First pick
Parc du Château des Evêques
Park or garden
7.5 ha1.4 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Lavérune
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: pellenetdesign · CC BY-SA 3.06.9%woodland
Outdoors in Lavérune · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Lavérune is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 23 km across Lavérune (3.1 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 6 km in Lavérune. No protected area reaches Lavérune; the nearest, Plaine de Fabrègues-Poussan (Natura 2000), is 3.6 km from the town center. 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: Plaine de Fabrègues-Poussan, 3.6 km
Woodland
6.9%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
23 km
3.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.7 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc du Château des Evêques
The sea
11 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 Lavérune?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths3.1 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.On waymarked routes6 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyPlaine de Fabrègues-Poussan (Natura 2000) is 3.6 km from the town center.
What sets Lavérune apart: its footpaths, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Lavérune 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
Woodland6.9%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
30out of 100
Footpaths3.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
76out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
76out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Lavérune has the 5th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,272 to 3,335 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Frépillon (4.3 km per km²) to Ambès (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frépillon Val-d'Oise | 4.3 | 19% | 0.2% | 126 km |
| 2 | Champ-sur-Drac Isère | 3.9 | 51% | 24% | 193 km |
| 3 | Bernin Isère | 3.7 | 28% | 14% | 207 km |
| 4 | Exincourt Doubs | 3.3 | 4% | 0% | 416 km |
| 5 | Lavérune Hérault | 3.1 | 6.9% | 0% | 11 km |
| 6 | Saint-Maximin Oise | 3 | 54% | 88% | 120 km |
| 7 | Roscoff Finistère | 3 | 0% | 0.4% | On it |
| 8 | Houplin-Ancoisne Nord | 3 | 4.4% | 0% | 66 km |
| 9 | Luc-sur-Mer Calvados | 3 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 10 | La Membrolle-sur-Choisille Indre-et-Loire | 2.2 | 19% | 0% | 184 km |
| 11 | Carantec Finistère | 2.2 | 3.6% | 14% | On it |
| 12 | Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon Loire-Atlantique | 2.2 | 18% | 31% | 29 km |
| 13 | Ceyzériat Ain | 2 | 41% | 0.6% | 305 km |
| 14 | Doubs Doubs | 2 | 37% | 0% | 361 km |
| 15 | Dieulefit Drôme | 2 | 66% | 0% | 120 km |
| 16 | Le Folgoët Finistère | 1.9 | 3.7% | 0% | 8.1 km |
| 17 | Vourles Rhône | 1.8 | 6.6% | 0% | 240 km |
| 18 | Mireval Hérault | 1.6 | 0.1% | 18% | 4.3 km |
| 19 | La Roche-Blanche Puy-de-Dôme | 1.5 | 12% | 7.8% | 249 km |
| 20 | Pontpoint Oise | 1.5 | 41% | 100% | 120 km |
| 21 | Bernis Gard | 1.4 | 26% | 2.6% | 28 km |
| 22 | Rostrenen Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 18% | 0% | 45 km |
| 23 | Aigues-Vives Gard | 1.3 | 4.2% | 13% | 21 km |
| 24 | La Chapelle-Longueville Eure | 1.3 | 31% | 0% | 86 km |
| 25 | Précy-sur-Oise Oise | 1 | 14% | 100% | 119 km |
| 26 | Carling Moselle | 0.9 | 11% | 0% | 351 km |
| 27 | Montanay Rhône | 0.8 | 7.1% | 0% | 265 km |
| 28 | Wizernes Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 6.8% | 100% | 32 km |
| 29 | Gouville-sur-Mer Manche | 0.5 | 2.6% | 0.4% | 2.9 km |
| 30 | Rouans Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 5.5% | 30% | 18 km |
| 31 | Morhange Moselle | 0.5 | 7% | 0% | 367 km |
| 32 | Veuzain-sur-Loire Loir-et-Cher | 0.5 | 24% | 6.2% | 220 km |
| 33 | Sainte-Florine Haute-Loire | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 213 km |
| 34 | Dordives Loiret | 0.4 | 30% | 0% | 228 km |
| 35 | Sarrola-Carcopino Corse-du-Sud | 0.3 | 6.7% | 0% | 6.1 km |
| 36 | Évry-Grégy-sur-Yerre Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 180 km |
| 37 | Malissard Drôme | 0.3 | 0.3% | 0% | 161 km |
| 38 | Palau-del-Vidre Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.2 | 1% | 2.8% | 7.1 km |
| 39 | Airvault Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 13% | 18% | 95 km |
| 40 | Puiseaux Loiret | 0.2 | 2.6% | 1% | 207 km |
| 41 | Ambès Gironde | 0.1 | 5.4% | 58% | 4.6 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 Lavérune
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Château des Evêques leads, at 7.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Espace Mosson
Park or garden
3.8 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
1 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Plaine de Fabrègues-Poussan is the nearest protected area, 3.6 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
Plaine de Fabrègues-Poussan
3.6 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
23 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Lavérune
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
23 km
3.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.7 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
6.9%
about 0.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LavéruneHérault medianFrance median
Footpaths3.1
Hiking routes0.8
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LavéruneHérault medianFrance median
Woodland6.9%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 76% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 70% 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 Lavérune 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 Lavérune: April to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Villeneuve-Les-Mag-Inrae, 6.6 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 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 12 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 38 | 42 | 48 | 40 | 31 | 18 | 33 | 76 | 91 | 72 | 51 |
July is the driest month (18 mm) and the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 91 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 19 nights a year. The climate in Lavérune →
Neighbors
Next to Lavérune
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Jean-de-VédasSaint-Georges-d'OrquesPignanJuvignacFabrèguesMontpellierLavérune
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lavérune | 0% | 6.9% | 3.1 | 11 km |
| Saint-Jean-de-Védas 13,328 · 2.2 km | 0% | 4.5% | 3.7 | 9 km |
| Saint-Georges-d'Orques 5,676 · 3.5 km | 0% | 0.3% | 2.7 | 14 km |
| Pignan 8,431 · 3.6 km | 34% | 1.7% | 3.2 | 13 km |
| Juvignac 14,055 · 3.6 km | 0% | 4.2% | 4.2 | 14 km |
| Fabrègues 7,447 · 4.2 km | 8.4% | 7.6% | 2.9 | 9.4 km |
| Montpellier 310,240 · 5.4 km | 0.6% | 5.5% | 6.3 | 11 km |
Pignan 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 Lavérune
Is Lavérune in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Plaine de Fabrègues-Poussan, 3.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Lavérune?
OpenStreetMap maps 23 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Lavérune is woodland?
6.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lavérune near the sea?
No: the coast is 11 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Lavérune?
April to August: 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.