First pick
Massif forestier de Baillarguet
Wood or forest
236 ha25.3 km of path
5 h 35 minto walk all 25.3 km of path
1.7 km north-westfrom the center
Chemin du Pioch-RousChemin de la CigaleLe Boueux+5 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Olive34830 · CC BY 4.03.1%of the land protected
Outdoors in Clapiers · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Clapiers has more footpaths per km² than 9 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 75 km across Clapiers (9.8 km per km²). 42% of Clapiers is mapped woodland. 3.1% of Clapiers’ land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
3.1%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
42%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
75 km
9.8 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
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Massif forestier de Baillarguet
The sea
14 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 Clapiers?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths9.8 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.A wooded commune42% mapped woodland, more than in 87% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Clapiers apart: its footpaths, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Clapiers 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 areas3.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
62out of 100
Woodland42%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
87out of 100
Footpaths9.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
99out 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
Clapiers has the most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,941 to 6,070 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Clapiers (9.8 km per km²) to Saint-Denis-de-Pile (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clapiers Hérault | 9.8 | 42% | 3.1% | 14 km |
| 2 | Ablon-sur-Seine Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 6.2% | 0% | 165 km |
| 3 | La Verrière Yvelines | 5.3 | 14% | 1.3% | 139 km |
| 4 | Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer Var | 3.9 | 35% | 0% | On it |
| 5 | Villennes-sur-Seine Yvelines | 3.7 | 17% | 0% | 128 km |
| 6 | Fleury-sur-Orne Calvados | 3.6 | 3.3% | 0% | 17 km |
| 7 | Noyelles-Godault Pas-de-Calais | 3.5 | 6.9% | 0.2% | 81 km |
| 8 | Roost-Warendin Nord | 2.9 | 22% | 7.5% | 85 km |
| 9 | Mondonville Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 27% | 0% | 161 km |
| 10 | Quiévrechain Nord | 2.5 | 13% | 97% | 107 km |
| 11 | Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau Loire-Atlantique | 2.4 | 15% | 29% | 26 km |
| 12 | Trith-Saint-Léger Nord | 2.1 | 6.9% | 0% | 106 km |
| 13 | Lavelanet Ariège | 2 | 40% | 0% | 97 km |
| 14 | Marnaz Haute-Savoie | 2 | 51% | 9.8% | 265 km |
| 15 | Benfeld Bas-Rhin | 2 | 24% | 20% | 460 km |
| 16 | Hombourg-Haut Moselle | 1.9 | 48% | 0% | 357 km |
| 17 | Ciboure Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.8 | 30% | 16% | On it |
| 18 | Sains-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 1.5% | 0% | 70 km |
| 19 | Saint-Girons Ariège | 1.5 | 36% | 100% | 155 km |
| 20 | Jouars-Pontchartrain Yvelines | 1.4 | 20% | 100% | 133 km |
| 21 | Loon-Plage Nord | 1.3 | 2.6% | 0.2% | On it |
| 22 | Le Castellet Var | 1.3 | 18% | 81% | 7.5 km |
| 23 | Mortagne-sur-Sèvre Vendée | 1.3 | 7.8% | 0% | 77 km |
| 24 | Vias Hérault | 1.3 | 5.5% | 44% | On it |
| 25 | Donzère Drôme | 1.2 | 22% | 8.5% | 110 km |
| 26 | Vaison-la-Romaine Vaucluse | 1.2 | 29% | 100% | 90 km |
| 27 | Naintré Vienne | 1.1 | 33% | 0% | 134 km |
| 28 | Pavilly Seine-Maritime | 1 | 21% | 0% | 36 km |
| 29 | Marly-la-Ville Val-d'Oise | 0.9 | 5.5% | 0% | 135 km |
| 30 | Gévezé Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.9 | 4% | 0% | 34 km |
| 31 | Blanzy Saône-et-Loire | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 349 km |
| 32 | Luc-la-Primaube Aveyron | 0.8 | 7.6% | 0% | 131 km |
| 33 | Condé-en-Normandie Calvados | 0.7 | 8.1% | 18% | 52 km |
| 34 | Corbie Somme | 0.6 | 16% | 4.5% | 66 km |
| 35 | Commentry Allier | 0.5 | 13% | 0% | 288 km |
| 36 | Fontenay-Trésigny Seine-et-Marne | 0.5 | 25% | 0% | 185 km |
| 37 | Aubignan Vaucluse | 0.5 | 3.8% | 42% | 73 km |
| 38 | Bouillargues Gard | 0.5 | 0.8% | 29% | 37 km |
| 39 | Beauvoisin Gard | 0.4 | 7.3% | 46% | 25 km |
| 40 | Vexin-sur-Epte Eure | 0.3 | 16% | 2.2% | 91 km |
| 41 | Saint-Denis-de-Pile Gironde | 0.2 | 11% | 14% | 31 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 Clapiers
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Massif forestier de Baillarguet leads, at 236 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Réserve naturelle du Lez
Wood or forest · 10 m outside the commune
9.5 ha2.3 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.3 km of path
1.4 km southfrom the center
La Marathonienne
Directionsto a point inside
Berges du Lez - Domaine de Lavalette
Wood or forest · 0 m outside the commune
4.2 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
1.4 km south-westfrom the center
La Marathonienne
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Claude Leenhardt
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Clapiers
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
3.1% of Clapiers 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
Le Lez
3.1% of the commune1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area3.1%
Natura 2000 site3.1%
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.
3.1% of Clapiers’ land is protected, more than in 62% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Hérault has 12%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
Footpaths and woods in Clapiers
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
75 km
9.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
42%
about 3.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ClapiersHérault medianFrance median
Footpaths9.8
Hiking routes0
0612 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ClapiersHérault medianFrance median
Woodland42%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 99% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 87% 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 Clapiers 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 Clapiers: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Prades le Lez, 7.1 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) | 79 | 52 | 57 | 75 | 64 | 45 | 23 | 45 | 112 | 128 | 106 | 84 |
July is the driest month (23 mm) and the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 128 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 53 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Clapiers →
Neighbors
Next to Clapiers
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
JacouCastelnau-le-LezMontferrier-sur-LezLe CrèsTeyranSaint-Clément-de-RivièreClapiers
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clapiers | 3.1% | 42% | 9.8 | 14 km |
| Jacou 6,924 · 2.2 km | 0% | 16% | 10.3 | 13 km |
| Castelnau-le-Lez 26,058 · 2.7 km | 1.2% | 4.5% | 4.6 | 11 km |
| Montferrier-sur-Lez 4,135 · 2.8 km | 8.3% | 33% | 5.3 | 16 km |
| Le Crès 9,226 · 4 km | 0% | 9.9% | 5.2 | 12 km |
| Teyran 4,787 · 4.1 km | 10% | 11% | 3.2 | 15 km |
| Saint-Clément-de-Rivière 5,218 · 4.5 km | 2.7% | 43% | 6.3 | 18 km |
Teyran has at least twice as much protected land.
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 Clapiers
Is Clapiers in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 3.1% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Clapiers?
OpenStreetMap maps 75 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 9.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Clapiers is woodland?
42% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Clapiers near the sea?
No: the coast is 14 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Clapiers?
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.