First pick
Pinède de Malamousque
Wood or forest
3.2 ha
2.3 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Daniel CULSAN · CC BY-SA 4.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Aigues-Mortes · protected areas, woods and footpaths
100% of Aigues-Mortes’ land is protected for nature
100% of Aigues-Mortes’ land lies in protected areas. 24 km of footpaths cross Aigues-Mortes (0.4 km per km²). 2.8% of Aigues-Mortes is mapped woodland. 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
2.8%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
24 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.2 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: Pinède de Malamousque
The sea
6 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Gard 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 Aigues-Mortes?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside100% of the land lies in protected areas.Near the seaThe coast is 6 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Aigues-Mortes apart: its protected countryside, then the sea nearby. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Aigues-Mortes 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
92out of 100
Woodland2.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
14out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
10out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
31out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Aigues-Mortes has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,573 to 8,825 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From L'Île-Saint-Denis (6.6 km per km²) to Coutras (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L'Île-Saint-Denis Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.6 | 13% | 19% | 142 km |
| 2 | Beauzelle Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 9.2% | 25% | 154 km |
| 3 | Le Portel Pas-de-Calais | 5.5 | 3.3% | 6.7% | On it |
| 4 | Wingles Pas-de-Calais | 5.1 | 13% | 0% | 69 km |
| 5 | Crolles Isère | 4.6 | 26% | 19% | 207 km |
| 6 | Petit-Couronne Seine-Maritime | 4.2 | 40% | 0% | 49 km |
| 7 | Artigues-près-Bordeaux Gironde | 3.8 | 9.5% | 0% | 18 km |
| 8 | Essey-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.7 | 11% | 0% | 366 km |
| 9 | Thorigné-Fouillard Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.1 | 10% | 3.1% | 48 km |
| 10 | Gretz-Armainvilliers Seine-et-Marne | 3 | 57% | 0% | 176 km |
| 11 | Saint-Renan Finistère | 2.9 | 5% | 0% | 8 km |
| 12 | Marcoussis Essonne | 2.7 | 34% | 0% | 163 km |
| 13 | Margny-lès-Compiègne Oise | 2.1 | 1.3% | 0% | 117 km |
| 14 | Lempdes Puy-de-Dôme | 2.1 | 1.8% | 0% | 254 km |
| 15 | Le Teil Ardèche | 2 | 37% | 0% | 120 km |
| 16 | Puget-sur-Argens Var | 1.9 | 9.8% | 54% | 6.5 km |
| 17 | Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 15% | 14% | 243 km |
| 18 | Ergué-Gabéric Finistère | 1.8 | 21% | 0% | 6.3 km |
| 19 | Aulnoye-Aymeries Nord | 1.7 | 1.2% | 100% | 132 km |
| 20 | Soustons Landes | 1.7 | 65% | 9.6% | On it |
| 21 | Le Grau-du-Roi Gard | 1.6 | 3.9% | 89% | On it |
| 22 | Monistrol-sur-Loire Haute-Loire | 1.4 | 34% | 16% | 192 km |
| 23 | La Chapelle-d'Armentières Nord | 1.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 52 km |
| 24 | Crest Drôme | 1.2 | 25% | 0% | 142 km |
| 25 | Isbergues Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 47 km |
| 26 | Sérignan Hérault | 1.1 | 0.2% | 34% | On it |
| 27 | Saint-Chamas Bouches-du-Rhône | 1 | 8.1% | 50% | 15 km |
| 28 | Saint-Jory Haute-Garonne | 0.9 | 6.1% | 6.4% | 159 km |
| 29 | La Ferté-Bernard Sarthe | 0.9 | 1.2% | 0% | 135 km |
| 30 | Ombrée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 94 km |
| 31 | Plabennec Finistère | 0.7 | 2.3% | 0% | 7.8 km |
| 32 | Roussillon Isère | 0.6 | 12% | 0% | 209 km |
| 33 | Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.6 | 1.2% | 81% | On it |
| 34 | Souleuvre en Bocage Calvados | 0.6 | 10% | 21% | 45 km |
| 35 | Janzé Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 2.9% | 0% | 70 km |
| 36 | Domérat Allier | 0.5 | 8.5% | 0% | 275 km |
| 37 | Le Poiré-sur-Vie Vendée | 0.4 | 4.9% | 0% | 32 km |
| 38 | Aigues-Mortes Gard | 0.4 | 2.8% | 100% | 6 km |
| 39 | Les Hauts-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 4.5% | 4.1% | 121 km |
| 40 | Sarlat-la-Canéda Dordogne | 0.3 | 42% | 10% | 143 km |
| 41 | Coutras Gironde | 0.1 | 11% | 19% | 37 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 Aigues-Mortes
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Pinède de Malamousque leads, at 3.2 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 Aigues-Mortes
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Petite Camargue
98% of the commune
Regional nature park
Camargue Regional Nature Park
8.5 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Petite Camargue laguno-marine
66% of the commune0.4 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Étang de Mauguio
1.8% of the commune4 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Étang de Mauguio
1.8% of the commune4 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Camargue gardoise fluvio-lacustre
2 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Natura 2000 site100%
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 Aigues-Mortes’ land is protected, more than in 92% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Gard has 13%. 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
24 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Aigues-Mortes
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
24 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.2 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
2.8%
about 1.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Aigues-MortesGard medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Aigues-MortesGard medianFrance median
Woodland2.8%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 90% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 86% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 96% of Aigues-Mortes’ residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 4213 km
GR 42 passes within 2 km of Aigues-Mortes.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Aigues-Mortes: April to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Aigues-Mortes, 3.7 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 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 11 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 27 | 29 | 29 | 25 | 21 | 15 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 36 | 35 | 52 | 37 | 24 | 15 | 30 | 73 | 77 | 72 | 49 |
July is the driest month (15 mm) and the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 77 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 12 nights a year. The climate in Aigues-Mortes →
Neighbors
Next to Aigues-Mortes
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Le Grau-du-RoiSaint-Laurent-d'AigouzeLa Grande-MotteMarsillarguesSaint-JustLe CailarAigues-Mortes
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aigues-Mortes | 100% | 2.8% | 0.4 | 6 km |
| Le Grau-du-Roi 8,588 · 6 km | 89% | 3.9% | 1.6 | On it |
| Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze 3,690 · 6.7 km | 91% | 1.3% | 0.2 | 11 km |
| La Grande-Motte 8,440 · 8.8 km | 53% | 4% | 6 | On it |
| Marsillargues 6,988 · 10 km | 32% | 0.5% | 0.6 | 13 km |
| Saint-Just 3,293 · 12 km | 1.3% | 0% | 1 | 11 km |
| Le Cailar 2,578 · 13 km | 68% | 2% | 0.4 | 17 km |
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 Aigues-Mortes
Is Aigues-Mortes in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 100% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Aigues-Mortes?
OpenStreetMap maps 24 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Aigues-Mortes is woodland?
2.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Aigues-Mortes near the sea?
No: the coast is 6 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Aigues-Mortes?
April 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 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.