Photo: Krzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.040% of Maringues’ land is protected for nature
Footpaths add up to 6 km across Maringues (0.3 km per km²). Maringues has 10 km of waymarked hiking routes. Mapped woodland covers 11% of Maringues. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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 outdoors place is Maringues?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Maringues apart: its protected countryside. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Maringues 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Maringues has the 6th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,116 to 3,163 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sérézin-du-Rhône (3.5 km per km²) to La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sérézin-du-Rhône Rhône | 3.5 | 20% | 0% | 237 km |
| 2 | Saint-Mammès Seine-et-Marne | 3.1 | 28% | 1.8% | 212 km |
| 3 | Spicheren Moselle | 3.1 | 39% | 0% | 362 km |
| 4 | Donville-les-Bains Manche | 3.1 | 2.8% | 0% | On it |
| 5 | Asnières-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 51% | 100% | 125 km |
| 6 | La Tranche-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.8 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Morainvilliers Yvelines | 2.4 | 32% | 0% | 127 km |
| 8 | Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 9 | Solaize Rhône | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 239 km |
| 10 | La Flotte Charente-Maritime | 2.2 | 37% | 1.2% | On it |
| 11 | Le Touvet Isère | 1.9 | 48% | 58% | 212 km |
| 12 | Éloyes Vosges | 1.8 | 59% | 0% | 428 km |
| 13 | Gilly-sur-Isère Savoie | 1.6 | 13% | 0.1% | 228 km |
| 14 | Chorges Hautes-Alpes | 1.5 | 34% | 16% | 122 km |
| 15 | Besse-sur-Issole Var | 1.3 | 36% | 0.7% | 26 km |
| 16 | Moyenmoutier Vosges | 1.2 | 72% | 2.8% | 426 km |
| 17 | Champcevinel Dordogne | 1.1 | 51% | 0% | 106 km |
| 18 | Le Plan-de-la-Tour Var | 1.1 | 40% | 0% | 7.3 km |
| 19 | Saint-Georges-sur-Baulche Yonne | 1 | 31% | 0% | 296 km |
| 20 | Vémars Val-d'Oise | 0.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 21 | Arleux Nord | 0.9 | 7.5% | 0% | 99 km |
| 22 | Quarouble Nord | 0.9 | 19% | 100% | 106 km |
| 23 | Boussois Nord | 0.9 | 5.1% | 100% | 131 km |
| 24 | Saint-Thibéry Hérault | 0.8 | 6.2% | 0.2% | 12 km |
| 25 | Thézan-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.8 | 0.9% | 0% | 22 km |
| 26 | Échenoz-la-Méline Haute-Saône | 0.7 | 50% | 10% | 435 km |
| 27 | Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal Seine-Maritime | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 54 km |
| 28 | Le Molay-Littry Calvados | 0.5 | 10% | 0.1% | 14 km |
| 29 | Montfrin Gard | 0.5 | 3.1% | 14% | 47 km |
| 30 | Valensole Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.4 | 44% | 100% | 75 km |
| 31 | Gimont Gers | 0.4 | 6.2% | 0% | 184 km |
| 32 | Château-Landon Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 13% | 0.2% | 224 km |
| 33 | Saint-Hippolyte Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 0% | 68% | 6.1 km |
| 34 | Berlaimont Nord | 0.3 | 7.2% | 100% | 130 km |
| 35 | Longperrier Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 16% | 0% | 144 km |
| 36 | Maringues Puy-de-Dôme | 0.3 | 11% | 40% | 269 km |
| 37 | Merdrignac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 32% | 0% | 39 km |
| 38 | Lapalisse Allier | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 301 km |
| 39 | Médis Charente-Maritime | 0.2 | 9.4% | 0.6% | 5.1 km |
| 40 | Mauron Morbihan | 0.2 | 11% | 0% | 51 km |
| 41 | La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois Cher | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 321 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
9 in 10 residents of Maringues live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
About 400 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected land in and around Maringues
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Val d’allier Saint Yorre-Joze
Zones alluviales de la confluence Dore-Allier
Share of the commune’s land
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.
40% of Maringues’ land is protected, more than in 85% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Puy-de-Dôme has 3.2%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
6 km of footpaths and 10 km of hiking routes cross Maringues
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 95% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 56% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Maringues: April, June and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Charmes_Sapc, 18 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 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 18 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 39 | 25 | 39 | 64 | 79 | 67 | 69 | 73 | 57 | 57 | 61 | 44 |
February is the driest month (25 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 79 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 50 nights a year. The climate in Maringues →
Next to Maringues
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maringues | 40% | 11% | 0.3 |
| Ennezat 2,748 · 9 km | 0% | 0.1% | 0.1 |
| Lezoux 6,528 · 11 km | 5.3% | 19% | 0.2 |
| Puy-Guillaume 2,630 · 12 km | 100% | 34% | 0.2 |
| Aigueperse 2,665 · 15 km | 0% | 0% | 0.4 |
| Pont-du-Château 12,412 · 15 km | 9.7% | 8.9% | 1.2 |
| Vertaizon 3,527 · 17 km | 2.1% | 9% | 0.9 |
Puy-Guillaume has at least twice as much protected land. Puy-Guillaume is more wooded.
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 Maringues
Is Maringues in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 40% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Maringues?
OpenStreetMap maps 6 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 10 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Maringues is woodland?
11% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Maringues near the sea?
No: the coast is 269 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Maringues?
April, June 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.