First pick
Parc de la Victoire
Park or garden
5.9 ha0.2 km of path
0.7 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Castanet · CC BY-SA 3.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Millau · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Millau lies inside Grands Causses Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Millau’s land. Mapped woodland covers 35% of Millau. 340 km of footpaths cross Millau (2 km per km²). 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
35%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
340 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
64 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
88%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
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 Millau?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Grands Causses Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune35% mapped woodland, more than in 81% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Millau apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Millau 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
Woodland35%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
81out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
57out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
53out of 100
Green space nearby88%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
6out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Millau has the 9th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (21,336 to 22,805 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sèvres (8.9 km per km²) to Chemillé-en-Anjou (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sèvres Hauts-de-Seine | 8.9 | 24% | 0% | 147 km |
| 2 | Arcueil Val-de-Marne | 8.8 | 3.2% | 0% | 153 km |
| 3 | La Madeleine Nord | 8.6 | 0.6% | 0% | 61 km |
| 4 | Fontaine Isère | 8.1 | 37% | 39% | 204 km |
| 5 | Gif-sur-Yvette Essonne | 7.8 | 28% | 60% | 153 km |
| 6 | Montigny-lès-Cormeilles Val-d'Oise | 7 | 17% | 0% | 130 km |
| 7 | Saint-Gratien Val-d'Oise | 6 | 0.7% | 0% | 137 km |
| 8 | Longjumeau Essonne | 5.9 | 4.2% | 0% | 163 km |
| 9 | Saint-Michel-sur-Orge Essonne | 5.3 | 6.7% | 0% | 168 km |
| 10 | Loos Nord | 5 | 4.6% | 0% | 63 km |
| 11 | Fleury-les-Aubrais Loiret | 4.9 | 16% | 0% | 203 km |
| 12 | Montigny-lès-Metz Moselle | 4.9 | 3.4% | 0% | 329 km |
| 13 | Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon Rhône | 4.8 | 10% | 0% | 249 km |
| 14 | Bruay-la-Buissière Pas-de-Calais | 4.5 | 22% | 0% | 61 km |
| 15 | Lagny-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 4 | 5.7% | 0% | 163 km |
| 16 | Montmorency Val-d'Oise | 3.8 | 20% | 0% | 136 km |
| 17 | Morsang-sur-Orge Essonne | 3.8 | 3.4% | 0% | 168 km |
| 18 | Gardanne Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.8 | 38% | 0% | 16 km |
| 19 | Achères Yvelines | 3.7 | 3.4% | 0% | 129 km |
| 20 | Neuilly-Plaisance Seine-Saint-Denis | 3.6 | 14% | 14% | 156 km |
| 21 | Allauch Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 28% | 65% | 9.7 km |
| 22 | Le Petit-Quevilly Seine-Maritime | 3.3 | 0% | 0% | 51 km |
| 23 | Nogent-sur-Oise Oise | 3.3 | 19% | 0% | 115 km |
| 24 | Voiron Isère | 3.3 | 28% | 0% | 220 km |
| 25 | Saint-Louis Haut-Rhin | 2.9 | 8.5% | 18% | 423 km |
| 26 | Mandelieu-la-Napoule Alpes-Maritimes | 2.9 | 48% | 0.1% | On it |
| 27 | Dax Landes | 2.5 | 21% | 37% | 30 km |
| 28 | Mantes-la-Ville Yvelines | 2.5 | 7.2% | 0% | 111 km |
| 29 | Oyonnax Ain | 2.4 | 59% | 0% | 312 km |
| 30 | Les Pennes-Mirabeau Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 11% | 0% | 4.3 km |
| 31 | Manosque Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 2.2 | 26% | 100% | 64 km |
| 32 | Montereau-Fault-Yonne Seine-et-Marne | 2.2 | 4.3% | 8.8% | 217 km |
| 33 | Millau Aveyron | 2 | 35% | 100% | 91 km |
| 34 | Hazebrouck Nord | 1.7 | 0.7% | 0% | 37 km |
| 35 | Givors Rhône | 1.7 | 27% | 0.2% | 232 km |
| 36 | Épernay Marne | 1.7 | 44% | 7.2% | 208 km |
| 37 | Auch Gers | 1.6 | 18% | 0% | 161 km |
| 38 | Gujan-Mestras Gironde | 1.4 | 48% | 0.3% | On it |
| 39 | Abbeville Somme | 1.3 | 11% | 100% | 14 km |
| 40 | Villeneuve-sur-Lot Lot-et-Garonne | 0.5 | 11% | 0.9% | 123 km |
| 41 | Chemillé-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 4.3% | 0% | 98 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 Millau
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Victoire leads, at 5.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de l'Hôtel de Ville
Park or garden
0.5 ha
Centralin the middle of Millau
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Millau 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).
88% within 800 m12% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
MillauAveyron medianFrance median
Within 800 m88%
0%50%100%
About 3,000 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 Millau
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Grands Causses Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Gorges de la Dourbie et causses avoisinants
44% of the commune3.1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Causse Noir et ses corniches
12% of the commune2.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Gorges de la Dourbie
9.5% of the commune3.1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Les Alasses
3.4% of the commune7.4 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Buttes témoins des avant-causses
1.6% of the commune3 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site53%
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 Millau’s land is protected, more than in 99% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Aveyron has 0.3%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
All 8 protected areas
Chaos ruiniforme du Rajal Del GorpNatura 2000 site · 0.6% of the commune
Gorges du Tarn et de la JonteNatura 2000 site · 0.6% of the commune
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
340 km of footpaths and 64 km of hiking routes cross Millau
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
340 km
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
64 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
35%
about 58.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MillauAveyron medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes0.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MillauAveyron medianFrance median
Woodland35%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 57% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 81% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
11 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Tour du Larzac - tracé principal44 km
Millau à Saint-Beauzély15 km
Longuiers - Millau12 km
Saint-Véran - Longuiers7.9 km
Balade au Cade6.7 km
L’Oppidum du Larzac5.2 km
Rando Croquis4.3 km
Larzac Templier et Hospitalier - tracé principal4.1 km
Le Puech de Luzergue2 km
Tour du Larzac - variante Saint-Sauveur1.7 km
Tour du Larzac - variante Les Liquisses1.3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Millau: June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Millau, 4.7 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) | 9.2 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 55 | 39 | 42 | 69 | 75 | 57 | 43 | 57 | 74 | 74 | 72 | 56 |
February is the driest month (39 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. The climate in Millau →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Millau
Named gardens in the commune.
Jardin botanique des CaussesIn Millau
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Millau
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-AffriqueSévérac d'AveyronMillau
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millau | 100% | 35% | 2 |
| Saint-Affrique 7,941 · 22 km | 100% | 37% | 1.2 |
| Sévérac d'Aveyron 4,026 · 25 km | 100% | 24% | 0.2 |
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 Millau
Is Millau in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Millau lies in Grands Causses Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Millau?
OpenStreetMap maps 340 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 64 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Millau is woodland?
35% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Millau near the sea?
No: the coast is 91 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Millau?
June to August: 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.