First pick
Forêt domaniale d'Agre
Wood or forest
1,416 ha25.5 km of path
5 h 40 minto walk all 25.5 km of path
3.1 km eastfrom the center
Allée Centrale
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: SandraiMarko · CC BY-SA 3.03.3%of the land protected
Outdoors in Montech · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Montech is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 33% of Montech. Footpaths add up to 55 km across Montech (1.1 km per km²). Protected areas cover 3.3% of Montech’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
3.3%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
33%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
55 km
1.1 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
8
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt domaniale d'Agre
Throughout this page, the Tarn-et-Garonne 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 Montech 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 areas3.3%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
62out of 100
Woodland33%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
79out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
35out 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
Montech has the 16th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,584 to 6,734 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bouffémont (9.6 km per km²) to Fronton (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bouffémont Val-d'Oise | 9.6 | 54% | 0.9% | 131 km |
| 2 | Grenay Pas-de-Calais | 6.3 | 6.7% | 0% | 71 km |
| 3 | Luxeuil-les-Bains Haute-Saône | 5.7 | 68% | 59% | 432 km |
| 4 | Châtelaillon-Plage Charente-Maritime | 4.6 | 0.5% | 22% | On it |
| 5 | Ceyrat Puy-de-Dôme | 4.6 | 48% | 100% | 254 km |
| 6 | Saulx-les-Chartreux Essonne | 4.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 162 km |
| 7 | Saint-Alban-Leysse Savoie | 4.2 | 44% | 75% | 233 km |
| 8 | La Bassée Nord | 3.8 | 1.1% | 0% | 64 km |
| 9 | Cassis Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 28% | 83% | On it |
| 10 | Gigean Hérault | 3.4 | 6.4% | 12% | 8.7 km |
| 11 | Honfleur Calvados | 3.2 | 9.2% | 4.7% | On it |
| 12 | La Penne-sur-Huveaune Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.8 | 41% | 37% | 7.3 km |
| 13 | Saint-Victoret Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.6 | 10% | 0% | 7.1 km |
| 14 | Canohès Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 16 km |
| 15 | Inzinzac-Lochrist Morbihan | 2.5 | 40% | 0% | 2.3 km |
| 16 | Thônes Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 67% | 29% | 252 km |
| 17 | Chasse-sur-Rhône Isère | 2.2 | 12% | 0% | 232 km |
| 18 | Furiani Haute-Corse | 1.9 | 0.6% | 6.3% | On it |
| 19 | Le Lavandou Var | 1.8 | 28% | 0.1% | On it |
| 20 | Laneuveville-devant-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.6 | 0.9% | 0% | 371 km |
| 21 | Labarthe-sur-Lèze Haute-Garonne | 1.6 | 5.1% | 2% | 144 km |
| 22 | Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.5 | 12% | 26% | On it |
| 23 | Labruguière Tarn | 1.4 | 44% | 100% | 84 km |
| 24 | Lentilly Rhône | 1.3 | 15% | 0% | 255 km |
| 25 | Gignac Hérault | 1.2 | 26% | 4.8% | 29 km |
| 26 | Montech Tarn-et-Garonne | 1.1 | 33% | 3.3% | 180 km |
| 27 | Meung-sur-Loire Loiret | 1.1 | 7.2% | 6.4% | 204 km |
| 28 | Montauban-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 13% | 0% | 32 km |
| 29 | Migennes Yonne | 0.9 | 8.7% | 0% | 280 km |
| 30 | Chalonnes-sur-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.9 | 11% | 33% | 99 km |
| 31 | Othis Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 18% | 0.6% | 142 km |
| 32 | Vigneux-de-Bretagne Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 20% | 0% | 34 km |
| 33 | Neufchâteau Vosges | 0.8 | 33% | 0% | 356 km |
| 34 | Elven Morbihan | 0.7 | 30% | 100% | 13 km |
| 35 | Loriol-sur-Drôme Drôme | 0.7 | 12% | 4.7% | 144 km |
| 36 | Le Péage-de-Roussillon Isère | 0.6 | 13% | 28% | 209 km |
| 37 | Feignies Nord | 0.5 | 4.1% | 100% | 126 km |
| 38 | Sury-le-Comtal Loire | 0.5 | 2.4% | 0.6% | 220 km |
| 39 | Héric Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 42 km |
| 40 | Vallons-de-l'Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 81 km |
| 41 | Fronton Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 12% | 0% | 162 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 Montech
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale d'Agre leads, at 1,416 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de la Barraque
Wood or forest · 280 m outside the commune
60 ha
6.9 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Ramier de l'Espinassié
Wood or forest
45 ha1.4 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.4 km of path
4.7 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bras mort de l'Espinassié - Espace naturel sensible
Wood or forest
10 ha0.2 km of path
4.6 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Grande peupleraie des Communaux
Wood or forest
5.9 ha
4.3 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Confluence du bras mort de l'Espinassié
Wood or forest · 220 m outside the commune
3.9 ha0.2 km of path
4.9 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
3.3% of Montech lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Garonne, Ariège, Hers, Salat, Pique et Neste
3.2% of the commune3.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de la Garonne de Muret à Moissac
1.7% of the commune3.3 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area3.3%
Natura 2000 site3.3%
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.
3.3% of Montech’s land is protected, more than in 62% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Tarn-et-Garonne has 1.1%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
55 km of footpaths cross Montech
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
55 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
33%
about 16.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MontechTarn-et-Garonne medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MontechTarn-et-Garonne medianFrance median
Woodland33%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 65% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 79% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Montech’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Montech: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Savenes_Man, 12 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) | 9.2 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 29 | 25 | 20 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 64 | 45 | 47 | 69 | 69 | 63 | 49 | 56 | 60 | 57 | 64 | 63 |
February is the driest month (45 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 69 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. The climate in Montech →
Neighbors
Next to Montech
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MontbetonBressolsLa Ville-Dieu-du-TempleLabastide-Saint-PierreVerdun-sur-GaronneMontaubanMontech
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montech | 3.3% | 33% | 1.1 |
| Montbeton 4,400 · 7 km | 0% | 8% | 0.4 |
| Bressols 4,036 · 7.2 km | 0.6% | 3% | 0.4 |
| La Ville-Dieu-du-Temple 3,358 · 9 km | 0% | 9% | 0.1 |
| Labastide-Saint-Pierre 3,745 · 11 km | 1.5% | 3.4% | 0.4 |
| Verdun-sur-Garonne 4,961 · 12 km | 8.5% | 12% | 0.3 |
| Montauban 62,945 · 13 km | 1.3% | 5.4% | 0.8 |
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 Montech
Is Montech in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 3.3% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Montech?
OpenStreetMap maps 55 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).
How much of Montech is woodland?
33% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Montech near the sea?
No: the coast is 180 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Montech?
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 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.