First pick
Les Petits Pins
Park or garden
4.4 ha2.1 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.1 km of path
1.7 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Yzergues · CC BY-SA 4.00.4%woodland
Outdoors in Lunel · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Lunel
No protected area reaches Lunel; the nearest, Le Vidourle (Natura 2000), is 2.8 km from the town center. Lunel has almost no mapped woodland. 52 km of footpaths cross Lunel (2.2 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.6%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Le Vidourle, 2.8 km
Woodland
0.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
52 km
2.2 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
Green space nearby
77%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
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 Lunel?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyLe Vidourle (Natura 2000) is 2.8 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0.4% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Lunel apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Lunel 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 areas0.6%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
55out of 100
Woodland0.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
4out of 100
Footpaths2.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
60out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Green space nearby77%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
3out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Lunel has the 11th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (25,578 to 27,707 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 4e (12.9 km per km²) to Sèvremoine (0.6 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 4e Paris | 12.9 | 0% | 0% | 150 km |
| 2 | Les Ulis Essonne | 10.9 | 13% | 0.2% | 156 km |
| 3 | Taverny Val-d'Oise | 10.5 | 33% | 0.4% | 129 km |
| 4 | Villeneuve-la-Garenne Hauts-de-Seine | 9.8 | 4.2% | 0% | 141 km |
| 5 | Champs-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 9.6 | 36% | 0.1% | 160 km |
| 6 | Grigny Essonne | 8.7 | 7.2% | 0% | 170 km |
| 7 | Élancourt Yvelines | 8.2 | 26% | 3.5% | 138 km |
| 8 | Cormeilles-en-Parisis Val-d'Oise | 7.2 | 14% | 0% | 133 km |
| 9 | Gradignan Gironde | 6.8 | 17% | 0% | 26 km |
| 10 | Sannois Val-d'Oise | 6 | 17% | 0% | 135 km |
| 11 | Bussy-Saint-Georges Seine-et-Marne | 5.9 | 31% | 2.3% | 167 km |
| 12 | Armentières Nord | 5.9 | 3.8% | 0% | 50 km |
| 13 | Blagnac Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 5.4% | 7.5% | 152 km |
| 14 | Cenon Gironde | 5.4 | 8.9% | 0% | 18 km |
| 15 | Brunoy Essonne | 5.2 | 18% | 0% | 170 km |
| 16 | Eaubonne Val-d'Oise | 5 | 1.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 17 | Limeil-Brévannes Val-de-Marne | 4.8 | 29% | 0% | 165 km |
| 18 | Lambersart Nord | 4.7 | 3.4% | 0% | 59 km |
| 19 | Lormont Gironde | 4.7 | 12% | 7.4% | 16 km |
| 20 | Castelnau-le-Lez Hérault | 4.6 | 4.5% | 1.2% | 11 km |
| 21 | Miramas Bouches-du-Rhône | 4 | 9.2% | 5.7% | 18 km |
| 22 | Hénin-Beaumont Pas-de-Calais | 3.8 | 5.6% | 0% | 80 km |
| 23 | La Garde Var | 3.8 | 7.6% | 25% | On it |
| 24 | Biarritz Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.5 | 11% | 3.5% | On it |
| 25 | Le Grand-Quevilly Seine-Maritime | 3.4 | 4.9% | 0.1% | 50 km |
| 26 | Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône Val-d'Oise | 3.2 | 7.4% | 0% | 123 km |
| 27 | Vertou Loire-Atlantique | 3.1 | 19% | 0% | 41 km |
| 28 | Sens Yonne | 3.1 | 4.6% | 0% | 249 km |
| 29 | Brétigny-sur-Orge Essonne | 3 | 9.5% | 0% | 169 km |
| 30 | Aurillac Cantal | 2.7 | 2.9% | 0.2% | 195 km |
| 31 | Lunel Hérault | 2.2 | 0.4% | 0.6% | 14 km |
| 32 | Gonesse Val-d'Oise | 2.1 | 4% | 0% | 141 km |
| 33 | Villeparisis Seine-et-Marne | 1.9 | 13% | 0% | 153 km |
| 34 | Les Pavillons-sous-Bois Seine-Saint-Denis | 1.9 | 0% | 0% | 151 km |
| 35 | Saumur Maine-et-Loire | 1.5 | 15% | 100% | 133 km |
| 36 | Muret Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 10% | 3.2% | 150 km |
| 37 | Cavaillon Vaucluse | 1.1 | 3.2% | 100% | 45 km |
| 38 | La Teste-de-Buch Gironde | 1.1 | 56% | 46% | On it |
| 39 | Étampes Essonne | 1 | 12% | 0% | 172 km |
| 40 | Bergerac Dordogne | 1 | 14% | 1.9% | 86 km |
| 41 | Sèvremoine Maine-et-Loire | 0.6 | 5.3% | 0% | 70 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 Lunel
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Les Petits Pins leads, at 4.4 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Arboretum de Lunel
Park or garden
2.2 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
1.5 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Jean Hugo
Park or garden
1.3 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
Centralin the middle of Lunel
Directionsto a point inside
Place des Jeux des Grandes Terres
Park or garden · 380 m outside the commune
1.6 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
2.8 km southfrom the center
Place des Jeux des Grandes Terres
Directionsto a point inside
Place du Trèfle
Park or garden · 220 m outside the commune
0.2 ha0.1 km of path
2.7 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
8 in 10 residents of Lunel 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).
77% within 800 m23% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
LunelHérault medianFrance median
Within 800 m77%
0%50%100%
About 6,000 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.
Protected areas
Le Vidourle 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
Le Vidourle
0.6% of the commune2.8 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Étang de Mauguio
3.7 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Étang de Mauguio
3.7 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.6%
Natura 2000 site0.6%
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
52 km of footpaths cross Lunel
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
52 km
2.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.4%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LunelHérault medianFrance median
Footpaths2.2
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LunelHérault medianFrance median
Woodland0.4%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 60% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 96% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Lunel: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Marsillargues, 5.7 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 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 23 | 28 | 31 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 56 | 36 | 41 | 58 | 40 | 28 | 19 | 36 | 82 | 89 | 83 | 51 |
July is the driest month (19 mm) and the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 89 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 36 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Lunel →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Lunel
Named gardens in the commune.
Arboretum de LunelIn Lunel
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Lunel
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-JustLunel-VielMarsillarguesLansarguesGallargues-le-MontueuxAimarguesLunel
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lunel | 0.6% | 0.4% | 2.2 | 14 km |
| Saint-Just 3,293 · 2.6 km | 1.3% | 0% | 1 | 11 km |
| Lunel-Viel 4,507 · 3.2 km | 0% | 4.6% | 0.6 | 13 km |
| Marsillargues 6,988 · 3.8 km | 32% | 0.5% | 0.6 | 13 km |
| Lansargues 3,233 · 5.4 km | 27% | 0.6% | 0.5 | 10 km |
| Gallargues-le-Montueux 3,659 · 5.9 km | 2% | 2% | 1.3 | 19 km |
| Aimargues 5,705 · 6.1 km | 19% | 1.6% | 0.7 | 17 km |
Marsillargues, Lansargues and Aimargues 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 Lunel
Is Lunel in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Le Vidourle, 2.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Lunel?
OpenStreetMap maps 52 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Lunel is woodland?
0.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lunel 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 Lunel?
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.