First pick
Espace Martine Bénitière
Park or garden
0.6 ha
Centralin the middle of Claira
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jairoulak · CC BY-SA 4.00%woodland
Outdoors in Claira · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Claira
No protected area reaches Claira; the nearest, Complexe lagunaire de Salses (Natura 2000), is 3.9 km from the town center. Claira has almost no mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 21 km across Claira (1.1 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Complexe lagunaire de Salses, 3.9 km
Woodland
0%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
21 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.5 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
86%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
7 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Pyrénées-Orientales 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 Claira?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Near the seaThe coast is 7 km from the town center.Protected land nearbyComplexe lagunaire de Salses (Natura 2000) is 3.9 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Claira apart: the sea nearby, then protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Claira 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%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland0%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
0out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
34out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
49out of 100
Green space nearby86%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
5out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Claira has the 21st fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,876 to 4,966 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Quiberon (6.6 km per km²) to Charny Orée de Puisaye (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quiberon Morbihan | 6.6 | 2.8% | 18% | On it |
| 2 | Grand-Fort-Philippe Nord | 4.5 | 0.1% | 0% | On it |
| 3 | Bogny-sur-Meuse Ardennes | 4.3 | 79% | 100% | 200 km |
| 4 | Beaucourt Territoire de Belfort | 3.7 | 33% | 0% | 414 km |
| 5 | Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche Yvelines | 3.6 | 38% | 0% | 136 km |
| 6 | Le Versoud Isère | 3.2 | 18% | 0% | 202 km |
| 7 | Pechbonnieu Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 15% | 0% | 150 km |
| 8 | Gratentour Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 153 km |
| 9 | L'Île-d'Yeu Vendée | 2.8 | 21% | 44% | On it |
| 10 | La Grand-Croix Loire | 2.5 | 15% | 0% | 219 km |
| 11 | Ballainvilliers Essonne | 2.4 | 2.3% | 0% | 164 km |
| 12 | La Mure Isère | 2.2 | 10% | 0% | 176 km |
| 13 | Uchaud Gard | 2.1 | 32% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 14 | Sainte-Marie-la-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.9 | 1.4% | 1.3% | On it |
| 15 | Volvic Puy-de-Dôme | 1.9 | 57% | 100% | 269 km |
| 16 | Lambres-lez-Douai Nord | 1.8 | 4.4% | 0% | 90 km |
| 17 | Laigneville Oise | 1.5 | 29% | 0% | 112 km |
| 18 | Le Quesnoy Nord | 1.4 | 2.1% | 100% | 120 km |
| 19 | Bitche Moselle | 1.3 | 75% | 100% | 398 km |
| 20 | Cluny Saône-et-Loire | 1.1 | 42% | 100% | 322 km |
| 21 | Claira Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.1 | 0% | 0% | 7 km |
| 22 | Bruyères-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1 | 3.1% | 0.2% | 122 km |
| 23 | Verneuil-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 1 | 23% | 0% | 154 km |
| 24 | Mourmelon-le-Grand Marne | 1 | 29% | 0.1% | 226 km |
| 25 | Créon Gironde | 0.9 | 24% | 0% | 32 km |
| 26 | Briare Loiret | 0.8 | 27% | 7.9% | 266 km |
| 27 | Souppes-sur-Loing Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 19% | 1.4% | 223 km |
| 28 | Sainte-Eulalie Gironde | 0.6 | 7.3% | 0% | 14 km |
| 29 | Heyrieux Isère | 0.6 | 6.6% | 0% | 242 km |
| 30 | Decize Nièvre | 0.6 | 15% | 32% | 355 km |
| 31 | Bégard Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 11% | 0% | 13 km |
| 32 | Nivillac Morbihan | 0.5 | 9.4% | 3.7% | 9.4 km |
| 33 | Witry-lès-Reims Marne | 0.4 | 3.6% | 0% | 201 km |
| 34 | Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule Allier | 0.4 | 6.2% | 9.3% | 311 km |
| 35 | Lisle-sur-Tarn Tarn | 0.4 | 30% | 0% | 136 km |
| 36 | Verdun-sur-Garonne Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 12% | 8.5% | 174 km |
| 37 | Saint-Père-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 5.6% | 5.7% | 8.1 km |
| 38 | Saint-Sulpice-et-Cameyrac Gironde | 0.3 | 6.2% | 7.7% | 20 km |
| 39 | Castelnau-de-Médoc Gironde | 0.2 | 82% | 100% | 10 km |
| 40 | Saint-Laurent-Médoc Gironde | 0.1 | 61% | 100% | 7.6 km |
| 41 | Charny Orée de Puisaye Yonne | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 266 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 Claira
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Espace Martine Bénitière leads, at 0.6 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Claira 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).
86% within 800 m14% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
ClairaPyrénées-Orientales medianFrance median
Within 800 m86%
0%50%100%
About 700 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 areas
Complexe lagunaire de Salses is the nearest protected area, 3.9 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Complexe lagunaire de Salses
3.9 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
21 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Claira
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
21 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.5 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
0%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ClairaPyrénées-Orientales medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ClairaPyrénées-Orientales medianFrance median
Woodland0%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 66% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 99% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Claira: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Torreilles, 2.2 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) | 9.4 | 10.5 | 11.8 | 13.3 | 14.6 | 15.3 | 15.0 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 11.0 | 9.7 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 13 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 39 | 40 | 50 | 42 | 22 | 14 | 25 | 52 | 88 | 76 | 50 |
July is the driest month (14 mm) and the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 88 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 15 nights a year. The climate in Claira →
Neighbors
Next to Claira
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-HippolyteSaint-Laurent-de-la-SalanqueBompasPiaTorreillesVillelongue-de-la-SalanqueClaira
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claira | 0% | 0% | 1.1 | 7 km |
| Saint-Hippolyte 3,126 · 2.9 km | 68% | 0% | 0.3 | 6.1 km |
| Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque 9,898 · 3.5 km | 45% | 0.1% | 1.2 | 3.8 km |
| Bompas 7,832 · 3.9 km | 0% | 0.2% | 2.9 | 8.5 km |
| Pia 11,615 · 4 km | 0% | 0.2% | 0.5 | 10 km |
| Torreilles 3,753 · 4.1 km | 20% | 0.4% | 1.5 | On it |
| Villelongue-de-la-Salanque 3,335 · 4.6 km | 0% | 0.1% | 0.8 | 4.5 km |
Saint-Hippolyte, Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque and Torreilles have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Claira
Is Claira in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Complexe lagunaire de Salses, 3.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Claira?
OpenStreetMap maps 21 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Claira is woodland?
0% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Claira near the sea?
No: the coast is 7 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Claira?
April 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.