First pick
Square Pierre Delpech
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Decazeville
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Ségala pseudo d'Yves Fraysse · CC BY-SA 3.040%woodland
Outdoors in Decazeville · protected areas, woods and footpaths
40% of Decazeville is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 17 km in Decazeville. No protected area reaches Decazeville; the nearest, Puy de Wolf (Natura 2000), is 3.4 km from the town center. 30 km of footpaths cross Decazeville (2.2 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Puy de Wolf, 3.4 km
Woodland
40%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
30 km
2.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 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: Square Pierre Delpech
Throughout this page, the Aveyron 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 Decazeville?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune40% mapped woodland, more than in 85% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes17 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyPuy de Wolf (Natura 2000) is 3.4 km from the town center.
What sets Decazeville apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Decazeville 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%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland40%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
85out of 100
Footpaths2.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
61out of 100
Hiking routes1.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
88out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Decazeville has the 11th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,965 to 5,074 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Villefranche-sur-Mer (4.2 km per km²) to Laventie (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Villefranche-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes | 4.2 | 19% | 26% | On it |
| 2 | Beaucourt Territoire de Belfort | 3.7 | 33% | 0% | 414 km |
| 3 | Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche Yvelines | 3.6 | 38% | 0% | 136 km |
| 4 | Bezannes Marne | 3.4 | 1.8% | 0.1% | 198 km |
| 5 | Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Pas-de-Calais | 2.8 | 35% | 100% | On it |
| 6 | Sommières Gard | 2.8 | 21% | 1.3% | 25 km |
| 7 | Luzarches Val-d'Oise | 2.6 | 47% | 100% | 130 km |
| 8 | Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers Hérault | 2.6 | 48% | 66% | 26 km |
| 9 | Gruissan Aude | 2.5 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 10 | Haillicourt Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 63 km |
| 11 | Decazeville Aveyron | 2.2 | 40% | 0% | 168 km |
| 12 | Montchanin Saône-et-Loire | 2.1 | 20% | 0% | 355 km |
| 13 | La Mézière Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.1 | 7.5% | 0% | 36 km |
| 14 | Bonnières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.1 | 45% | 20% | 99 km |
| 15 | Hauts de Bienne Jura | 1.9 | 77% | 100% | 326 km |
| 16 | Champagne-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1.8 | 33% | 54% | 119 km |
| 17 | Lorette Loire | 1.8 | 13% | 0.2% | 220 km |
| 18 | Bousbecque Nord | 1.5 | 1.4% | 0% | 49 km |
| 19 | Yffiniac Côtes-d'Armor | 1.5 | 4.4% | 0.1% | 1.8 km |
| 20 | Mamers Sarthe | 1.4 | 0.9% | 0.1% | 110 km |
| 21 | La Ferté Macé Orne | 1.4 | 27% | 100% | 73 km |
| 22 | Bitche Moselle | 1.3 | 75% | 100% | 398 km |
| 23 | Petite-Forêt Nord | 1.3 | 1.8% | 1.4% | 102 km |
| 24 | Villefranche-de-Lauragais Haute-Garonne | 1.2 | 0.5% | 0% | 117 km |
| 25 | Crécy-la-Chapelle Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 21% | 0% | 172 km |
| 26 | Plouigneau Finistère | 1.1 | 19% | 12% | 9 km |
| 27 | Cilaos Réunion | 1.1 | 43% | 100% | 18 km |
| 28 | La Souterraine Creuse | 1.1 | 18% | 0% | 193 km |
| 29 | Le Fenouiller Vendée | 1 | 4.1% | 9.9% | 3.5 km |
| 30 | Luynes Indre-et-Loire | 0.8 | 39% | 3.5% | 176 km |
| 31 | Blaye Gironde | 0.7 | 2.7% | 58% | On it |
| 32 | Saint-Sever Landes | 0.6 | 17% | 4.2% | 67 km |
| 33 | Pacy-sur-Eure Eure | 0.6 | 45% | 3.1% | 88 km |
| 34 | Lestrem Pas-de-Calais | 0.5 | 1% | 0% | 52 km |
| 35 | Neuville-aux-Bois Loiret | 0.5 | 19% | 0% | 196 km |
| 36 | Morcenx-la-Nouvelle Landes | 0.4 | 64% | 12% | 34 km |
| 37 | Val d'Erdre-Auxence Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 11% | 0% | 97 km |
| 38 | Beaurepaire Isère | 0.3 | 4.5% | 0% | 210 km |
| 39 | Rambervillers Vosges | 0.2 | 38% | 0% | 414 km |
| 40 | Saint-James Manche | 0.2 | 6.3% | 0% | 12 km |
| 41 | Laventie Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.7% | 0% | 54 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 Decazeville
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Square Pierre Delpech leads, at 0.4 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Puy de Wolf is the nearest protected area, 3.4 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Puy de Wolf
3.4 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
30 km of footpaths and 17 km of hiking routes cross Decazeville
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
30 km
2.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked: 1.3 km per km²
Woodland
40%
about 5.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
DecazevilleAveyron medianFrance median
Footpaths2.2
Hiking routes1.3
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
DecazevilleAveyron medianFrance median
Woodland40%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 61% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 85% 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 Decazeville is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Puy-de-Wolf - Galgan6.1 km
Hier, un village5.3 km
Circuit Land Art4.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Decazeville: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St Constant, 14 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) | 9.2 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 25 | 20 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 94 | 77 | 78 | 101 | 104 | 75 | 59 | 76 | 90 | 89 | 110 | 106 |
July is the driest month (59 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 110 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 72 nights a year. The climate in Decazeville →
Neighbors
Next to Decazeville
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
AubinCapdenac-GareFigeacDruelle BalsacDecazeville
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decazeville | 0% | 40% | 2.2 |
| Aubin 3,444 · 3 km | 2.3% | 49% | 1.7 |
| Capdenac-Gare 4,440 · 14 km | 0% | 28% | 1.7 |
| Figeac 9,793 · 18 km | 0% | 27% | 2.1 |
| Druelle Balsac 3,187 · 29 km | 0% | 22% | 1.1 |
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 Decazeville
Is Decazeville in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Puy de Wolf, 3.4 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Decazeville?
OpenStreetMap maps 30 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 17 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Decazeville is woodland?
40% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Decazeville near the sea?
No: the coast is 168 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Decazeville?
April and 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.