First pick
Parc Bargoin
Park or garden · 40 m outside the commune
7.1 ha3 km of path
40 minto walk all 3 km of path
2.4 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Tabl-trai · CC BY-SA 3.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Ceyrat · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Ceyrat lies inside Volcans d’Auvergne Regional Nature Park
100% of Ceyrat’s land lies in protected areas. Mapped woodland covers 48% of Ceyrat. Footpaths add up to 43 km across Ceyrat (4.6 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
48%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
43 km
4.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.9 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Bargoin
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 Ceyrat?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Volcans d’Auvergne Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune48% mapped woodland, more than in 90% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.A place of footpaths4.6 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Ceyrat apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Ceyrat 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
92out of 100
Woodland48%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
90out of 100
Footpaths4.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
88out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
73out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Ceyrat has the 4th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,534 to 6,651 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bouffémont (9.6 km per km²) to Longué-Jumelles (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bouffémont Val-d'Oise | 9.6 | 54% | 0.9% | 131 km |
| 2 | Grenay Pas-de-Calais | 6.3 | 6.7% | 0% | 71 km |
| 3 | Champigneulles Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.7 | 77% | 0% | 361 km |
| 4 | Ceyrat Puy-de-Dôme | 4.6 | 48% | 100% | 254 km |
| 5 | Gémenos Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.1 | 22% | 92% | 11 km |
| 6 | La Mulatière Rhône | 4 | 9.1% | 0% | 248 km |
| 7 | La Bassée Nord | 3.8 | 1.1% | 0% | 64 km |
| 8 | Gigean Hérault | 3.4 | 6.4% | 12% | 8.7 km |
| 9 | Marange-Silvange Moselle | 3.4 | 52% | 0% | 317 km |
| 10 | Honfleur Calvados | 3.2 | 9.2% | 4.7% | On it |
| 11 | Saint-Alban Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 0% | 0% | 152 km |
| 12 | Cormontreuil Marne | 2.9 | 6.1% | 1.5% | 202 km |
| 13 | La Penne-sur-Huveaune Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.8 | 41% | 37% | 7.3 km |
| 14 | L'Arbresle Rhône | 2.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 256 km |
| 15 | Canohès Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 16 km |
| 16 | Thoiry Ain | 2.4 | 44% | 63% | 298 km |
| 17 | La Bouilladisse Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 40% | 0% | 21 km |
| 18 | Bouchemaine Maine-et-Loire | 2.2 | 14% | 11% | 113 km |
| 19 | Chasse-sur-Rhône Isère | 2.2 | 12% | 0% | 232 km |
| 20 | Eaunes Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 15% | 0% | 146 km |
| 21 | Furiani Haute-Corse | 1.9 | 0.6% | 6.3% | On it |
| 22 | Saint-Juéry Tarn | 1.8 | 11% | 0% | 116 km |
| 23 | Le Lavandou Var | 1.8 | 28% | 0.1% | On it |
| 24 | Laneuveville-devant-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.6 | 0.9% | 0% | 371 km |
| 25 | Labarthe-sur-Lèze Haute-Garonne | 1.6 | 5.1% | 2% | 144 km |
| 26 | Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.5 | 12% | 26% | On it |
| 27 | Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds Loire | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 212 km |
| 28 | Labruguière Tarn | 1.4 | 44% | 100% | 84 km |
| 29 | Lentilly Rhône | 1.3 | 15% | 0% | 255 km |
| 30 | Gignac Hérault | 1.2 | 26% | 4.8% | 29 km |
| 31 | Rives Isère | 1.1 | 13% | 0% | 217 km |
| 32 | Montauban-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 13% | 0% | 32 km |
| 33 | Longuenée-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 6.8% | 2.3% | 114 km |
| 34 | La Chevrolière Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 16% | 11% | 29 km |
| 35 | Loriol-sur-Drôme Drôme | 0.7 | 12% | 4.7% | 144 km |
| 36 | Sainte-Rose Réunion | 0.5 | 48% | 100% | On it |
| 37 | Sury-le-Comtal Loire | 0.5 | 2.4% | 0.6% | 220 km |
| 38 | Héric Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 42 km |
| 39 | Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 2.4% | 0.2% | 115 km |
| 40 | Le Mené Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 25 km |
| 41 | Longué-Jumelles Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 21% | 100% | 143 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 Ceyrat
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Bargoin leads, at 7.1 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Coulée Verte de Vallieres
Park or garden · 370 m outside the commune
1.2 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
2.4 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square Champréal
Park or garden · 220 m outside the commune
0.4 ha0.3 km of path
2.9 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Ferme Urbaine Clermont-Ferrand
Park or garden · 230 m outside the commune
0.4 ha
2.4 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square du Maréchal de Lattre-de-Tassigny
Park or garden · 380 m outside the commune
0.2 ha
2.9 km northfrom 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 Ceyrat
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
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Vallées et côteaux xérothermiques des Couzes et Limagnes
1.8% of the commune1.6 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site1.8%
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 Ceyrat’s land is protected, more than in 92% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Puy-de-Dôme has 3.2%. 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
43 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Ceyrat
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
43 km
4.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.9 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
48%
about 4.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CeyratPuy-de-Dôme medianFrance median
Footpaths4.6
Hiking routes0.7
036 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CeyratPuy-de-Dôme medianFrance median
Woodland48%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 88% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 90% 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 Ceyrat 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
Les Gorges de l'Artiere7 km
Le chemin des écoliers5.9 km
Le Puy Giroux5.7 km
Chemin de Montaigne de Clermont-Ferrand à Saint-Ours3.1 km
Le Rocher du Salut2.7 km
Le Paradis2.5 km
Le Plateau de Gergovie2.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Ceyrat: April to June, August and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Sayat_Sapc, 11 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) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 17 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 56 | 48 | 50 | 73 | 74 | 71 | 78 | 67 | 66 | 60 | 69 | 64 |
February is the driest month (48 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 78 mm of rain falls in July, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 56 nights a year. The climate in Ceyrat →
Neighbors
Next to Ceyrat
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BeaumontRoyatRomagnatChamalièresAubièreSaint-Genès-ChampanelleCeyrat
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ceyrat | 100% | 48% | 4.6 |
| Beaumont 10,728 · 2.2 km | 0.1% | 2.4% | 6 |
| Royat 4,479 · 2.5 km | 0.2% | 63% | 4.2 |
| Romagnat 7,894 · 3 km | 3.1% | 22% | 2.3 |
| Chamalières 17,509 · 3.6 km | 0.1% | 3.4% | 4.1 |
| Aubière 10,459 · 4.1 km | 0% | 0.4% | 5.2 |
| Saint-Genès-Champanelle 4,066 · 4.5 km | 100% | 46% | 1.6 |
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 Ceyrat
Is Ceyrat in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Ceyrat lies in Volcans d’Auvergne Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Ceyrat?
OpenStreetMap maps 43 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 4.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Ceyrat is woodland?
48% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Ceyrat near the sea?
No: the coast is 254 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Ceyrat?
April to June, August and 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.