First pick
Le Cottage
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Vergèze
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Eddy Circhirello · CC BY-SA 3.019%of the land protected
Outdoors in Vergèze · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Vergèze is within 800 m of a park or wood
29 km of footpaths cross Vergèze (2.9 km per km²). Protected areas cover 19% of Vergèze’s land. 17% of Vergèze is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
19%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
17%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
29 km
2.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Le Cottage
The sea
23 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 Vergèze 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 areas19%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
78out of 100
Woodland17%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
57out of 100
Footpaths2.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
72out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Vergèze has the 11th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,745 to 5,832 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Buc (5.6 km per km²) to Mazé-Milon (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buc Yvelines | 5.6 | 45% | 0% | 148 km |
| 2 | Canéjan Gironde | 5.5 | 50% | 0% | 28 km |
| 3 | Algrange Moselle | 3.6 | 48% | 0% | 302 km |
| 4 | Roquefort-la-Bédoule Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 50% | 40% | 5.6 km |
| 5 | Le Palais-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 3.2 | 27% | 0% | 169 km |
| 6 | Simiane-Collongue Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 60% | 44% | 12 km |
| 7 | Fenouillet Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 6.2% | 8.1% | 154 km |
| 8 | Sillingy Haute-Savoie | 3.1 | 21% | 0% | 267 km |
| 9 | Ensuès-la-Redonne Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.1 | 15% | 76% | On it |
| 10 | Peypin Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.9 | 34% | 8.5% | 18 km |
| 11 | Vergèze Gard | 2.9 | 17% | 19% | 23 km |
| 12 | Villabé Essonne | 2.6 | 22% | 0% | 179 km |
| 13 | Annezin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 10% | 0% | 59 km |
| 14 | Calvi Haute-Corse | 2.2 | 5.6% | 11% | On it |
| 15 | Fegersheim Bas-Rhin | 2 | 8.4% | 0% | 455 km |
| 16 | Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 34% | 0.1% | 242 km |
| 17 | Dol-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 6.4 km |
| 18 | Nieul-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 1.8 | 0.2% | 4.5% | On it |
| 19 | Bédarieux Hérault | 1.6 | 23% | 100% | 41 km |
| 20 | Cessy Ain | 1.5 | 5.4% | 0.2% | 304 km |
| 21 | Oye-Plage Pas-de-Calais | 1.5 | 3% | 5% | On it |
| 22 | Plouay Morbihan | 1.3 | 31% | 4% | 10 km |
| 23 | Magny-en-Vexin Val-d'Oise | 1.3 | 13% | 100% | 100 km |
| 24 | Lannemezan Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.2 | 26% | 0% | 160 km |
| 25 | Wasselonne Bas-Rhin | 1 | 18% | 0% | 431 km |
| 26 | Saint-Just-en-Chaussée Oise | 0.8 | 7.8% | 0% | 92 km |
| 27 | Melle Deux-Sèvres | 0.8 | 8.9% | 6.1% | 71 km |
| 28 | Viry Haute-Savoie | 0.7 | 30% | 0% | 284 km |
| 29 | Saint-Galmier Loire | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | 227 km |
| 30 | Flines-lez-Raches Nord | 0.6 | 21% | 100% | 87 km |
| 31 | Thizy-les-Bourgs Rhône | 0.6 | 22% | 0% | 276 km |
| 32 | Mouroux Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 21% | 0% | 180 km |
| 33 | Erdre-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 107 km |
| 34 | Briec Finistère | 0.5 | 6.1% | 0% | 14 km |
| 35 | Saint-Laurent-de-Mure Rhône | 0.4 | 3.2% | 0% | 248 km |
| 36 | Montmorillon Vienne | 0.4 | 11% | 28% | 152 km |
| 37 | Doullens Somme | 0.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 47 km |
| 38 | Sarrians Vaucluse | 0.4 | 5.2% | 2.5% | 71 km |
| 39 | Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët Manche | 0.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 19 km |
| 40 | Le Barp Gironde | 0.2 | 67% | 100% | 21 km |
| 41 | Mazé-Milon Maine-et-Loire | 0.1 | 11% | 100% | 138 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 Vergèze
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Le Cottage leads, at 0.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
19% of Vergèze 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
19% of the commune1.9 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area19%
Natura 2000 site19%
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.
19% of Vergèze’s land is protected, more than in 78% 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
29 km of footpaths cross Vergèze
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
29 km
2.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
17%
about 1.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
VergèzeGard medianFrance median
Footpaths2.9
Hiking routes0
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
VergèzeGard medianFrance median
Woodland17%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 72% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 57% 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 Vergèze is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Vergèze: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Gallargues le Montueux, 5 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 Vergèze →
Neighbors
Next to Vergèze
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
CodognanAigues-VivesUchaudGallargues-le-MontueuxCalvissonAubaisVergèze
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vergèze | 19% | 17% | 2.9 | 23 km |
| Codognan 2,529 · 1.4 km | 58% | 0.7% | 1.2 | 22 km |
| Aigues-Vives 3,331 · 3.6 km | 13% | 4.2% | 1.3 | 21 km |
| Uchaud 4,879 · 4 km | 2.7% | 32% | 2.1 | 26 km |
| Gallargues-le-Montueux 3,659 · 4.6 km | 2% | 2% | 1.3 | 19 km |
| Calvisson 6,486 · 5.3 km | 0% | 27% | 2.7 | 27 km |
| Aubais 2,925 · 5.8 km | 1.3% | 24% | 3.1 | 22 km |
Codognan has at least twice as much protected land. Uchaud and Calvisson 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 Vergèze
Is Vergèze in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 19% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Vergèze?
OpenStreetMap maps 29 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Vergèze is woodland?
17% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Vergèze near the sea?
No: the coast is 23 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Vergèze?
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 8, 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.