First pick
Jardin des arômes
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Nyons
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Anthony Levrot · CC BY-SA 4.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Nyons · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Nyons lies inside Baronnies Provençales Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Nyons’ land. 44% of Nyons is mapped woodland. 59 km of footpaths cross Nyons (2.5 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
44%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
59 km
2.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
9.3 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: Jardin des arômes
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 place
What kind of outdoors place is Nyons?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Baronnies Provençales Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune44% mapped woodland, more than in 88% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Nyons apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Nyons 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
97out of 100
Woodland44%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
88out of 100
Footpaths2.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
66out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
54out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Nyons has the 12th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,746 to 6,883 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Noyelles-sous-Lens (5 km per km²) to Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noyelles-sous-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 5 | 10% | 0% | 77 km |
| 2 | Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes Seine-et-Marne | 4.3 | 11% | 0% | 164 km |
| 3 | Domène Isère | 3.8 | 24% | 0% | 202 km |
| 4 | Lutterbach Haut-Rhin | 3.7 | 43% | 12% | 442 km |
| 5 | Castries Hérault | 3.6 | 9.3% | 0.1% | 14 km |
| 6 | Puilboreau Charente-Maritime | 3.5 | 1.5% | 0% | 3.8 km |
| 7 | Liancourt Oise | 3.4 | 26% | 0% | 110 km |
| 8 | Carnoux-en-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 31% | 0% | 5 km |
| 9 | Loos-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 3.6% | 0% | 71 km |
| 10 | Saint-Julien-les-Villas Aube | 2.9 | 7.6% | 0% | 275 km |
| 11 | Montfort-sur-Meu Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.5 | 30% | 0% | 40 km |
| 12 | Nyons Drôme | 2.5 | 44% | 100% | 103 km |
| 13 | Moëlan-sur-Mer Finistère | 2.5 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 14 | Gaillon Eure | 2 | 19% | 13% | 77 km |
| 15 | Beuvrages Nord | 1.9 | 4.2% | 99% | 102 km |
| 16 | Les Essarts-le-Roi Yvelines | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 137 km |
| 17 | Auvers-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1.7 | 19% | 100% | 122 km |
| 18 | Poussan Hérault | 1.5 | 2.1% | 38% | 8.5 km |
| 19 | Acigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.4 | 11% | 0% | 52 km |
| 20 | Divion Pas-de-Calais | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 57 km |
| 21 | Le Coteau Loire | 1.4 | 0% | 0% | 274 km |
| 22 | Plouguerneau Finistère | 1.4 | 2.5% | 10% | On it |
| 23 | Laudun-l'Ardoise Gard | 1.3 | 19% | 2.1% | 73 km |
| 24 | Douvaine Haute-Savoie | 1.3 | 22% | 0.9% | 296 km |
| 25 | Meyreuil Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 45% | 0% | 20 km |
| 26 | Brindas Rhône | 1.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 245 km |
| 27 | Ploeren Morbihan | 1.1 | 13% | 96% | 3.1 km |
| 28 | Saint-Jean-d'Angély Charente-Maritime | 1 | 8% | 0% | 35 km |
| 29 | Quesnoy-sur-Deûle Nord | 1 | 0.8% | 0% | 52 km |
| 30 | Cambo-les-Bains Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.9 | 30% | 15% | 18 km |
| 31 | Veigné Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 35% | 0% | 179 km |
| 32 | Les Abrets en Dauphiné Isère | 0.7 | 17% | 0% | 238 km |
| 33 | Itteville Essonne | 0.6 | 33% | 7.1% | 177 km |
| 34 | Le Cateau-Cambrésis Nord | 0.6 | 1.4% | 0% | 130 km |
| 35 | Merville Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 9.8% | 5.4% | 163 km |
| 36 | Chabeuil Drôme | 0.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 162 km |
| 37 | Loudun Vienne | 0.3 | 6.4% | 0% | 122 km |
| 38 | Essarts-en-Bocage Vendée | 0.3 | 4.1% | 0% | 46 km |
| 39 | Caussade Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 172 km |
| 40 | Le Controis-en-Sologne Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 24% | 6.7% | 229 km |
| 41 | Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche Haute-Vienne | 0.1 | 24% | 0% | 151 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 Nyons
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin des arômes leads, at 0.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Nyons
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Baronnies Provençales Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Baronnies - gorges de l’Eygues
9.6% of the commune1.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Forêts alluviales, rivière et gorges de l’Eygues
4.4% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site13%
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 Nyons’ land is protected, more than in 97% 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.
Footpaths and woods
59 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Nyons
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
59 km
2.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
9.3 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
44%
about 10.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
NyonsDrôme medianFrance median
Footpaths2.5
Hiking routes0.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
NyonsDrôme medianFrance median
Woodland44%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 66% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 88% 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 Nyons 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 Nyons: May to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Vinsobres, 6.3 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) | 9.2 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 27 | 30 | 30 | 24 | 19 | 14 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 62 | 42 | 51 | 72 | 65 | 44 | 38 | 51 | 103 | 102 | 106 | 54 |
July is the driest month (38 mm) and the warmest (highs of 30 °C). 106 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 24 nights a year. The climate in Nyons →
Neighbors
Next to Nyons
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ValréasVaison-la-RomaineDieulefitMalaucèneSainte-Cécile-les-VignesBédoinNyons
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nyons | 100% | 44% | 2.5 |
| Valréas 9,224 · 12 km | 0% | 21% | 0.1 |
| Vaison-la-Romaine 6,058 · 14 km | 100% | 29% | 1.2 |
| Dieulefit 3,289 · 19 km | 0% | 66% | 2 |
| Malaucène 2,758 · 20 km | 100% | 57% | 2.1 |
| Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes 2,656 · 23 km | 1.7% | 1.9% | 0.3 |
| Bédoin 3,106 · 27 km | 100% | 60% | 2 |
Dieulefit is more wooded.
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 Nyons
Is Nyons in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Nyons lies in Baronnies Provençales Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Nyons?
OpenStreetMap maps 59 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Nyons is woodland?
44% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Nyons near the sea?
No: the coast is 103 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Nyons?
May 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 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.