Photo: Havang(nl) · CC0Sorèze lies inside Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Sorèze’s land. Mapped woodland covers 47% of Sorèze. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 22 km in Sorèze. 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.
What kind of outdoors place is Sorèze?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Sorèze apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
How Sorèze 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.
Sorèze has the 6th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,932 to 2,996 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lezennes (8.6 km per km²) to Sancoins (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lezennes Nord | 8.6 | 3.6% | 0% | 66 km |
| 2 | Gorcy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.6 | 37% | 0% | 269 km |
| 3 | Soues Hautes-Pyrénées | 2.4 | 7.2% | 5.9% | 134 km |
| 4 | Smarves Vienne | 2.3 | 37% | 0% | 116 km |
| 5 | Aniane Hérault | 1.7 | 43% | 14% | 31 km |
| 6 | Sorèze Tarn | 1.7 | 47% | 100% | 94 km |
| 7 | Tourrettes Var | 1.5 | 64% | 1.8% | 21 km |
| 8 | Montblanc Hérault | 1.5 | 18% | 0.1% | 12 km |
| 9 | Quillan Aude | 1.4 | 49% | 100% | 70 km |
| 10 | Drocourt Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 2.3% | 0% | 82 km |
| 11 | Willems Nord | 1.3 | 7.6% | 0% | 69 km |
| 12 | Hésingue Haut-Rhin | 1.2 | 17% | 0% | 421 km |
| 13 | Sérignan-du-Comtat Vaucluse | 1.2 | 28% | 1.7% | 82 km |
| 14 | Mauléon-Licharre Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.1 | 35% | 2.8% | 62 km |
| 15 | Ottange Moselle | 1 | 53% | 0% | 294 km |
| 16 | Zonza Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 40% | 75% | On it |
| 17 | Bertrange Moselle | 0.9 | 21% | 0% | 313 km |
| 18 | Vimoutiers Orne | 0.9 | 2.2% | 0% | 46 km |
| 19 | Bias Lot-et-Garonne | 0.9 | 2.5% | 0% | 121 km |
| 20 | Tourouvre au Perche Orne | 0.8 | 43% | 98% | 93 km |
| 21 | Grandvillars Territoire de Belfort | 0.8 | 45% | 11% | 419 km |
| 22 | Port-sur-Saône Haute-Saône | 0.7 | 52% | 13% | 423 km |
| 23 | Venerque Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 13% | 1.4% | 139 km |
| 24 | Montmeyran Drôme | 0.7 | 5.3% | 0% | 154 km |
| 25 | Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres Gard | 0.6 | 28% | 0% | 68 km |
| 26 | Iteuil Vienne | 0.5 | 23% | 0% | 112 km |
| 27 | Diémoz Isère | 0.5 | 9.8% | 0% | 238 km |
| 28 | Mortain-Bocage Manche | 0.5 | 15% | 54% | 31 km |
| 29 | Lorris Loiret | 0.4 | 54% | 31% | 234 km |
| 30 | Saint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne Ain | 0.4 | 7.4% | 4% | 297 km |
| 31 | Saint-Calais Sarthe | 0.4 | 2.9% | 0% | 165 km |
| 32 | La Ferté-en-Ouche Orne | 0.4 | 13% | 1.4% | 65 km |
| 33 | Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon Deux-Sèvres | 0.4 | 10% | 100% | 35 km |
| 34 | Saint-Lyé Aube | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 264 km |
| 35 | Dompierre-sur-Besbre Allier | 0.3 | 13% | 46% | 330 km |
| 36 | Barjols Var | 0.2 | 69% | 18% | 49 km |
| 37 | Broons Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 9.2% | 0% | 26 km |
| 38 | Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 2.1% | 100% | 45 km |
| 39 | Rue Somme | 0.2 | 7.7% | 100% | 5.7 km |
| 40 | Dangé-Saint-Romain Vienne | 0.1 | 20% | 0% | 150 km |
| 41 | Sancoins Cher | 0.1 | 11% | 0% | 315 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
8 in 10 residents of Sorèze 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).
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
About 600 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 land in and around Sorèze
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park
Montagne Noire occidentale
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.
100% of Sorèze’s land is protected, more than in 94% 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.
70 km of footpaths and 22 km of hiking routes cross Sorèze
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 more than in 50% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 90% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR 7 passes within 2 km of Sorèze.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Sorèze: June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Dourgne, 8.4 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 Sorèze →
Next to Sorèze
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sorèze | 100% | 47% | 1.7 |
| Revel 9,762 · 4.1 km | 0% | 4.3% | 0.7 |
| Soual 2,637 · 13 km | 0% | 1.4% | 0.6 |
| Puylaurens 3,257 · 14 km | 0.2% | 9.7% | 0.2 |
| Castelnaudary 12,151 · 17 km | 0% | 2% | 0.4 |
| Saïx 3,748 · 18 km | 3.3% | 12% | 0.9 |
| Labruguière 6,584 · 19 km | 100% | 44% | 1.4 |
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 Sorèze
Is Sorèze in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Sorèze lies in Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Sorèze?
OpenStreetMap maps 70 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 22 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Sorèze is woodland?
47% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Sorèze near the sea?
No: the coast is 94 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Sorèze?
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.