First pick
Parc Jean Jaurès
Park or garden
3.4 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
Centralin the middle of Carmaux
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Philichel · CC BY-SA 3.03.3%woodland
Outdoors in Carmaux · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Carmaux is within 800 m of a park or wood
6 km of footpaths cross Carmaux (0.4 km per km²). 3.3% of Carmaux is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Carmaux; the nearest, Vallées du Tarn, de l’Aveyron, du Viaur, de l’Agout et du Gijou (Natura 2000), is 9.6 km from the town center. 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: Vallées du Tarn, de l’Aveyron, du Viaur, de l’Agout et du Gijou, 9.6 km
Woodland
3.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
6.4 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.4 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: Parc Jean Jaurès
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 Carmaux?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyVallées du Tarn, de l’Aveyron, du Viaur, de l’Agout et du Gijou (Natura 2000) is 9.6 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Carmaux apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Carmaux 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
Woodland3.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
16out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
26out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Carmaux has the 3rd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (9,719 to 10,030 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Max (5.1 km per km²) to Saint-Loubès (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Max Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.1 | 4.9% | 0.3% | 366 km |
| 2 | Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 4.4 | 10% | 0.1% | 123 km |
| 3 | Beauchamp Val-d'Oise | 4.2 | 12% | 0% | 129 km |
| 4 | Saint-Grégoire Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.2 | 5% | 0% | 44 km |
| 5 | Montlhéry Essonne | 4.1 | 9.8% | 0% | 165 km |
| 6 | Aytré Charente-Maritime | 3.7 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 7 | Méry-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.6 | 35% | 0% | 124 km |
| 8 | Grigny-sur-Rhône Rhône | 3.5 | 16% | 0% | 234 km |
| 9 | Le Rheu Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 46 km |
| 10 | Frouzins Haute-Garonne | 3.3 | 7.7% | 11% | 152 km |
| 11 | Voreppe Isère | 3.3 | 42% | 35% | 213 km |
| 12 | Montigny-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 7.7% | 0% | 78 km |
| 13 | Portet-sur-Garonne Haute-Garonne | 3 | 9.8% | 15% | 146 km |
| 14 | Grand-Couronne Seine-Maritime | 2.9 | 42% | 0.2% | 48 km |
| 15 | Neuville-en-Ferrain Nord | 2.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 54 km |
| 16 | Bondues Nord | 2.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 56 km |
| 17 | Ézanville Val-d'Oise | 2.2 | 0.7% | 0% | 134 km |
| 18 | Foix Ariège | 2.2 | 28% | 21% | 117 km |
| 19 | Figeac Lot | 2.1 | 27% | 0% | 182 km |
| 20 | Pont-Audemer Eure | 1.8 | 20% | 65% | 15 km |
| 21 | Roche-la-Molière Loire | 1.8 | 8.5% | 0% | 209 km |
| 22 | Léguevin Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 14% | 0% | 161 km |
| 23 | Saint-Lys Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 9.5% | 0% | 162 km |
| 24 | Aniche Nord | 1.4 | 6.8% | 0.1% | 98 km |
| 25 | Lambesc Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 32% | 65% | 33 km |
| 26 | Saint-Amand-Montrond Cher | 1.3 | 10% | 6.4% | 282 km |
| 27 | Chambly Oise | 1.2 | 5.4% | 0.1% | 117 km |
| 28 | Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.2 | 0.1% | 45% | 3.8 km |
| 29 | La Farlède Var | 1.1 | 8.7% | 15% | 7.4 km |
| 30 | Merville Nord | 1 | 2% | 0% | 48 km |
| 31 | Bourg-de-Péage Drôme | 0.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 176 km |
| 32 | Bernay Eure | 0.9 | 15% | 4.7% | 42 km |
| 33 | Lançon-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 2.7% | 80% | 23 km |
| 34 | Loudéac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.7 | 14% | 0% | 35 km |
| 35 | Revel Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 4.3% | 0% | 99 km |
| 36 | Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe Tarn | 0.6 | 6.1% | 1.1% | 138 km |
| 37 | Lorgues Var | 0.6 | 53% | 6.3% | 30 km |
| 38 | Mézidon Vallée d'Auge Calvados | 0.5 | 8.1% | 0% | 24 km |
| 39 | Carmaux Tarn | 0.4 | 3.3% | 0% | 127 km |
| 40 | Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire Nièvre | 0.3 | 24% | 3.8% | 295 km |
| 41 | Saint-Loubès Gironde | 0.2 | 4% | 28% | 16 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 Carmaux
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Jean Jaurès leads, at 3.4 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc du Candou
Park or garden
2.1 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
1 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Place de la République
Park or garden
0.3 ha
0.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vallées du Tarn, de l’Aveyron, du Viaur, de l’Agout et du Gijou is the nearest protected area, 9.6 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
Vallées du Tarn, de l’Aveyron, du Viaur, de l’Agout et du Gijou
9.6 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
6 km of footpaths cross Carmaux
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
6.4 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.4 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
3.3%
about 0.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CarmauxTarn medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CarmauxTarn medianFrance median
Woodland3.3%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 88% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 84% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 96% of Carmaux’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
De la Manche aux Pyrénées 19, Villefranche-de-Rouergue - Albi9.3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Carmaux: June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Albi, 16 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) | 10 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 61 | 49 | 55 | 80 | 79 | 63 | 46 | 49 | 57 | 65 | 66 | 66 |
July is the driest month (46 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 80 mm of rain falls in April, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 39 nights a year. The climate in Carmaux →
Neighbors
Next to Carmaux
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Blaye-les-MinesCagnac-les-MinesLescure-d'AlbigeoisArthèsSaint-JuéryAlbiCarmaux
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carmaux | 0% | 3.3% | 0.4 |
| Blaye-les-Mines 2,902 · 2 km | 0% | 10% | 2.5 |
| Cagnac-les-Mines 2,621 · 8.1 km | 0% | 22% | 0.7 |
| Lescure-d'Albigeois 4,590 · 10 km | 0% | 16% | 0.6 |
| Arthès 2,528 · 11 km | 0% | 19% | 0.7 |
| Saint-Juéry 6,564 · 13 km | 0% | 11% | 1.8 |
| Albi 51,290 · 14 km | 0% | 2.6% | 1.7 |
Cagnac-les-Mines 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 Carmaux
Is Carmaux in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallées du Tarn, de l’Aveyron, du Viaur, de l’Agout et du Gijou, 9.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Carmaux?
OpenStreetMap maps 6 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Carmaux is woodland?
3.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Carmaux near the sea?
No: the coast is 127 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Carmaux?
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.