First pick
Parc du Brugat
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
6.3 ha0.3 km of path
1.7 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jcb-caz-11 · CC BY-SA 4.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Aussillon · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Aussillon lies inside Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Aussillon’s land. Mapped woodland covers 41% of Aussillon. Aussillon has 8 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
41%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
21 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.2 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc du Brugat
Throughout this page, the Tarn 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 Aussillon?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune41% mapped woodland, more than in 86% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes8 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Aussillon apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Aussillon 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
93out of 100
Woodland41%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
86out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
58out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
76out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Aussillon has the 13th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,455 to 5,596 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Port-Marly (5.9 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 | Le Port-Marly Yvelines | 5.9 | 13% | 0% | 138 km |
| 2 | Saint-Martin-d'Uriage Isère | 3.8 | 65% | 9.9% | 197 km |
| 3 | Nouzonville Ardennes | 3 | 67% | 100% | 203 km |
| 4 | Chevreuse Yvelines | 2.9 | 50% | 100% | 147 km |
| 5 | Ternay Rhône | 2.7 | 18% | 0% | 234 km |
| 6 | Lardy Essonne | 2.7 | 46% | 0.1% | 173 km |
| 7 | Coublevie Isère | 2.7 | 18% | 73% | 220 km |
| 8 | Liverdun Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.6 | 72% | 0.1% | 355 km |
| 9 | Penmarch Finistère | 2.5 | 0% | 18% | On it |
| 10 | Beaurains Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 1.1% | 0% | 79 km |
| 11 | La Roque-d'Anthéron Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.3 | 36% | 51% | 39 km |
| 12 | Saint-Sébastien-de-Morsent Eure | 2.2 | 35% | 0% | 71 km |
| 13 | Aussillon Tarn | 2 | 41% | 100% | 75 km |
| 14 | Le Boulou Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 19% | 7.4% | 18 km |
| 15 | Guînes Pas-de-Calais | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 10 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 | Ollainville Essonne | 1.7 | 37% | 0% | 165 km |
| 19 | Rosheim Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 57% | 0% | 443 km |
| 20 | Nogent-sur-Seine Aube | 1.6 | 18% | 2.5% | 230 km |
| 21 | Wormhout Nord | 1.5 | 0.3% | 0% | 19 km |
| 22 | Ille-sur-Têt Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.4 | 7.9% | 0.1% | 34 km |
| 23 | Foulayronnes Lot-et-Garonne | 1.4 | 9.9% | 0% | 130 km |
| 24 | Pollestres Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.3 | 0.9% | 0% | 14 km |
| 25 | Genay Rhône | 1.2 | 9% | 0% | 266 km |
| 26 | Ambazac Haute-Vienne | 1.2 | 50% | 8.1% | 177 km |
| 27 | Grans Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.2 | 13% | 43% | 22 km |
| 28 | Viarmes Val-d'Oise | 1.1 | 31% | 100% | 126 km |
| 29 | Quincy-Voisins Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 30% | 0% | 166 km |
| 30 | Neuville-de-Poitou Vienne | 1 | 0.3% | 26% | 114 km |
| 31 | Les Achards Vendée | 0.9 | 4.6% | 0% | 15 km |
| 32 | Drap Alpes-Maritimes | 0.8 | 33% | 0% | 4.8 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 | Étoile-sur-Rhône Drôme | 0.5 | 8.7% | 1.6% | 154 km |
| 36 | Roquemaure Gard | 0.3 | 12% | 13% | 66 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 Aussillon
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Brugat leads, at 6.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin des Promenades
Park or garden · 200 m outside the commune
2.2 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
1.2 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Place de la Mairie
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.3 km of path
0.7 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Aussillon
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
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.
100% of Aussillon’s land is protected, more than in 93% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Tarn has 0%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
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 8 km of hiking routes cross Aussillon
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
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.2 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
41%
about 4.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AussillonTarn medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes0.8
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AussillonTarn medianFrance median
Woodland41%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 58% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 86% 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 Aussillon is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 710 km
De la Manche aux Pyrénées 20, Albi - Mazamet3 km
De la Manche aux Pyrénées 21, Mazamet - Portail de Nore2.6 km
Passa Païs1.9 km
GR 7 passes within 2 km of Aussillon.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Aussillon: June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Dourgne, 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) | 9.3 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 29 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 78 | 58 | 66 | 96 | 101 | 77 | 50 | 56 | 73 | 81 | 84 | 77 |
July is the driest month (50 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 101 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 32 nights a year. The climate in Aussillon →
Neighbors
Next to Aussillon
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MazametAiguefondePont-de-LarnLabruguièreCastresSaïxAussillon
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aussillon | 100% | 41% | 2 |
| Mazamet 10,085 · 1.8 km | 0.1% | 77% | 1.2 |
| Aiguefonde 2,505 · 2.4 km | 100% | 52% | 1.7 |
| Pont-de-Larn 2,947 · 3 km | 100% | 40% | 0.4 |
| Labruguière 6,584 · 8.7 km | 100% | 44% | 1.4 |
| Castres 42,505 · 15 km | 1.2% | 9.7% | 1.1 |
| Saïx 3,748 · 18 km | 3.3% | 12% | 0.9 |
Mazamet is more wooded.
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 Aussillon
Is Aussillon in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Aussillon lies in Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Aussillon?
OpenStreetMap maps 21 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Aussillon is woodland?
41% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Aussillon near the sea?
No: the coast is 75 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Aussillon?
June 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.