First pick
Parc des Garrigues
Park or garden
7.5 ha
1.2 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: René Hourdry · CC BY-SA 4.012%of the land protected
Outdoors in Rognes · protected areas, woods and footpaths
51% of Rognes is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
52 km of footpaths cross Rognes (0.9 km per km²). Protected areas cover 12% of Rognes’ land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
12%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
51%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
52 km
0.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc des Garrigues
The sea
34 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 Rognes 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 areas12%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
74out of 100
Woodland51%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
92out of 100
Footpaths0.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
29out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Rognes has the 18th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,660 to 4,726 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Ban-Saint-Martin (4.6 km per km²) to Saint-Georges-de-Reneins (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Ban-Saint-Martin Moselle | 4.6 | 27% | 0% | 326 km |
| 2 | Bavilliers Territoire de Belfort | 4.6 | 16% | 0% | 430 km |
| 3 | Auzeville-Tolosane Haute-Garonne | 3.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 140 km |
| 4 | L'Huisserie Mayenne | 3.8 | 16% | 0% | 80 km |
| 5 | Bièvres Essonne | 3.5 | 31% | 0% | 154 km |
| 6 | Sequedin Nord | 3.3 | 5.9% | 0% | 60 km |
| 7 | Le Trait Seine-Maritime | 3.1 | 63% | 100% | 33 km |
| 8 | Sangatte Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 1.7% | 99% | On it |
| 9 | Ribeauvillé Haut-Rhin | 2.7 | 72% | 100% | 461 km |
| 10 | Hallennes-lez-Haubourdin Nord | 2.7 | 1.3% | 0% | 61 km |
| 11 | Chavagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.4 | 8% | 0% | 51 km |
| 12 | Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 5.8% | 0% | 258 km |
| 13 | Village-Neuf Haut-Rhin | 2.2 | 9% | 36% | 424 km |
| 14 | Clohars-Carnoët Finistère | 2 | 24% | 1.3% | On it |
| 15 | Viuz-en-Sallaz Haute-Savoie | 1.5 | 40% | 0% | 278 km |
| 16 | Bar-sur-Aube Aube | 1.5 | 14% | 22% | 309 km |
| 17 | Neufchâtel-en-Bray Seine-Maritime | 1.2 | 17% | 3.7% | 32 km |
| 18 | Saint-Paul-en-Jarez Loire | 1 | 18% | 97% | 217 km |
| 19 | Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 14% | 0% | 47 km |
| 20 | Mirecourt Vosges | 1 | 20% | 0% | 386 km |
| 21 | Soucieu-en-Jarrest Rhône | 1 | 15% | 0% | 240 km |
| 22 | Les Garennes sur Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.9 | 12% | 23% | 121 km |
| 23 | Graveson Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 10% | 0% | 45 km |
| 24 | Rognes Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 51% | 12% | 34 km |
| 25 | Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis Charente-Maritime | 0.9 | 3.1% | 0% | 12 km |
| 26 | La Charité-sur-Loire Nièvre | 0.8 | 9.6% | 13% | 319 km |
| 27 | Bédée Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 0.5% | 0% | 35 km |
| 28 | Flayosc Var | 0.8 | 36% | 0% | 32 km |
| 29 | Bourbon-Lancy Saône-et-Loire | 0.7 | 21% | 13% | 341 km |
| 30 | La Suze-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 0.6 | 31% | 0% | 132 km |
| 31 | La Bouëxière Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 35% | 0% | 48 km |
| 32 | Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas Gard | 0.6 | 4.6% | 0% | 59 km |
| 33 | Saint-Méloir-des-Ondes Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.5 | 4.3% | 0.1% | On it |
| 34 | Phalsbourg Moselle | 0.5 | 19% | 25% | 411 km |
| 35 | Beuzeville Eure | 0.4 | 2.8% | 0% | 10 km |
| 36 | Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire Charente | 0.4 | 3.4% | 7.8% | 46 km |
| 37 | Fumel Lot-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 33% | 0.1% | 135 km |
| 38 | Aigondigné Deux-Sèvres | 0.4 | 1.6% | 61% | 66 km |
| 39 | Herrlisheim Bas-Rhin | 0.3 | 6.9% | 3.3% | 448 km |
| 40 | Samer Pas-de-Calais | 0.3 | 20% | 100% | 12 km |
| 41 | Saint-Georges-de-Reneins Rhône | 0.3 | 10% | 25% | 282 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 Rognes
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc des Garrigues leads, at 7.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
12% of Rognes 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
Garrigues de Lançon et Chaînes alentour
12% of the commune2.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
La Durance
4.8 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
La Durance
4.8 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area12%
Natura 2000 site12%
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.
12% of Rognes’ land is protected, more than in 74% 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
52 km of footpaths cross Rognes
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
52 km
0.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
51%
about 29.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RognesBouches-du-Rhône medianFrance median
Footpaths0.9
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RognesBouches-du-Rhône medianFrance median
Woodland51%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 71% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 92% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Rognes’ residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Fontaine de Doudonne10 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Rognes: April to June and August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Vaugines, 13 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 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 42 | 45 | 69 | 63 | 41 | 28 | 35 | 92 | 99 | 109 | 63 |
July is the driest month (28 mm) and the warmest (highs of 30 °C). 109 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 35 nights a year. Summer highs reach 30 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Rognes →
Neighbors
Next to Rognes
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-CannatLa Roque-d'AnthéronLambescLe Puy-Sainte-RéparadeCadenetVillelaureRognes
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rognes | 12% | 51% | 0.9 | 34 km |
| Saint-Cannat 6,097 · 6 km | 34% | 21% | 0.8 | 29 km |
| La Roque-d'Anthéron 5,459 · 6.5 km | 51% | 36% | 2.3 | 39 km |
| Lambesc 10,024 · 6.6 km | 65% | 32% | 1.3 | 33 km |
| Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade 5,935 · 7.5 km | 5.4% | 26% | 1.7 | 34 km |
| Cadenet 4,363 · 8.1 km | 100% | 28% | 1.1 | 42 km |
| Villelaure 3,398 · 9 km | 100% | 26% | 1.2 | 40 km |
Saint-Cannat, La Roque-d'Anthéron and Lambesc 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 Rognes
Is Rognes in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 12% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Rognes?
OpenStreetMap maps 52 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Rognes is woodland?
51% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Rognes near the sea?
No: the coast is 34 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Rognes?
April to June and 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.