First pick
Parc du Vallon de la Chiliere
Park or garden
0.8 ha0.3 km of path
1 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Thérèse Gaigé · CC BY-SA 4.049%of the land protected
Outdoors in Ceyreste · protected areas, woods and footpaths
49% of Ceyreste’s land is protected for nature
Mapped woodland covers 42% of Ceyreste. 85 km of footpaths cross Ceyreste (3.7 km per km²). Ceyreste has 3 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
49%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
42%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
85 km
3.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
3 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 du Vallon de la Chiliere
The sea
2.9 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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Ceyreste?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Part of Calanques National Park0% of the commune is in the park’s core, its strictly protected zone.A wooded commune42% mapped woodland, more than in 87% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.A place of footpaths3.7 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Near the seaThe coast is 2.9 km from the town center.
What sets Ceyreste apart: its share of Calanques National Park, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Ceyreste 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 areas49%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
86out of 100
Woodland42%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
87out of 100
Footpaths3.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
82out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
32out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Ceyreste has the 6th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,829 to 4,895 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Quiberon (6.6 km per km²) to Bonneval (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quiberon Morbihan | 6.6 | 2.8% | 18% | On it |
| 2 | Grand-Fort-Philippe Nord | 4.5 | 0.1% | 0% | On it |
| 3 | Bogny-sur-Meuse Ardennes | 4.3 | 79% | 100% | 200 km |
| 4 | Rosières-près-Troyes Aube | 4 | 9.4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 5 | Phalempin Nord | 4 | 32% | 0% | 72 km |
| 6 | Ceyreste Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 42% | 49% | 2.9 km |
| 7 | L'Île-d'Yeu Vendée | 2.8 | 21% | 44% | On it |
| 8 | La Turballe Loire-Atlantique | 2.7 | 13% | 24% | On it |
| 9 | Die Drôme | 2.4 | 60% | 100% | 150 km |
| 10 | Uchaud Gard | 2.1 | 32% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 11 | Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Haut-Rhin | 2 | 76% | 100% | 450 km |
| 12 | Paron Yonne | 2 | 26% | 1.2% | 249 km |
| 13 | Volvic Puy-de-Dôme | 1.9 | 57% | 100% | 269 km |
| 14 | Plateau d'Hauteville Ain | 1.9 | 65% | 1.2% | 284 km |
| 15 | Lambres-lez-Douai Nord | 1.8 | 4.4% | 0% | 90 km |
| 16 | La Voulte-sur-Rhône Ardèche | 1.5 | 15% | 33% | 149 km |
| 17 | Le Quesnoy Nord | 1.4 | 2.1% | 100% | 120 km |
| 18 | Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues Gard | 1.3 | 49% | 0% | 67 km |
| 19 | Montbazon Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 29% | 0% | 178 km |
| 20 | Blendecques Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 18% | 84% | 32 km |
| 21 | Pignans Var | 1 | 50% | 43% | 20 km |
| 22 | Desvres Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 56% | 100% | 18 km |
| 23 | Mourmelon-le-Grand Marne | 1 | 29% | 0.1% | 226 km |
| 24 | Cysoing Nord | 0.8 | 26% | 0% | 74 km |
| 25 | Bégard Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 11% | 0% | 13 km |
| 26 | Fagnières Marne | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 235 km |
| 27 | Écommoy Sarthe | 0.5 | 28% | 0.2% | 151 km |
| 28 | La Côte-Saint-André Isère | 0.5 | 10% | 0% | 218 km |
| 29 | Amplepuis Rhône | 0.4 | 29% | 0% | 269 km |
| 30 | Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule Allier | 0.4 | 6.2% | 9.3% | 311 km |
| 31 | Cazères Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 4.1% | 11% | 162 km |
| 32 | Conches-en-Ouche Eure | 0.4 | 51% | 0% | 68 km |
| 33 | Saint-Jean-de-Bournay Isère | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 229 km |
| 34 | Monnaie Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 197 km |
| 35 | Bornel Oise | 0.3 | 33% | 0.1% | 112 km |
| 36 | Saint-Père-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 5.6% | 5.7% | 8.1 km |
| 37 | Saint-Sulpice-et-Cameyrac Gironde | 0.3 | 6.2% | 7.7% | 20 km |
| 38 | Vic-en-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 0.3 | 20% | 2.2% | 125 km |
| 39 | Bazas Gironde | 0.2 | 30% | 2.9% | 69 km |
| 40 | Vitry-en-Artois Pas-de-Calais | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 90 km |
| 41 | Bonneval Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 | 9.3% | 30% | 159 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 Ceyreste
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Vallon de la Chiliere leads, at 0.8 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Les Cols Verts Provence
Park or garden · 20 m outside the commune
0.2 ha
1.1 km southfrom 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 Ceyreste
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
National park, core
Calanques National Park
3.4 km from the town center
National park, outer area
Calanques National Park
2.9 km from the town center
Regional nature park
Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park
3.6 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Calanques et îles marseillaises - Cap Canaille et massif du Grand Caunet
49% of the commune0.6 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area49%
Natura 2000 site49%
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.
49% of Ceyreste’s land is protected, more than in 86% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Bouches-du-Rhône has 27%. A national park’s outer area (aire d’adhésion) is made of the communes that signed the park’s charter: it guides how they grow, but it isn’t strict protection like the core. 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
85 km of footpaths cross Ceyreste
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
85 km
3.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
3 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
42%
about 9.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CeyresteBouches-du-Rhône medianFrance median
Footpaths3.7
Hiking routes0.1
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CeyresteBouches-du-Rhône medianFrance median
Woodland42%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 82% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 87% 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 Ceyreste is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 5112 km
GR 9812 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Ceyreste: GR 51 and GR 98.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Ceyreste: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Aubagne, 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) | 13 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 29 | 31 | 31 | 27 | 22 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 69 | 39 | 37 | 59 | 45 | 30 | 11 | 25 | 78 | 94 | 95 | 66 |
July is the driest month (11 mm) and the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 95 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 36 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Ceyreste →
Neighbors
Next to Ceyreste
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
La CiotatRoquefort-la-BédouleSaint-Cyr-sur-MerCarnoux-en-ProvenceCassisLa Cadière-d'AzurCeyreste
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceyreste | 49% | 42% | 3.7 | 2.9 km |
| La Ciotat 38,477 · 3.6 km | 27% | 20% | 3.4 | On it |
| Roquefort-la-Bédoule 5,798 · 5.2 km | 40% | 50% | 3.4 | 5.6 km |
| Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer 11,658 · 6.8 km | 25% | 30% | 2.9 | On it |
| Carnoux-en-Provence 6,873 · 7.3 km | 0% | 31% | 3.4 | 5 km |
| Cassis 6,661 · 7.6 km | 83% | 28% | 3.7 | On it |
| La Cadière-d'Azur 5,739 · 8.4 km | 68% | 19% | 0.7 | 4.5 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 Ceyreste
Is Ceyreste in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 49% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Ceyreste?
OpenStreetMap maps 85 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); 3 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Ceyreste is woodland?
42% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Ceyreste near the sea?
No: the coast is 2.9 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Ceyreste?
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.