Photo: Thérèse Gaigé · CC BY-SA 4.0Almost every home in Marssac-sur-Tarn is within 800 m of a park or wood
4.6% of Marssac-sur-Tarn is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Marssac-sur-Tarn; the nearest, Forêt de Grésigne et environs (Natura 2000), is 19 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 6 km across Marssac-sur-Tarn (0.8 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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.
How Marssac-sur-Tarn 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Marssac-sur-Tarn has the 19th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,499 to 3,538 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bergues (12 km per km²) to Dun-sur-Auron (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bergues Nord | 12 | 18% | 0% | 8.9 km |
| 2 | Danjoutin Territoire de Belfort | 3.3 | 33% | 0% | 429 km |
| 3 | Quissac Gard | 2.8 | 46% | 0% | 39 km |
| 4 | Mérignies Nord | 2.6 | 7.7% | 0% | 76 km |
| 5 | Bellignat Ain | 2.5 | 65% | 0% | 311 km |
| 6 | Hérimoncourt Doubs | 2.5 | 57% | 0% | 409 km |
| 7 | La Buisse Isère | 2.4 | 35% | 61% | 218 km |
| 8 | Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.4 | 82% | 1.8% | 32 km |
| 9 | La Forêt-Fouesnant Finistère | 2.3 | 7.6% | 0% | On it |
| 10 | La Bernerie-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 2.1 | 2.2% | 0.8% | On it |
| 11 | Rubelles Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 19% | 0% | 190 km |
| 12 | Crémieu Isère | 1.9 | 36% | 24% | 254 km |
| 13 | Montalieu-Vercieu Isère | 1.9 | 25% | 4.2% | 266 km |
| 14 | Portiragnes Hérault | 1.9 | 5% | 80% | On it |
| 15 | Sorède Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.6 | 68% | 43% | 7.9 km |
| 16 | Lécousse Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 1.4% | 0% | 31 km |
| 17 | Cerny Essonne | 1.2 | 41% | 100% | 179 km |
| 18 | Langeac Haute-Loire | 1.1 | 48% | 100% | 176 km |
| 19 | Saint-Didier-en-Velay Haute-Loire | 1.1 | 35% | 0% | 194 km |
| 20 | Issenheim Haut-Rhin | 1 | 14% | 0.2% | 458 km |
| 21 | Vertaizon Puy-de-Dôme | 0.9 | 9% | 2.1% | 253 km |
| 22 | Béligneux Ain | 0.9 | 14% | 6.3% | 268 km |
| 23 | Marssac-sur-Tarn Tarn | 0.8 | 4.6% | 0% | 124 km |
| 24 | Rieumes Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 22% | 0% | 164 km |
| 25 | Vrigne aux Bois Ardennes | 0.7 | 60% | 46% | 215 km |
| 26 | Varangéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.7 | 12% | 0% | 377 km |
| 27 | Le Breuil Saône-et-Loire | 0.6 | 17% | 0% | 362 km |
| 28 | Savigneux Loire | 0.6 | 3% | 66% | 228 km |
| 29 | Bellac Haute-Vienne | 0.6 | 20% | 0.4% | 158 km |
| 30 | Chaumes-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 29% | 0.1% | 188 km |
| 31 | Chanceaux-sur-Choisille Indre-et-Loire | 0.6 | 17% | 0% | 190 km |
| 32 | Saint-Maur Indre | 0.5 | 33% | 2.1% | 220 km |
| 33 | Gallardon Eure-et-Loir | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 140 km |
| 34 | Capestang Hérault | 0.5 | 0.9% | 18% | 20 km |
| 35 | Montmirail Marne | 0.4 | 27% | 0% | 198 km |
| 36 | Gramat Lot | 0.4 | 39% | 100% | 185 km |
| 37 | Espira-de-l'Agly Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.4 | 11% | 3.9% | 17 km |
| 38 | Sainte-Geneviève Oise | 0.3 | 17% | 0% | 104 km |
| 39 | Sallertaine Vendée | 0.2 | 3.4% | 44% | 13 km |
| 40 | Weyersheim Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 14% | 0% | 444 km |
| 41 | Dun-sur-Auron Cher | 0.1 | 5.4% | 17% | 291 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Forêt de Grésigne et environs is the nearest protected area, 19 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Forêt de Grésigne et environs
Share of the commune’s land
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.
6 km of footpaths cross Marssac-sur-Tarn
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 75% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less 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. Every home in Marssac-sur-Tarn 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).
The best walking months in Marssac-sur-Tarn: June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Albi, 6.7 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 Marssac-sur-Tarn →
Next to Marssac-sur-Tarn
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marssac-sur-Tarn | 0% | 4.6% | 0.8 |
| Albi 51,290 · 9.6 km | 0% | 2.6% | 1.7 |
| Gaillac 16,162 · 11 km | 0% | 4.9% | 0.2 |
| Cagnac-les-Mines 2,621 · 11 km | 0% | 22% | 0.7 |
| Puygouzon 3,548 · 11 km | 0% | 1.3% | 0.5 |
| Lescure-d'Albigeois 4,590 · 13 km | 0% | 16% | 0.6 |
| Saint-Juéry 6,564 · 14 km | 0% | 11% | 1.8 |
Cagnac-les-Mines is more wooded.
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 Marssac-sur-Tarn
Is Marssac-sur-Tarn in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Forêt de Grésigne et environs, 19 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Marssac-sur-Tarn?
OpenStreetMap maps 6 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Marssac-sur-Tarn is woodland?
4.6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Marssac-sur-Tarn near the sea?
No: the coast is 124 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Marssac-sur-Tarn?
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 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.