First pick
Bois de Jussieu
Wood or forest
168 ha6.2 km of path
1 h 20 minto walk all 6.2 km of path
2.9 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: René Hourdry · CC BY-SA 4.01.6%of the land protected
Outdoors in Cabriès · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Cabriès has more footpaths per km² than 8 in 10 French towns
134 km of footpaths cross Cabriès (3.7 km per km²). 28% of Cabriès is mapped woodland. Protected areas cover 1.6% of Cabriès’ land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
1.6%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
28%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
134 km
3.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
13 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Jussieu
The sea
11 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Bouches-du-Rhône median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
Against French towns
How Cabriès 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 areas1.6%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
58out of 100
Woodland28%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
73out of 100
Footpaths3.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
81out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
51out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Cabriès has the 8th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (10,062 to 10,425 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Maxéville (5.5 km per km²) to Carentan-les-Marais (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maxéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.5 | 24% | 0% | 363 km |
| 2 | Mondeville Calvados | 5.2 | 5.4% | 0% | 13 km |
| 3 | Serris Seine-et-Marne | 5.1 | 2.1% | 0% | 168 km |
| 4 | Villerupt Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.2 | 30% | 0% | 288 km |
| 5 | Courrières Pas-de-Calais | 4.1 | 11% | 0% | 76 km |
| 6 | Villebon-sur-Yvette Essonne | 3.8 | 23% | 0% | 159 km |
| 7 | Oignies Pas-de-Calais | 3.7 | 12% | 0% | 77 km |
| 8 | Cabriès Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 28% | 1.6% | 11 km |
| 9 | Feyzin Rhône | 3.4 | 12% | 0% | 242 km |
| 10 | Soyaux Charente | 3.3 | 35% | 9% | 78 km |
| 11 | Marly Moselle | 3 | 4.4% | 0% | 332 km |
| 12 | Sainte-Savine Aube | 2.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 271 km |
| 13 | Beaumont-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 2.4 | 26% | 35% | 121 km |
| 14 | Pierrelaye Val-d'Oise | 2.4 | 20% | 0% | 126 km |
| 15 | Buxerolles Vienne | 2.3 | 10% | 0% | 119 km |
| 16 | Pfastatt Haut-Rhin | 2.2 | 22% | 0.1% | 443 km |
| 17 | Fillière Haute-Savoie | 2.1 | 49% | 20% | 266 km |
| 18 | Miribel Ain | 2 | 17% | 14% | 262 km |
| 19 | Parthenay Deux-Sèvres | 2 | 3.8% | 0.1% | 78 km |
| 20 | Avranches Manche | 1.9 | 1.5% | 0% | 2.5 km |
| 21 | La Ferté-sous-Jouarre Seine-et-Marne | 1.9 | 30% | 0% | 172 km |
| 22 | Fuveau Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.9 | 36% | 0% | 21 km |
| 23 | Gignac-la-Nerthe Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.9 | 2.5% | 0.7% | 5.8 km |
| 24 | Jeumont Nord | 1.8 | 25% | 0.1% | 133 km |
| 25 | Ingré Loiret | 1.8 | 11% | 0% | 200 km |
| 26 | Le Muy Var | 1.7 | 35% | 46% | 16 km |
| 27 | Saint-Pierre-du-Mont Landes | 1.5 | 58% | 3.4% | 69 km |
| 28 | Le Beausset Var | 1.5 | 18% | 69% | 7.1 km |
| 29 | Andrézieux-Bouthéon Loire | 1.4 | 3.5% | 7.1% | 219 km |
| 30 | Apt Vaucluse | 1.2 | 29% | 100% | 58 km |
| 31 | Mazamet Tarn | 1.2 | 77% | 0.1% | 74 km |
| 32 | Lézignan-Corbières Aude | 1.2 | 14% | 7% | 31 km |
| 33 | Ploërmel Morbihan | 1.1 | 15% | 0% | 39 km |
| 34 | Couzeix Haute-Vienne | 1.1 | 21% | 0% | 163 km |
| 35 | Douchy-les-Mines Nord | 1 | 11% | 0% | 106 km |
| 36 | Borgo Haute-Corse | 0.8 | 11% | 28% | On it |
| 37 | Aizenay Vendée | 0.8 | 8.2% | 0% | 24 km |
| 38 | Gerzat Puy-de-Dôme | 0.8 | 0.5% | 0% | 261 km |
| 39 | Blain Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 15% | 0% | 37 km |
| 40 | Lillers Pas-de-Calais | 0.5 | 7.8% | 0% | 53 km |
| 41 | Carentan-les-Marais Manche | 0.3 | 0.2% | 100% | 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 Cabriès
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Jussieu leads, at 168 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Saint-Hilaire
Wood or forest · 0 m outside the commune
45 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
2.4 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Restanques
Park or garden · 180 m outside the commune
0.9 ha0.4 km of path
3.7 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
1.6% of Cabriès lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Plateau de l’Arbois
1.6% of the commune2.4 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area1.6%
Natura 2000 site1.6%
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.
1.6% of Cabriès’ land is protected, more than in 58% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Bouches-du-Rhône has 27%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
Footpaths and woods in Cabriès
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
134 km
3.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
13 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
28%
about 10.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CabrièsBouches-du-Rhône medianFrance median
Footpaths3.7
Hiking routes0.4
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CabrièsBouches-du-Rhône medianFrance median
Woodland28%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 81% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 73% 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 Cabriès is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
GR Pays 201339 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Cabriès: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Aix en Provence, 9.9 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 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 12 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 28 | 31 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 15 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 53 | 36 | 33 | 58 | 48 | 36 | 16 | 34 | 88 | 77 | 79 | 51 |
July is the driest month (16 mm) and the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 88 mm of rain falls in September, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Cabriès →
Neighbors
Next to Cabriès
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Bouc-Bel-AirSeptèmes-les-VallonsSimiane-CollongueLes Pennes-MirabeauVitrollesGardanneCabriès
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cabriès | 1.6% | 28% | 3.7 | 11 km |
| Bouc-Bel-Air 15,381 · 4.3 km | 0% | 29% | 3.5 | 12 km |
| Septèmes-les-Vallons 11,995 · 6 km | 20% | 49% | 2.5 | 5.5 km |
| Simiane-Collongue 5,780 · 6.7 km | 44% | 60% | 3.2 | 12 km |
| Les Pennes-Mirabeau 22,537 · 6.7 km | 0% | 11% | 2.4 | 4.3 km |
| Vitrolles 36,758 · 8.6 km | 33% | 8.9% | 4.9 | 9.7 km |
| Gardanne 21,597 · 9 km | 0% | 38% | 3.8 | 16 km |
Septèmes-les-Vallons, Simiane-Collongue and Vitrolles have at least twice as much protected land. Septèmes-les-Vallons and Simiane-Collongue are more wooded.
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 Cabriès
Is Cabriès in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 1.6% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Cabriès?
OpenStreetMap maps 134 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 13 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Cabriès is woodland?
28% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Cabriès near the sea?
No: the coast is 11 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Cabriès?
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 9, 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.