First pick
Parc de la Mairie
Park or garden
1.1 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Bouillargues
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain29%of the land protected
Outdoors in Bouillargues · protected areas, woods and footpaths
29% of Bouillargues’ land is protected for nature
0.8% of Bouillargues is mapped woodland. 8 km of footpaths cross Bouillargues (0.5 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
29%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
0.8%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
7.8 km
0.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 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: Parc de la Mairie
The sea
37 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 Bouillargues?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside29% of the land lies in protected areas.Little mapped woodland0.8% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Bouillargues apart: its protected countryside. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Bouillargues 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 areas29%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
82out of 100
Woodland0.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
6out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
13out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Bouillargues has the 5th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,000 to 6,144 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Clapiers (9.8 km per km²) to Mesnils-sur-Iton (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clapiers Hérault | 9.8 | 42% | 3.1% | 14 km |
| 2 | Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux Isère | 5.7 | 52% | 71% | 207 km |
| 3 | Fouquières-lès-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 4.7 | 22% | 0% | 78 km |
| 4 | Le Barcarès Pyrénées-Orientales | 4.4 | 3.4% | 35% | On it |
| 5 | Quint-Fonsegrives Haute-Garonne | 4.4 | 9.5% | 0% | 139 km |
| 6 | Pecquencourt Nord | 4 | 24% | 9.5% | 93 km |
| 7 | Dourges Pas-de-Calais | 3.9 | 11% | 0% | 79 km |
| 8 | Blainville-sur-Orne Calvados | 3.9 | 7.2% | 0% | 7 km |
| 9 | Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer Var | 3.9 | 35% | 0% | On it |
| 10 | Jonage Rhône | 3.6 | 16% | 33% | 260 km |
| 11 | Palavas-les-Flots Hérault | 3.6 | 0% | 72% | On it |
| 12 | Mutzig Bas-Rhin | 3.4 | 44% | 0% | 439 km |
| 13 | Ostricourt Nord | 3.2 | 34% | 0% | 78 km |
| 14 | Esbly Seine-et-Marne | 3 | 12% | 0% | 164 km |
| 15 | Bois-le-Roi Seine-et-Marne | 2.8 | 31% | 18% | 199 km |
| 16 | Mondonville Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 27% | 0% | 161 km |
| 17 | Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau Loire-Atlantique | 2.4 | 15% | 29% | 26 km |
| 18 | Trith-Saint-Léger Nord | 2.1 | 6.9% | 0% | 106 km |
| 19 | Haute-Goulaine Loire-Atlantique | 1.6 | 12% | 31% | 46 km |
| 20 | Hersin-Coupigny Pas-de-Calais | 1.6 | 15% | 0% | 68 km |
| 21 | Pierrefeu-du-Var Var | 1.6 | 24% | 28% | 13 km |
| 22 | Saint-Girons Ariège | 1.5 | 36% | 100% | 155 km |
| 23 | Jouars-Pontchartrain Yvelines | 1.4 | 20% | 100% | 133 km |
| 24 | Le Castellet Var | 1.3 | 18% | 81% | 7.5 km |
| 25 | Mortagne-sur-Sèvre Vendée | 1.3 | 7.8% | 0% | 77 km |
| 26 | Sainte-Sigolène Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 40% | 1.3% | 188 km |
| 27 | Vendenheim Bas-Rhin | 1.3 | 21% | 0% | 443 km |
| 28 | Donzère Drôme | 1.2 | 22% | 8.5% | 110 km |
| 29 | Vaison-la-Romaine Vaucluse | 1.2 | 29% | 100% | 90 km |
| 30 | Pavilly Seine-Maritime | 1 | 21% | 0% | 36 km |
| 31 | Marly-la-Ville Val-d'Oise | 0.9 | 5.5% | 0% | 135 km |
| 32 | Gévezé Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.9 | 4% | 0% | 34 km |
| 33 | Saint-Cannat Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 21% | 34% | 29 km |
| 34 | Luc-la-Primaube Aveyron | 0.8 | 7.6% | 0% | 131 km |
| 35 | Maule Yvelines | 0.7 | 15% | 0% | 124 km |
| 36 | Commentry Allier | 0.5 | 13% | 0% | 288 km |
| 37 | Bouillargues Gard | 0.5 | 0.8% | 29% | 37 km |
| 38 | Noves Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 5.9% | 7% | 46 km |
| 39 | Beauvoisin Gard | 0.4 | 7.3% | 46% | 25 km |
| 40 | Vexin-sur-Epte Eure | 0.3 | 16% | 2.2% | 91 km |
| 41 | Mesnils-sur-Iton Eure | 0.2 | 13% | 0% | 82 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 Bouillargues
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Mairie leads, at 1.1 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Blachère
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Bouillargues
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 Bouillargues
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Costières nîmoises
29% of the commune0.8 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area29%
Natura 2000 site29%
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.
29% of Bouillargues’ land is protected, more than in 82% 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
8 km of footpaths cross Bouillargues
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
7.8 km
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.8%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BouillarguesGard medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BouillarguesGard medianFrance median
Woodland0.8%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 87% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 94% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 96% of Bouillargues’ residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bouillargues: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Nimes-Garons, 3.2 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 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 28 | 31 | 30 | 26 | 20 | 15 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 37 | 45 | 65 | 48 | 35 | 24 | 35 | 102 | 92 | 93 | 51 |
July is the driest month (24 mm) and the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 102 mm of rain falls in September, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 16 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Bouillargues →
Neighbors
Next to Bouillargues
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GaronsRodilhanCaissarguesManduelRedessanNîmesBouillargues
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Manduel and Redessan have at least twice as much protected land. Nîmes 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 Bouillargues
Is Bouillargues in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 29% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Bouillargues?
OpenStreetMap maps 8 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Bouillargues is woodland?
0.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bouillargues near the sea?
No: the coast is 37 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bouillargues?
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.