First pick
Bois Rigaud
Wood or forest · 50 m outside the commune
5.4 ha
2 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Vi..Cult... · CC BY-SA 3.014%of the land protected
Outdoors in Montfrin · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Montfrin
7 km of footpaths cross Montfrin (0.5 km per km²). 3.1% of Montfrin is mapped woodland. Protected areas cover 14% of Montfrin’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
14%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
3.1%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
7.2 km
0.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.1 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
89%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
47 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 Montfrin 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 areas14%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
75out of 100
Woodland3.1%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
15out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
13out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
54out of 100
Green space nearby89%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
7out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Montfrin has the 10th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,099 to 3,146 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Étiolles (3.7 km per km²) to Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Étiolles Essonne | 3.7 | 72% | 0% | 175 km |
| 2 | Buhl Haut-Rhin | 3.7 | 74% | 100% | 461 km |
| 3 | Sérézin-du-Rhône Rhône | 3.5 | 20% | 0% | 237 km |
| 4 | Spicheren Moselle | 3.1 | 39% | 0% | 362 km |
| 5 | Asnières-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 51% | 100% | 125 km |
| 6 | La Tranche-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.8 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Morainvilliers Yvelines | 2.4 | 32% | 0% | 127 km |
| 8 | Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 9 | Solaize Rhône | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 239 km |
| 10 | Béthisy-Saint-Pierre Oise | 2.1 | 37% | 21% | 127 km |
| 11 | La Sentinelle Nord | 1.9 | 3.3% | 0.5% | 104 km |
| 12 | Le Touvet Isère | 1.9 | 48% | 58% | 212 km |
| 13 | Éloyes Vosges | 1.8 | 59% | 0% | 428 km |
| 14 | Chorges Hautes-Alpes | 1.5 | 34% | 16% | 122 km |
| 15 | Arbois Jura | 1.4 | 51% | 12% | 373 km |
| 16 | Plancoët Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 13% | 100% | 3.9 km |
| 17 | Besse-sur-Issole Var | 1.3 | 36% | 0.7% | 26 km |
| 18 | Moyenmoutier Vosges | 1.2 | 72% | 2.8% | 426 km |
| 19 | Champcevinel Dordogne | 1.1 | 51% | 0% | 106 km |
| 20 | Le Plan-de-la-Tour Var | 1.1 | 40% | 0% | 7.3 km |
| 21 | Appoigny Yonne | 1 | 46% | 2.7% | 289 km |
| 22 | Vémars Val-d'Oise | 0.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 23 | Arleux Nord | 0.9 | 7.5% | 0% | 99 km |
| 24 | Quarouble Nord | 0.9 | 19% | 100% | 106 km |
| 25 | Boussois Nord | 0.9 | 5.1% | 100% | 131 km |
| 26 | Saint-Thibéry Hérault | 0.8 | 6.2% | 0.2% | 12 km |
| 27 | Anor Nord | 0.8 | 37% | 100% | 162 km |
| 28 | Thézan-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.8 | 0.9% | 0% | 22 km |
| 29 | Soulac-sur-Mer Gironde | 0.7 | 23% | 100% | On it |
| 30 | Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal Seine-Maritime | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 54 km |
| 31 | Le Molay-Littry Calvados | 0.5 | 10% | 0.1% | 14 km |
| 32 | Montfrin Gard | 0.5 | 3.1% | 14% | 47 km |
| 33 | Valensole Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.4 | 44% | 100% | 75 km |
| 34 | Gimont Gers | 0.4 | 6.2% | 0% | 184 km |
| 35 | Saint-Hippolyte Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 0% | 68% | 6.1 km |
| 36 | Maringues Puy-de-Dôme | 0.3 | 11% | 40% | 269 km |
| 37 | Merdrignac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 32% | 0% | 39 km |
| 38 | Lapalisse Allier | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 301 km |
| 39 | Dissay Vienne | 0.2 | 34% | 24% | 127 km |
| 40 | Lailly-en-Val Loiret | 0.1 | 52% | 60% | 210 km |
| 41 | Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure Charente | 0.1 | 23% | 0% | 103 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 Montfrin
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois Rigaud leads, at 5.4 ha. Directions go to 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 Montfrin 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).
89% within 800 m11% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
MontfrinGard medianFrance median
Within 800 m89%
0%50%100%
About 300 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
14% of Montfrin 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
Costières nîmoises
14% of the commune2.2 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area14%
Natura 2000 site14%
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.
14% of Montfrin’s land is protected, more than in 75% 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
7 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Montfrin
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
7.2 km
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.1 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
3.1%
about 0.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MontfrinGard medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MontfrinGard medianFrance median
Woodland3.1%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 87% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 85% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
A named hiking route within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 4213 km
GR 42 passes within 2 km of Montfrin.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Montfrin: May and June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Nimes-Courbessac, 15 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 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 11 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 32 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 15 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 64 | 40 | 45 | 67 | 55 | 43 | 30 | 44 | 100 | 95 | 97 | 53 |
July is the driest month (30 mm) and the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 100 mm of rain falls in September, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 20 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Montfrin →
Neighbors
Next to Montfrin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MeynesJonquières-Saint-VincentAramonBeaucaireRedessanTarasconMontfrin
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Meynes, Jonquières-Saint-Vincent 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 Montfrin
Is Montfrin in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 14% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Montfrin?
OpenStreetMap maps 7 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); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Montfrin is woodland?
3.1% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Montfrin near the sea?
No: the coast is 47 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Montfrin?
May and 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 9, 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.