Photo: Tournasol7 · CC BY 4.0Parks, woods and footpaths in Ytrac
Footpaths add up to 29 km across Ytrac (0.8 km per km²). No protected area reaches Ytrac; the nearest, Affluents de la Cère en Chataigneraie (Natura 2000), is 4.9 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 11 km in Ytrac. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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.
How Ytrac 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.
Ytrac has the 16th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,306 to 4,374 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sevrier (4.3 km per km²) to Buzançais (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sevrier Haute-Savoie | 4.3 | 49% | 100% | 255 km |
| 2 | Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost Ain | 4 | 21% | 17% | 262 km |
| 3 | Tigery Essonne | 3.6 | 41% | 0% | 176 km |
| 4 | Villard-de-Lans Isère | 3.4 | 57% | 100% | 188 km |
| 5 | Nilvange Moselle | 3.3 | 27% | 0% | 304 km |
| 6 | Gattières Alpes-Maritimes | 2.7 | 27% | 80% | 9.5 km |
| 7 | Niederbronn-les-Bains Bas-Rhin | 2.6 | 74% | 100% | 417 km |
| 8 | Poulx Gard | 2.5 | 0.1% | 56% | 47 km |
| 9 | Saulxures-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.3 | 31% | 0% | 369 km |
| 10 | Coignières Yvelines | 2.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 11 | Steenvoorde Nord | 1.8 | 1.9% | 0% | 29 km |
| 12 | Villeneuve Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 74 km |
| 13 | Cheval-Blanc Vaucluse | 1.7 | 19% | 100% | 42 km |
| 14 | Hillion Côtes-d'Armor | 1.6 | 6.9% | 9% | On it |
| 15 | Le Château-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.5 | 7.5% | 50% | On it |
| 16 | Le Val Var | 1.5 | 63% | 7.3% | 37 km |
| 17 | Louverné Mayenne | 1.5 | 3.9% | 0% | 74 km |
| 18 | Cadenet Vaucluse | 1.1 | 28% | 100% | 42 km |
| 19 | Camon Somme | 1.1 | 5.6% | 14% | 57 km |
| 20 | Morlaàs Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 20% | 0% | 101 km |
| 21 | Beaumont-lès-Valence Drôme | 0.8 | 9.8% | 0% | 157 km |
| 22 | Égletons Corrèze | 0.8 | 51% | 0.1% | 212 km |
| 23 | Chabanière Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 230 km |
| 24 | Morestel Isère | 0.8 | 16% | 12% | 252 km |
| 25 | Pons Charente-Maritime | 0.8 | 10% | 13% | 22 km |
| 26 | Ytrac Cantal | 0.8 | 13% | 0% | 197 km |
| 27 | Langeais Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 71% | 100% | 163 km |
| 28 | Cours Rhône | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 283 km |
| 29 | Bessières Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 9.9% | 2.4% | 145 km |
| 30 | Friville-Escarbotin Somme | 0.5 | 2.1% | 100% | 7.2 km |
| 31 | Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 24% | 1.4% | 181 km |
| 32 | Saint-Savin Isère | 0.5 | 17% | 15% | 244 km |
| 33 | Sarralbe Moselle | 0.5 | 29% | 10% | 381 km |
| 34 | Valence-en-Poitou Vienne | 0.4 | 20% | 0% | 100 km |
| 35 | Ussac Corrèze | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 167 km |
| 36 | Montélier Drôme | 0.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 165 km |
| 37 | Rives de l'Yon Vendée | 0.3 | 7.1% | 0% | 25 km |
| 38 | Prigonrieux Dordogne | 0.3 | 21% | 1.2% | 80 km |
| 39 | Roullet-Saint-Estèphe Charente | 0.2 | 16% | 3.1% | 65 km |
| 40 | Bassillac et Auberoche Dordogne | 0.1 | 49% | 0% | 116 km |
| 41 | Buzançais Indre | 0.1 | 28% | 5.7% | 206 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
8 in 10 residents of Ytrac live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
About 700 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Affluents de la Cère en Chataigneraie is the nearest protected area, 4.9 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Affluents de la Cère en Chataigneraie
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.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
29 km of footpaths and 11 km of hiking routes cross Ytrac
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 76% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 52% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Ytrac: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Aurillac, 4.3 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 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 90 | 77 | 79 | 109 | 107 | 82 | 71 | 88 | 107 | 101 | 118 | 106 |
July is the driest month (71 mm) and the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 118 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 71 nights a year. The climate in Ytrac →
Next to Ytrac
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ytrac | 0% | 13% | 0.8 |
| Aurillac 26,214 · 5.4 km | 0.2% | 2.9% | 2.7 |
| Arpajon-sur-Cère 6,361 · 7.4 km | 0.2% | 24% | 1.2 |
Arpajon-sur-Cère is more wooded.
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 Ytrac
Is Ytrac in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Affluents de la Cère en Chataigneraie, 4.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Ytrac?
OpenStreetMap maps 29 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 11 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Ytrac is woodland?
13% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Ytrac near the sea?
No: the coast is 197 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Ytrac?
May 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 4, 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.