First pick
Square Cassin
Park or garden
0.8 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Mauriac
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Béa at French Wikipedia · Public domain17%of the land protected
Outdoors in Mauriac · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Mauriac is within 800 m of a park or wood
17% of Mauriac’s land lies in protected areas. 22% of Mauriac is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 41 km across Mauriac (1.4 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
17%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
22%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
41 km
1.4 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: Square Cassin
Throughout this page, the Cantal 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 Mauriac 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 areas17%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
76out of 100
Woodland22%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
66out of 100
Footpaths1.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
44out 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
Mauriac has the 17th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,419 to 3,481 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Mours-Saint-Eusèbe (3.7 km per km²) to Crèvecœur-le-Grand (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mours-Saint-Eusèbe Drôme | 3.7 | 12% | 0% | 180 km |
| 2 | Sainte-Catherine Pas-de-Calais | 3.3 | 6.1% | 0% | 78 km |
| 3 | Lapugnoy Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 42% | 0% | 60 km |
| 4 | Verquin Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 5.5% | 0% | 62 km |
| 5 | Barbazan-Debat Hautes-Pyrénées | 2.6 | 47% | 0% | 136 km |
| 6 | Choisy-au-Bac Oise | 2.5 | 62% | 56% | 119 km |
| 7 | Vals-les-Bains Ardèche | 2 | 73% | 100% | 125 km |
| 8 | Ligugé Vienne | 1.8 | 38% | 0% | 114 km |
| 9 | Culoz-Béon Ain | 1.8 | 57% | 22% | 267 km |
| 10 | Aubin Aveyron | 1.7 | 49% | 2.3% | 166 km |
| 11 | La Boisse Ain | 1.7 | 16% | 0% | 265 km |
| 12 | La Chapelle-Heulin Loire-Atlantique | 1.6 | 15% | 17% | 51 km |
| 13 | Lampertheim Bas-Rhin | 1.6 | 1.2% | 0% | 443 km |
| 14 | Saint-Sulpice-de-Royan Charente-Maritime | 1.6 | 16% | 16% | On it |
| 15 | Saint-Céré Lot | 1.6 | 28% | 0% | 196 km |
| 16 | Saint-Martin-du-Var Alpes-Maritimes | 1.5 | 23% | 16% | 15 km |
| 17 | Mauriac Cantal | 1.4 | 22% | 17% | 227 km |
| 18 | Carpiquet Calvados | 1.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 16 km |
| 19 | Saint-Jeoire Haute-Savoie | 1.3 | 64% | 0% | 275 km |
| 20 | Rupt-sur-Moselle Vosges | 1.3 | 67% | 100% | 441 km |
| 21 | Azay-le-Rideau Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 27% | 100% | 162 km |
| 22 | Saint-Ambroix Gard | 1 | 30% | 100% | 78 km |
| 23 | Vic-la-Gardiole Hérault | 1 | 4.8% | 70% | On it |
| 24 | Troarn Calvados | 1 | 19% | 0% | 11 km |
| 25 | Artix Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.9 | 15% | 38% | 76 km |
| 26 | Ruffec Charente | 0.9 | 30% | 0% | 91 km |
| 27 | Mirande Gers | 0.8 | 20% | 0% | 150 km |
| 28 | Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs Isère | 0.7 | 12% | 0% | 213 km |
| 29 | Saint-Cyr-en-Val Loiret | 0.7 | 33% | 36% | 214 km |
| 30 | Val-de-Cognac Charente | 0.7 | 23% | 8.1% | 45 km |
| 31 | Andeville Oise | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 105 km |
| 32 | Vouvray Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 10% | 9.6% | 192 km |
| 33 | Moult-Chicheboville Calvados | 0.5 | 8.3% | 6% | 19 km |
| 34 | Saint-Éloy-les-Mines Puy-de-Dôme | 0.5 | 23% | 0% | 290 km |
| 35 | Bournezeau Vendée | 0.3 | 9.3% | 0% | 35 km |
| 36 | Le Porge Gironde | 0.3 | 89% | 100% | On it |
| 37 | Le Mérévillois Essonne | 0.3 | 8.2% | 0% | 178 km |
| 38 | Villeneuve-la-Guyard Yonne | 0.2 | 18% | 0.2% | 227 km |
| 39 | Steenwerck Nord | 0.2 | 0.8% | 0% | 47 km |
| 40 | Bellevigne-les-Châteaux Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 28% | 100% | 128 km |
| 41 | Crèvecœur-le-Grand Oise | 0.1 | 4.3% | 0% | 70 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 Mauriac
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Square Cassin leads, at 0.8 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
17% of Mauriac 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
Gorges de la Dordogne
17% of the commune1.8 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Gorges de la Dordogne, de l’Auze et de la Sumène
9.9% of the commune2.5 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area17%
Natura 2000 site17%
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.
17% of Mauriac’s land is protected, more than in 76% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Cantal has 7.8%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
41 km of footpaths cross Mauriac
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
41 km
1.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
22%
about 6.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MauriacCantal medianFrance median
Footpaths1.4
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MauriacCantal medianFrance median
Woodland22%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 56% 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 Mauriac is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Mauriac: June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Mauriac, 3 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) | 9.1 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.4 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 87 | 74 | 89 | 109 | 107 | 87 | 81 | 85 | 91 | 101 | 121 | 101 |
February is the driest month (74 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 121 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 64 nights a year. The climate in Mauriac →
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 Mauriac
Is Mauriac in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 17% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Mauriac?
OpenStreetMap maps 41 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Mauriac is woodland?
22% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Mauriac near the sea?
No: the coast is 227 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Mauriac?
June to September: 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.