First pick
Fonsange
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
5.8 ha
2.1 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Anthony Morel · CC BY-SA 4.046%woodland
Outdoors in Quissac · protected areas, woods and footpaths
46% of Quissac is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
65 km of footpaths cross Quissac (2.8 km per km²). No protected area reaches Quissac; the nearest, Gorges de Rieutord, Fage et Cagnasse (Natura 2000), is 5.7 km from the town center. Quissac has 12 km of waymarked hiking routes. 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: Gorges de Rieutord, Fage et Cagnasse, 5.7 km
Woodland
46%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
65 km
2.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
12 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: Fonsange
The sea
39 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 Quissac?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune46% mapped woodland, more than in 89% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyGorges de Rieutord, Fage et Cagnasse (Natura 2000) is 5.7 km from the town center.
What sets Quissac apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Quissac 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
Woodland46%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
89out of 100
Footpaths2.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
71out of 100
Hiking routes0.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
63out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Quissac has the 4th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,512 to 3,546 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bergues (12 km per km²) to Dun-sur-Auron (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bergues Nord | 12 | 18% | 0% | 8.9 km |
| 2 | Deauville Calvados | 5.5 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 3 | Danjoutin Territoire de Belfort | 3.3 | 33% | 0% | 429 km |
| 4 | Quissac Gard | 2.8 | 46% | 0% | 39 km |
| 5 | Mérignies Nord | 2.6 | 7.7% | 0% | 76 km |
| 6 | Bellignat Ain | 2.5 | 65% | 0% | 311 km |
| 7 | Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.4 | 82% | 1.8% | 32 km |
| 8 | Allennes-les-Marais Nord | 2.2 | 7.5% | 0% | 68 km |
| 9 | La Bernerie-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 2.1 | 2.2% | 0.8% | On it |
| 10 | Rubelles Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 19% | 0% | 190 km |
| 11 | Crémieu Isère | 1.9 | 36% | 24% | 254 km |
| 12 | Portiragnes Hérault | 1.9 | 5% | 80% | On it |
| 13 | Sorède Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.6 | 68% | 43% | 7.9 km |
| 14 | Lécousse Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 1.4% | 0% | 31 km |
| 15 | Fargues-Saint-Hilaire Gironde | 1.4 | 23% | 1.7% | 24 km |
| 16 | Cerny Essonne | 1.2 | 41% | 100% | 179 km |
| 17 | Messimy Rhône | 1.1 | 13% | 0% | 242 km |
| 18 | Saint-Didier-en-Velay Haute-Loire | 1.1 | 35% | 0% | 194 km |
| 19 | Pleumeleuc Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.9 | 1.9% | 0% | 35 km |
| 20 | Vertaizon Puy-de-Dôme | 0.9 | 9% | 2.1% | 253 km |
| 21 | Saint-Georges-d'Espéranche Isère | 0.9 | 18% | 0% | 234 km |
| 22 | Béligneux Ain | 0.9 | 14% | 6.3% | 268 km |
| 23 | Marssac-sur-Tarn Tarn | 0.8 | 4.6% | 0% | 124 km |
| 24 | Carcès Var | 0.7 | 51% | 25% | 39 km |
| 25 | Rieumes Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 22% | 0% | 164 km |
| 26 | Vrigne aux Bois Ardennes | 0.7 | 60% | 46% | 215 km |
| 27 | Varangéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.7 | 12% | 0% | 377 km |
| 28 | Saint-Soupplets Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 9.4% | 0% | 151 km |
| 29 | Le Breuil Saône-et-Loire | 0.6 | 17% | 0% | 362 km |
| 30 | Bellac Haute-Vienne | 0.6 | 20% | 0.4% | 158 km |
| 31 | Saint-Maur Indre | 0.5 | 33% | 2.1% | 220 km |
| 32 | Gallardon Eure-et-Loir | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 140 km |
| 33 | Clamecy Nièvre | 0.5 | 34% | 3% | 321 km |
| 34 | Capestang Hérault | 0.5 | 0.9% | 18% | 20 km |
| 35 | Montmirail Marne | 0.4 | 27% | 0% | 198 km |
| 36 | Gramat Lot | 0.4 | 39% | 100% | 185 km |
| 37 | Espira-de-l'Agly Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.4 | 11% | 3.9% | 17 km |
| 38 | Sallertaine Vendée | 0.2 | 3.4% | 44% | 13 km |
| 39 | Isigny-sur-Mer Calvados | 0.2 | 1.4% | 75% | 5 km |
| 40 | Weyersheim Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 14% | 0% | 444 km |
| 41 | Dun-sur-Auron Cher | 0.1 | 5.4% | 17% | 291 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 Quissac
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Fonsange leads, at 5.8 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Gorges de Rieutord, Fage et Cagnasse is the nearest protected area, 5.7 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
Gorges de Rieutord, Fage et Cagnasse
5.7 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
65 km of footpaths and 12 km of hiking routes cross Quissac
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
65 km
2.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
12 km
waymarked: 0.5 km per km²
Woodland
46%
about 10.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
QuissacGard medianFrance median
Footpaths2.8
Hiking routes0.5
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
QuissacGard medianFrance median
Woodland46%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 71% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 89% 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 Quissac is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)PR (local walk)
GR 6316 km
PR 4422 km
PR 462.7 km
PR 451.5 km
GR 63 passes within 2 km of Quissac.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Quissac: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Vic le Fesq, 7.3 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) | 12 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 29 | 32 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 68 | 47 | 53 | 72 | 62 | 48 | 27 | 47 | 127 | 117 | 109 | 70 |
July is the driest month (27 mm) and the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 127 mm of rain falls in September, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 60 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Quissac →
Neighbors
Next to Quissac
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Hippolyte-du-FortBoisset-et-GaujacSommièresAnduzeSaint-Geniès-de-MalgoirèsBagardQuissac
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quissac | 0% | 46% | 2.8 | 39 km |
| Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort 3,737 · 13 km | 58% | 38% | 2.2 | 47 km |
| Boisset-et-Gaujac 2,707 · 16 km | 9.4% | 15% | 0.4 | 55 km |
| Sommières 5,073 · 16 km | 1.3% | 21% | 2.8 | 25 km |
| Anduze 3,391 · 16 km | 100% | 49% | 2.9 | 55 km |
| Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès 3,225 · 18 km | 0% | 32% | 1.3 | 44 km |
| Bagard 2,605 · 18 km | 8.6% | 14% | 1 | 56 km |
Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort and Anduze 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 Quissac
Is Quissac in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Gorges de Rieutord, Fage et Cagnasse, 5.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Quissac?
OpenStreetMap maps 65 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 12 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Quissac is woodland?
46% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Quissac near the sea?
No: the coast is 39 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Quissac?
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.