First pick
Parc Sans Souci
Park or garden
1.6 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Pézenas
Allée Melvin Jones
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: AnimaTer34120 · CC BY-SA 4.06.9%of the land protected
Outdoors in Pézenas · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Pézenas is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 20 km across Pézenas (0.7 km per km²). 10% of Pézenas is mapped woodland. 6.9% of Pézenas’ land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
6.9%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
10%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
20 km
0.7 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
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Sans Souci
The sea
19 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.
Against French towns
How Pézenas 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 areas6.9%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
68out of 100
Woodland10%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
40out of 100
Footpaths0.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
20out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Pézenas has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,700 to 7,897 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Chessy (11.5 km per km²) to Lys-Haut-Layon (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chessy Seine-et-Marne | 11.5 | 14% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Malzéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.6 | 19% | 32% | 364 km |
| 3 | Noisy-le-Roi Yvelines | 4.9 | 20% | 0% | 139 km |
| 4 | Terville Moselle | 4.6 | 24% | 0% | 307 km |
| 5 | Lagord Charente-Maritime | 4.3 | 3% | 0% | 2.8 km |
| 6 | Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse Yvelines | 4.2 | 48% | 100% | 149 km |
| 7 | Thann Haut-Rhin | 3.8 | 75% | 100% | 448 km |
| 8 | Achicourt Pas-de-Calais | 3.6 | 4% | 0% | 78 km |
| 9 | Claix Isère | 3.5 | 55% | 64% | 196 km |
| 10 | Publier Haute-Savoie | 3.4 | 17% | 6.1% | 300 km |
| 11 | Neuville-sur-Saône Rhône | 3.3 | 18% | 0% | 264 km |
| 12 | Courcelles-lès-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 7.7% | 0% | 82 km |
| 13 | Montreuil-Juigné Maine-et-Loire | 2.9 | 8.8% | 15% | 117 km |
| 14 | Bompas Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.9 | 0.2% | 0% | 8.5 km |
| 15 | Gargenville Yvelines | 2.4 | 16% | 42% | 117 km |
| 16 | Romagnat Puy-de-Dôme | 2.3 | 22% | 3.1% | 252 km |
| 17 | Baillargues Hérault | 2.3 | 1.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 18 | La Verpillière Isère | 2.3 | 30% | 0% | 243 km |
| 19 | Wavrin Nord | 2 | 6.6% | 0% | 64 km |
| 20 | Cappelle-la-Grande Nord | 2 | 0.2% | 0% | 4.6 km |
| 21 | Saint-Marcellin Isère | 1.9 | 4.3% | 0% | 192 km |
| 22 | Cranves-Sales Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 28% | 5% | 284 km |
| 23 | La Couronne Charente | 1.7 | 29% | 21% | 70 km |
| 24 | Moirans Isère | 1.4 | 9.7% | 0% | 215 km |
| 25 | Contes Alpes-Maritimes | 1.4 | 37% | 0% | 9.9 km |
| 26 | Corte Haute-Corse | 1.3 | 22% | 100% | 32 km |
| 27 | Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc Gironde | 1.3 | 70% | 0% | 15 km |
| 28 | Lure Haute-Saône | 1.3 | 47% | 0.1% | 440 km |
| 29 | Saint-Denis-en-Val Loiret | 1.3 | 8.5% | 14% | 209 km |
| 30 | Sisteron Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.2 | 38% | 7.1% | 106 km |
| 31 | Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny Haute-Savoie | 1.2 | 28% | 0.2% | 269 km |
| 32 | Les Andelys Eure | 1.1 | 22% | 6.1% | 79 km |
| 33 | Beynes Yvelines | 0.9 | 31% | 0% | 128 km |
| 34 | Nieppe Nord | 0.9 | 1.1% | 0% | 48 km |
| 35 | Saint-Julien-de-Concelles Loire-Atlantique | 0.9 | 6.1% | 17% | 50 km |
| 36 | Hettange-Grande Moselle | 0.8 | 28% | 0.4% | 304 km |
| 37 | Coulounieix-Chamiers Dordogne | 0.7 | 33% | 0% | 102 km |
| 38 | Pézenas Hérault | 0.7 | 10% | 6.9% | 19 km |
| 39 | Ustaritz Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.6 | 47% | 28% | 11 km |
| 40 | Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 4.4% | 36% | 29 km |
| 41 | Lys-Haut-Layon Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 6.8% | 0% | 105 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 Pézenas
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Sans Souci leads, at 1.6 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Square Jean Moulin
Park or garden
0.2 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Pézenas
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
6.9% of Pézenas lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Aqueduc de Pézenas
6.9% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area6.9%
Natura 2000 site6.9%
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.
6.9% of Pézenas’ land is protected, more than in 68% 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.
Footpaths and woods
20 km of footpaths cross Pézenas
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
20 km
0.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
10%
about 3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PézenasHérault medianFrance median
Footpaths0.7
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PézenasHérault medianFrance median
Woodland10%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 80% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 60% 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 Pézenas is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Castelnau-de-Guers - Chapelle Saint-Nicolas9.7 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Pézenas: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pezenas-Tourbes, 2.7 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 | 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 Pézenas →
Neighbors
Next to Pézenas
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MontagnacSaint-ThibéryCauxMontblancFlorensacServianPézenas
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Montagnac 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 Pézenas
Is Pézenas in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 6.9% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Pézenas?
OpenStreetMap maps 20 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Pézenas is woodland?
10% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Pézenas near the sea?
No: the coast is 19 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Pézenas?
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 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.