First pick
Parc de l'Étang Salin
Park or garden · 140 m outside the commune
16 ha
1.6 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Duduche11 · CC BY-SA 3.065%of the land protected
Outdoors in Vinassan · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Vinassan lies inside Narbonnaise en Méditerranée Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 65% of Vinassan’s land. 20% of Vinassan is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 15 km across Vinassan (1.7 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
65%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
20%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
15 km
1.7 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
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc de l'Étang Salin
The sea
9.2 km
from the town center to the coast
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 Vinassan?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Narbonnaise en Méditerranée Regional Nature Park65% of the commune is in the regional nature park.Near the seaThe coast is 9.2 km from the town center.
What sets Vinassan apart: the regional nature park around it, then the sea nearby.
Against French towns
How Vinassan 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 areas65%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
89out of 100
Woodland20%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
62out of 100
Footpaths1.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
50out 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
Vinassan has the 10th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,631 to 2,693 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Guilvinec (6.2 km per km²) to Richebourg (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guilvinec Finistère | 6.2 | 0.8% | 2.7% | On it |
| 2 | Étrembières Haute-Savoie | 4.1 | 32% | 22% | 284 km |
| 3 | Gassin Var | 3.5 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 4 | La Richardais Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.4 | 9.9% | 100% | On it |
| 5 | Morzine Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 33% | 36% | 274 km |
| 6 | Roissy-en-France Val-d'Oise | 2.1 | 4.3% | 0% | 144 km |
| 7 | Dorlisheim Bas-Rhin | 2.1 | 12% | 0% | 442 km |
| 8 | Les Vans Ardèche | 1.8 | 46% | 78% | 94 km |
| 9 | Coquelles Pas-de-Calais | 1.8 | 1.7% | 0.7% | 2.8 km |
| 10 | Vinassan Aude | 1.7 | 20% | 65% | 9.2 km |
| 11 | Souchez Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 9% | 0% | 75 km |
| 12 | Piriac-sur-Mer Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0.8% | On it |
| 13 | Râches Nord | 1.5 | 25% | 99% | 86 km |
| 14 | Saint-Yorre Allier | 1.4 | 23% | 15% | 283 km |
| 15 | Auboué Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.2 | 21% | 0% | 311 km |
| 16 | Cauffry Oise | 1.2 | 17% | 0% | 110 km |
| 17 | Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais Eure-et-Loir | 1.2 | 57% | 62% | 115 km |
| 18 | Verlinghem Nord | 1.1 | 6.3% | 0% | 55 km |
| 19 | Taden Côtes-d'Armor | 1.1 | 19% | 100% | 3.6 km |
| 20 | Villaines-la-Juhel Mayenne | 1 | 0.4% | 0% | 85 km |
| 21 | Masnières Nord | 1 | 4% | 0% | 109 km |
| 22 | Montréjeau Haute-Garonne | 0.9 | 5.7% | 2.6% | 175 km |
| 23 | Fourques Gard | 0.9 | 1.7% | 4.6% | 28 km |
| 24 | Marpent Nord | 0.7 | 15% | 0% | 133 km |
| 25 | Calenzana Haute-Corse | 0.7 | 12% | 100% | On it |
| 26 | Torcy Saône-et-Loire | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 359 km |
| 27 | Le Bugue Dordogne | 0.7 | 53% | 5.1% | 120 km |
| 28 | Brienne-le-Château Aube | 0.6 | 40% | 100% | 287 km |
| 29 | Soual Tarn | 0.6 | 1.4% | 0% | 95 km |
| 30 | Carignan Ardennes | 0.6 | 4% | 27% | 237 km |
| 31 | Rieux-Volvestre Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 6.6% | 7% | 154 km |
| 32 | Toury Eure-et-Loir | 0.5 | 0.8% | 0% | 180 km |
| 33 | Montayral Lot-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 10% | 8.3% | 137 km |
| 34 | Cubzac-les-Ponts Gironde | 0.4 | 5.8% | 10% | 12 km |
| 35 | Cadillac-sur-Garonne Gironde | 0.3 | 7.2% | 5.4% | 47 km |
| 36 | Noyers-sur-Cher Loir-et-Cher | 0.3 | 34% | 0.6% | 221 km |
| 37 | Criquetot-l'Esneval Seine-Maritime | 0.3 | 1.2% | 0% | 8.3 km |
| 38 | Villefranche-sur-Cher Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 60% | 45% | 247 km |
| 39 | Ailly-sur-Noye Somme | 0.2 | 22% | 0% | 68 km |
| 40 | Essômes-sur-Marne Aisne | 0.2 | 31% | 0% | 176 km |
| 41 | Richebourg Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.9% | 0% | 57 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 Vinassan
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de l'Étang Salin leads, at 16 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Vinassan
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
65% of the commune0.6 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Massif de la Clape
57% of the commune0.6 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Montagne de la Clape
56% of the commune0.7 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area65%
Regional nature park65%
Natura 2000 site58%
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.
65% of Vinassan’s land is protected, more than in 89% 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
15 km of footpaths cross Vinassan
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
15 km
1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
20%
about 1.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
VinassanAude medianFrance median
Footpaths1.7
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
VinassanAude medianFrance median
Woodland20%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 50% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 62% 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 Vinassan is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Vinassan: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lespignan, 11 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 Vinassan →
Neighbors
Next to Vinassan
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
CoursanSalles-d'AudeFleuryNarbonneCuxac-d'AudeNissan-lez-EnseruneVinassan
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinassan | 65% | 20% | 1.7 | 9.2 km |
| Coursan 5,737 · 3.4 km | 12% | 0% | 0.2 | 12 km |
| Salles-d'Aude 3,369 · 5.1 km | 19% | 12% | 1.7 | 9 km |
| Fleury 4,246 · 6 km | 98% | 0.7% | 1.5 | On it |
| Narbonne 57,587 · 6.3 km | 63% | 11% | 1.2 | On it |
| Cuxac-d'Aude 4,079 · 7.9 km | 14% | 4.6% | 0.4 | 17 km |
| Nissan-lez-Enserune 4,124 · 10 km | 38% | 4.6% | 1.1 | 12 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 Vinassan
Is Vinassan in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Vinassan lies in Narbonnaise en Méditerranée Regional Nature Park (65% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Vinassan?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Vinassan is woodland?
20% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Vinassan near the sea?
No: the coast is 9.2 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Vinassan?
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.