First pick
Pinède
Park or garden
4.9 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
1.1 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: JOYON · CC BY-SA 3.056%of the land protected
Outdoors in Poulx · protected areas, woods and footpaths
56% of Poulx’s land is protected for nature
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 9 km in Poulx. 30 km of footpaths cross Poulx (2.5 km per km²). Poulx has almost no mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
56%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
0.1%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
30 km
2.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
9.2 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
35%
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Poulx?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside56% of the land lies in protected areas.On waymarked routes9 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Little mapped woodland0.1% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Poulx apart: its protected countryside, then its hiking routes. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Poulx 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 areas56%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
87out of 100
Woodland0.1%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
2out of 100
Footpaths2.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
66out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
75out of 100
Green space nearby35%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
0out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Poulx has the 9th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,321 to 4,378 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sevrier (4.3 km per km²) to Buzançais (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sevrier Haute-Savoie | 4.3 | 49% | 100% | 255 km |
| 2 | Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost Ain | 4 | 21% | 17% | 262 km |
| 3 | Tigery Essonne | 3.6 | 41% | 0% | 176 km |
| 4 | Villard-de-Lans Isère | 3.4 | 57% | 100% | 188 km |
| 5 | Nilvange Moselle | 3.3 | 27% | 0% | 304 km |
| 6 | Gattières Alpes-Maritimes | 2.7 | 27% | 80% | 9.5 km |
| 7 | Niederbronn-les-Bains Bas-Rhin | 2.6 | 74% | 100% | 417 km |
| 8 | Le Tréport Seine-Maritime | 2.6 | 4.9% | 3.1% | On it |
| 9 | Poulx Gard | 2.5 | 0.1% | 56% | 47 km |
| 10 | Saulxures-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.3 | 31% | 0% | 369 km |
| 11 | Coignières Yvelines | 2.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 12 | Steenvoorde Nord | 1.8 | 1.9% | 0% | 29 km |
| 13 | Pins-Justaret Haute-Garonne | 1.8 | 3% | 2.1% | 145 km |
| 14 | Villeneuve Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 74 km |
| 15 | Cheval-Blanc Vaucluse | 1.7 | 19% | 100% | 42 km |
| 16 | Hillion Côtes-d'Armor | 1.6 | 6.9% | 9% | On it |
| 17 | Le Château-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.5 | 7.5% | 50% | On it |
| 18 | Le Val Var | 1.5 | 63% | 7.3% | 37 km |
| 19 | Louverné Mayenne | 1.5 | 3.9% | 0% | 74 km |
| 20 | Ormes Loiret | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 198 km |
| 21 | Cadenet Vaucluse | 1.1 | 28% | 100% | 42 km |
| 22 | Camon Somme | 1.1 | 5.6% | 14% | 57 km |
| 23 | Morlaàs Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 20% | 0% | 101 km |
| 24 | Beaumont-lès-Valence Drôme | 0.8 | 9.8% | 0% | 157 km |
| 25 | Égletons Corrèze | 0.8 | 51% | 0.1% | 212 km |
| 26 | Chabanière Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 230 km |
| 27 | Morestel Isère | 0.8 | 16% | 12% | 252 km |
| 28 | Pons Charente-Maritime | 0.8 | 10% | 13% | 22 km |
| 29 | Riec-sur-Bélon Finistère | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | On it |
| 30 | Langeais Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 71% | 100% | 163 km |
| 31 | Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 24% | 1.4% | 181 km |
| 32 | Saint-Savin Isère | 0.5 | 17% | 15% | 244 km |
| 33 | Sarralbe Moselle | 0.5 | 29% | 10% | 381 km |
| 34 | Valence-en-Poitou Vienne | 0.4 | 20% | 0% | 100 km |
| 35 | Ussac Corrèze | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 167 km |
| 36 | Montélier Drôme | 0.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 165 km |
| 37 | Rives de l'Yon Vendée | 0.3 | 7.1% | 0% | 25 km |
| 38 | Prigonrieux Dordogne | 0.3 | 21% | 1.2% | 80 km |
| 39 | Roullet-Saint-Estèphe Charente | 0.2 | 16% | 3.1% | 65 km |
| 40 | Bassillac et Auberoche Dordogne | 0.1 | 49% | 0% | 116 km |
| 41 | Buzançais Indre | 0.1 | 28% | 5.7% | 206 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 Poulx
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Pinède leads, at 4.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
4 in 10 residents of Poulx 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).
35% within 800 m65% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
PoulxGard medianFrance median
Within 800 m35%
0%50%100%
About 2,800 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
Protected land in and around Poulx
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Gorges du Gardon nature reserve
2.4 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Camp des Garrigues
32% of the commune1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Gorges du Gardon
24% of the commune0.7 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Le Gardon et ses gorges
24% of the commune0.7 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area56%
Natura 2000 site56%
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.
56% of Poulx’s land is protected, more than in 87% 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
30 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Poulx
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
30 km
2.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
9.2 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
0.1%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PoulxGard medianFrance median
Footpaths2.5
Hiking routes0.8
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PoulxGard medianFrance median
Woodland0.1%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 66% 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.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
PR (local walk)Other named walk
PR 400.5 km
Carto-guides Espaces Naturels Gardois22 km
La chapelle de Saint-Gervasy3.1 km
Vire des Chèvres2.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Poulx: May and June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Nimes-Courbessac, 5.8 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 | 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 Poulx →
Neighbors
Next to Poulx
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MarguerittesRodilhanNîmesRedessanManduelUzèsPoulx
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Poulx
Is Poulx in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 56% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Poulx?
OpenStreetMap maps 30 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Poulx is woodland?
0.1% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Poulx 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 Poulx?
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 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.