First pick
Garrigue du Grand Montagné
Wood or forest · 220 m outside the commune
98 ha0.2 km of path
1.8 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Frachet · CC BY-SA 3.013%of the land protected
Outdoors in Les Angles · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Les Angles has more footpaths per km² than 9 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 87 km across Les Angles (5.1 km per km²). 27% of Les Angles is mapped woodland. 13% of Les Angles’ land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
13%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
27%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
87 km
5.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.9 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Garrigue du Grand Montagné
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 Les Angles 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 areas13%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
74out of 100
Woodland27%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
72out of 100
Footpaths5.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
91out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
50out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Les Angles has the 3rd most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,740 to 9,062 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Magny-le-Hongre (6.5 km per km²) to La Fare-les-Oliviers (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magny-le-Hongre Seine-et-Marne | 6.5 | 11% | 0% | 167 km |
| 2 | Le Portel Pas-de-Calais | 5.5 | 3.3% | 6.7% | On it |
| 3 | Les Angles Gard | 5.1 | 27% | 13% | 56 km |
| 4 | Bessancourt Val-d'Oise | 4.6 | 29% | 0% | 127 km |
| 5 | Epagny Metz-Tessy Haute-Savoie | 4.4 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 6 | Périgny Charente-Maritime | 4.1 | 3.4% | 0% | 4.1 km |
| 7 | Chartres-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.1 | 5.2% | 0% | 55 km |
| 8 | Quetigny Côte-d'Or | 4 | 0.7% | 0% | 406 km |
| 9 | Meulan-en-Yvelines Yvelines | 3.8 | 11% | 0.4% | 118 km |
| 10 | Gouvieux Oise | 3.5 | 43% | 100% | 122 km |
| 11 | Velaux Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 29% | 25% | 19 km |
| 12 | Longvic Côte-d'Or | 3.1 | 3.4% | 0% | 406 km |
| 13 | Pibrac Haute-Garonne | 3 | 27% | 0% | 159 km |
| 14 | Gretz-Armainvilliers Seine-et-Marne | 3 | 57% | 0% | 176 km |
| 15 | Quéven Morbihan | 2.9 | 26% | 5.9% | On it |
| 16 | Escaudain Nord | 2.9 | 6.3% | 0.2% | 101 km |
| 17 | Irigny Rhône | 2.8 | 13% | 0% | 242 km |
| 18 | Bellerive-sur-Allier Allier | 2.7 | 23% | 2.2% | 289 km |
| 19 | Cébazat Puy-de-Dôme | 2.6 | 5.6% | 0% | 263 km |
| 20 | Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Drôme | 2.3 | 19% | 0% | 100 km |
| 21 | Boucau Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.2 | 26% | 5.8% | 3.1 km |
| 22 | Saint-Jean-de-Monts Vendée | 2.2 | 13% | 73% | On it |
| 23 | Golbey Vosges | 2.2 | 26% | 0% | 411 km |
| 24 | Morières-lès-Avignon Vaucluse | 2.1 | 4.7% | 0% | 54 km |
| 25 | Roquevaire Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.1 | 11% | 66% | 15 km |
| 26 | Cornebarrieu Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 13% | 0% | 158 km |
| 27 | Pithiviers Loiret | 1.5 | 2.2% | 0% | 198 km |
| 28 | Monistrol-sur-Loire Haute-Loire | 1.4 | 34% | 16% | 192 km |
| 29 | La Chapelle-d'Armentières Nord | 1.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 52 km |
| 30 | Joigny Yonne | 0.9 | 70% | 0% | 274 km |
| 31 | Gonfreville-l'Orcher Seine-Maritime | 0.9 | 5.2% | 6.1% | On it |
| 32 | La Ferté-Bernard Sarthe | 0.9 | 1.2% | 0% | 135 km |
| 33 | Veauche Loire | 0.9 | 1.5% | 3.3% | 223 km |
| 34 | Le Thor Vaucluse | 0.7 | 0.9% | 7.2% | 54 km |
| 35 | Ombrée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 94 km |
| 36 | Nangis Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 10% | 0% | 205 km |
| 37 | Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue Vaucluse | 0.5 | 2% | 11% | 61 km |
| 38 | Grenade Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 9.5% | 14% | 165 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 | La Fare-les-Oliviers Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.2 | 0.8% | 44% | 23 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 Les Angles
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Garrigue du Grand Montagné leads, at 98 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Base de loisirs "Les Cigales"
Park or garden · 330 m outside the commune
5 ha
3.7 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Plaine du Forum
Park or garden
2 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
Centralin the middle of Les Angles
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Croix Cacho-Pesou
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Les Angles
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
13% of Les Angles 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
13% of the commune1.8 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
La Durance
3.6 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
La Durance
3.6 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area13%
Natura 2000 site13%
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.
13% of Les Angles’ land is protected, more than in 74% 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
Footpaths and woods in Les Angles
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
87 km
5.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.9 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
27%
about 4.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Les AnglesGard medianFrance median
Footpaths5.1
Hiking routes0.3
036 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Les AnglesGard medianFrance median
Woodland27%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 91% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 72% 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 Les Angles is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 4218 km
GR 6311 km
Vert et Eaux7.3 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Les Angles: GR 42 and GR 63.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Les Angles: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pujaut, 4.6 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 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 24 | 28 | 31 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 14 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 53 | 35 | 38 | 61 | 52 | 39 | 31 | 37 | 93 | 88 | 96 | 48 |
July is the driest month (31 mm) and the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 96 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 36 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Les Angles →
Neighbors
Next to Les Angles
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Villeneuve-lès-AvignonAvignonPujautRochefort-du-GardBarbentaneRognonasLes Angles
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Angles | 13% | 27% | 5.1 | 56 km |
| Villeneuve-lès-Avignon 13,148 · 1.8 km | 22% | 13% | 3.1 | 58 km |
| Avignon 92,188 · 5.3 km | 27% | 2.9% | 3.3 | 54 km |
| Pujaut 3,982 · 5.5 km | 0% | 10% | 2 | 62 km |
| Rochefort-du-Gard 8,117 · 5.8 km | 0% | 40% | 2.6 | 59 km |
| Barbentane 4,266 · 6.4 km | 8.1% | 36% | 3.1 | 50 km |
| Rognonas 4,261 · 7 km | 13% | 0% | 1.2 | 50 km |
Avignon has at least twice as much protected land. Rochefort-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 Les Angles
Is Les Angles in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 13% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Les Angles?
OpenStreetMap maps 87 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 5.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Les Angles is woodland?
27% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Les Angles near the sea?
No: the coast is 56 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Les Angles?
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.