First pick
Parc du Mas de l'Hôpital
Park or garden
5.3 ha1.3 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Garons
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Marianne Casamance · CC BY-SA 4.00.1%woodland
Outdoors in Garons · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Garons is within 800 m of a park or wood
6 km of footpaths cross Garons (0.5 km per km²). No protected area reaches Garons; the nearest, Costières nîmoises (Natura 2000), is 3.1 km from the town center. Garons has almost no mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Costières nîmoises, 3.1 km
Woodland
0.1%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
6.2 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
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc du Mas de l'Hôpital
The sea
35 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 Garons?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyCostières nîmoises (Natura 2000) is 3.1 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0.1% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Garons apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Garons 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 areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland0.1%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
2out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
14out 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
Garons has the 5th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,335 to 5,434 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Cormelles-le-Royal (7.2 km per km²) to Plessé (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cormelles-le-Royal Calvados | 7.2 | 2.2% | 0% | 15 km |
| 2 | Heillecourt Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.1 | 1.5% | 0% | 369 km |
| 3 | Mériel Val-d'Oise | 6 | 41% | 9.5% | 124 km |
| 4 | Marsannay-la-Côte Côte-d'Or | 6 | 47% | 49% | 405 km |
| 5 | Marles-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.6 | 3.7% | 0% | 57 km |
| 6 | Le Cendre Puy-de-Dôme | 3.4 | 3.3% | 1.8% | 249 km |
| 7 | Levens Alpes-Maritimes | 3 | 64% | 12% | 17 km |
| 8 | Charbonnières-les-Bains Rhône | 2.8 | 16% | 0% | 252 km |
| 9 | La Balme-de-Sillingy Haute-Savoie | 2.6 | 41% | 0% | 269 km |
| 10 | Bretignolles-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.5 | 9.6% | 23% | On it |
| 11 | Peyrolles-en-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 63% | 69% | 38 km |
| 12 | Dechy Nord | 2.3 | 13% | 0% | 92 km |
| 13 | Plouhinec Morbihan | 2 | 24% | 32% | On it |
| 14 | Calonne-Ricouart Pas-de-Calais | 1.8 | 1.5% | 0% | 56 km |
| 15 | Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours Seine-et-Marne | 1.8 | 45% | 29% | 214 km |
| 16 | Wervicq-Sud Nord | 1.8 | 3% | 0% | 48 km |
| 17 | Rousset Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 7.1% | 7.7% | 27 km |
| 18 | Erquinghem-Lys Nord | 1.7 | 2.6% | 0% | 51 km |
| 19 | Cruseilles Haute-Savoie | 1.6 | 40% | 21% | 273 km |
| 20 | Idron Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.6 | 15% | 4.1% | 100 km |
| 21 | Flers-en-Escrebieux Nord | 1.5 | 12% | 1% | 85 km |
| 22 | Gray Haute-Saône | 1.4 | 47% | 28% | 418 km |
| 23 | Bordères-sur-l'Échez Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.4 | 22% | 0% | 128 km |
| 24 | Commercy Meuse | 1.3 | 64% | 5.6% | 324 km |
| 25 | Vic-le-Comte Puy-de-Dôme | 1.2 | 19% | 100% | 241 km |
| 26 | Lacroix-Saint-Ouen Oise | 1.2 | 73% | 76% | 121 km |
| 27 | Saint-Astier Dordogne | 1 | 33% | 8% | 89 km |
| 28 | Aiffres Deux-Sèvres | 1 | 3.4% | 14% | 54 km |
| 29 | Trèbes Aude | 1 | 9.6% | 0% | 54 km |
| 30 | Le Lion-d'Angers Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 5.4% | 0.8% | 115 km |
| 31 | Drusenheim Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 29% | 17% | 449 km |
| 32 | Chagny Saône-et-Loire | 0.8 | 38% | 0.8% | 376 km |
| 33 | Boulay-Moselle Moselle | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 339 km |
| 34 | Bléré Indre-et-Loire | 0.6 | 11% | 8.4% | 197 km |
| 35 | Mouguerre Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.5 | 40% | 7.9% | 11 km |
| 36 | Reichshoffen Bas-Rhin | 0.5 | 27% | 100% | 420 km |
| 37 | Garons Gard | 0.5 | 0.1% | 0% | 35 km |
| 38 | Parigné-l'Évêque Sarthe | 0.5 | 49% | 19% | 149 km |
| 39 | Ploumagoar Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 20% | 0% | 19 km |
| 40 | Reyrieux Ain | 0.4 | 11% | 2.2% | 270 km |
| 41 | Plessé Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 15% | 0.9% | 35 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 Garons
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Mas de l'Hôpital leads, at 5.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Le jardin des Argonautes
Park or garden
0.7 ha
Centralin the middle of Garons
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Costières nîmoises is the nearest protected area, 3.1 km away
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
3.1 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
6 km of footpaths cross Garons
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
6.2 km
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.1%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GaronsGard medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GaronsGard medianFrance median
Woodland0.1%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 86% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 98% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 98% of Garons’ 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 Garons: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Nimes-Garons, 1.4 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) | 9.3 | 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 Garons →
Neighbors
Next to Garons
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BouillarguesCaissarguesManduelRodilhanBellegardeGénéracGarons
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garons | 0% | 0.1% | 0.5 | 35 km |
| Bouillargues 6,070 · 3.2 km | 29% | 0.8% | 0.5 | 37 km |
| Caissargues 4,079 · 4.5 km | 1.7% | 10% | 0.9 | 34 km |
| Manduel 7,044 · 6.1 km | 63% | 0.5% | 0.5 | 40 km |
| Rodilhan 2,799 · 6.5 km | 24% | 0% | 0.2 | 40 km |
| Bellegarde 8,035 · 6.7 km | 13% | 5.7% | 0.7 | 33 km |
| Générac 4,046 · 7.9 km | 19% | 4.5% | 0.8 | 27 km |
Bouillargues, Manduel and Rodilhan 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 Garons
Is Garons in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Costières nîmoises, 3.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Garons?
OpenStreetMap maps 6 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 Garons is woodland?
0.1% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Garons near the sea?
No: the coast is 35 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Garons?
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.