Photo: M.Minderhoud · CC BY-SA 3.0Die lies inside Vercors Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Die’s land. 60% of Die is mapped woodland. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 128 km in Die. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Drôme median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of outdoors place is Die?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Die apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
How Die 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.
Die has the 6th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,806 to 4,883 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Quiberon (6.6 km per km²) to Bonneval (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quiberon Morbihan | 6.6 | 2.8% | 18% | On it |
| 2 | Rosières-près-Troyes Aube | 4 | 9.4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 3 | Phalempin Nord | 4 | 32% | 0% | 72 km |
| 4 | Ceyreste Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 42% | 49% | 2.9 km |
| 5 | La Turballe Loire-Atlantique | 2.7 | 13% | 24% | On it |
| 6 | Die Drôme | 2.4 | 60% | 100% | 150 km |
| 7 | Uchaud Gard | 2.1 | 32% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 8 | Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Haut-Rhin | 2 | 76% | 100% | 450 km |
| 9 | Paron Yonne | 2 | 26% | 1.2% | 249 km |
| 10 | L'Horme Loire | 2 | 3.4% | 0% | 217 km |
| 11 | Plateau d'Hauteville Ain | 1.9 | 65% | 1.2% | 284 km |
| 12 | Lambres-lez-Douai Nord | 1.8 | 4.4% | 0% | 90 km |
| 13 | Robion Vaucluse | 1.8 | 24% | 100% | 48 km |
| 14 | Charly Rhône | 1.7 | 0.2% | 0% | 239 km |
| 15 | La Voulte-sur-Rhône Ardèche | 1.5 | 15% | 33% | 149 km |
| 16 | Le Quesnoy Nord | 1.4 | 2.1% | 100% | 120 km |
| 17 | Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues Gard | 1.3 | 49% | 0% | 67 km |
| 18 | Montbazon Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 29% | 0% | 178 km |
| 19 | Blendecques Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 18% | 84% | 32 km |
| 20 | Pignans Var | 1 | 50% | 43% | 20 km |
| 21 | Desvres Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 56% | 100% | 18 km |
| 22 | Milizac-Guipronvel Finistère | 0.9 | 6.1% | 0% | 9.1 km |
| 23 | Cysoing Nord | 0.8 | 26% | 0% | 74 km |
| 24 | Tinchebray-Bocage Orne | 0.8 | 4.9% | 0% | 48 km |
| 25 | Fagnières Marne | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 235 km |
| 26 | Écommoy Sarthe | 0.5 | 28% | 0.2% | 151 km |
| 27 | La Côte-Saint-André Isère | 0.5 | 10% | 0% | 218 km |
| 28 | Amplepuis Rhône | 0.4 | 29% | 0% | 269 km |
| 29 | Cazères Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 4.1% | 11% | 162 km |
| 30 | Conches-en-Ouche Eure | 0.4 | 51% | 0% | 68 km |
| 31 | Saint-Jean-de-Bournay Isère | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 229 km |
| 32 | Monnaie Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 197 km |
| 33 | Bornel Oise | 0.3 | 33% | 0.1% | 112 km |
| 34 | Saint-Sulpice-et-Cameyrac Gironde | 0.3 | 6.2% | 7.7% | 20 km |
| 35 | Vic-en-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 0.3 | 20% | 2.2% | 125 km |
| 36 | Saverdun Ariège | 0.2 | 13% | 0.7% | 123 km |
| 37 | Bazas Gironde | 0.2 | 30% | 2.9% | 69 km |
| 38 | Legé Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 33 km |
| 39 | Salbris Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 81% | 100% | 256 km |
| 40 | Vitry-en-Artois Pas-de-Calais | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 90 km |
| 41 | Bonneval Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 | 9.3% | 30% | 159 km |
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.
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Die
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Le Jardin bleu leads, at 0.7 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected land in and around Die
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Vercors Regional Nature Park
Hauts Plateaux du Vercors nature reserve
Hauts plateaux du Vercors
Hauts plateaux et contreforts du Vercors oriental
Zones humides et rivières de la haute vallée de la Drôme
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.
100% of Die’s land is protected, more than in 96% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Drôme has 0%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
138 km of footpaths and 128 km of hiking routes cross Die
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 more than in 65% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 96% 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 Die is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
3 GR routes pass within 2 km of Die: GR 95, GR 965 and GR 91.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Die: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Die, 2.6 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) | 9.2 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.6 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 10 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 24 | 19 | 13 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 71 | 51 | 62 | 82 | 87 | 69 | 62 | 67 | 98 | 98 | 114 | 78 |
February is the driest month (51 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 114 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 88 nights a year. The climate in Die →
Next to Die
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Die | 100% | 60% | 2.4 |
| Aouste-sur-Sye 2,733 · 25 km | 2.3% | 40% | 1.2 |
| Crest 8,658 · 28 km | 0% | 25% | 1.2 |
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 Die
Is Die in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Die lies in Vercors Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Die?
OpenStreetMap maps 138 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 128 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Die is woodland?
60% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Die near the sea?
No: the coast is 150 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Die?
April and June 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 October 30, 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.