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4.7%woodland

Outdoors in Saint-Aunès · protected areas, woods and footpaths

Almost every home in Saint-Aunès is within 800 m of a park or wood

Mapped woodland covers 4.7% of Saint-Aunès. No protected area reaches Saint-Aunès; the nearest, Étang de Mauguio (Natura 2000), is 5.4 km from the town center. 13 km of footpaths cross Saint-Aunès (1 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.

4.7%woodland 13km of footpaths 10 kmto the coast

Protected areas

of the commune’s land

Nearest: Étang de Mauguio, 5.4 km

Woodland

4.7%

of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap

Compared town: 13%

Footpaths

13 km

1 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

named, in or within 400 m of the commune

First: Bois de Saint-Antoine

The sea

10 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 Saint-Aunès 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%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site

22out of 100

Woodland4.7%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap

22out of 100

Footpaths1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune

32out 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

Saint-Aunès has the 18th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size

The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,492 to 4,568 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.

Saint-Aunès 1

GréasqueCamaret-sur-Aigues

04.59 km per km²

From Gréasque (7.9 km per km²) to Camaret-sur-Aigues (0.3 km per km²).

Every town in the comparison

	Town	Paths (km/km²)	Woodland	Protected	Coast
1	Gréasque Bouches-du-Rhône	7.9	53%	0%	19 km
2	Jacob-Bellecombette Savoie	7.4	26%	45%	232 km
3	Saint-Nicolas Pas-de-Calais	4.8	2.8%	0%	79 km
4	Villiers-sur-Orge Essonne	4.7	7.5%	0%	166 km
5	Leucate Aude	3.4	2.1%	79%	On it
6	Bretteville-sur-Odon Calvados	3.2	4.3%	0%	17 km
7	Montigny-en-Ostrevent Nord	2.8	13%	0.4%	92 km
8	Plourin-lès-Morlaix Finistère	2	22%	0.5%	5.4 km
9	Milly-la-Forêt Essonne	1.9	53%	100%	192 km
10	Notre-Dame-d'Oé Indre-et-Loire	1.9	2.7%	0%	189 km
11	Saint-Marcel Eure	1.8	24%	0%	88 km
12	Communay Rhône	1.8	13%	0%	235 km
13	Noirmoutier-en-l'Île Vendée	1.7	4%	38%	On it
14	Maintenon Eure-et-Loir	1.6	28%	0.5%	130 km
15	Plougonvelin Finistère	1.4	4.3%	0.9%	On it
16	Chaponnay Rhône	1.4	17%	0%	240 km
17	Marchiennes Nord	1.4	38%	100%	91 km
18	Banyuls-sur-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales	1.3	6.4%	78%	On it
19	Biache-Saint-Vaast Pas-de-Calais	1.3	9.2%	0%	90 km
20	La Guerche-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine	1.2	0.2%	0%	77 km
21	Jouques Bouches-du-Rhône	1.2	61%	92%	40 km
22	Bonson Loire	1.1	9.6%	7.9%	218 km
23	Bages Pyrénées-Orientales	1.1	0.3%	0%	12 km
24	Saint-Aunès Hérault	1	4.7%	0%	10 km
25	Saint-Pair-sur-Mer Manche	0.9	2.5%	4.5%	0.9 km
26	Beaussais-sur-Mer Côtes-d'Armor	0.9	12%	100%	On it
27	Castelmaurou Haute-Garonne	0.8	20%	0%	143 km
28	Lamotte-Beuvron Loir-et-Cher	0.7	52%	100%	239 km
29	Crespin Nord	0.7	34%	99%	105 km
30	Saint-Martin-de-May Calvados	0.7	2.9%	0%	21 km
31	Sainte-Marie-aux-Chênes Moselle	0.6	2.2%	0%	314 km
32	Villeneuve-lès-Béziers Hérault	0.6	1.8%	30%	7.4 km
33	Mesnil-Roc'h Ille-et-Vilaine	0.6	36%	100%	8.2 km
34	Montagnac Hérault	0.6	11%	14%	17 km
35	Lunel-Viel Hérault	0.6	4.6%	0%	13 km
36	Retiers Ille-et-Vilaine	0.5	0.6%	0%	79 km
37	Le Thillay Val-d'Oise	0.5	2.5%	0%	141 km
38	Gonfaron Var	0.4	42%	23%	21 km
39	Freneuse Yvelines	0.4	34%	51%	100 km
40	Vivonne Vienne	0.4	21%	0%	108 km
41	Camaret-sur-Aigues Vaucluse	0.3	2.4%	0.8%	79 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 Saint-Aunès

Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Saint-Antoine leads, at 31 ha. Directions go to a point inside.

First pick

Bois de Saint-Antoine

Wood or forest · 10 m outside the commune

31 ha3.8 km of path

50 minto walk all 3.8 km of path

2.8 km north-eastfrom the center

Parcours Sportif de Lou Bosc de Saint-AntoineParcours de Santé du Bois de Saint-Antoine

Directionsto a point inside

Parc de la Liberté

Park or garden · 230 m outside the commune

1.2 ha0.2 km of path

1.5 km westfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

Terrain de football

Park or garden

0.5 ha

0.7 km south-eastfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.

Protected areas

Étang de Mauguio is the nearest protected area, 5.4 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

Étang de Mauguio

5.4 km from the town center

Share of the commune’s land

Any protected area0%

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

13 km of footpaths cross Saint-Aunès

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

13 km

1 km per km²

Hiking routes

0 km

waymarked: 0 km per km²

Woodland

4.7%

about 0.6 km² of mapped woods

Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap

Saint-AunèsHérault medianFrance median

Footpaths1

Hiking routes0

012 km per km²

Share of the land · mapped woods and forest

Saint-AunèsHérault medianFrance median

Woodland4.7%

0%50%100%

That is less than in 68% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 78% 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 Saint-Aunès is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.

When to get out

The best walking months in Saint-Aunès: April to August

Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Montpellier-Aeroport, 7.1 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	16	19	23	27	30	29	25	21	16	13
Rain (mm)	56	39	42	56	44	33	17	36	87	95	78	57

July is the driest month (17 mm) and the warmest (highs of 30 °C). 95 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 21 nights a year. The climate in Saint-Aunès →

Neighbors

Next to Saint-Aunès

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.

VendarguesLe CrèsCastelnau-le-LezCastriesBaillarguesJacouSaint-Aunès

Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+

Town	Protected	Woodland	Paths (km/km²)	Coast
Saint-Aunès	0%	4.7%	1	10 km
Vendargues 7,262 · 2.2 km	0%	11%	3.3	12 km
Le Crès 9,226 · 2.5 km	0%	9.9%	5.2	12 km
Castelnau-le-Lez 26,058 · 4.4 km	1.2%	4.5%	4.6	11 km
Castries 6,883 · 4.5 km	0.1%	9.3%	3.6	14 km
Baillargues 7,829 · 4.6 km	0%	1.7%	2.3	12 km
Jacou 6,924 · 4.6 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 Saint-Aunès

Is Saint-Aunès in a national or regional nature park?

No. The nearest protected area is Étang de Mauguio, 5.4 km from the town center.

Are there good walks in Saint-Aunès?

OpenStreetMap maps 13 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).

How much of Saint-Aunès is woodland?

4.7% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.

Is Saint-Aunès near the sea?

No: the coast is 10 km from the town center, as the crow flies.

When is the best time for walking in Saint-Aunès?

April to August: 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.