First pick
Place des Mineurs
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Gréasque
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Fr.Latreille · CC BY-SA 3.053%woodland
Outdoors in Gréasque · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Gréasque has more footpaths per km² than 9 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 49 km across Gréasque (7.9 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 53% of Gréasque. Gréasque has 8 km of waymarked hiking routes. 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: Chaîne de l’Etoile- massif du Garlaban, 2.7 km
Woodland
53%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
49 km
7.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.8 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: Place des Mineurs
The sea
19 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 Gréasque?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths7.9 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.A wooded commune53% mapped woodland, more than in 93% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes8 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyChaîne de l’Etoile- massif du Garlaban (Natura 2000) is 2.7 km from the town center.
What sets Gréasque apart: its footpaths, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Gréasque 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
Woodland53%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
93out of 100
Footpaths7.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
97out of 100
Hiking routes1.2 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
Gréasque has the most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,505 to 4,601 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Gréasque (7.9 km per km²) to Cabannes (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gréasque Bouches-du-Rhône | 7.9 | 53% | 0% | 19 km |
| 2 | Villiers-sur-Orge Essonne | 4.7 | 7.5% | 0% | 166 km |
| 3 | La Frette-sur-Seine Val-d'Oise | 4.6 | 6.9% | 0% | 131 km |
| 4 | Bizanos Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.8 | 12% | 9.4% | 98 km |
| 5 | Leucate Aude | 3.4 | 2.1% | 79% | On it |
| 6 | Annay Pas-de-Calais | 2.1 | 5.8% | 0% | 73 km |
| 7 | Plourin-lès-Morlaix Finistère | 2 | 22% | 0.5% | 5.4 km |
| 8 | Milly-la-Forêt Essonne | 1.9 | 53% | 100% | 192 km |
| 9 | Notre-Dame-d'Oé Indre-et-Loire | 1.9 | 2.7% | 0% | 189 km |
| 10 | Saint-Marcel Eure | 1.8 | 24% | 0% | 88 km |
| 11 | Communay Rhône | 1.8 | 13% | 0% | 235 km |
| 12 | Grimaud Var | 1.7 | 41% | 4.5% | On it |
| 13 | Plougonvelin Finistère | 1.4 | 4.3% | 0.9% | On it |
| 14 | Chaponnay Rhône | 1.4 | 17% | 0% | 240 km |
| 15 | Marchiennes Nord | 1.4 | 38% | 100% | 91 km |
| 16 | Biache-Saint-Vaast Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 9.2% | 0% | 90 km |
| 17 | La Guerche-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.2 | 0.2% | 0% | 77 km |
| 18 | Jouques Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.2 | 61% | 92% | 40 km |
| 19 | Bonson Loire | 1.1 | 9.6% | 7.9% | 218 km |
| 20 | Bages Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.1 | 0.3% | 0% | 12 km |
| 21 | Saint-Aunès Hérault | 1 | 4.7% | 0% | 10 km |
| 22 | Saint-Pair-sur-Mer Manche | 0.9 | 2.5% | 4.5% | 0.9 km |
| 23 | Dieulouard Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.8 | 24% | 100% | 348 km |
| 24 | Castelmaurou Haute-Garonne | 0.8 | 20% | 0% | 143 km |
| 25 | Crespin Nord | 0.7 | 34% | 99% | 105 km |
| 26 | Saint-Martin-de-May Calvados | 0.7 | 2.9% | 0% | 21 km |
| 27 | Sainte-Marie-aux-Chênes Moselle | 0.6 | 2.2% | 0% | 314 km |
| 28 | Lescure-d'Albigeois Tarn | 0.6 | 16% | 0% | 119 km |
| 29 | Montagnac Hérault | 0.6 | 11% | 14% | 17 km |
| 30 | Lunel-Viel Hérault | 0.6 | 4.6% | 0% | 13 km |
| 31 | Retiers Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 79 km |
| 32 | Macau Gironde | 0.5 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 33 | Le Thillay Val-d'Oise | 0.5 | 2.5% | 0% | 141 km |
| 34 | Freneuse Yvelines | 0.4 | 34% | 51% | 100 km |
| 35 | Sézanne Marne | 0.4 | 22% | 1.7% | 220 km |
| 36 | Arnas Rhône | 0.4 | 8.7% | 2.2% | 277 km |
| 37 | Hœrdt Bas-Rhin | 0.4 | 3% | 0% | 444 km |
| 38 | Vivonne Vienne | 0.4 | 21% | 0% | 108 km |
| 39 | Camaret-sur-Aigues Vaucluse | 0.3 | 2.4% | 0.8% | 79 km |
| 40 | Tiercé Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 12% | 16% | 131 km |
| 41 | Cabannes Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.3 | 1.5% | 14% | 46 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 Gréasque
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Place des Mineurs leads, at 0.4 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Du Château
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Gréasque
Directionsto a point inside
Jardins Partagés de Gréasque
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Gréasque
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Chaîne de l’Etoile- massif du Garlaban is the nearest protected area, 2.7 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
Chaîne de l’Etoile- massif du Garlaban
2.7 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
Footpaths and woods in Gréasque
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
49 km
7.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.8 km
waymarked: 1.2 km per km²
Woodland
53%
about 3.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GréasqueBouches-du-Rhône medianFrance median
Footpaths7.9
Hiking routes1.2
0510 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GréasqueBouches-du-Rhône medianFrance median
Woodland53%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 97% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 93% 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 Gréasque is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
9 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Du poteau ET 36 à Meyreuil5.1 km
Du Poteau ET 39 à Gréasque3.4 km
Du poteau RE ?? à Belcodéne1.6 km
GR Pays 20131.2 km
De Mimet au poteau ET 391 km
Des Michels au poteau ET 371 km
De Gréasque au poteau ET-310.8 km
Circuit des Crêtes0.8 km
ET 08 - Mimet0.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Gréasque: April to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Mimet, 3.7 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) | 9.3 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 24 | 19 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 66 | 41 | 41 | 69 | 54 | 38 | 16 | 37 | 97 | 97 | 100 | 68 |
July is the driest month (16 mm) and the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 100 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 38 nights a year. The climate in Gréasque →
Neighbors
Next to Gréasque
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-SavourninFuveauMimetPeypinGardanneLa BouilladisseGréasque
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gréasque | 0% | 53% | 7.9 | 19 km |
| Saint-Savournin 3,397 · 2.9 km | 41% | 38% | 4.7 | 17 km |
| Fuveau 10,337 · 3 km | 0% | 36% | 1.9 | 21 km |
| Mimet 4,241 · 3.3 km | 44% | 49% | 3.9 | 16 km |
| Peypin 5,771 · 5.6 km | 8.5% | 34% | 2.9 | 18 km |
| Gardanne 21,597 · 5.9 km | 0% | 38% | 3.8 | 16 km |
| La Bouilladisse 6,547 · 6.1 km | 0% | 40% | 2.4 | 21 km |
Saint-Savournin and Mimet have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Gréasque
Is Gréasque in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Chaîne de l’Etoile- massif du Garlaban, 2.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Gréasque?
OpenStreetMap maps 49 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 7.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Gréasque is woodland?
53% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Gréasque near the sea?
No: the coast is 19 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Gréasque?
April 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 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.