First pick
Parc de l’Esperion
Park or garden
2.8 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
0.8 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Henk Monster · CC BY 3.071%of the land protected
Outdoors in Vauvert · protected areas, woods and footpaths
71% of Vauvert’s land is protected for nature
48 km of footpaths cross Vauvert (0.4 km per km²). 3.1% of Vauvert is mapped woodland. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 17 km in Vauvert. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
71%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
3.1%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
48 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
92%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
20 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 Vauvert?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside71% of the land lies in protected areas.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Vauvert apart: its protected countryside. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Vauvert 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 areas71%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
89out of 100
Woodland3.1%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
15out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
11out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
34out of 100
Green space nearby92%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
10out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Vauvert has the 2nd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (11,423 to 11,931 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Épinay-sous-Sénart (10.3 km per km²) to Baugé-en-Anjou (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Épinay-sous-Sénart Essonne | 10.3 | 54% | 0% | 171 km |
| 2 | Talant Côte-d'Or | 8 | 5.6% | 0% | 399 km |
| 3 | Seyssinet-Pariset Isère | 6.6 | 60% | 57% | 203 km |
| 4 | Villecresnes Val-de-Marne | 6.5 | 27% | 0% | 170 km |
| 5 | Enghien-les-Bains Val-d'Oise | 5.4 | 0% | 0% | 137 km |
| 6 | Le Relecq-Kerhuon Finistère | 4.8 | 7.6% | 0% | On it |
| 7 | Sassenage Isère | 4.6 | 48% | 50% | 205 km |
| 8 | Gravelines Nord | 3.9 | 7.7% | 0% | On it |
| 9 | Gaillard Haute-Savoie | 3.9 | 14% | 8% | 286 km |
| 10 | Hœnheim Bas-Rhin | 3.7 | 0.5% | 0% | 448 km |
| 11 | Dugny Seine-Saint-Denis | 3.5 | 6.8% | 9.5% | 144 km |
| 12 | Arpajon Essonne | 3.3 | 2.4% | 0% | 167 km |
| 13 | Maizières-lès-Metz Moselle | 3.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 319 km |
| 14 | Plan-de-Cuques Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 0.6% | 59% | 8.8 km |
| 15 | Yvetot Seine-Maritime | 3 | 3.5% | 100% | 28 km |
| 16 | Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon Essonne | 3 | 16% | 0% | 167 km |
| 17 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer Var | 2.9 | 30% | 25% | On it |
| 18 | Saint-Estève Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.8 | 2.8% | 0.5% | 16 km |
| 19 | Ploufragan Côtes-d'Armor | 2.5 | 13% | 0.2% | 5.7 km |
| 20 | Saverne Bas-Rhin | 2.5 | 65% | 0% | 418 km |
| 21 | Villepreux Yvelines | 2.5 | 8.4% | 0% | 137 km |
| 22 | Nœux-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 2.4 | 4.6% | 0% | 66 km |
| 23 | Vaux-le-Pénil Seine-et-Marne | 2.4 | 27% | 0% | 194 km |
| 24 | Ancenis-Saint-Géréon Loire-Atlantique | 2.4 | 10% | 27% | 71 km |
| 25 | Pacé Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.2 | 3.6% | 0% | 41 km |
| 26 | Bruay-sur-l'Escaut Nord | 2.1 | 14% | 98% | 102 km |
| 27 | Méricourt Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 4.3% | 0% | 79 km |
| 28 | Les Avirons Réunion | 1.7 | 47% | 78% | On it |
| 29 | Fourmies Nord | 1.6 | 48% | 100% | 157 km |
| 30 | Provins Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 6.6% | 0% | 215 km |
| 31 | Bolbec Seine-Maritime | 1.5 | 7.1% | 0% | 17 km |
| 32 | Dammartin-en-Goële Seine-et-Marne | 1.4 | 24% | 0% | 144 km |
| 33 | Somain Nord | 1.4 | 5.2% | 1.3% | 96 km |
| 34 | Chauny Aisne | 1.2 | 5.7% | 10% | 127 km |
| 35 | Biganos Gironde | 1.1 | 71% | 100% | On it |
| 36 | Thiers Puy-de-Dôme | 1 | 43% | 100% | 259 km |
| 37 | La Hague Manche | 1 | 5.5% | 14% | On it |
| 38 | Pontchâteau Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.4% | 24% | 16 km |
| 39 | Pia Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 10 km |
| 40 | Vauvert Gard | 0.4 | 3.1% | 71% | 20 km |
| 41 | Baugé-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 31% | 0.5% | 151 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 Vauvert
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de l’Esperion leads, at 2.8 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin Public "Le Castellas"
Park or garden
1.4 ha
0.6 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
9 in 10 residents of Vauvert 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).
92% within 800 m7.6% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
VauvertGard medianFrance median
Within 800 m92%
0%50%100%
About 900 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 Vauvert
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Camargue Regional Nature Park
14 km from the town center
Nature reserve
Scamandre nature reserve
1.3% of the commune8.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Petite Camargue
63% of the commune2.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Camargue gardoise fluvio-lacustre
26% of the commune5.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Costières nîmoises
8.2% of the commune0.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Camargue
14 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area71%
Nature reserve1.3%
Natura 2000 site71%
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.
71% of Vauvert’s land is protected, more than in 89% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Gard has 13%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
All 8 protected areas
Le Petit RhôneNatura 2000 site · 14 km
CamargueNatura 2000 site · 14 km
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
48 km of footpaths and 17 km of hiking routes cross Vauvert
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
48 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
3.1%
about 3.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
VauvertGard medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
VauvertGard medianFrance median
Woodland3.1%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 89% 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.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)PR (local walk)Other named walk
GR 4216 km
PR 528.5 km
La digue du Petit-Rhône4.6 km
Boucle entre les deux bras du Rhône3.3 km
GR 42 passes within 2 km of Vauvert.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Vauvert: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Gallargues le Montueux, 9.2 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) | 9.3 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 12 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 29 | 32 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 36 | 42 | 64 | 47 | 38 | 20 | 44 | 98 | 88 | 89 | 54 |
July is the driest month (20 mm) and the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 98 mm of rain falls in September, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 26 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Vauvert →
Neighbors
Next to Vauvert
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Le CailarBeauvoisinAimarguesCodognanGénéracVergèzeVauvert
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Vauvert
Is Vauvert in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 71% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Vauvert?
OpenStreetMap maps 48 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 17 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Vauvert is woodland?
3.1% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Vauvert near the sea?
No: the coast is 20 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Vauvert?
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.