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
3.2 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Sapin88 · CC BY-SA 3.066%of the land protected
Outdoors in Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers · protected areas, woods and footpaths
66% of Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers’ land is protected for nature
Mapped woodland covers 48% of Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers. Footpaths add up to 56 km across Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers (2.6 km per km²). Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers has 11 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
66%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
48%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
56 km
2.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 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: Bois de Perié
The sea
26 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 Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside66% of the land lies in protected areas.A wooded commune48% mapped woodland, more than in 91% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers apart: its protected countryside, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers 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 areas66%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
89out of 100
Woodland48%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
91out of 100
Footpaths2.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
68out of 100
Hiking routes0.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
61out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers has the 6th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,926 to 5,036 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Villefranche-sur-Mer (4.2 km per km²) to Saint-James (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Villefranche-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes | 4.2 | 19% | 26% | On it |
| 2 | Beaucourt Territoire de Belfort | 3.7 | 33% | 0% | 414 km |
| 3 | Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche Yvelines | 3.6 | 38% | 0% | 136 km |
| 4 | Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Pas-de-Calais | 2.8 | 35% | 100% | On it |
| 5 | Luzarches Val-d'Oise | 2.6 | 47% | 100% | 130 km |
| 6 | Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers Hérault | 2.6 | 48% | 66% | 26 km |
| 7 | La Grand-Croix Loire | 2.5 | 15% | 0% | 219 km |
| 8 | Gruissan Aude | 2.5 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 9 | La Mure Isère | 2.2 | 10% | 0% | 176 km |
| 10 | Decazeville Aveyron | 2.2 | 40% | 0% | 168 km |
| 11 | Montchanin Saône-et-Loire | 2.1 | 20% | 0% | 355 km |
| 12 | La Mézière Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.1 | 7.5% | 0% | 36 km |
| 13 | Sainte-Marie-la-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.9 | 1.4% | 1.3% | On it |
| 14 | Hauts de Bienne Jura | 1.9 | 77% | 100% | 326 km |
| 15 | Champagne-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1.8 | 33% | 54% | 119 km |
| 16 | Lorette Loire | 1.8 | 13% | 0.2% | 220 km |
| 17 | Bousbecque Nord | 1.5 | 1.4% | 0% | 49 km |
| 18 | Laigneville Oise | 1.5 | 29% | 0% | 112 km |
| 19 | Mamers Sarthe | 1.4 | 0.9% | 0.1% | 110 km |
| 20 | Bitche Moselle | 1.3 | 75% | 100% | 398 km |
| 21 | Crécy-la-Chapelle Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 21% | 0% | 172 km |
| 22 | Cluny Saône-et-Loire | 1.1 | 42% | 100% | 322 km |
| 23 | Plouigneau Finistère | 1.1 | 19% | 12% | 9 km |
| 24 | La Souterraine Creuse | 1.1 | 18% | 0% | 193 km |
| 25 | Le Fenouiller Vendée | 1 | 4.1% | 9.9% | 3.5 km |
| 26 | Créon Gironde | 0.9 | 24% | 0% | 32 km |
| 27 | Souppes-sur-Loing Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 19% | 1.4% | 223 km |
| 28 | Heyrieux Isère | 0.6 | 6.6% | 0% | 242 km |
| 29 | Decize Nièvre | 0.6 | 15% | 32% | 355 km |
| 30 | Pacy-sur-Eure Eure | 0.6 | 45% | 3.1% | 88 km |
| 31 | Nivillac Morbihan | 0.5 | 9.4% | 3.7% | 9.4 km |
| 32 | Lestrem Pas-de-Calais | 0.5 | 1% | 0% | 52 km |
| 33 | Neuville-aux-Bois Loiret | 0.5 | 19% | 0% | 196 km |
| 34 | Witry-lès-Reims Marne | 0.4 | 3.6% | 0% | 201 km |
| 35 | Lisle-sur-Tarn Tarn | 0.4 | 30% | 0% | 136 km |
| 36 | Morcenx-la-Nouvelle Landes | 0.4 | 64% | 12% | 34 km |
| 37 | Verdun-sur-Garonne Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 12% | 8.5% | 174 km |
| 38 | Val d'Erdre-Auxence Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 11% | 0% | 97 km |
| 39 | Beaurepaire Isère | 0.3 | 4.5% | 0% | 210 km |
| 40 | Rambervillers Vosges | 0.2 | 38% | 0% | 414 km |
| 41 | Saint-James Manche | 0.2 | 6.3% | 0% | 12 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-Mathieu-de-Tréviers
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 Périé
Wood or forest · 290 m outside the commune
18 ha
2.8 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Hautes Garrigues du Montpelliérais
66% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Pic Saint-Loup
13% of the commune1.4 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area66%
Natura 2000 site66%
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.
66% of Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers’ land is protected, more than in 89% 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
56 km of footpaths and 11 km of hiking routes cross Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers
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
56 km
2.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked: 0.5 km per km²
Woodland
48%
about 10.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-Mathieu-de-TréviersHérault medianFrance median
Footpaths2.6
Hiking routes0.5
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-Mathieu-de-TréviersHérault medianFrance median
Woodland48%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 68% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 91% 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-Mathieu-de-Tréviers is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 605.1 km
Le Pic Saint-Loup1.8 km
GR 60 passes within 2 km of Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Prades le Lez, 5.4 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 Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers →
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Prades-le-LezSaint-Clément-de-RivièreSaint-Gély-du-FescSaint-DrézéryTeyranMontferrier-sur-LezSaint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers | 66% | 48% | 2.6 | 26 km |
| Prades-le-Lez 6,184 · 8 km | 7.8% | 37% | 4 | 18 km |
| Saint-Clément-de-Rivière 5,218 · 9.5 km | 2.7% | 43% | 6.3 | 18 km |
| Saint-Gély-du-Fesc 10,472 · 9.7 km | 0% | 39% | 3.4 | 21 km |
| Saint-Drézéry 3,006 · 9.7 km | 0.2% | 0.3% | 1.8 | 20 km |
| Teyran 4,787 · 11 km | 10% | 11% | 3.2 | 15 km |
| Montferrier-sur-Lez 4,135 · 11 km | 8.3% | 33% | 5.3 | 16 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-Mathieu-de-Tréviers
Is Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 66% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers?
OpenStreetMap maps 56 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 11 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers is woodland?
48% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers near the sea?
No: the coast is 26 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers?
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.