Photo: Fagairolles 34 · CC BY-SA 4.0Parks, woods and footpaths in Florensac
21 km of footpaths cross Florensac (0.6 km per km²). 3.6% of Florensac is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Florensac; the nearest, Cours inférieur de l’Hérault (Natura 2000), is 1.6 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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 outdoors place is Florensac?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Florensac apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Florensac 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Florensac has the 5th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,201 to 5,308 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Clément-de-Rivière (6.3 km per km²) to Mormant (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Clément-de-Rivière Hérault | 6.3 | 43% | 2.7% | 18 km |
| 2 | Vaux-sur-Seine Yvelines | 5.2 | 57% | 63% | 120 km |
| 3 | Barberaz Savoie | 4.4 | 26% | 50% | 232 km |
| 4 | Bethoncourt Doubs | 4.4 | 38% | 0% | 420 km |
| 5 | Le Rove Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.3 | 0% | 86% | On it |
| 6 | Vernaison Rhône | 4 | 15% | 0% | 239 km |
| 7 | Bauvin Nord | 3.9 | 12% | 0% | 69 km |
| 8 | Moulins-lès-Metz Moselle | 3.5 | 17% | 0% | 328 km |
| 9 | Séméac Hautes-Pyrénées | 3.2 | 21% | 0.4% | 134 km |
| 10 | Mulsanne Sarthe | 2.8 | 47% | 0% | 143 km |
| 11 | Le Bourget-du-Lac Savoie | 2.8 | 57% | 13% | 244 km |
| 12 | Pont-Sainte-Marie Aube | 2.7 | 7.9% | 0.9% | 272 km |
| 13 | Nuits-Saint-Georges Côte-d'Or | 2.1 | 25% | 69% | 403 km |
| 14 | Nans-les-Pins Var | 2 | 39% | 100% | 23 km |
| 15 | Villers-le-Lac Doubs | 2 | 45% | 100% | 370 km |
| 16 | Valleiry Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 30% | 0% | 286 km |
| 17 | Mouilleron-le-Captif Vendée | 1.8 | 6.8% | 0% | 33 km |
| 18 | Forcalquier Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 17% | 100% | 76 km |
| 19 | Laillé Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 21% | 0% | 61 km |
| 20 | Tresses Gironde | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0% | 20 km |
| 21 | Farébersviller Moselle | 1.2 | 1.7% | 0% | 363 km |
| 22 | Gorges Loire-Atlantique | 1.1 | 10% | 0% | 52 km |
| 23 | Saint-Saturnin-lès-Avignon Vaucluse | 1.1 | 1.3% | 9.7% | 56 km |
| 24 | Brebières Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 8% | 0% | 90 km |
| 25 | Condat-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 160 km |
| 26 | Cazouls-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.9 | 5.7% | 0% | 22 km |
| 27 | Valence Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.9 | 8.2% | 0.6% | 154 km |
| 28 | Mignaloux-Beauvoir Vienne | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 121 km |
| 29 | Tourves Var | 0.9 | 44% | 83% | 32 km |
| 30 | Blotzheim Haut-Rhin | 0.8 | 16% | 0% | 424 km |
| 31 | Villette-d'Anthon Isère | 0.8 | 14% | 1.8% | 260 km |
| 32 | Marquise Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 1.2% | 100% | 6.8 km |
| 33 | Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne Ain | 0.7 | 4.1% | 5.8% | 293 km |
| 34 | Surzur Morbihan | 0.7 | 8.8% | 100% | On it |
| 35 | Jonquières Vaucluse | 0.7 | 1.9% | 2.4% | 74 km |
| 36 | Guémené-Penfao Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.4% | 2.7% | 44 km |
| 37 | Florensac Hérault | 0.6 | 3.6% | 0.8% | 10 km |
| 38 | Saint-Lyphard Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 6.2% | 100% | 8.4 km |
| 39 | Vindry-sur-Turdine Rhône | 0.4 | 17% | 0% | 260 km |
| 40 | Champniers Charente | 0.3 | 9.7% | 0% | 81 km |
| 41 | Mormant Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 7.5% | 0% | 195 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
9 in 10 residents of Florensac live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
About 600 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Cours inférieur de l’Hérault is the nearest protected area, 1.6 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Cours inférieur de l’Hérault
Share of the commune’s land
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.
21 km of footpaths cross Florensac
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 83% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 83% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Florensac: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pezenas-Tourbes, 8 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 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 30 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 48 | 48 | 56 | 46 | 29 | 18 | 30 | 61 | 93 | 76 | 50 |
July is the driest month (18 mm) and the warmest (highs of 30 °C). 93 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 24 nights a year. The climate in Florensac →
Next to Florensac
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florensac | 0.8% | 3.6% | 0.6 | 10 km |
| Saint-Thibéry 3,132 · 4.5 km | 0.2% | 6.2% | 0.8 | 12 km |
| Bessan 5,838 · 4.6 km | 39% | 3.4% | 0.6 | 8.1 km |
| Marseillan 8,414 · 6.6 km | 52% | 0.9% | 0.7 | On it |
| Montblanc 2,932 · 8.4 km | 0.1% | 18% | 1.5 | 12 km |
| Pézenas 7,797 · 9.1 km | 6.9% | 10% | 0.7 | 19 km |
| Vias 5,952 · 9.4 km | 44% | 5.5% | 1.3 | On it |
Bessan, Marseillan and Vias have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Florensac
Is Florensac in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Cours inférieur de l’Hérault, 1.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Florensac?
OpenStreetMap maps 21 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Florensac is woodland?
3.6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Florensac near the sea?
No: the coast is 10 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Florensac?
April 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 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.