First pick
Parc de Boisbeaumont
Park or garden
6.9 ha1.8 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.8 km of path
1.1 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Romary · CC BY 2.52.4%woodland
Outdoors in Beaumont · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Beaumont has more footpaths per km² than 9 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 24 km across Beaumont (6 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 3 km in Beaumont. Mapped woodland covers 2.4% of Beaumont. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.1%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Volcans d’Auvergne Regional Nature Park, 1 km
Woodland
2.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
24 km
6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.2 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
7
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc de Boisbeaumont
Throughout this page, the Puy-de-Dôme 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 Beaumont?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths6 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyVolcans d’Auvergne Regional Nature Park is 1 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland2.4% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Beaumont apart: its footpaths, then protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Beaumont 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 areas0.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
50out of 100
Woodland2.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
12out of 100
Footpaths6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
94out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
76out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Beaumont has the 3rd most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (10,547 to 10,893 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Voisins-le-Bretonneux (13.8 km per km²) to Brissac Loire Aubance (0.5 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Voisins-le-Bretonneux Yvelines | 13.8 | 8.8% | 5.4% | 144 km |
| 2 | Chantilly Oise | 6.8 | 70% | 100% | 124 km |
| 3 | Beaumont Puy-de-Dôme | 6 | 2.4% | 0.1% | 255 km |
| 4 | Igny Essonne | 5.5 | 20% | 0% | 156 km |
| 5 | Bondoufle Essonne | 5.3 | 7.9% | 0% | 173 km |
| 6 | Dinard Ille-et-Vilaine | 5 | 7.9% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Chanteloup-les-Vignes Yvelines | 4.4 | 21% | 0% | 126 km |
| 8 | Déville-lès-Rouen Seine-Maritime | 4.3 | 19% | 0.1% | 49 km |
| 9 | Épinay-sur-Orge Essonne | 4.3 | 10% | 0% | 165 km |
| 10 | Longuenesse Pas-de-Calais | 3.7 | 8.8% | 100% | 29 km |
| 11 | Clermont Oise | 3.6 | 30% | 0% | 103 km |
| 12 | Chantepie Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.5 | 4% | 0% | 53 km |
| 13 | Allonnes Sarthe | 3.2 | 15% | 0% | 134 km |
| 14 | Étaples Pas-de-Calais | 3.2 | 29% | 7% | On it |
| 15 | Fosses Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 5.1% | 57% | 134 km |
| 16 | Tinqueux Marne | 2.8 | 2.4% | 0% | 196 km |
| 17 | Héricourt Haute-Saône | 2.8 | 36% | 0% | 425 km |
| 18 | Annœullin Nord | 2.8 | 4.2% | 0% | 68 km |
| 19 | Charvieu-Chavagneux Isère | 2.7 | 10% | 0% | 255 km |
| 20 | Passy Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 29% | 44% | 246 km |
| 21 | Amnéville Moselle | 2.3 | 12% | 0% | 315 km |
| 22 | Urrugne Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.3 | 23% | 28% | 3.1 km |
| 23 | Châteaugiron Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 62 km |
| 24 | Treillières Loire-Atlantique | 2.1 | 15% | 0% | 41 km |
| 25 | Argelès-sur-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 30% | 39% | On it |
| 26 | La Londe-les-Maures Var | 1.8 | 27% | 49% | On it |
| 27 | La Trinité Alpes-Maritimes | 1.8 | 59% | 25% | 3.6 km |
| 28 | Saint-Martin-Boulogne Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 8.3% | 0.1% | 2.1 km |
| 29 | Vieux-Condé Nord | 1.7 | 7.4% | 100% | 96 km |
| 30 | Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 1.6 | 11% | 23% | 17 km |
| 31 | Mainvilliers Eure-et-Loir | 1.4 | 9.3% | 0% | 136 km |
| 32 | Oloron-Sainte-Marie Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.3 | 52% | 4.8% | 83 km |
| 33 | Léognan Gironde | 1.2 | 39% | 0% | 30 km |
| 34 | Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone Hérault | 1.2 | 0.7% | 52% | On it |
| 35 | Wittelsheim Haut-Rhin | 1.2 | 34% | 6.2% | 447 km |
| 36 | Tarare Rhône | 1.1 | 41% | 0% | 261 km |
| 37 | Erstein Bas-Rhin | 0.9 | 32% | 38% | 459 km |
| 38 | Orthez Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.9 | 21% | 25% | 57 km |
| 39 | Parempuyre Gironde | 0.9 | 6.7% | 8.1% | 6.3 km |
| 40 | Boulazac Isle Manoire Dordogne | 0.7 | 48% | 0% | 108 km |
| 41 | Brissac Loire Aubance Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 13% | 39% | 124 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 Beaumont
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de Boisbeaumont leads, at 6.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc et Complexe Sportif de La Mourette
Park or garden
6.1 ha1.3 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.3 km of path
0.9 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bassin d'Orage du Pourliat
Park or garden
5.2 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Beaumont
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Bopfingen
Park or garden
1.4 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Beaumont
Directionsto a point inside
Coulée Verte de Vallieres
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
0.8 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Ferme Urbaine Clermont-Ferrand
Park or garden · 290 m outside the commune
0.4 ha
1.2 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Volcans d’Auvergne Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 1 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Volcans d’Auvergne Regional Nature Park
1 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.1%
Regional nature park0.1%
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.
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
Footpaths and woods in Beaumont
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
24 km
6 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.2 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
2.4%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BeaumontPuy-de-Dôme medianFrance median
Footpaths6
Hiking routes0.8
03.57 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BeaumontPuy-de-Dôme medianFrance median
Woodland2.4%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 94% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 88% 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 Beaumont is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
8 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Clermont-Ferrand - Olloix9.1 km
Le chemin des orchys3.5 km
Le Plateau de Gergovie3.3 km
Le Quartier des Caves3 km
Chemin de Montaigne de Pont-du-Château à Clermont-Ferrand2.1 km
Le chemin des écoliers1.8 km
Chemin de Montaigne de Clermont-Ferrand à Saint-Ours0.8 km
Les Gorges de l'Artiere0.7 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Beaumont: April and July to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Clermont-Fd, 6.2 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) | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.4 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 27 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 27 | 19 | 26 | 51 | 67 | 68 | 63 | 62 | 58 | 49 | 46 | 29 |
February is the driest month (19 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 68 mm of rain falls in June, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 56 nights a year. The climate in Beaumont →
Neighbors
Next to Beaumont
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
AubièreCeyratRomagnatRoyatChamalièresClermont-FerrandBeaumont
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumont | 0.1% | 2.4% | 6 |
| Aubière 10,459 · 2 km | 0% | 0.4% | 5.2 |
| Ceyrat 6,592 · 2.2 km | 100% | 48% | 4.6 |
| Romagnat 7,894 · 2.5 km | 3.1% | 22% | 2.3 |
| Royat 4,479 · 3.2 km | 0.2% | 63% | 4.2 |
| Chamalières 17,509 · 3.2 km | 0.1% | 3.4% | 4.1 |
| Clermont-Ferrand 146,351 · 3.7 km | 0.7% | 4.6% | 3.7 |
Ceyrat has at least twice as much protected land. Ceyrat, Romagnat and Royat are 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 Beaumont
Is Beaumont in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Volcans d’Auvergne Regional Nature Park, 1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Beaumont?
OpenStreetMap maps 24 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 3 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Beaumont is woodland?
2.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Beaumont near the sea?
No: the coast is 255 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Beaumont?
April and July 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 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.