First pick
Causse de Gabaudet
Wood or forest · 0 m outside the commune
123 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
7.5 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Kickray · CC BY-SA 3.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Gramat · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Gramat lies inside Causses du Quercy Regional Nature Park
100% of Gramat’s land lies in protected areas. Mapped woodland covers 39% of Gramat. Footpaths add up to 22 km across Gramat (0.4 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
39%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
22 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Causse de Gabaudet
Throughout this page, the Lot 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 Gramat?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Causses du Quercy Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune39% mapped woodland, more than in 84% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Gramat apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Gramat 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
99out of 100
Woodland39%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
84out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
10out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
41out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Gramat has the 7th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,491 to 3,536 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bergues (12 km per km²) to Dun-sur-Auron (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bergues Nord | 12 | 18% | 0% | 8.9 km |
| 2 | Danjoutin Territoire de Belfort | 3.3 | 33% | 0% | 429 km |
| 3 | Quissac Gard | 2.8 | 46% | 0% | 39 km |
| 4 | Mérignies Nord | 2.6 | 7.7% | 0% | 76 km |
| 5 | Bellignat Ain | 2.5 | 65% | 0% | 311 km |
| 6 | Hérimoncourt Doubs | 2.5 | 57% | 0% | 409 km |
| 7 | La Buisse Isère | 2.4 | 35% | 61% | 218 km |
| 8 | Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.4 | 82% | 1.8% | 32 km |
| 9 | La Forêt-Fouesnant Finistère | 2.3 | 7.6% | 0% | On it |
| 10 | La Bernerie-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 2.1 | 2.2% | 0.8% | On it |
| 11 | Haucourt-Moulaine Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2 | 34% | 0% | 278 km |
| 12 | Crémieu Isère | 1.9 | 36% | 24% | 254 km |
| 13 | Montalieu-Vercieu Isère | 1.9 | 25% | 4.2% | 266 km |
| 14 | Portiragnes Hérault | 1.9 | 5% | 80% | On it |
| 15 | Taninges Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 57% | 28% | 268 km |
| 16 | Sorède Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.6 | 68% | 43% | 7.9 km |
| 17 | Lécousse Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 1.4% | 0% | 31 km |
| 18 | Les Belleville Savoie | 1.4 | 15% | 71% | 194 km |
| 19 | Cerny Essonne | 1.2 | 41% | 100% | 179 km |
| 20 | Langeac Haute-Loire | 1.1 | 48% | 100% | 176 km |
| 21 | Saint-Didier-en-Velay Haute-Loire | 1.1 | 35% | 0% | 194 km |
| 22 | Issenheim Haut-Rhin | 1 | 14% | 0.2% | 458 km |
| 23 | Vertaizon Puy-de-Dôme | 0.9 | 9% | 2.1% | 253 km |
| 24 | Béligneux Ain | 0.9 | 14% | 6.3% | 268 km |
| 25 | Marssac-sur-Tarn Tarn | 0.8 | 4.6% | 0% | 124 km |
| 26 | Rieumes Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 22% | 0% | 164 km |
| 27 | Vrigne aux Bois Ardennes | 0.7 | 60% | 46% | 215 km |
| 28 | Varangéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.7 | 12% | 0% | 377 km |
| 29 | Savigneux Loire | 0.6 | 3% | 66% | 228 km |
| 30 | Chaumes-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 29% | 0.1% | 188 km |
| 31 | Chanceaux-sur-Choisille Indre-et-Loire | 0.6 | 17% | 0% | 190 km |
| 32 | Gallardon Eure-et-Loir | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 140 km |
| 33 | Capestang Hérault | 0.5 | 0.9% | 18% | 20 km |
| 34 | Montmirail Marne | 0.4 | 27% | 0% | 198 km |
| 35 | Gramat Lot | 0.4 | 39% | 100% | 185 km |
| 36 | Espira-de-l'Agly Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.4 | 11% | 3.9% | 17 km |
| 37 | Sainte-Geneviève Oise | 0.3 | 17% | 0% | 104 km |
| 38 | Hornaing Nord | 0.3 | 8.8% | 99% | 98 km |
| 39 | Sallertaine Vendée | 0.2 | 3.4% | 44% | 13 km |
| 40 | Weyersheim Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 14% | 0% | 444 km |
| 41 | Dun-sur-Auron Cher | 0.1 | 5.4% | 17% | 291 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 Gramat
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Causse de Gabaudet leads, at 123 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parcours de Santé
Park or garden
2.4 ha0.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Gramat
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Jaubert
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Gramat
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 Gramat
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Causses du Quercy Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Vallées de l’Ouysse et de l’Alzou
4.2% of the commune1.4 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Vieux chênes de la Panonnie
4.9 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Zone centrale du causse de Gramat
6.3 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site4.2%
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.
100% of Gramat’s land is protected, more than in 99% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Lot has 0%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
22 km of footpaths and 14 km of hiking routes cross Gramat
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
22 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
39%
about 22 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GramatLot medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GramatLot medianFrance median
Woodland39%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 90% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 84% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Gramat’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Boucle de randonnée entre Rocamadour et le Gouffre de Padirac17 km
Circuit la randonnée du Causse8.7 km
Le sentier d’Henri6.2 km
Le chemin de l'eau4.6 km
Circuit du Moulin du Saut4.6 km
Les Caps durs1.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Gramat: June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Gourdon, 26 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) | 9.2 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 24 | 19 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 65 | 51 | 61 | 83 | 82 | 76 | 55 | 63 | 74 | 71 | 76 | 67 |
February is the driest month (51 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 83 mm of rain falls in April, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Gramat →
Neighbors
Next to Gramat
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-CéréSouillacGourdonGramat
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gramat | 100% | 39% | 0.4 |
| Saint-Céré 3,429 · 16 km | 0% | 28% | 1.6 |
| Souillac 3,192 · 24 km | 6.9% | 67% | 1 |
| Gourdon 4,206 · 28 km | 0% | 42% | 0.7 |
Souillac is more wooded.
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 Gramat
Is Gramat in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Gramat lies in Causses du Quercy Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Gramat?
OpenStreetMap maps 22 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 14 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Gramat is woodland?
39% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Gramat near the sea?
No: the coast is 185 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Gramat?
June 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 4, 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.