First pick
Parc de la Campane
Park or garden
59 ha5.6 km of path
1 h 15 minto walk all 5.6 km of path
3.4 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Benh LIEU SONG · CC BY-SA 3.063%of the land protected
Outdoors in Narbonne · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Narbonne lies inside Narbonnaise en Méditerranée Regional Nature Park
63% of Narbonne’s land lies in protected areas. Footpaths add up to 211 km across Narbonne (1.2 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 33 km in Narbonne. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
63%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
11%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
211 km
1.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
33 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
89%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 13 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 Narbonne?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Narbonnaise en Méditerranée Regional Nature Park63% of the commune is in the regional nature park.On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 13 km from its center.
What sets Narbonne apart: the regional nature park around it, then the sea.
Against French towns
How Narbonne 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 areas63%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
88out of 100
Woodland11%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
44out of 100
Footpaths1.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
38out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
37out of 100
Green space nearby89%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
7out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Narbonne has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (52,763 to 62,945 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 5e (12.9 km per km²) to Saint-André (0.6 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 5e Paris | 12.9 | 1% | 0% | 151 km |
| 2 | Marseille 10e Bouches-du-Rhône | 10.6 | 23% | 37% | 4 km |
| 3 | Maisons-Alfort Val-de-Marne | 10.3 | 2.1% | 0% | 158 km |
| 4 | Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine Seine-Saint-Denis | 8.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 144 km |
| 5 | Clamart Hauts-de-Seine | 8.4 | 26% | 0% | 151 km |
| 6 | Pantin Seine-Saint-Denis | 8.3 | 1.9% | 0% | 148 km |
| 7 | Villeneuve-d'Ascq Nord | 7.6 | 8% | 2.3% | 65 km |
| 8 | Villejuif Val-de-Marne | 7.4 | 1% | 0% | 156 km |
| 9 | Bobigny Seine-Saint-Denis | 7.3 | 0.3% | 0% | 149 km |
| 10 | Fontenay-sous-Bois Val-de-Marne | 6.4 | 1.4% | 0% | 155 km |
| 11 | Épinay-sur-Seine Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.3 | 0.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 12 | Chambéry Savoie | 6 | 15% | 1.5% | 235 km |
| 13 | Lyon 9e Rhône | 5.9 | 9.8% | 0% | 253 km |
| 14 | Paris 9e Paris | 5.1 | 0% | 0% | 147 km |
| 15 | Meaux Seine-et-Marne | 5.1 | 7.8% | 5.5% | 162 km |
| 16 | Marseille 3e Bouches-du-Rhône | 5.1 | 0% | 0% | 1.1 km |
| 17 | Chelles Seine-et-Marne | 5 | 9.3% | 0.8% | 158 km |
| 18 | Sarcelles Val-d'Oise | 4.9 | 6.9% | 0% | 139 km |
| 19 | Lorient Morbihan | 4.6 | 1.8% | 0.6% | On it |
| 20 | Le Blanc-Mesnil Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.6 | 2.1% | 0% | 147 km |
| 21 | Vannes Morbihan | 4.6 | 12% | 33% | On it |
| 22 | Neuilly-sur-Seine Hauts-de-Seine | 4.4 | 0.1% | 0% | 143 km |
| 23 | Vaulx-en-Velin Rhône | 3.9 | 16% | 35% | 255 km |
| 24 | Marseille 14e Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.9 | 1.4% | 23% | 2.7 km |
| 25 | Bayonne Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.9 | 23% | 17% | 5.5 km |
| 26 | Troyes Aube | 3.7 | 1.2% | 0% | 272 km |
| 27 | Marseille 11e Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.3 | 43% | 42% | 7.5 km |
| 28 | Beauvais Oise | 3.3 | 12% | 0.1% | 87 km |
| 29 | Saint-Quentin Aisne | 3.2 | 7.4% | 1.2% | 121 km |
| 30 | Fréjus Var | 3.1 | 48% | 33% | On it |
| 31 | Sartrouville Yvelines | 3 | 0.9% | 0% | 135 km |
| 32 | Corbeil-Essonnes Essonne | 3 | 5.5% | 0% | 178 km |
| 33 | Hyères Var | 3 | 25% | 83% | On it |
| 34 | La Roche-sur-Yon Vendée | 2.2 | 7.5% | 0% | 30 km |
| 35 | Niort Deux-Sèvres | 2 | 6.2% | 100% | 51 km |
| 36 | Cholet Maine-et-Loire | 1.7 | 4.1% | 0% | 84 km |
| 37 | Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes | 1.6 | 20% | 2.1% | On it |
| 38 | Narbonne Aude | 1.2 | 11% | 63% | On it |
| 39 | Saint-Louis Réunion | 0.8 | 48% | 66% | On it |
| 40 | Montauban Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.8 | 5.4% | 1.3% | 175 km |
| 41 | Saint-André Réunion | 0.6 | 16% | 31% | On it |
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 Narbonne
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Campane leads, at 59 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Langel Moujan
Wood or forest
114 ha2.3 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.3 km of path
5.3 km eastfrom the center
Piste Blanche vers Carrière Plan du RoyChemin du Plan du Roy
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de l'Étang Salin
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
16 ha
6.5 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Domaine de Montplaisir
Wood or forest
17 ha3.2 km of path
40 minto walk all 3.2 km of path
4.5 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de Montplaisir
Park or garden
4.3 ha1.4 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.4 km of path
4.4 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin des Martyrs de la Résistance
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Narbonne
Directionsto a point inside
Square Thérèse Léon Blum
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.3 km of path
0.8 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
All 10 named parks, gardens and woods
Parc de la CampanePark or garden · 59 ha · 5.6 km of path
DirectionsLangel MoujanWood or forest · 114 ha · 2.3 km of path
DirectionsParc de l'Étang SalinPark or garden · 16 ha · just outside
DirectionsDomaine de MontplaisirWood or forest · 17 ha · 3.2 km of path
DirectionsParc de MontplaisirPark or garden · 4.3 ha · 1.4 km of path
DirectionsMéfioulès le basPark or garden · 1.8 ha
DirectionsJardin des Martyrs de la RésistancePark or garden · 0.9 ha · 0.4 km of path
DirectionsSquare Thérèse Léon BlumPark or garden · 0.5 ha · 0.3 km of path
DirectionsJardin de l'ArchevêchéPark or garden · 0.2 ha · 0.2 km of path
DirectionsZone Humide NaturelleWood or forest · 2.2 ha
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Narbonne 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).
89% within 800 m11% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
NarbonneAude medianFrance median
Within 800 m89%
0%50%100%
About 6,000 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 Narbonne
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
63% of the commune1.4 km from the center
Nature reserve
Sainte Lucie nature reserve
13 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Montagne de la Clape
22% of the commune4.9 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Massif de la Clape
21% of the commune5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Étangs du Narbonnais
18% of the commune1.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Corbières orientales
9.2% of the commune5.6 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area63%
Regional nature park63%
Natura 2000 site50%
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.
63% of Narbonne’s land is protected, more than in 88% 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
Complexe lagunaire de Bages-SigeanNatura 2000 site · 7.9% of the commune
Cours inférieur de l’AudeNatura 2000 site · 6 km
Côtes sableuses de l’infralittoral LanguedocienNatura 2000 site · 13 km
Côte languedocienneNatura 2000 site · 12 km
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
211 km of footpaths and 33 km of hiking routes cross Narbonne
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
211 km
1.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
33 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
11%
about 19.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
NarbonneAude medianFrance median
Footpaths1.2
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
NarbonneAude medianFrance median
Woodland11%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 62% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 56% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
9 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
E12 France, Narbonne - Mont Caramel13 km
Sentier du golfe Antique - partie 318 km
Sentier du golfe Antique - partie 29.4 km
Sentier du golfe Antique - partie 18.4 km
La Chapelle des Auzils8 km
La Goutine6.2 km
La Capoulade6 km
Tour de l'Étang2.7 km
Les Goules2.7 km
E12 France, Narbonne - Mont Caramel passes within 2 km of Narbonne.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Narbonne: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Narbonne, 5.2 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 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 11 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 61 | 47 | 48 | 64 | 51 | 33 | 17 | 31 | 61 | 93 | 78 | 52 |
July is the driest month (17 mm) and the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 93 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 9 nights a year. The climate in Narbonne →
Neighbors
Next to Narbonne
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
VinassanCoursanCuxac-d'AudeSallèles-d'AudeGruissanSalles-d'AudeNarbonne
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Narbonne | 63% | 11% | 1.2 | On it |
| Vinassan 2,662 · 6.3 km | 65% | 20% | 1.7 | 9.2 km |
| Coursan 5,737 · 7.2 km | 12% | 0% | 0.2 | 12 km |
| Cuxac-d'Aude 4,079 · 7.6 km | 14% | 4.6% | 0.4 | 17 km |
| Sallèles-d'Aude 3,179 · 10 km | 1.7% | 7.8% | 1 | 21 km |
| Gruissan 5,032 · 11 km | 100% | 13% | 2.5 | On it |
| Salles-d'Aude 3,369 · 11 km | 19% | 12% | 1.7 | 9 km |
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 Narbonne
Is Narbonne in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Narbonne lies in Narbonnaise en Méditerranée Regional Nature Park (63% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Narbonne?
OpenStreetMap maps 211 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 33 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Narbonne is woodland?
11% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Narbonne near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 13 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Narbonne?
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.