First pick
Bambouseraie d'Anduze
Park or garden · 20 m outside the commune
12 ha3.8 km of path
50 minto walk all 3.8 km of path
2.1 km northfrom the center
Allée des Palmiers de ChineAllée des SéquoiaBalade Aérienne
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Szeder László · CC BY-SA 4.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Anduze · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Anduze lies in the outer area of Cévennes National Park
100% of Anduze’s land lies in protected areas. 49% of Anduze is mapped woodland. Anduze has 23 km of waymarked hiking routes. 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
49%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
42 km
2.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
23 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bambouseraie d'Anduze
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 Anduze?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
In the outer area of Cévennes National Park100% of the commune is in the park’s outer area, whose communes signed its charter.A wooded commune49% mapped woodland, more than in 91% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes23 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Anduze apart: the national park next door, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Anduze 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
94out of 100
Woodland49%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
91out of 100
Footpaths2.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
72out of 100
Hiking routes1.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
93out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Anduze has the 4th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,358 to 3,424 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 Saint-Médard-d'Eyrans (0.2 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 | Fontanil-Cornillon Isère | 3.5 | 42% | 36% | 210 km |
| 3 | Nantua Ain | 3 | 71% | 0% | 302 km |
| 4 | Anduze Gard | 2.9 | 49% | 100% | 55 km |
| 5 | Buchelay Yvelines | 2.8 | 7.5% | 0% | 108 km |
| 6 | Cocheren Moselle | 2.6 | 36% | 0% | 360 km |
| 7 | Villiers-Saint-Frédéric Yvelines | 2.5 | 17% | 0% | 131 km |
| 8 | Essert Territoire de Belfort | 2.4 | 41% | 0% | 431 km |
| 9 | Auribeau-sur-Siagne Alpes-Maritimes | 2.3 | 48% | 16% | 8.4 km |
| 10 | Vals-près-le-Puy Haute-Loire | 2 | 17% | 0% | 164 km |
| 11 | Hégenheim Haut-Rhin | 2 | 11% | 0% | 420 km |
| 12 | Annet-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 1.8 | 24% | 23% | 158 km |
| 13 | Sainte-Marie-de-Ré Charente-Maritime | 1.7 | 7.5% | 0.4% | On it |
| 14 | Salles-d'Aude Aude | 1.7 | 12% | 19% | 9 km |
| 15 | Saint-Cast-le-Guildo Côtes-d'Armor | 1.7 | 12% | 100% | On it |
| 16 | Porcheville Yvelines | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 115 km |
| 17 | Plouër-sur-Rance Côtes-d'Armor | 1.6 | 25% | 100% | On it |
| 18 | Hulluch Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 7.9% | 0% | 69 km |
| 19 | Rupt-sur-Moselle Vosges | 1.3 | 67% | 100% | 441 km |
| 20 | Lespignan Hérault | 1.1 | 0.3% | 69% | 8.7 km |
| 21 | Narrosse Landes | 1 | 25% | 10% | 34 km |
| 22 | Saint-André Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.9 | 1.3% | 0% | 6.3 km |
| 23 | Étain Meuse | 0.8 | 16% | 0% | 295 km |
| 24 | Thurins Rhône | 0.8 | 31% | 0% | 240 km |
| 25 | Vernet Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 4.5% | 1.7% | 141 km |
| 26 | Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Landes | 0.7 | 62% | 21% | 34 km |
| 27 | Vouvray Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 10% | 9.6% | 192 km |
| 28 | Pont-sur-Yonne Yonne | 0.6 | 20% | 0% | 238 km |
| 29 | Mont-près-Chambord Loir-et-Cher | 0.5 | 58% | 23% | 224 km |
| 30 | Brassac-les-Mines Puy-de-Dôme | 0.5 | 15% | 3.4% | 214 km |
| 31 | Saint-Romain-de-Jalionas Isère | 0.4 | 19% | 18% | 257 km |
| 32 | Landrecies Nord | 0.3 | 1.3% | 100% | 133 km |
| 33 | Saint-André-de-Corcy Ain | 0.3 | 20% | 49% | 272 km |
| 34 | Feillens Ain | 0.3 | 12% | 18% | 315 km |
| 35 | Longages Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 8% | 0% | 153 km |
| 36 | Descartes Indre-et-Loire | 0.2 | 15% | 0% | 158 km |
| 37 | Vescovato Haute-Corse | 0.2 | 16% | 2.9% | 5.9 km |
| 38 | Durtal Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 34% | 0% | 135 km |
| 39 | Traînou Loiret | 0.2 | 33% | 21% | 207 km |
| 40 | Iwuy Nord | 0.2 | 4.4% | 0% | 110 km |
| 41 | Saint-Médard-d'Eyrans Gironde | 0.2 | 29% | 36% | 33 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 Anduze
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bambouseraie d'Anduze leads, at 12 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Le Parc des Cordeliers
Park or garden
2.5 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
Centralin the middle of Anduze
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Anduze
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
National park, outer area
Cévennes National Park
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Falaises d’Anduze
4.6% of the commune1.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
National park, outer area100%
Natura 2000 site4.6%
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 Anduze’s land is protected, more than in 94% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Gard has 13%. A national park’s outer area (aire d’adhésion) is made of the communes that signed the park’s charter: it guides how they grow, but it isn’t strict protection like the core.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
42 km of footpaths and 23 km of hiking routes cross Anduze
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
42 km
2.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
23 km
waymarked: 1.6 km per km²
Woodland
49%
about 7.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AnduzeGard medianFrance median
Footpaths2.9
Hiking routes1.6
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AnduzeGard medianFrance median
Woodland49%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 72% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 91% 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 Anduze is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
7 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)PR (local walk)Other named walk
GR 6713 km
GR 615.8 km
PR 148.1 km
Les Capélans15 km
Autour du Capelan13 km
Les dolmens de la grande Pallières3.6 km
Le rocher de Saint-Julien1.3 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Anduze: GR 67 and GR 61.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Anduze: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Generargues, 2.4 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 | 14.7 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 11 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 31 | 31 | 26 | 20 | 15 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 99 | 70 | 92 | 100 | 102 | 49 | 41 | 56 | 172 | 178 | 162 | 119 |
July is the driest month (41 mm) and the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 178 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 55 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Anduze →
Neighbors
Next to Anduze
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Boisset-et-GaujacBagardSaint-Christol-lez-AlèsSaint-Jean-du-GardAlèsSaint-Hilaire-de-BrethmasAnduze
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anduze | 100% | 49% | 2.9 |
| Boisset-et-Gaujac 2,707 · 3.6 km | 9.4% | 15% | 0.4 |
| Bagard 2,605 · 6.1 km | 8.6% | 14% | 1 |
| Saint-Christol-lez-Alès 7,310 · 8.7 km | 0% | 21% | 1.2 |
| Saint-Jean-du-Gard 2,586 · 9.4 km | 100% | 84% | 1.4 |
| Alès 46,125 · 12 km | 0% | 8% | 2.2 |
| Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas 4,670 · 12 km | 0% | 4.6% | 0.6 |
Saint-Jean-du-Gard 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 Anduze
Is Anduze in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Anduze lies in Cévennes National Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Anduze?
OpenStreetMap maps 42 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 23 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Anduze is woodland?
49% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Anduze near the sea?
No: the coast is 55 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Anduze?
April to June: 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.