First pick
Parc Pierre Rabhi
Park or garden
1.4 ha0.4 km of path
1 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Archives départementales de l'Hérault (France) DAASI · CC BY-SA 4.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Bédarieux · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Bédarieux lies inside Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park
100% of Bédarieux’s land lies in protected areas. Bédarieux has 32 km of waymarked hiking routes. Mapped woodland covers 23% of Bédarieux. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
23%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
46 km
1.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
32 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: Parc Pierre Rabhi
The sea
41 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Hérault 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 Bédarieux?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.On waymarked routes32 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Bédarieux apart: the regional nature park around it, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Bédarieux 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
96out of 100
Woodland23%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
68out of 100
Footpaths1.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
49out of 100
Hiking routes1.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
87out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Bédarieux has the 20th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,770 to 5,843 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 Le Barp (0.2 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 | Algrange Moselle | 3.6 | 48% | 0% | 302 km |
| 3 | Roquefort-la-Bédoule Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 50% | 40% | 5.6 km |
| 4 | Le Palais-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 3.2 | 27% | 0% | 169 km |
| 5 | Simiane-Collongue Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 60% | 44% | 12 km |
| 6 | Fenouillet Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 6.2% | 8.1% | 154 km |
| 7 | Sillingy Haute-Savoie | 3.1 | 21% | 0% | 267 km |
| 8 | Ludres Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.9 | 24% | 0% | 369 km |
| 9 | Peypin Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.9 | 34% | 8.5% | 18 km |
| 10 | Vergèze Gard | 2.9 | 17% | 19% | 23 km |
| 11 | Villabé Essonne | 2.6 | 22% | 0% | 179 km |
| 12 | Annezin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 10% | 0% | 59 km |
| 13 | Garéoult Var | 2.2 | 30% | 51% | 26 km |
| 14 | Calvi Haute-Corse | 2.2 | 5.6% | 11% | On it |
| 15 | Fegersheim Bas-Rhin | 2 | 8.4% | 0% | 455 km |
| 16 | Ventabren Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.9 | 8% | 45% | 20 km |
| 17 | Dol-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 6.4 km |
| 18 | Arradon Morbihan | 1.8 | 16% | 100% | On it |
| 19 | Nieul-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 1.8 | 0.2% | 4.5% | On it |
| 20 | Bédarieux Hérault | 1.6 | 23% | 100% | 41 km |
| 21 | Cessy Ain | 1.5 | 5.4% | 0.2% | 304 km |
| 22 | Oye-Plage Pas-de-Calais | 1.5 | 3% | 5% | On it |
| 23 | Magny-en-Vexin Val-d'Oise | 1.3 | 13% | 100% | 100 km |
| 24 | Lannemezan Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.2 | 26% | 0% | 160 km |
| 25 | Kembs Haut-Rhin | 1.1 | 50% | 63% | 431 km |
| 26 | Wasselonne Bas-Rhin | 1 | 18% | 0% | 431 km |
| 27 | Saint-Just-en-Chaussée Oise | 0.8 | 7.8% | 0% | 92 km |
| 28 | Roye Somme | 0.8 | 3.5% | 0% | 96 km |
| 29 | Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 0.3% | 100% | 27 km |
| 30 | Viry Haute-Savoie | 0.7 | 30% | 0% | 284 km |
| 31 | Saint-Galmier Loire | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | 227 km |
| 32 | Bessan Hérault | 0.6 | 3.4% | 39% | 8.1 km |
| 33 | Thizy-les-Bourgs Rhône | 0.6 | 22% | 0% | 276 km |
| 34 | Mouroux Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 21% | 0% | 180 km |
| 35 | Erdre-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 107 km |
| 36 | Briec Finistère | 0.5 | 6.1% | 0% | 14 km |
| 37 | Saint-Laurent-de-Mure Rhône | 0.4 | 3.2% | 0% | 248 km |
| 38 | Montmorillon Vienne | 0.4 | 11% | 28% | 152 km |
| 39 | Sarrians Vaucluse | 0.4 | 5.2% | 2.5% | 71 km |
| 40 | Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët Manche | 0.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 19 km |
| 41 | Le Barp Gironde | 0.2 | 67% | 100% | 21 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 Bédarieux
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Pierre Rabhi leads, at 1.4 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin des plantes Frédéric-Jacques Temple
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Bédarieux
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Bédarieux
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
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.
100% of Bédarieux’s land is protected, more than in 96% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Hérault has 12%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
46 km of footpaths and 32 km of hiking routes cross Bédarieux
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
46 km
1.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
32 km
waymarked: 1.1 km per km²
Woodland
23%
about 6.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BédarieuxHérault medianFrance median
Footpaths1.6
Hiking routes1.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BédarieuxHérault medianFrance median
Woodland23%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 51% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 68% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 97% of Bédarieux’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
7 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)GR de PaysOther named walk
GR 75.8 km
GRP HLV20 km
Boucle d'Orb8 km
Le Causse7.8 km
Peyre Pinche5.2 km
Le Dolmen de Pézènes4.9 km
Passa Païs4.3 km
GR 7 passes within 2 km of Bédarieux.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bédarieux: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Les Aires, 5.4 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) | 11 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 104 | 81 | 80 | 101 | 80 | 46 | 30 | 53 | 95 | 182 | 140 | 120 |
July is the driest month (30 mm) and the warmest (highs of 30 °C). 182 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Bédarieux →
Neighbors
Next to Bédarieux
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MagalasLodèveMurviel-lès-BéziersCauxClermont-l'HéraultThézan-lès-BéziersBédarieux
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bédarieux | 100% | 23% | 1.6 | 41 km |
| Magalas 3,582 · 17 km | 0% | 2.8% | 0.2 | 24 km |
| Lodève 7,251 · 18 km | 100% | 51% | 1 | 47 km |
| Murviel-lès-Béziers 3,000 · 19 km | 0% | 5.9% | 0.5 | 25 km |
| Caux 2,718 · 20 km | 0% | 12% | 0.4 | 25 km |
| Clermont-l'Hérault 9,461 · 22 km | 46% | 22% | 2 | 32 km |
| Thézan-lès-Béziers 3,124 · 22 km | 0% | 0.9% | 0.8 | 22 km |
Lodève is 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 Bédarieux
Is Bédarieux in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Bédarieux lies in Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Bédarieux?
OpenStreetMap maps 46 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); 32 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Bédarieux is woodland?
23% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bédarieux near the sea?
No: the coast is 41 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bédarieux?
May 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.