Photo: voyages provence · CC BY 2.0Almost every home in Lignan-sur-Orb is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 2.9% of Lignan-sur-Orb. No protected area reaches Lignan-sur-Orb; the nearest, Collines d’Ensérune (ancien nom : Collines du Narbonnais) (Natura 2000), is 9.2 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 4 km across Lignan-sur-Orb (1.2 km per km²). 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 Lignan-sur-Orb?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Lignan-sur-Orb apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
How Lignan-sur-Orb 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.
Lignan-sur-Orb has the 17th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,204 to 3,249 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Fonbeauzard (4.4 km per km²) to Albias (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fonbeauzard Haute-Garonne | 4.4 | 10% | 0% | 151 km |
| 2 | Saint-Quay-Portrieux Côtes-d'Armor | 4.1 | 0% | 0% | On it |
| 3 | L'Île-Rousse Haute-Corse | 3.6 | 0% | 0% | On it |
| 4 | Volx Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 3.1 | 37% | 100% | 71 km |
| 5 | Ville-di-Pietrabugno Haute-Corse | 2.7 | 25% | 0% | On it |
| 6 | Bousse Moselle | 2.6 | 33% | 0% | 316 km |
| 7 | Jard-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.1 | 21% | 43% | On it |
| 8 | Ormoy Essonne | 2 | 25% | 0% | 180 km |
| 9 | Magland Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 44% | 19% | 257 km |
| 10 | Fretin Nord | 1.8 | 3.1% | 0% | 72 km |
| 11 | Montagny Rhône | 1.7 | 25% | 0% | 235 km |
| 12 | Proville Nord | 1.6 | 15% | 9.5% | 109 km |
| 13 | Bréviandes Aube | 1.4 | 26% | 0% | 277 km |
| 14 | Rochecorbon Indre-et-Loire | 1.3 | 21% | 7.3% | 190 km |
| 15 | Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès Gard | 1.3 | 32% | 0% | 44 km |
| 16 | Saint-Parres-aux-Tertres Aube | 1.2 | 8.7% | 0.6% | 274 km |
| 17 | Lignan-sur-Orb Hérault | 1.2 | 2.9% | 0% | 18 km |
| 18 | Davézieux Ardèche | 1.2 | 4.3% | 0% | 195 km |
| 19 | Veynes Hautes-Alpes | 1.1 | 51% | 63% | 137 km |
| 20 | Romilly-sur-Andelle Eure | 1.1 | 39% | 5.8% | 66 km |
| 21 | Haveluy Nord | 0.8 | 4.2% | 99% | 101 km |
| 22 | Boves Somme | 0.8 | 24% | 8.8% | 63 km |
| 23 | Creuzier-le-Vieux Allier | 0.8 | 10% | 3% | 293 km |
| 24 | Saint-Sauveur-Villages Manche | 0.8 | 2% | 35% | 13 km |
| 25 | Offranville Seine-Maritime | 0.8 | 4.5% | 0% | 5.3 km |
| 26 | Anould Vosges | 0.6 | 49% | 0.1% | 443 km |
| 27 | Flixecourt Somme | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 34 km |
| 28 | Bram Aude | 0.6 | 3.5% | 0% | 81 km |
| 29 | Lansargues Hérault | 0.5 | 0.6% | 27% | 10 km |
| 30 | Carentoir Morbihan | 0.5 | 20% | 0% | 40 km |
| 31 | Bavay Nord | 0.4 | 4% | 100% | 121 km |
| 32 | La Tour-du-Crieu Ariège | 0.4 | 0% | 0% | 114 km |
| 33 | Montendre Charente-Maritime | 0.4 | 17% | 15% | 23 km |
| 34 | Azay-sur-Cher Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 15% | 0% | 189 km |
| 35 | Brou Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 149 km |
| 36 | Aix-Villemaur-Pâlis Aube | 0.3 | 26% | 0.9% | 263 km |
| 37 | Illiers-Combray Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 142 km |
| 38 | Picauville Manche | 0.2 | 2.9% | 100% | 15 km |
| 39 | Verneuil-l'Étang Seine-et-Marne | 0.2 | 9.8% | 0% | 189 km |
| 40 | Argentonnay Deux-Sèvres | 0.1 | 5.2% | 4.8% | 91 km |
| 41 | Albias Tarn-et-Garonne | 0 | 4.8% | 1.4% | 173 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Collines d’Ensérune (ancien nom : Collines du Narbonnais) is the nearest protected area, 9.2 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Collines d’Ensérune (ancien nom : Collines du Narbonnais)
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.
4 km of footpaths cross Lignan-sur-Orb
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 63% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 86% 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 Lignan-sur-Orb 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).
The best walking months in Lignan-sur-Orb: April to June and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Beziers-Courtade, 5.6 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 Lignan-sur-Orb →
Next to Lignan-sur-Orb
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lignan-sur-Orb | 0% | 2.9% | 1.2 | 18 km |
| Maraussan 4,789 · 2.1 km | 0% | 1.3% | 0.6 | 17 km |
| Thézan-lès-Béziers 3,124 · 3.8 km | 0% | 0.9% | 0.8 | 22 km |
| Cazouls-lès-Béziers 5,261 · 5.8 km | 0% | 5.7% | 0.9 | 22 km |
| Béziers 81,545 · 6.1 km | 0% | 5.4% | 1.3 | 12 km |
| Boujan-sur-Libron 3,619 · 6.2 km | 0% | 9.8% | 1.6 | 14 km |
| Montady 3,990 · 6.3 km | 0% | 2.7% | 0.8 | 16 km |
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 Lignan-sur-Orb
Is Lignan-sur-Orb in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Collines d’Ensérune (ancien nom : Collines du Narbonnais), 9.2 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Lignan-sur-Orb?
OpenStreetMap maps 4 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).
How much of Lignan-sur-Orb is woodland?
2.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lignan-sur-Orb near the sea?
No: the coast is 18 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Lignan-sur-Orb?
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.