First pick
Île de Saxy
Wood or forest · 120 m outside the commune
16 ha
9.3 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Stclementader · CC08.8%of the land protected
Outdoors in Beaucaire · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Beaucaire
Mapped woodland covers 4.5% of Beaucaire. 62 km of footpaths cross Beaucaire (0.7 km per km²). Beaucaire has 9 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
8.8%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
4.5%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
62 km
0.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.5 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
90%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
40 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.
Against French towns
How Beaucaire 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 areas8.8%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
70out of 100
Woodland4.5%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
21out of 100
Footpaths0.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
22out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
30out of 100
Green space nearby90%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
8out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Beaucaire has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (15,242 to 16,162 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vauréal (12.3 km per km²) to Gaillac (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vauréal Val-d'Oise | 12.3 | 19% | 0% | 121 km |
| 2 | Noisiel Seine-et-Marne | 9.5 | 32% | 0.1% | 162 km |
| 3 | Saint-Leu-la-Forêt Val-d'Oise | 8.5 | 36% | 0.5% | 131 km |
| 4 | Montévrain Seine-et-Marne | 7.3 | 11% | 0% | 165 km |
| 5 | Le Pecq Yvelines | 7.1 | 2.7% | 0% | 136 km |
| 6 | Fontainebleau Seine-et-Marne | 5.3 | 94% | 94% | 205 km |
| 7 | Castanet-Tolosan Haute-Garonne | 5.1 | 12% | 0% | 138 km |
| 8 | Longwy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.1 | 15% | 0% | 275 km |
| 9 | Avrillé Maine-et-Loire | 4.9 | 9.1% | 0% | 117 km |
| 10 | Le Vésinet Yvelines | 4.9 | 0.1% | 0% | 137 km |
| 11 | Francheville Rhône | 4.6 | 29% | 0% | 248 km |
| 12 | Le Bourget Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.5 | 2.2% | 0% | 145 km |
| 13 | Domont Val-d'Oise | 4.5 | 28% | 0% | 133 km |
| 14 | Hennebont Morbihan | 4 | 25% | 0% | On it |
| 15 | Saint-Pierre-des-Corps Indre-et-Loire | 3.8 | 6.9% | 9.3% | 186 km |
| 16 | Wattignies Nord | 3.5 | 1.5% | 0% | 66 km |
| 17 | Bouc-Bel-Air Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.5 | 29% | 0% | 12 km |
| 18 | Marseille 16e Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 8.2% | 0.2% | On it |
| 19 | Ambérieu-en-Bugey Ain | 3.3 | 49% | 0% | 281 km |
| 20 | Vendôme Loir-et-Cher | 3.1 | 32% | 0% | 187 km |
| 21 | Lucé Eure-et-Loir | 3 | 2.6% | 0% | 137 km |
| 22 | Sin-le-Noble Nord | 2.7 | 12% | 0.1% | 90 km |
| 23 | Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry Seine-et-Marne | 2.4 | 13% | 100% | 187 km |
| 24 | Roquebrune-sur-Argens Var | 2.4 | 40% | 25% | On it |
| 25 | Guipavas Finistère | 2.2 | 11% | 0.4% | On it |
| 26 | Port-de-Bouc Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.1 | 14% | 28% | On it |
| 27 | Montivilliers Seine-Maritime | 2 | 6.9% | 0% | 6.8 km |
| 28 | Saint-Amand-les-Eaux Nord | 1.9 | 43% | 100% | 93 km |
| 29 | Rive-de-Gier Loire | 1.7 | 13% | 0.1% | 222 km |
| 30 | Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert Loire | 1.7 | 23% | 13% | 216 km |
| 31 | Wittenheim Haut-Rhin | 1.6 | 32% | 0% | 447 km |
| 32 | Toul Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.4 | 20% | 0.5% | 348 km |
| 33 | Montbrison Loire | 1.3 | 5.7% | 4.8% | 227 km |
| 34 | Hayange Moselle | 1.3 | 35% | 0% | 305 km |
| 35 | Biscarrosse Landes | 1.1 | 65% | 20% | On it |
| 36 | Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 1 | 75% | 0% | 49 km |
| 37 | Tarascon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 16% | 13% | 41 km |
| 38 | Beaucaire Gard | 0.7 | 4.5% | 8.8% | 40 km |
| 39 | Fos-sur-Mer Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0.6% | 15% | On it |
| 40 | Montrevault-sur-Èvre Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 km |
| 41 | Gaillac Tarn | 0.2 | 4.9% | 0% | 132 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 Beaucaire
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Île de Saxy leads, at 16 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Le Jardin du XIXeme
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.3 km of path
1.4 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Beaucaire 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).
90% within 800 m10% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
BeaucaireGard medianFrance median
Within 800 m90%
0%50%100%
About 1,600 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.
Protected areas
8.8% of Beaucaire lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Le Rhône aval
8.5% of the commune1.6 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Costières nîmoises
5.4 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area8.8%
Natura 2000 site8.8%
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.
8.8% of Beaucaire’s land is protected, more than in 70% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Gard has 13%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
62 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Beaucaire
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
62 km
0.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.5 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
4.5%
about 3.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BeaucaireGard medianFrance median
Footpaths0.7
Hiking routes0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BeaucaireGard medianFrance median
Woodland4.5%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 78% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 79% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)PR (local walk)Other named walk
GR 4215 km
PR 493.4 km
Randonnée la Voie Domitia15 km
Le chemin de Saint-Jean3.7 km
PR501.5 km
GR 42 passes within 2 km of Beaucaire.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Beaucaire: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Eyragues, 17 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 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 11 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 29 | 32 | 31 | 27 | 21 | 15 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 33 | 41 | 59 | 56 | 34 | 23 | 30 | 80 | 86 | 94 | 47 |
July is the driest month (23 mm) and the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 94 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 34 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Beaucaire →
Neighbors
Next to Beaucaire
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
TarasconJonquières-Saint-VincentMontfrinMeynesAramonRedessanBeaucaire
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Jonquières-Saint-Vincent, Meynes and Redessan have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Beaucaire
Is Beaucaire in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 8.8% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Beaucaire?
OpenStreetMap maps 62 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Beaucaire is woodland?
4.5% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Beaucaire near the sea?
No: the coast is 40 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Beaucaire?
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.