First pick
Dreulhe
Wood or forest
291 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
7.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Krzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.09.7%woodland
Outdoors in Puylaurens · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Puylaurens
Footpaths add up to 14 km across Puylaurens (0.2 km per km²). No protected area reaches Puylaurens; the nearest, Vallées du Tarn, de l’Aveyron, du Viaur, de l’Agout et du Gijou (Natura 2000), is 7.1 km from the town center. 9.7% of Puylaurens is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.2%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Vallées du Tarn, de l’Aveyron, du Viaur, de l’Agout et du Gijou, 7.1 km
Woodland
9.7%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
14 km
0.2 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
Green space nearby
79%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
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 Puylaurens?
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 7.1 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.2 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Puylaurens apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Puylaurens 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 areas0.2%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
52out of 100
Woodland9.7%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
39out of 100
Footpaths0.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
2out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Green space nearby79%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
3out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Puylaurens has the 3rd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,228 to 3,286 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From L'Île-Rousse (3.6 km per km²) to Albias (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L'Île-Rousse Haute-Corse | 3.6 | 0% | 0% | On it |
| 2 | Exincourt Doubs | 3.3 | 4% | 0% | 416 km |
| 3 | Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie Seine-Maritime | 3.2 | 24% | 3.5% | 56 km |
| 4 | Volx Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 3.1 | 37% | 100% | 71 km |
| 5 | Les Noës-près-Troyes Aube | 3.1 | 0% | 0% | 270 km |
| 6 | Luc-sur-Mer Calvados | 3 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 7 | Lespinasse Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 1.6% | 0% | 156 km |
| 8 | Bousse Moselle | 2.6 | 33% | 0% | 316 km |
| 9 | Carantec Finistère | 2.2 | 3.6% | 14% | On it |
| 10 | Jard-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.1 | 21% | 43% | On it |
| 11 | Bonne Haute-Savoie | 1.7 | 34% | 3.3% | 281 km |
| 12 | Pontpoint Oise | 1.5 | 41% | 100% | 120 km |
| 13 | Bernis Gard | 1.4 | 26% | 2.6% | 28 km |
| 14 | Rostrenen Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 18% | 0% | 45 km |
| 15 | La Chapelle-Longueville Eure | 1.3 | 31% | 0% | 86 km |
| 16 | Montmorot Jura | 1.3 | 17% | 0% | 357 km |
| 17 | Romilly-sur-Andelle Eure | 1.1 | 39% | 5.8% | 66 km |
| 18 | Magnac-sur-Touvre Charente | 1 | 22% | 3.1% | 82 km |
| 19 | Boves Somme | 0.8 | 24% | 8.8% | 63 km |
| 20 | Offranville Seine-Maritime | 0.8 | 4.5% | 0% | 5.3 km |
| 21 | Moussy-le-Neuf Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 26% | 0.2% | 141 km |
| 22 | Frévent Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | 44 km |
| 23 | Anould Vosges | 0.6 | 49% | 0.1% | 443 km |
| 24 | Bram Aude | 0.6 | 3.5% | 0% | 81 km |
| 25 | Podensac Gironde | 0.5 | 14% | 4.6% | 44 km |
| 26 | Gouville-sur-Mer Manche | 0.5 | 2.6% | 0.4% | 2.9 km |
| 27 | Lansargues Hérault | 0.5 | 0.6% | 27% | 10 km |
| 28 | Carentoir Morbihan | 0.5 | 20% | 0% | 40 km |
| 29 | Sainte-Florine Haute-Loire | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 213 km |
| 30 | Bavay Nord | 0.4 | 4% | 100% | 121 km |
| 31 | Dordives Loiret | 0.4 | 30% | 0% | 228 km |
| 32 | La Tour-du-Crieu Ariège | 0.4 | 0% | 0% | 114 km |
| 33 | Azay-sur-Cher Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 15% | 0% | 189 km |
| 34 | Brou Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 149 km |
| 35 | Sarrola-Carcopino Corse-du-Sud | 0.3 | 6.7% | 0% | 6.1 km |
| 36 | Vonnas Ain | 0.3 | 9.9% | 0% | 304 km |
| 37 | Aix-Villemaur-Pâlis Aube | 0.3 | 26% | 0.9% | 263 km |
| 38 | Picauville Manche | 0.2 | 2.9% | 100% | 15 km |
| 39 | Puylaurens Tarn | 0.2 | 9.7% | 0.2% | 104 km |
| 40 | Argentonnay Deux-Sèvres | 0.1 | 5.2% | 4.8% | 91 km |
| 41 | Albias Tarn-et-Garonne | 0 | 4.8% | 1.4% | 173 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 Puylaurens
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Dreulhe leads, at 291 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
8 in 10 residents of Puylaurens live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
79% within 800 m21% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
PuylaurensTarn medianFrance median
Within 800 m79%
0%50%100%
About 700 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
Vallées du Tarn, de l’Aveyron, du Viaur, de l’Agout et du Gijou is the nearest protected area, 7.1 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
7.1 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.2%
Natura 2000 site0.2%
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
14 km of footpaths cross Puylaurens
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
14 km
0.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
9.7%
about 8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PuylaurensTarn medianFrance median
Footpaths0.2
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PuylaurensTarn medianFrance median
Woodland9.7%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 98% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 61% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Puylaurens: June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Puylaurens, 0.6 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 | 27 | 29 | 29 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 72 | 54 | 63 | 88 | 89 | 61 | 45 | 45 | 60 | 61 | 74 | 70 |
August is the driest month (45 mm) and the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 89 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 25 nights a year. The climate in Puylaurens →
Neighbors
Next to Puylaurens
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
SoualRevelSaïxSorèzeCastresLabruguièrePuylaurens
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Sorèze and Labruguière have at least twice as much protected land. Sorèze and Labruguière are 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 Puylaurens
Is Puylaurens 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, 7.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Puylaurens?
OpenStreetMap maps 14 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Puylaurens is woodland?
9.7% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Puylaurens near the sea?
No: the coast is 104 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Puylaurens?
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.