First pick
Botania
Park or garden
0.7 ha0.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Pollestres
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: LySioS · CC BY-SA 4.00.9%woodland
Outdoors in Pollestres · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Pollestres is within 800 m of a park or wood
0.9% of Pollestres is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Pollestres; the nearest, Le Tech (Natura 2000), is 8.2 km from the town center. 11 km of footpaths cross Pollestres (1.3 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: Le Tech, 8.2 km
Woodland
0.9%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
11 km
1.3 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
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Botania
The sea
14 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 Pollestres?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyLe Tech (Natura 2000) is 8.2 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0.9% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Pollestres apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Pollestres 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
Woodland0.9%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
6out of 100
Footpaths1.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
40out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Pollestres has the 21st fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,483 to 5,611 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Rungis (6.2 km per km²) to Nueil-les-Aubiers (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rungis Val-de-Marne | 6.2 | 3.6% | 0% | 159 km |
| 2 | Le Port-Marly Yvelines | 5.9 | 13% | 0% | 138 km |
| 3 | Saint-Martin-d'Uriage Isère | 3.8 | 65% | 9.9% | 197 km |
| 4 | Nouzonville Ardennes | 3 | 67% | 100% | 203 km |
| 5 | La Ville-aux-Dames Indre-et-Loire | 2.9 | 19% | 13% | 189 km |
| 6 | Chevreuse Yvelines | 2.9 | 50% | 100% | 147 km |
| 7 | Ternay Rhône | 2.7 | 18% | 0% | 234 km |
| 8 | Lardy Essonne | 2.7 | 46% | 0.1% | 173 km |
| 9 | Coublevie Isère | 2.7 | 18% | 73% | 220 km |
| 10 | Liverdun Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.6 | 72% | 0.1% | 355 km |
| 11 | Penmarch Finistère | 2.5 | 0% | 18% | On it |
| 12 | Beaurains Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 1.1% | 0% | 79 km |
| 13 | Saint-Sébastien-de-Morsent Eure | 2.2 | 35% | 0% | 71 km |
| 14 | Aussillon Tarn | 2 | 41% | 100% | 75 km |
| 15 | Le Boulou Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 19% | 7.4% | 18 km |
| 16 | Baisieux Nord | 1.8 | 2.5% | 0% | 70 km |
| 17 | Saint-Gilles Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 6.4% | 0% | 40 km |
| 18 | Nogent-sur-Seine Aube | 1.6 | 18% | 2.5% | 230 km |
| 19 | Wormhout Nord | 1.5 | 0.3% | 0% | 19 km |
| 20 | Ille-sur-Têt Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.4 | 7.9% | 0.1% | 34 km |
| 21 | Pollestres Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.3 | 0.9% | 0% | 14 km |
| 22 | Genay Rhône | 1.2 | 9% | 0% | 266 km |
| 23 | Ambazac Haute-Vienne | 1.2 | 50% | 8.1% | 177 km |
| 24 | Grans Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.2 | 13% | 43% | 22 km |
| 25 | Viarmes Val-d'Oise | 1.1 | 31% | 100% | 126 km |
| 26 | Quincy-Voisins Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 30% | 0% | 166 km |
| 27 | Neuville-de-Poitou Vienne | 1 | 0.3% | 26% | 114 km |
| 28 | Sauvian Hérault | 1 | 0.4% | 0.3% | 6 km |
| 29 | Les Achards Vendée | 0.9 | 4.6% | 0% | 15 km |
| 30 | Bohain-en-Vermandois Aisne | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 129 km |
| 31 | Drap Alpes-Maritimes | 0.8 | 33% | 0% | 4.8 km |
| 32 | Gannat Allier | 0.8 | 13% | 0% | 290 km |
| 33 | Carbonne Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 9.8% | 7.6% | 153 km |
| 34 | Chazelles-sur-Lyon Loire | 0.6 | 13% | 0% | 232 km |
| 35 | Roquemaure Gard | 0.3 | 12% | 13% | 66 km |
| 36 | Cloyes-les-Trois-Rivières Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 16% | 1.8% | 173 km |
| 37 | Ernée Mayenne | 0.3 | 1.4% | 0.1% | 48 km |
| 38 | Servian Hérault | 0.3 | 7.4% | 0% | 17 km |
| 39 | La Garnache Vendée | 0.2 | 9.8% | 0% | 18 km |
| 40 | Ludon-Médoc Gironde | 0.2 | 5.6% | 100% | 3.7 km |
| 41 | Nueil-les-Aubiers Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 83 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 Pollestres
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Botania leads, at 0.7 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Espace Arthur Conte
Park or garden
0.8 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Pollestres
Directionsto a point inside
Parc intergénérationel Écris l'histoire
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Pollestres
Directionsto a point inside
Square du Discobole
Park or garden
0.2 ha0.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Pollestres
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Le Tech is the nearest protected area, 8.2 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
Le Tech
8.2 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
11 km of footpaths cross Pollestres
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
11 km
1.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.9%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PollestresPyrénées-Orientales medianFrance median
Footpaths1.3
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PollestresPyrénées-Orientales medianFrance median
Woodland0.9%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 60% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 94% 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 Pollestres is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Pollestres: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Perpignan, 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) | 9.4 | 10.5 | 11.8 | 13.3 | 14.6 | 15.3 | 15.0 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 11.0 | 9.7 | 9.1 |
| 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 Pollestres →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Pollestres
Named gardens in the commune.
Espace Arthur ConteIn Pollestres
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Pollestres
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
CanohèsVilleneuve-de-la-RahoBagesPonteillaToulougesPerpignanPollestres
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Pollestres
Is Pollestres in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Le Tech, 8.2 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Pollestres?
OpenStreetMap maps 11 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Pollestres is woodland?
0.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Pollestres near the sea?
No: the coast is 14 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Pollestres?
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.