Photo: markoz66 · CC BY-SA 3.0Almost every home in Rognac is within 800 m of a park or wood
12 km of footpaths cross Rognac (0.7 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 22% of Rognac. Protected areas cover 10% of Rognac’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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.
How Rognac 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Rognac has the 2nd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (12,260 to 12,897 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Villetaneuse (11 km per km²) to Mèze (0.5 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Villetaneuse Seine-Saint-Denis | 11 | 5.1% | 0% | 140 km |
| 2 | Bayeux Calvados | 6.1 | 2.8% | 0% | 7.4 km |
| 3 | Marquette-lez-Lille Nord | 5.6 | 4.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 4 | L'Union Haute-Garonne | 5.4 | 4.4% | 0% | 146 km |
| 5 | L'Isle-Adam Val-d'Oise | 5.2 | 60% | 0.2% | 121 km |
| 6 | Châlette-sur-Loing Loiret | 5.1 | 43% | 0% | 234 km |
| 7 | Nemours Seine-et-Marne | 4.3 | 49% | 2.7% | 215 km |
| 8 | Saint-Avé Morbihan | 3.7 | 24% | 97% | 4.5 km |
| 9 | Granville Manche | 3.6 | 1.3% | 7.2% | On it |
| 10 | Chambray-lès-Tours Indre-et-Loire | 3.5 | 24% | 0% | 181 km |
| 11 | Oissel-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 3.5 | 48% | 3.9% | 54 km |
| 12 | Pornichet Loire-Atlantique | 3.3 | 12% | 0.1% | On it |
| 13 | Le Chambon-Feugerolles Loire | 2.8 | 43% | 0.1% | 205 km |
| 14 | Mayenne Mayenne | 2.8 | 2.5% | 0% | 66 km |
| 15 | Cogolin Var | 2.7 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 16 | Andernos-les-Bains Gironde | 2.6 | 46% | 3.4% | On it |
| 17 | Saint-André-les-Vergers Aube | 2.5 | 4.4% | 0% | 273 km |
| 18 | Quimperlé Finistère | 2.4 | 24% | 3.9% | 9.2 km |
| 19 | Mende Lozère | 2.4 | 54% | 0% | 115 km |
| 20 | Aubergenville Yvelines | 2.4 | 9.1% | 0% | 121 km |
| 21 | Guidel Morbihan | 2.3 | 23% | 7.8% | On it |
| 22 | La Chapelle-Saint-Luc Aube | 2.3 | 12% | 0% | 270 km |
| 23 | Obernai Bas-Rhin | 2 | 16% | 1.9% | 447 km |
| 24 | Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 26% | 8.9% | 213 km |
| 25 | Brignais Rhône | 2 | 14% | 0% | 241 km |
| 26 | Pont-Sainte-Maxence Oise | 1.8 | 47% | 99% | 118 km |
| 27 | Solliès-Pont Var | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 11 km |
| 28 | Aubenas Ardèche | 1.6 | 6.8% | 18% | 120 km |
| 29 | Vernouillet Eure-et-Loir | 1.5 | 9.6% | 0% | 107 km |
| 30 | Châteaubriant Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0% | 76 km |
| 31 | Yzeure Allier | 1.3 | 25% | 0% | 338 km |
| 32 | Pont-du-Château Puy-de-Dôme | 1.2 | 8.9% | 9.7% | 257 km |
| 33 | Louvres Val-d'Oise | 1.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 139 km |
| 34 | Sablé-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 1 | 12% | 0% | 116 km |
| 35 | Gisors Eure | 0.9 | 34% | 0% | 87 km |
| 36 | Comines Nord | 0.9 | 2.3% | 0% | 48 km |
| 37 | Saint-André-de-Cubzac Gironde | 0.8 | 5.4% | 5.2% | 12 km |
| 38 | Châteaudun Eure-et-Loir | 0.8 | 9.7% | 2.7% | 168 km |
| 39 | Vidauban Var | 0.7 | 22% | 34% | 20 km |
| 40 | Rognac Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 22% | 10% | 16 km |
| 41 | Mèze Hérault | 0.5 | 5.2% | 27% | 6.3 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
10% of Rognac lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Plateau de l’Arbois
Share of the commune’s land
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.
10% of Rognac’s land is protected, more than in 72% 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.
12 km of footpaths cross Rognac
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 80% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 66% 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 Rognac is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Rognac: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Marignane, 6.4 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 | 24 | 28 | 31 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 47 | 30 | 30 | 52 | 38 | 28 | 11 | 26 | 82 | 73 | 76 | 41 |
July is the driest month (11 mm) and the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 82 mm of rain falls in September, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 20 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Rognac →
Next to Rognac
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rognac | 10% | 22% | 0.7 | 16 km |
| Velaux 8,941 · 4.4 km | 25% | 29% | 3.2 | 19 km |
| Berre-l'Étang 13,832 · 5 km | 15% | 1.1% | 1.3 | 16 km |
| Vitrolles 36,758 · 6.1 km | 33% | 8.9% | 4.9 | 9.7 km |
| La Fare-les-Oliviers 9,039 · 6.9 km | 44% | 0.8% | 0.2 | 23 km |
| Coudoux 3,825 · 7.3 km | 61% | 6% | 1.5 | 22 km |
| Ventabren 5,839 · 7.8 km | 45% | 8% | 1.9 | 20 km |
Velaux, Vitrolles and La Fare-les-Oliviers have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Rognac
Is Rognac in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 10% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Rognac?
OpenStreetMap maps 12 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Rognac is woodland?
22% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Rognac near the sea?
No: the coast is 16 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Rognac?
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.