First pick
La Pachère
Park or garden
0.8 ha
Centralin the middle of Vic-Fezensac
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: MOSSOT · CC BY-SA 3.013%woodland
Outdoors in Vic-Fezensac · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Vic-Fezensac is within 800 m of a park or wood
15 km of footpaths cross Vic-Fezensac (0.3 km per km²). No protected area reaches Vic-Fezensac; the nearest, La Gélise (Natura 2000), is 9.6 km from the town center. 13% of Vic-Fezensac is mapped woodland. 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: La Gélise, 9.6 km
Woodland
13%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
15 km
0.3 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: La Pachère
Throughout this page, the Gers 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 Vic-Fezensac?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyLa Gélise (Natura 2000) is 9.6 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.3 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Vic-Fezensac apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Vic-Fezensac 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
Woodland13%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
48out of 100
Footpaths0.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
6out 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
Vic-Fezensac has the 6th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,549 to 3,603 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Brice-Courcelles (3.7 km per km²) to Saint-Savin (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Brice-Courcelles Marne | 3.7 | 15% | 0% | 195 km |
| 2 | Bavans Doubs | 3.7 | 43% | 0% | 415 km |
| 3 | Tosse Landes | 3.3 | 56% | 6.7% | 8.7 km |
| 4 | Orry-la-Ville Oise | 3.3 | 58% | 100% | 131 km |
| 5 | Sainte-Tulle Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 2.8 | 24% | 100% | 60 km |
| 6 | Jonzac Charente-Maritime | 2.7 | 11% | 8.4% | 24 km |
| 7 | Masevaux-Niederbruck Haut-Rhin | 2.6 | 78% | 100% | 445 km |
| 8 | Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold Moselle | 2.5 | 52% | 4.6% | 351 km |
| 9 | Marines Val-d'Oise | 2.2 | 36% | 100% | 108 km |
| 10 | Servon Seine-et-Marne | 2.2 | 12% | 0% | 172 km |
| 11 | Fontvieille Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.2 | 35% | 100% | 33 km |
| 12 | Montréal-la-Cluse Ain | 2.1 | 67% | 0% | 306 km |
| 13 | Saint-Julien-lès-Metz Moselle | 1.9 | 36% | 0% | 328 km |
| 14 | Olemps Aveyron | 1.8 | 17% | 0% | 135 km |
| 15 | Givry Saône-et-Loire | 1.7 | 46% | 2.2% | 361 km |
| 16 | Laragne-Montéglin Hautes-Alpes | 1.5 | 37% | 77% | 114 km |
| 17 | Saint-Tropez Var | 1.5 | 16% | 0.1% | On it |
| 18 | Saint-Germain-des-Fossés Allier | 1.4 | 11% | 25% | 298 km |
| 19 | Lumbres Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 24% | 100% | 31 km |
| 20 | Espaly-Saint-Marcel Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 11% | 1.5% | 166 km |
| 21 | Neuilly-Crimolois Côte-d'Or | 1.3 | 17% | 0% | 409 km |
| 22 | Châteauneuf-sur-Charente Charente | 1.1 | 12% | 21% | 58 km |
| 23 | La Roche-de-Glun Drôme | 1.1 | 0% | 0% | 173 km |
| 24 | Rocheservière Vendée | 1.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 37 km |
| 25 | Plan-d'Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 1 | 5.9% | 12% | 41 km |
| 26 | Pompignac Gironde | 1 | 25% | 0% | 21 km |
| 27 | Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom Calvados | 0.8 | 20% | 0% | 37 km |
| 28 | Échiré Deux-Sèvres | 0.8 | 2.6% | 0% | 56 km |
| 29 | Corps-Nuds Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 65 km |
| 30 | Avesnes-les-Aubert Nord | 0.6 | 0.8% | 0% | 116 km |
| 31 | Loyettes Ain | 0.5 | 5.9% | 12% | 260 km |
| 32 | Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin Isère | 0.5 | 8.4% | 0% | 240 km |
| 33 | Rochechouart Haute-Vienne | 0.4 | 29% | 99% | 131 km |
| 34 | Nogent Haute-Marne | 0.4 | 38% | 36% | 359 km |
| 35 | Varennes-sur-Allier Allier | 0.3 | 6.2% | 39% | 311 km |
| 36 | Vic-Fezensac Gers | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 136 km |
| 37 | Baziège Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 1.6% | 0% | 127 km |
| 38 | Magalas Hérault | 0.2 | 2.8% | 0% | 24 km |
| 39 | Derval Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 9.6% | 0% | 56 km |
| 40 | Réalmont Tarn | 0.1 | 5.9% | 0% | 105 km |
| 41 | Saint-Savin Gironde | 0 | 24% | 4% | 16 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 Vic-Fezensac
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: La Pachère leads, at 0.8 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
La Gélise is the nearest protected area, 9.6 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
La Gélise
9.6 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
15 km of footpaths cross Vic-Fezensac
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
15 km
0.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
13%
about 6.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Vic-FezensacGers medianFrance median
Footpaths0.3
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Vic-FezensacGers medianFrance median
Woodland13%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 94% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 52% 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 Vic-Fezensac 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 Vic-Fezensac: June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Beaucaire, 11 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) | 10 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 29 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 73 | 53 | 56 | 77 | 79 | 65 | 50 | 52 | 58 | 64 | 79 | 71 |
July is the driest month (50 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 79 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Vic-Fezensac →
Neighbors
Next to Vic-Fezensac
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
EauzeCondomAuchMirandePavieVic-Fezensac
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Eauze, Mirande and Pavie 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 Vic-Fezensac
Is Vic-Fezensac in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is La Gélise, 9.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Vic-Fezensac?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Vic-Fezensac is woodland?
13% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Vic-Fezensac near the sea?
No: the coast is 136 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Vic-Fezensac?
June to September: 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 9, 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.