Photo: Archives départementales de l'Hérault (France) DAASI · CC BY-SA 4.047% of Montarnaud is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
84 km of footpaths cross Montarnaud (3 km per km²). Protected areas cover 17% of Montarnaud’s land. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 9 km in Montarnaud. 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.
How Montarnaud 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.
Montarnaud has the 5th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,179 to 4,241 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (5 km per km²) to Redessan (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Touquet-Paris-Plage Pas-de-Calais | 5 | 23% | 9.8% | On it |
| 2 | Mimet Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.9 | 49% | 44% | 16 km |
| 3 | Corenc Isère | 3.8 | 50% | 45% | 206 km |
| 4 | Bray-Dunes Nord | 3.6 | 0% | 41% | On it |
| 5 | Montarnaud Hérault | 3 | 47% | 17% | 22 km |
| 6 | Angoulins Charente-Maritime | 2.7 | 0.3% | 3.8% | On it |
| 7 | Escautpont Nord | 2.6 | 41% | 99% | 100 km |
| 8 | Salouël Somme | 2.6 | 2% | 0% | 54 km |
| 9 | Le Neubourg Eure | 2.3 | 19% | 0% | 51 km |
| 10 | Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny Savoie | 2.2 | 50% | 100% | 225 km |
| 11 | Yvré-l'Évêque Sarthe | 2.2 | 26% | 0% | 138 km |
| 12 | Plomelin Finistère | 2.1 | 19% | 0% | On it |
| 13 | Marlenheim Bas-Rhin | 2 | 9.8% | 0% | 435 km |
| 14 | Rouffach Haut-Rhin | 1.8 | 37% | 10% | 464 km |
| 15 | Carnac Morbihan | 1.7 | 25% | 2.5% | On it |
| 16 | Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 36% | 2.7% | 41 km |
| 17 | Pont-du-Casse Lot-et-Garonne | 1.7 | 8.3% | 0% | 132 km |
| 18 | Pomponne Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 48% | 4% | 161 km |
| 19 | Valgelon-La Rochette Savoie | 1.6 | 31% | 0.6% | 216 km |
| 20 | Wolfisheim Bas-Rhin | 1.6 | 7.5% | 0% | 446 km |
| 21 | Saint-Just-Malmont Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 47% | 0.3% | 199 km |
| 22 | Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse Drôme | 1.1 | 26% | 0% | 186 km |
| 23 | Pluguffan Finistère | 1.1 | 14% | 0% | 4.3 km |
| 24 | Bartenheim Haut-Rhin | 1.1 | 30% | 29% | 428 km |
| 25 | Grisolles Tarn-et-Garonne | 1 | 13% | 19% | 168 km |
| 26 | Rians Var | 0.9 | 70% | 70% | 45 km |
| 27 | Athis-Val de Rouvre Orne | 0.8 | 11% | 2.9% | 56 km |
| 28 | Noues de Sienne Calvados | 0.7 | 20% | 0% | 32 km |
| 29 | Gourdon Lot | 0.7 | 42% | 0% | 158 km |
| 30 | Brionne Eure | 0.6 | 38% | 14% | 38 km |
| 31 | Saint-Laurent-Nouan Loir-et-Cher | 0.6 | 42% | 26% | 213 km |
| 32 | Nailloux Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 5.1% | 0% | 123 km |
| 33 | Le Châtelet-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 18% | 0% | 200 km |
| 34 | Selles-sur-Cher Loir-et-Cher | 0.6 | 20% | 7.9% | 232 km |
| 35 | Porte des Pierres Dorées Rhône | 0.6 | 9.4% | 0% | 271 km |
| 36 | Sanvignes-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 12% | 0% | 345 km |
| 37 | Breteuil Oise | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 75 km |
| 38 | Jouarre Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 175 km |
| 39 | Bollwiller Haut-Rhin | 0.3 | 26% | 0% | 453 km |
| 40 | Betschdorf Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 41% | 49% | 436 km |
| 41 | Redessan Gard | 0.2 | 0% | 66% | 41 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
17% of Montarnaud lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Garrigues de la Moure et d’Aumelas
Montagne de la Moure et Causse d’Aumelas
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.
17% of Montarnaud’s land is protected, more than in 77% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Hérault has 12%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
84 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Montarnaud
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 more than in 74% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 90% 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 Montarnaud 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 Montarnaud: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Prades le Lez, 16 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 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 29 | 32 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 79 | 52 | 57 | 75 | 64 | 45 | 23 | 45 | 112 | 128 | 106 | 84 |
July is the driest month (23 mm) and the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 128 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 53 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Montarnaud →
Next to Montarnaud
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montarnaud | 17% | 47% | 3 | 22 km |
| Vailhauquès 2,722 · 3.1 km | 0% | 56% | 2.8 | 23 km |
| Saint-Georges-d'Orques 5,676 · 7.7 km | 0% | 0.3% | 2.7 | 14 km |
| Pignan 8,431 · 8.5 km | 34% | 1.7% | 3.2 | 13 km |
| Juvignac 14,055 · 9.2 km | 0% | 4.2% | 4.2 | 14 km |
| Grabels 9,092 · 9.4 km | 0% | 9.7% | 6.1 | 17 km |
| Cournonterral 7,359 · 9.9 km | 62% | 3.1% | 3.4 | 13 km |
Cournonterral has 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 Montarnaud
Is Montarnaud in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 17% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Montarnaud?
OpenStreetMap maps 84 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Montarnaud is woodland?
47% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Montarnaud near the sea?
No: the coast is 22 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Montarnaud?
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 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.