First pick
Parc du Bérange
Park or garden
2.3 ha0.4 km of path
0.8 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Vpe · Public domain8.6%woodland
Outdoors in Sussargues · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Sussargues is within 800 m of a park or wood
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 6 km in Sussargues. No protected area reaches Sussargues; the nearest, Hautes Garrigues du Montpelliérais (Natura 2000), is 4.2 km from the town center. 8.6% of Sussargues is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Hautes Garrigues du Montpelliérais, 4.2 km
Woodland
8.6%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
15 km
2.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.4 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 du Bérange
The sea
17 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 Sussargues?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes6 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyHautes Garrigues du Montpelliérais (Natura 2000) is 4.2 km from the town center.
What sets Sussargues apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Sussargues 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
Woodland8.6%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
36out of 100
Footpaths2.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
63out of 100
Hiking routes1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
83out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Sussargues has the 4th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,807 to 2,874 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Courchelettes (4.3 km per km²) to Listrac-Médoc (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Courchelettes Nord | 4.3 | 6.5% | 0% | 91 km |
| 2 | Burbure Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 3.7% | 0% | 55 km |
| 3 | L'Aiguillon-la-Presqu'île Vendée | 2.3 | 7.9% | 100% | On it |
| 4 | Sussargues Hérault | 2.3 | 8.6% | 0% | 17 km |
| 5 | Pérignat-lès-Sarliève Puy-de-Dôme | 2.2 | 3.7% | 4.6% | 251 km |
| 6 | Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets Ille-et-Vilaine | 2 | 5% | 85% | On it |
| 7 | Sainghin-en-Mélantois Nord | 1.8 | 6.5% | 0% | 70 km |
| 8 | Bar-sur-Seine Aube | 1.7 | 40% | 0% | 302 km |
| 9 | Arles-sur-Tech Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.7 | 72% | 6.8% | 36 km |
| 10 | Ibos Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.7 | 31% | 0% | 126 km |
| 11 | Anzin-Saint-Aubin Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 6.2% | 0% | 77 km |
| 12 | Saint-Jean-en-Royans Drôme | 1.7 | 60% | 100% | 177 km |
| 13 | Massieux Ain | 1.6 | 5.1% | 0% | 267 km |
| 14 | Le Faouët Morbihan | 1.4 | 21% | 7.3% | 24 km |
| 15 | Colombiers Hérault | 1.2 | 1.4% | 0% | 13 km |
| 16 | Fraize Vosges | 1.2 | 48% | 100% | 447 km |
| 17 | Saint-Jean-du-Falga Ariège | 1.2 | 3.1% | 2.2% | 117 km |
| 18 | Trélivan Côtes-d'Armor | 1.1 | 18% | 100% | 9.5 km |
| 19 | Rozay-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 1.1% | 0.3% | 191 km |
| 20 | Pont-d'Ain Ain | 1 | 22% | 18% | 291 km |
| 21 | Colombier-Saugnieu Rhône | 1 | 2.7% | 0% | 252 km |
| 22 | Ambronay Ain | 1 | 28% | 1.3% | 286 km |
| 23 | Saint-Clément Yonne | 0.8 | 1.9% | 0% | 248 km |
| 24 | Étaules Charente-Maritime | 0.7 | 9.6% | 39% | On it |
| 25 | Langogne Lozère | 0.7 | 23% | 0.1% | 131 km |
| 26 | Ayguesvives Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 8.4% | 0% | 128 km |
| 27 | Uzerche Corrèze | 0.7 | 22% | 0.9% | 176 km |
| 28 | Fère-en-Tardenois Aisne | 0.7 | 40% | 0% | 171 km |
| 29 | Seiches-sur-le-Loir Maine-et-Loire | 0.6 | 31% | 0% | 137 km |
| 30 | Longny les Villages Orne | 0.5 | 35% | 100% | 104 km |
| 31 | Saint-Loup-sur-Semouse Haute-Saône | 0.5 | 46% | 46% | 422 km |
| 32 | Margaux-Cantenac Gironde | 0.4 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 33 | Cour-Cheverny Loir-et-Cher | 0.4 | 41% | 29% | 229 km |
| 34 | Blangy-sur-Bresle Seine-Maritime | 0.4 | 32% | 0.5% | 23 km |
| 35 | Vendays-Montalivet Gironde | 0.3 | 74% | 100% | On it |
| 36 | Rosières-aux-Salines Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.3 | 24% | 0% | 381 km |
| 37 | Buchy Seine-Maritime | 0.3 | 4.8% | 0% | 42 km |
| 38 | Lafrançaise Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 19% | 0.8% | 175 km |
| 39 | Miremont Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 7.8% | 0.2% | 139 km |
| 40 | La Boixe Charente | 0.1 | 10% | 23% | 78 km |
| 41 | Listrac-Médoc Gironde | 0 | 72% | 100% | 8.3 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 Sussargues
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Bérange leads, at 2.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc du 14 juillet
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Sussargues
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Hautes Garrigues du Montpelliérais is the nearest protected area, 4.2 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
Hautes Garrigues du Montpelliérais
4.2 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
15 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Sussargues
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
15 km
2.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.4 km
waymarked: 1 km per km²
Woodland
8.6%
about 0.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
SussarguesHérault medianFrance median
Footpaths2.3
Hiking routes1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
SussarguesHérault medianFrance median
Woodland8.6%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 63% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 64% 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 Sussargues 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 Sussargues: May and June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Verargues, 7.6 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 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 29 | 32 | 31 | 27 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 64 | 40 | 47 | 71 | 53 | 34 | 20 | 44 | 109 | 102 | 101 | 65 |
July is the driest month (20 mm) and the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 109 mm of rain falls in September, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 35 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Sussargues →
Neighbors
Next to Sussargues
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
RestinclièresSaint-DrézéryCastriesSaint-BrèsBaillarguesVendarguesSussargues
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sussargues | 0% | 8.6% | 2.3 | 17 km |
| Restinclières 2,612 · 3 km | 0% | 8.6% | 1.7 | 18 km |
| Saint-Drézéry 3,006 · 3.1 km | 0.2% | 0.3% | 1.8 | 20 km |
| Castries 6,883 · 4 km | 0.1% | 9.3% | 3.6 | 14 km |
| Saint-Brès 3,623 · 5.4 km | 0% | 0.7% | 1.8 | 12 km |
| Baillargues 7,829 · 5.8 km | 0% | 1.7% | 2.3 | 12 km |
| Vendargues 7,262 · 6.4 km | 0% | 11% | 3.3 | 12 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 Sussargues
Is Sussargues in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Hautes Garrigues du Montpelliérais, 4.2 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Sussargues?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Sussargues is woodland?
8.6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Sussargues near the sea?
No: the coast is 17 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Sussargues?
May and 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.