First pick
Parc du Duché
Park or garden
3.5 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
0.7 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Chevalier Georges · CC BY-SA 4.06.9%woodland
Outdoors in Uzès · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Uzès
Uzès has 18 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Uzès; the nearest, Le Gardon et ses gorges (Natura 2000), is 6.8 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 6.9% of Uzès. 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: Le Gardon et ses gorges, 6.8 km
Woodland
6.9%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
40 km
1.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
18 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
58%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
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 Uzès?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyLe Gardon et ses gorges (Natura 2000) is 6.8 km from the town center.Green space can be a walk away42% of residents live more than 800 m from a mapped park or wood.
What sets Uzès apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on green space near some homes.
Against French towns
How Uzès 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
Woodland6.9%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
30out of 100
Footpaths1.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
47out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
72out of 100
Green space nearby58%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
1out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Uzès has the 18th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,431 to 8,606 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Grande-Motte (6 km per km²) to Mauléon (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Grande-Motte Hérault | 6 | 4% | 53% | On it |
| 2 | Le Plessis-Bouchard Val-d'Oise | 5.8 | 1.2% | 0% | 132 km |
| 3 | Groslay Val-d'Oise | 4.3 | 15% | 0% | 138 km |
| 4 | La Salvetat-Saint-Gilles Haute-Garonne | 4.3 | 12% | 0% | 158 km |
| 5 | Rouvroy Pas-de-Calais | 3.3 | 5% | 0% | 81 km |
| 6 | Pignan Hérault | 3.2 | 1.7% | 34% | 13 km |
| 7 | Saint-Renan Finistère | 2.9 | 5% | 0% | 8 km |
| 8 | Vendin-le-Vieil Pas-de-Calais | 2.7 | 11% | 0% | 72 km |
| 9 | Pérenchies Nord | 2.5 | 0.9% | 0% | 56 km |
| 10 | Trégueux Côtes-d'Armor | 2.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 4.1 km |
| 11 | Varces-Allières-et-Risset Isère | 2.4 | 33% | 32% | 194 km |
| 12 | Sautron Loire-Atlantique | 2.3 | 16% | 0% | 34 km |
| 13 | Ballan-Miré Indre-et-Loire | 2.2 | 30% | 0% | 176 km |
| 14 | Privas Ardèche | 2.1 | 32% | 1.6% | 136 km |
| 15 | Bormes-les-Mimosas Var | 2.1 | 38% | 8.3% | On it |
| 16 | Bassens Gironde | 1.9 | 0.3% | 10% | 13 km |
| 17 | Pont-l'Abbé Finistère | 1.9 | 13% | 2% | On it |
| 18 | Puget-sur-Argens Var | 1.9 | 9.8% | 54% | 6.5 km |
| 19 | Vif Isère | 1.8 | 48% | 7% | 189 km |
| 20 | Ergué-Gabéric Finistère | 1.8 | 21% | 0% | 6.3 km |
| 21 | Hirson Aisne | 1.8 | 66% | 66% | 167 km |
| 22 | Lillebonne Seine-Maritime | 1.6 | 18% | 0% | 16 km |
| 23 | Le Grau-du-Roi Gard | 1.6 | 3.9% | 89% | On it |
| 24 | Uzès Gard | 1.6 | 6.9% | 0% | 57 km |
| 25 | Unieux Loire | 1.5 | 23% | 16% | 205 km |
| 26 | Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 4.8% | 0.5% | 50 km |
| 27 | Peymeinade Alpes-Maritimes | 1.4 | 31% | 20% | 13 km |
| 28 | Sérignan Hérault | 1.1 | 0.2% | 34% | On it |
| 29 | Reignier-Ésery Haute-Savoie | 1.1 | 26% | 3.1% | 279 km |
| 30 | Éguilles Bouches-du-Rhône | 1 | 12% | 54% | 23 km |
| 31 | Theix-Noyalo Morbihan | 0.9 | 11% | 98% | On it |
| 32 | Talmont-Saint-Hilaire Vendée | 0.6 | 6.9% | 8.5% | On it |
| 33 | Roussillon Isère | 0.6 | 12% | 0% | 209 km |
| 34 | Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.6 | 1.2% | 81% | On it |
| 35 | Châteauneuf-sur-Loire Loiret | 0.6 | 49% | 22% | 222 km |
| 36 | Le Loroux-Bottereau Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 6.4% | 8.8% | 53 km |
| 37 | Saint-Vallier Saône-et-Loire | 0.6 | 19% | 0% | 344 km |
| 38 | Thaon-les-Vosges Vosges | 0.6 | 41% | 0% | 406 km |
| 39 | Chantonnay Vendée | 0.5 | 12% | 0% | 42 km |
| 40 | Onnaing Nord | 0.5 | 16% | 1.1% | 105 km |
| 41 | Mauléon Deux-Sèvres | 0.4 | 6.8% | 0% | 76 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 Uzès
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Duché leads, at 3.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin botanique de la Noria
Park or garden · 190 m outside the commune
2.7 ha
2.8 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
6 in 10 residents of Uzès 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).
58% within 800 m42% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
UzèsGard medianFrance median
Within 800 m58%
0%50%100%
About 3,600 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
Le Gardon et ses gorges is the nearest protected area, 6.8 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
Le Gardon et ses gorges
6.8 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
40 km of footpaths and 18 km of hiking routes cross Uzès
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
40 km
1.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
18 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
6.9%
about 1.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
UzèsGard medianFrance median
Footpaths1.6
Hiking routes0.7
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
UzèsGard medianFrance median
Woodland6.9%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 53% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 70% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)PR (local walk)
GR 6317 km
PR 3912 km
PR 3811 km
GR 63 passes within 2 km of Uzès.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Uzès: May and June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cavillargues, 14 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) | 10 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 24 | 28 | 31 | 31 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 74 | 44 | 52 | 73 | 67 | 45 | 38 | 47 | 107 | 119 | 121 | 59 |
July is the driest month (38 mm) and the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 121 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Uzès →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Uzès
Named gardens in the commune.
Jardin médiévalIn Uzès
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Uzès
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Quentin-la-PoteriePoulxLa CalmetteMarguerittesSaint-Geniès-de-MalgoirèsMeynesUzès
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uzès | 0% | 6.9% | 1.6 | 57 km |
| Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie 3,173 · 3.8 km | 0% | 44% | 1.1 | 61 km |
| Poulx 4,348 · 12 km | 56% | 0.1% | 2.5 | 47 km |
| La Calmette 2,604 · 16 km | 0% | 29% | 0.7 | 43 km |
| Marguerittes 8,346 · 17 km | 33% | 11% | 0.7 | 44 km |
| Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès 3,225 · 18 km | 0% | 32% | 1.3 | 44 km |
| Meynes 2,597 · 19 km | 50% | 6.1% | 0.7 | 47 km |
Poulx, Marguerittes and Meynes have at least twice as much protected land. Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, La Calmette and Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès are 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 Uzès
Is Uzès in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Le Gardon et ses gorges, 6.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Uzès?
OpenStreetMap maps 40 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 18 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Uzès is woodland?
6.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Uzès near the sea?
No: the coast is 57 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Uzès?
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.