First pick
Parc des Sports et Loisirs Gabriel Sola
Park or garden · 110 m outside the commune
8.9 ha2.2 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.2 km of path
2 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: 瀬戸洋一、浦田有佳里他：「マルチステークホルダープロセスにおけるプライバシー影響評価の考察」，CSS2016 · CC BY-SA 4.00.2%woodland
Outdoors in Pia · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Pia
7 km of footpaths cross Pia (0.5 km per km²). No protected area reaches Pia; the nearest, Friches humides de Torremilla (Natura 2000), is 4.3 km from the town center. Pia has almost no mapped woodland. 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: Friches humides de Torremilla, 4.3 km
Woodland
0.2%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
6.6 km
0.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
92%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
10 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 Pia?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyFriches humides de Torremilla (Natura 2000) is 4.3 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0.2% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Pia apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Pia 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
Woodland0.2%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
2out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
14out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
24out of 100
Green space nearby92%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
10out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Pia has the 3rd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (11,392 to 11,766 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Épinay-sous-Sénart (10.3 km per km²) to Baugé-en-Anjou (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Épinay-sous-Sénart Essonne | 10.3 | 54% | 0% | 171 km |
| 2 | Seyssinet-Pariset Isère | 6.6 | 60% | 57% | 203 km |
| 3 | Villecresnes Val-de-Marne | 6.5 | 27% | 0% | 170 km |
| 4 | Enghien-les-Bains Val-d'Oise | 5.4 | 0% | 0% | 137 km |
| 5 | Sassenage Isère | 4.6 | 48% | 50% | 205 km |
| 6 | Briançon Hautes-Alpes | 4.4 | 62% | 0% | 142 km |
| 7 | Gravelines Nord | 3.9 | 7.7% | 0% | On it |
| 8 | Gaillard Haute-Savoie | 3.9 | 14% | 8% | 286 km |
| 9 | Hœnheim Bas-Rhin | 3.7 | 0.5% | 0% | 448 km |
| 10 | Dugny Seine-Saint-Denis | 3.5 | 6.8% | 9.5% | 144 km |
| 11 | Arpajon Essonne | 3.3 | 2.4% | 0% | 167 km |
| 12 | Maizières-lès-Metz Moselle | 3.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 319 km |
| 13 | Plan-de-Cuques Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 0.6% | 59% | 8.8 km |
| 14 | Le Haillan Gironde | 3.2 | 18% | 3.4% | 16 km |
| 15 | Yvetot Seine-Maritime | 3 | 3.5% | 100% | 28 km |
| 16 | Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon Essonne | 3 | 16% | 0% | 167 km |
| 17 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer Var | 2.9 | 30% | 25% | On it |
| 18 | Dourdan Essonne | 2.8 | 58% | 0% | 157 km |
| 19 | Saint-Estève Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.8 | 2.8% | 0.5% | 16 km |
| 20 | Ploufragan Côtes-d'Armor | 2.5 | 13% | 0.2% | 5.7 km |
| 21 | Saverne Bas-Rhin | 2.5 | 65% | 0% | 418 km |
| 22 | Nœux-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 2.4 | 4.6% | 0% | 66 km |
| 23 | Vaux-le-Pénil Seine-et-Marne | 2.4 | 27% | 0% | 194 km |
| 24 | Ancenis-Saint-Géréon Loire-Atlantique | 2.4 | 10% | 27% | 71 km |
| 25 | Pacé Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.2 | 3.6% | 0% | 41 km |
| 26 | Bruay-sur-l'Escaut Nord | 2.1 | 14% | 98% | 102 km |
| 27 | Méricourt Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 4.3% | 0% | 79 km |
| 28 | Les Avirons Réunion | 1.7 | 47% | 78% | On it |
| 29 | Fourmies Nord | 1.6 | 48% | 100% | 157 km |
| 30 | Provins Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 6.6% | 0% | 215 km |
| 31 | Bolbec Seine-Maritime | 1.5 | 7.1% | 0% | 17 km |
| 32 | Somain Nord | 1.4 | 5.2% | 1.3% | 96 km |
| 33 | Chauny Aisne | 1.2 | 5.7% | 10% | 127 km |
| 34 | Biganos Gironde | 1.1 | 71% | 100% | On it |
| 35 | Thiers Puy-de-Dôme | 1 | 43% | 100% | 259 km |
| 36 | La Hague Manche | 1 | 5.5% | 14% | On it |
| 37 | Saint-Junien Haute-Vienne | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 139 km |
| 38 | Pontchâteau Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.4% | 24% | 16 km |
| 39 | Pia Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 10 km |
| 40 | Vauvert Gard | 0.4 | 3.1% | 71% | 20 km |
| 41 | Baugé-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 31% | 0.5% | 151 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 Pia
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc des Sports et Loisirs Gabriel Sola leads, at 8.9 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 Pia 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).
92% within 800 m7.7% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
PiaPyrénées-Orientales medianFrance median
Within 800 m92%
0%50%100%
About 900 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
Friches humides de Torremilla is the nearest protected area, 4.3 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
Friches humides de Torremilla
4.3 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
7 km of footpaths cross Pia
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
6.6 km
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.2%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PiaPyrénées-Orientales medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PiaPyrénées-Orientales medianFrance median
Woodland0.2%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 86% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 98% 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 Pia: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Perpignan, 3.2 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 | 19 | 22 | 27 | 30 | 29 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 60 | 41 | 52 | 66 | 46 | 24 | 15 | 23 | 43 | 82 | 73 | 55 |
July is the driest month (15 mm) and the warmest (highs of 30 °C). 82 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 9 nights a year. The climate in Pia →
Neighbors
Next to Pia
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BompasClairaRivesaltesPerpignanVillelongue-de-la-SalanqueSaint-EstèvePia
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pia | 0% | 0.2% | 0.5 | 10 km |
| Bompas 7,832 · 2.4 km | 0% | 0.2% | 2.9 | 8.5 km |
| Claira 4,922 · 4 km | 0% | 0% | 1.1 | 7 km |
| Rivesaltes 9,270 · 4.3 km | 0% | 0.2% | 0.5 | 13 km |
| Perpignan 121,616 · 5.3 km | 0.3% | 0.2% | 2.2 | 12 km |
| Villelongue-de-la-Salanque 3,335 · 6.2 km | 0% | 0.1% | 0.8 | 4.5 km |
| Saint-Estève 11,630 · 6.4 km | 0.5% | 2.8% | 2.8 | 16 km |
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 Pia
Is Pia in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Friches humides de Torremilla, 4.3 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Pia?
OpenStreetMap maps 7 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Pia is woodland?
0.2% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Pia near the sea?
No: the coast is 10 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Pia?
May 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.