First pick
Square Lopik
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Lezoux
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: AirScott · CC BY-SA 4.05.3%of the land protected
Outdoors in Lezoux · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Lezoux is within 800 m of a park or wood
8 km of footpaths cross Lezoux (0.2 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 22 km in Lezoux. 19% of Lezoux is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
5.3%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
19%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
7.6 km
0.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
22 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: Square Lopik
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.
Against French towns
How Lezoux 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 areas5.3%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
66out of 100
Woodland19%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
61out of 100
Footpaths0.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
4out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
69out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Lezoux has the 3rd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,479 to 6,571 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Montagne (5.6 km per km²) to Longué-Jumelles (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Montagne Loire-Atlantique | 5.6 | 18% | 9.4% | 28 km |
| 2 | Champigneulles Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.7 | 77% | 0% | 361 km |
| 3 | La Mulatière Rhône | 4 | 9.1% | 0% | 248 km |
| 4 | Marange-Silvange Moselle | 3.4 | 52% | 0% | 317 km |
| 5 | Longpont-sur-Orge Essonne | 3.2 | 15% | 0% | 166 km |
| 6 | Villers-Saint-Paul Oise | 3.2 | 16% | 0% | 115 km |
| 7 | Limours Essonne | 3.1 | 22% | 0.1% | 153 km |
| 8 | Saint-Alban Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 0% | 0% | 152 km |
| 9 | Cormontreuil Marne | 2.9 | 6.1% | 1.5% | 202 km |
| 10 | L'Arbresle Rhône | 2.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 256 km |
| 11 | Calvisson Gard | 2.7 | 27% | 0% | 27 km |
| 12 | Ondres Landes | 2.5 | 59% | 5.2% | On it |
| 13 | Thoiry Ain | 2.4 | 44% | 63% | 298 km |
| 14 | La Bouilladisse Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 40% | 0% | 21 km |
| 15 | Marignier Haute-Savoie | 2.3 | 56% | 3.3% | 268 km |
| 16 | Changé Mayenne | 2.3 | 2.7% | 0% | 73 km |
| 17 | Neuves-Maisons Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.2 | 5.8% | 0% | 365 km |
| 18 | Eaunes Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 15% | 0% | 146 km |
| 19 | Saint-Juéry Tarn | 1.8 | 11% | 0% | 116 km |
| 20 | Gouesnou Finistère | 1.7 | 7.4% | 0% | 6.2 km |
| 21 | Ploudalmézeau Finistère | 1.7 | 3.4% | 4.3% | On it |
| 22 | Bon-Encontre Lot-et-Garonne | 1.6 | 8.4% | 0% | 134 km |
| 23 | Le Perray-en-Yvelines Yvelines | 1.6 | 33% | 100% | 137 km |
| 24 | Saint-Pathus Seine-et-Marne | 1.4 | 1.7% | 0% | 147 km |
| 25 | Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds Loire | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 212 km |
| 26 | Champagne-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 66% | 0% | 210 km |
| 27 | Rives Isère | 1.1 | 13% | 0% | 217 km |
| 28 | Eu Seine-Maritime | 1 | 24% | 0.6% | 3.3 km |
| 29 | Longuenée-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 6.8% | 2.3% | 114 km |
| 30 | La Chevrolière Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 16% | 11% | 29 km |
| 31 | Ambert Puy-de-Dôme | 0.7 | 44% | 100% | 223 km |
| 32 | Brioude Haute-Loire | 0.7 | 7.1% | 1.6% | 200 km |
| 33 | Chatuzange-le-Goubet Drôme | 0.6 | 11% | 0% | 175 km |
| 34 | Arès Gironde | 0.6 | 87% | 1.3% | On it |
| 35 | Gueugnon Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 17% | 0% | 338 km |
| 36 | Sainte-Rose Réunion | 0.5 | 48% | 100% | On it |
| 37 | Estaires Nord | 0.4 | 0.7% | 0% | 50 km |
| 38 | Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 2.4% | 0.2% | 115 km |
| 39 | Lezoux Puy-de-Dôme | 0.2 | 19% | 5.3% | 258 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 Lezoux
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Square Lopik leads, at 0.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
5.3% of Lezoux lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Livradois-Forez Regional Nature Park
2.7 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Plaine des Varennes
5.3% of the commune2.5 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area5.3%
Natura 2000 site5.3%
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.
5.3% of Lezoux’s land is protected, more than in 66% 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
8 km of footpaths and 22 km of hiking routes cross Lezoux
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
7.6 km
0.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
22 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
19%
about 6.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LezouxPuy-de-Dôme medianFrance median
Footpaths0.2
Hiking routes0.6
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LezouxPuy-de-Dôme medianFrance median
Woodland19%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 96% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 61% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Lezoux’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
lezoux cote nature14 km
Chemin de Montaigne de Thiers à Lezoux8.5 km
Chemin de Montaigne de Lezoux à Pont-du-Château7.2 km
La Tour de Courcourt5.5 km
La Morille4 km
Les berges du litroux3.2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Lezoux: April and July to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Clermont-Fd, 19 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 Lezoux →
Neighbors
Next to Lezoux
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
VertaizonMaringuesPont-du-ChâteauThiersBillomMur-sur-AllierLezoux
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lezoux | 5.3% | 19% | 0.2 |
| Vertaizon 3,527 · 9.5 km | 2.1% | 9% | 0.9 |
| Maringues 3,141 · 11 km | 40% | 11% | 0.3 |
| Pont-du-Château 12,412 · 11 km | 9.7% | 8.9% | 1.2 |
| Thiers 11,637 · 12 km | 100% | 43% | 1 |
| Billom 4,805 · 12 km | 100% | 7.1% | 0.4 |
| Mur-sur-Allier 3,111 · 14 km | 25% | 30% | 1.6 |
Maringues, Thiers and Billom have at least twice as much protected land. Thiers and Mur-sur-Allier 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 Lezoux
Is Lezoux in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 5.3% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Lezoux?
OpenStreetMap maps 8 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 22 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Lezoux is woodland?
19% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lezoux near the sea?
No: the coast is 258 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Lezoux?
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.