First pick
Parc Saint-Bertrand
Park or garden
18 ha2.3 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.3 km of path
2.1 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Gilles Guillamot · CC BY-SA 3.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Quillan · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Quillan lies inside Corbière-Fenouillèdes Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Quillan’s land. Mapped woodland covers 49% of Quillan. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 23 km in Quillan. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
49%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
51 km
1.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
23 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Saint-Bertrand
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 Quillan?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Corbière-Fenouillèdes Regional Nature Park61% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune49% mapped woodland, more than in 91% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Quillan apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Quillan 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
99out of 100
Woodland49%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
91out of 100
Footpaths1.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
44out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
69out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Quillan has the 9th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,947 to 3,012 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lezennes (8.6 km per km²) to Sancoins (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lezennes Nord | 8.6 | 3.6% | 0% | 66 km |
| 2 | Margency Val-d'Oise | 7.4 | 0.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 3 | Gorcy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.6 | 37% | 0% | 269 km |
| 4 | Soues Hautes-Pyrénées | 2.4 | 7.2% | 5.9% | 134 km |
| 5 | Drumettaz-Clarafond Savoie | 2.1 | 42% | 5% | 243 km |
| 6 | Courcelles-Chaussy Moselle | 1.9 | 37% | 0% | 340 km |
| 7 | Aniane Hérault | 1.7 | 43% | 14% | 31 km |
| 8 | Tourrettes Var | 1.5 | 64% | 1.8% | 21 km |
| 9 | Quillan Aude | 1.4 | 49% | 100% | 70 km |
| 10 | Gruchet-le-Valasse Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 53% | 0% | 16 km |
| 11 | Retournac Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 55% | 85% | 184 km |
| 12 | Boën-sur-Lignon Loire | 1.2 | 12% | 4.3% | 243 km |
| 13 | Hésingue Haut-Rhin | 1.2 | 17% | 0% | 421 km |
| 14 | Mauléon-Licharre Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.1 | 35% | 2.8% | 62 km |
| 15 | Ottange Moselle | 1 | 53% | 0% | 294 km |
| 16 | Zonza Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 40% | 75% | On it |
| 17 | Vimoutiers Orne | 0.9 | 2.2% | 0% | 46 km |
| 18 | Bias Lot-et-Garonne | 0.9 | 2.5% | 0% | 121 km |
| 19 | Saint-Venant Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 2.5% | 0% | 48 km |
| 20 | Tourouvre au Perche Orne | 0.8 | 43% | 98% | 93 km |
| 21 | Grandvillars Territoire de Belfort | 0.8 | 45% | 11% | 419 km |
| 22 | Port-sur-Saône Haute-Saône | 0.7 | 52% | 13% | 423 km |
| 23 | Venerque Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 13% | 1.4% | 139 km |
| 24 | Montmeyran Drôme | 0.7 | 5.3% | 0% | 154 km |
| 25 | Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres Gard | 0.6 | 28% | 0% | 68 km |
| 26 | Ailly-sur-Somme Somme | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 46 km |
| 27 | Iteuil Vienne | 0.5 | 23% | 0% | 112 km |
| 28 | Diémoz Isère | 0.5 | 9.8% | 0% | 238 km |
| 29 | Murviel-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 30 | Boisseuil Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 166 km |
| 31 | Mortain-Bocage Manche | 0.5 | 15% | 54% | 31 km |
| 32 | Lorris Loiret | 0.4 | 54% | 31% | 234 km |
| 33 | Saint-Calais Sarthe | 0.4 | 2.9% | 0% | 165 km |
| 34 | Saint-Lyé Aube | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 264 km |
| 35 | Dompierre-sur-Besbre Allier | 0.3 | 13% | 46% | 330 km |
| 36 | Cintegabelle Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 1.4% | 128 km |
| 37 | Barjols Var | 0.2 | 69% | 18% | 49 km |
| 38 | Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 2.1% | 100% | 45 km |
| 39 | Rue Somme | 0.2 | 7.7% | 100% | 5.7 km |
| 40 | Dangé-Saint-Romain Vienne | 0.1 | 20% | 0% | 150 km |
| 41 | Sancoins Cher | 0.1 | 11% | 0% | 315 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 Quillan
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Saint-Bertrand leads, at 18 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Square Jacques Capela
Park or garden
0.2 ha
0.6 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Quillan
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
61% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Pays de Sault
56% of the commune
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park61%
Natura 2000 site56%
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.
100% of Quillan’s land is protected, more than in 99% 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.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
51 km of footpaths and 23 km of hiking routes cross Quillan
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
51 km
1.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
23 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
49%
about 17.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
QuillanAude medianFrance median
Footpaths1.4
Hiking routes0.6
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
QuillanAude medianFrance median
Woodland49%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 56% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 91% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. Every home in Quillan is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 79.7 km
SC 06N : Bugarach - Quillan11 km
SC 07C : Coudons - Puivert8.1 km
SC 07S : Quirbajou - Puivert7.1 km
SC 07N : Quillan - Puivert6.9 km
SC 06S : Puilaurens - Quirbajou1.9 km
GR 7 passes within 2 km of Quillan.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Quillan: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Granes, 6.7 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) | 10 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 24 | 19 | 14 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 70 | 51 | 56 | 75 | 69 | 51 | 35 | 44 | 61 | 70 | 76 | 66 |
July is the driest month (35 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 76 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 29 nights a year. The climate in Quillan →
Neighbors
Next to Quillan
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
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 Quillan
Is Quillan in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Quillan lies in Corbière-Fenouillèdes Regional Nature Park (61% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Quillan?
OpenStreetMap maps 51 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 23 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Quillan is woodland?
49% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Quillan near the sea?
No: the coast is 70 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Quillan?
May 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.