First pick
Bois de Perié
Wood or forest
437 ha19.6 km of path
4 h 20 minto walk all 19.6 km of path
5.6 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Dutronche · CC BY-SA 3.07.8%of the land protected
Outdoors in Prades-le-Lez · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Prades-le-Lez has more footpaths per km² than 8 in 10 French towns
35 km of footpaths cross Prades-le-Lez (4 km per km²). 37% of Prades-le-Lez is mapped woodland. 7.8% of Prades-le-Lez’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
7.8%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
37%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
35 km
4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.2 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
6
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Perié
The sea
18 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 Prades-le-Lez?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths4 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.A wooded commune37% mapped woodland, more than in 83% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes8 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Prades-le-Lez apart: its footpaths, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Prades-le-Lez 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 areas7.8%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
69out of 100
Woodland37%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
83out of 100
Footpaths4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
84out of 100
Hiking routes0.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
81out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Prades-le-Lez has the 4th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,133 to 6,247 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Menucourt (5.4 km per km²) to Livarot-Pays-d'Auge (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Menucourt Val-d'Oise | 5.4 | 40% | 0.3% | 119 km |
| 2 | Quint-Fonsegrives Haute-Garonne | 4.4 | 9.5% | 0% | 139 km |
| 3 | Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.2 | 25% | 30% | 5.2 km |
| 4 | Prades-le-Lez Hérault | 4 | 37% | 7.8% | 18 km |
| 5 | Jassans-Riottier Ain | 3.9 | 9.6% | 0% | 274 km |
| 6 | Dourges Pas-de-Calais | 3.9 | 11% | 0% | 79 km |
| 7 | Jonage Rhône | 3.6 | 16% | 33% | 260 km |
| 8 | Palavas-les-Flots Hérault | 3.6 | 0% | 72% | On it |
| 9 | Petite-Rosselle Moselle | 3.3 | 33% | 0% | 356 km |
| 10 | Prades Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.7 | 33% | 0.3% | 50 km |
| 11 | Cuges-les-Pins Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.6 | 37% | 100% | 10 km |
| 12 | Saint-Quentin-Fallavier Isère | 2.5 | 13% | 0% | 243 km |
| 13 | Behren-lès-Forbach Moselle | 2.4 | 14% | 0% | 363 km |
| 14 | Bruguières Haute-Garonne | 2.3 | 11% | 0% | 154 km |
| 15 | Aurec-sur-Loire Haute-Loire | 2.3 | 55% | 47% | 201 km |
| 16 | Saint-Genest-Lerpt Loire | 2 | 20% | 0% | 211 km |
| 17 | Franqueville-Saint-Pierre Seine-Maritime | 2 | 5.6% | 0.9% | 58 km |
| 18 | Saint-Marcel Saône-et-Loire | 2 | 6% | 0% | 363 km |
| 19 | Feytiat Haute-Vienne | 1.6 | 27% | 0% | 167 km |
| 20 | Oraison Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.4 | 45% | 29% | 78 km |
| 21 | Pont-Évêque Isère | 1.4 | 17% | 0% | 229 km |
| 22 | Saint-Symphorien-d'Ozon Rhône | 1.3 | 7.2% | 0% | 239 km |
| 23 | Vendenheim Bas-Rhin | 1.3 | 21% | 0% | 443 km |
| 24 | Loches Indre-et-Loire | 0.9 | 17% | 5% | 186 km |
| 25 | Terrasson-Lavilledieu Dordogne | 0.9 | 39% | 7.1% | 149 km |
| 26 | Bellevigny Vendée | 0.9 | 7.1% | 0% | 38 km |
| 27 | Saint-Denis-lès-Bourg Ain | 0.9 | 5.5% | 0% | 306 km |
| 28 | Malaunay Seine-Maritime | 0.7 | 24% | 0% | 43 km |
| 29 | Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx Landes | 0.7 | 51% | 33% | 9.2 km |
| 30 | Mallemort Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 4.4% | 20% | 38 km |
| 31 | Saint-Marcel-lès-Valence Drôme | 0.7 | 3.2% | 0% | 169 km |
| 32 | Guer Morbihan | 0.7 | 20% | 0% | 50 km |
| 33 | Octeville-sur-Mer Seine-Maritime | 0.6 | 0.3% | 5.1% | On it |
| 34 | Marennes-Hiers-Brouage Charente-Maritime | 0.6 | 3.2% | 75% | On it |
| 35 | Thue et Mue Calvados | 0.6 | 1.2% | 0% | 15 km |
| 36 | Fayence Var | 0.6 | 46% | 9.6% | 22 km |
| 37 | Horbourg-Wihr Haut-Rhin | 0.6 | 5% | 0% | 475 km |
| 38 | Le Blanc Indre | 0.5 | 11% | 100% | 173 km |
| 39 | Aire-sur-l'Adour Landes | 0.4 | 22% | 2.6% | 93 km |
| 40 | Fleurance Gers | 0.4 | 10% | 0% | 161 km |
| 41 | Livarot-Pays-d'Auge Calvados | 0.3 | 14% | 0.9% | 38 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 Prades-le-Lez
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Perié leads, at 437 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Saint-Sauveur
Wood or forest · 20 m outside the commune
116 ha17.5 km of path
3 h 55 minto walk all 17.5 km of path
2.8 km north-westfrom the center
Parcours de SantéPiste Cavalière
Directionsto a point inside
Domaine départemental de Restinclières
Wood or forest
50 ha2.8 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.8 km of path
1.9 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de L'Aqueduc
Park or garden · 370 m outside the commune
1 ha0.5 km of path
1.7 km south-westfrom the center
Parcours de Santé
Directionsto a point inside
Parc d'agrément Mas d'Aussel
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
0.7 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin botanique des plantes mellifères
Park or garden
0.2 ha
2.8 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
7.8% of Prades-le-Lez 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
Le Lez
7.7% of the commune0.8 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Hautes Garrigues du Montpelliérais
2.9 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area7.8%
Natura 2000 site7.8%
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.
7.8% of Prades-le-Lez’s land is protected, more than in 69% 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
Footpaths and woods in Prades-le-Lez
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
35 km
4 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.2 km
waymarked: 0.9 km per km²
Woodland
37%
about 3.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Prades-le-LezHérault medianFrance median
Footpaths4
Hiking routes0.9
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Prades-le-LezHérault medianFrance median
Woodland37%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 84% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 83% 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 Prades-le-Lez 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 Prades-le-Lez: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Prades le Lez, 2.6 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 | 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 Prades-le-Lez →
Neighbors
Next to Prades-le-Lez
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Clément-de-RivièreMontferrier-sur-LezClapiersTeyranSaint-Gély-du-FescJacouPrades-le-Lez
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prades-le-Lez | 7.8% | 37% | 4 | 18 km |
| Saint-Clément-de-Rivière 5,218 · 2.3 km | 2.7% | 43% | 6.3 | 18 km |
| Montferrier-sur-Lez 4,135 · 3.2 km | 8.3% | 33% | 5.3 | 16 km |
| Clapiers 6,006 · 4.6 km | 3.1% | 42% | 9.8 | 14 km |
| Teyran 4,787 · 4.7 km | 10% | 11% | 3.2 | 15 km |
| Saint-Gély-du-Fesc 10,472 · 5 km | 0% | 39% | 3.4 | 21 km |
| Jacou 6,924 · 5.2 km | 0% | 16% | 10.3 | 13 km |
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 Prades-le-Lez
Is Prades-le-Lez in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 7.8% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Prades-le-Lez?
OpenStreetMap maps 35 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Prades-le-Lez is woodland?
37% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Prades-le-Lez 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 Prades-le-Lez?
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 9, 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.