First pick
Esplanade du 3 Décembre 1967
Park or garden
0.2 ha
Centralin the middle of Colombiers
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Archives départementales de l'Hérault (France) DAASI · CC BY-SA 4.01.4%woodland
Outdoors in Colombiers · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Colombiers is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 1.4% of Colombiers. No protected area reaches Colombiers; the nearest, Collines d’Ensérune (ancien nom : Collines du Narbonnais) (Natura 2000), is 2.8 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 13 km across Colombiers (1.2 km per km²). 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: Collines d’Ensérune (ancien nom : Collines du Narbonnais), 2.8 km
Woodland
1.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
13 km
1.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
5 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: Esplanade du 3 Décembre 1967
The sea
13 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 Colombiers?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyCollines d’Ensérune (ancien nom : Collines du Narbonnais) (Natura 2000) is 2.8 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland1.4% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Colombiers apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Colombiers 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
Woodland1.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
8out of 100
Footpaths1.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
39out of 100
Hiking routes0.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
61out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Colombiers has the 13th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,784 to 2,844 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Éleu-dit-Leauwette (5.5 km per km²) to Levroux (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Éleu-dit-Leauwette Pas-de-Calais | 5.5 | 16% | 0% | 76 km |
| 2 | Burbure Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 3.7% | 0% | 55 km |
| 3 | Pinsaguel Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 14% | 29% | 146 km |
| 4 | Cosnes-et-Romain Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.6 | 35% | 0% | 273 km |
| 5 | Candé Maine-et-Loire | 1.9 | 16% | 0% | 91 km |
| 6 | Sainghin-en-Mélantois Nord | 1.8 | 6.5% | 0% | 70 km |
| 7 | Peyruis Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 53% | 6.2% | 90 km |
| 8 | Arles-sur-Tech Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.7 | 72% | 6.8% | 36 km |
| 9 | Ibos Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.7 | 31% | 0% | 126 km |
| 10 | Anzin-Saint-Aubin Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 6.2% | 0% | 77 km |
| 11 | Massieux Ain | 1.6 | 5.1% | 0% | 267 km |
| 12 | Le Faouët Morbihan | 1.4 | 21% | 7.3% | 24 km |
| 13 | Colombiers Hérault | 1.2 | 1.4% | 0% | 13 km |
| 14 | Fraize Vosges | 1.2 | 48% | 100% | 447 km |
| 15 | Pont-d'Ain Ain | 1 | 22% | 18% | 291 km |
| 16 | Saint-Aignan Loir-et-Cher | 1 | 31% | 0% | 218 km |
| 17 | Ambronay Ain | 1 | 28% | 1.3% | 286 km |
| 18 | La Fère Aisne | 0.9 | 12% | 11% | 134 km |
| 19 | Ducey-Les Chéris Manche | 0.9 | 13% | 7.8% | 5.3 km |
| 20 | Amancy Haute-Savoie | 0.8 | 14% | 0% | 271 km |
| 21 | Langogne Lozère | 0.7 | 23% | 0.1% | 131 km |
| 22 | Ayguesvives Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 8.4% | 0% | 128 km |
| 23 | Arcis-sur-Aube Aube | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 256 km |
| 24 | Uzerche Corrèze | 0.7 | 22% | 0.9% | 176 km |
| 25 | Fère-en-Tardenois Aisne | 0.7 | 40% | 0% | 171 km |
| 26 | Seiches-sur-le-Loir Maine-et-Loire | 0.6 | 31% | 0% | 137 km |
| 27 | Longny les Villages Orne | 0.5 | 35% | 100% | 104 km |
| 28 | Saint-Loup-sur-Semouse Haute-Saône | 0.5 | 46% | 46% | 422 km |
| 29 | Cour-Cheverny Loir-et-Cher | 0.4 | 41% | 29% | 229 km |
| 30 | Blangy-sur-Bresle Seine-Maritime | 0.4 | 32% | 0.5% | 23 km |
| 31 | Courville-sur-Eure Eure-et-Loir | 0.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 127 km |
| 32 | Vendays-Montalivet Gironde | 0.3 | 74% | 100% | On it |
| 33 | Grandvilliers Oise | 0.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 60 km |
| 34 | Rosières-aux-Salines Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.3 | 24% | 0% | 381 km |
| 35 | Buchy Seine-Maritime | 0.3 | 4.8% | 0% | 42 km |
| 36 | Miremont Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 7.8% | 0.2% | 139 km |
| 37 | Rodilhan Gard | 0.2 | 0% | 24% | 40 km |
| 38 | Wignehies Nord | 0.1 | 0.5% | 100% | 156 km |
| 39 | La Boixe Charente | 0.1 | 10% | 23% | 78 km |
| 40 | Listrac-Médoc Gironde | 0 | 72% | 100% | 8.3 km |
| 41 | Levroux Indre | 0 | 8.7% | 0% | 222 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 Colombiers
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Esplanade du 3 Décembre 1967 leads, at 0.2 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Esplanade du 21 Juillet 1969
Park or garden
0.2 ha
Centralin the middle of Colombiers
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Collines d’Ensérune (ancien nom : Collines du Narbonnais) is the nearest protected area, 2.8 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
Collines d’Ensérune (ancien nom : Collines du Narbonnais)
2.8 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
13 km of footpaths cross Colombiers
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
13 km
1.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
5 km
waymarked: 0.5 km per km²
Woodland
1.4%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ColombiersHérault medianFrance median
Footpaths1.2
Hiking routes0.5
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ColombiersHérault medianFrance median
Woodland1.4%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 61% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 92% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 97% of Colombiers’ residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Colombiers: April to June and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Beziers-Courtade, 2.6 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 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 12 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 23 | 28 | 31 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 52 | 51 | 48 | 54 | 48 | 27 | 19 | 26 | 61 | 91 | 63 | 48 |
July is the driest month (19 mm) and the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 91 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 23 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Colombiers →
Neighbors
Next to Colombiers
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MontadyNissan-lez-EnseruneLespignanMaraussanBéziersLignan-sur-OrbColombiers
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colombiers | 0% | 1.4% | 1.2 | 13 km |
| Montady 3,990 · 3 km | 0% | 2.7% | 0.8 | 16 km |
| Nissan-lez-Enserune 4,124 · 3.2 km | 38% | 4.6% | 1.1 | 12 km |
| Lespignan 3,414 · 4.7 km | 69% | 0.3% | 1.1 | 8.7 km |
| Maraussan 4,789 · 6.2 km | 0% | 1.3% | 0.6 | 17 km |
| Béziers 81,545 · 7.7 km | 0% | 5.4% | 1.3 | 12 km |
| Lignan-sur-Orb 3,227 · 8.1 km | 0% | 2.9% | 1.2 | 18 km |
Nissan-lez-Enserune and Lespignan have 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 Colombiers
Is Colombiers in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Collines d’Ensérune (ancien nom : Collines du Narbonnais), 2.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Colombiers?
OpenStreetMap maps 13 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 5 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Colombiers is woodland?
1.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Colombiers near the sea?
No: the coast is 13 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Colombiers?
April to June and 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 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.