| 12 | Saint-Gély-du-Fesc Hérault | 3.4 | 39% | 0% | 21 km |
| 13 | Thorigny-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 3.4 | 15% | 12% | 162 km |
| 14 | Fosses Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 5.1% | 57% | 134 km |
| 15 | Héricourt Haute-Saône | 2.8 | 36% | 0% | 425 km |
| 16 | Portes-lès-Valence Drôme | 2.7 | 5.9% | 0% | 158 km |
| 17 | Charvieu-Chavagneux Isère | 2.7 | 10% | 0% | 255 km |
| 18 | Urrugne Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.3 | 23% | 28% | 3.1 km |
| 19 | Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 2.1 | 1.4% | 0% | 51 km |
| 20 | Divonne-les-Bains Ain | 2.1 | 52% | 57% | 306 km |
| 21 | Treillières Loire-Atlantique | 2.1 | 15% | 0% | 41 km |
| 22 | Fouesnant Finistère | 2 | 3.5% | 9.8% | On it |
| 23 | Argelès-sur-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 30% | 39% | On it |
| 24 | Miribel Ain | 2 | 17% | 14% | 262 km |
| 25 | Villers-Cotterêts Aisne | 1.8 | 73% | 0% | 145 km |
| 26 | La Londe-les-Maures Var | 1.8 | 27% | 49% | On it |
| 27 | La Trinité Alpes-Maritimes | 1.8 | 59% | 25% | 3.6 km |
| 28 | Vieux-Condé Nord | 1.7 | 7.4% | 100% | 96 km |
| 29 | Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 1.6 | 11% | 23% | 17 km |
| 30 | Andrézieux-Bouthéon Loire | 1.4 | 3.5% | 7.1% | 219 km |
| 31 | Mainvilliers Eure-et-Loir | 1.4 | 9.3% | 0% | 136 km |
| 32 | Oloron-Sainte-Marie Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.3 | 52% | 4.8% | 83 km |
| 33 | Léognan Gironde | 1.2 | 39% | 0% | 30 km |
| 34 | Wittelsheim Haut-Rhin | 1.2 | 34% | 6.2% | 447 km |
| 35 | Marck Pas-de-Calais | 0.9 | 3.4% | 0% | On it |
| 36 | Parempuyre Gironde | 0.9 | 6.7% | 8.1% | 6.3 km |
| 37 | Brumath Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 32% | 0% | 437 km |
| 38 | Limoux Aude | 0.8 | 26% | 0.1% | 68 km |
| 39 | Pernes-les-Fontaines Vaucluse | 0.7 | 8.6% | 44% | 62 km |
| 40 | Auterive Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 4.6% | 1.2% | 134 km |
| 41 | Seysses Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 2.6% | 0% | 153 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 Limoux
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin de la Bouchière leads, at 2.7 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Île de Sournies
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.4 km of path
0.8 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Saint-Joseph de Cluny
Park or garden
1.1 ha
Centralin the middle of Limoux
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Corbière-Fenouillèdes Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 8.3 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Corbière-Fenouillèdes Regional Nature Park
8.3 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Hautes Corbières
6.8 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Massif de la Malepère
5.1 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.1%
Natura 2000 site0.1%
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.
A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
26 km of footpaths cross Limoux
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
26 km
0.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
26%
about 8.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LimouxAude medianFrance median
Footpaths0.8
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LimouxAude medianFrance median
Woodland26%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 75% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 72% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 98% of Limoux’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Tour du Bois des Bruyères1.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Limoux: June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Limoux, 1.9 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 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 67 | 48 | 57 | 73 | 69 | 48 | 31 | 36 | 51 | 58 | 69 | 59 |
July is the driest month (31 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 73 mm of rain falls in April, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Limoux →
Neighbors
Next to Limoux
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PalajaQuillanCarcassonneBramPennautierVillemoustaussouLimoux
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limoux | 0.1% | 26% | 0.8 |
| Palaja 2,722 · 19 km | 0% | 34% | 2.2 |
| Quillan 2,978 · 20 km | 100% | 49% | 1.4 |
| Carcassonne 46,080 · 21 km | 0% | 8.4% | 1.4 |
| Bram 3,233 · 22 km | 0% | 3.5% | 0.6 |
| Pennautier 2,895 · 23 km | 0% | 7.6% | 0.3 |
| Villemoustaussou 4,401 · 25 km | 0% | 4.8% | 0.8 |
Quillan has at least twice as much protected land. Quillan 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 Limoux
Is Limoux in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Massif de la Malepère, 5.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Limoux?
OpenStreetMap maps 26 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Limoux is woodland?
26% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Limoux near the sea?
No: the coast is 68 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Limoux?
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.