First pick
Jardin Suau
Park or garden
0.2 ha
Centralin the middle of Brignoles
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Fadli Mehmed · CC BY 3.017%of the land protected
Outdoors in Brignoles · protected areas, woods and footpaths
48% of Brignoles is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
17% of Brignoles’ land lies in protected areas. Footpaths add up to 67 km across Brignoles (0.9 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 9 km in Brignoles. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
17%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
48%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
67 km
0.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.9 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
90%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
34 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Var median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
Against French towns
How Brignoles 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 areas17%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
76out of 100
Woodland48%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
91out of 100
Footpaths0.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
30out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
32out of 100
Green space nearby90%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
8out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Brignoles has the 7th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (17,237 to 18,503 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Jouy-le-Moutier (10.3 km per km²) to Marmande (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jouy-le-Moutier Val-d'Oise | 10.3 | 23% | 0% | 123 km |
| 2 | Viroflay Yvelines | 9.5 | 42% | 0% | 148 km |
| 3 | Saint-Égrève Isère | 5.8 | 22% | 30% | 208 km |
| 4 | Bonneuil-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 3.6% | 0% | 163 km |
| 5 | L'Isle-d'Abeau Isère | 5.2 | 9.8% | 0% | 242 km |
| 6 | Floirac Gironde | 5.1 | 16% | 2.6% | 19 km |
| 7 | Villeneuve-Loubet Alpes-Maritimes | 5 | 30% | 16% | On it |
| 8 | Boissy-Saint-Léger Val-de-Marne | 4.4 | 50% | 0% | 166 km |
| 9 | Balma Haute-Garonne | 4.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 142 km |
| 10 | Éragny-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 4.1 | 15% | 0% | 124 km |
| 11 | Chamalières Puy-de-Dôme | 4.1 | 3.4% | 0.1% | 258 km |
| 12 | Saran Loiret | 3.9 | 24% | 0% | 200 km |
| 13 | Écully Rhône | 3.8 | 14% | 0% | 253 km |
| 14 | Garches Hauts-de-Seine | 3.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 144 km |
| 15 | Bry-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 3.6 | 7% | 0% | 158 km |
| 16 | Avion Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 13% | 0% | 77 km |
| 17 | Hendaye Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.4 | 8% | 26% | On it |
| 18 | Osny Val-d'Oise | 3.2 | 14% | 0.1% | 119 km |
| 19 | Le Pontet Vaucluse | 2.9 | 2.8% | 3.4% | 56 km |
| 20 | Cluses Haute-Savoie | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 264 km |
| 21 | Yutz Moselle | 2.6 | 18% | 0% | 310 km |
| 22 | Soisy-sous-Montmorency Val-d'Oise | 2.6 | 5% | 0% | 135 km |
| 23 | Carvin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 73 km |
| 24 | Digne-les-Bains Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 2.5 | 50% | 4% | 85 km |
| 25 | Pontarlier Doubs | 2.4 | 48% | 0% | 359 km |
| 26 | Annonay Ardèche | 2.3 | 30% | 0.2% | 193 km |
| 27 | Fécamp Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 25% | 2.9% | On it |
| 28 | Lattes Hérault | 2.2 | 0.8% | 22% | 5.5 km |
| 29 | Lunéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.1 | 9% | 0.1% | 389 km |
| 30 | Limay Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 6.1% | 112 km |
| 31 | Châteauneuf-les-Martigues Bouches-du-Rhône | 2 | 17% | 27% | 6 km |
| 32 | Sallanches Haute-Savoie | 2 | 32% | 35% | 250 km |
| 33 | Bagnols-sur-Cèze Gard | 1.6 | 27% | 8.2% | 79 km |
| 34 | Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume Var | 1 | 41% | 34% | 33 km |
| 35 | Brignoles Var | 0.9 | 48% | 17% | 34 km |
| 36 | Romorantin-Lanthenay Loir-et-Cher | 0.8 | 30% | 100% | 249 km |
| 37 | Lamballe-Armor Côtes-d'Armor | 0.8 | 5% | 2% | On it |
| 38 | Vire Normandie Calvados | 0.6 | 3.9% | 0% | 41 km |
| 39 | Segré-en-Anjou Bleu Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 4.6% | 0% | 108 km |
| 40 | Ambarès-et-Lagrave Gironde | 0.4 | 4.8% | 35% | 11 km |
| 41 | Marmande Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 11% | 4% | 82 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 Brignoles
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin Suau leads, at 0.2 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Brignoles 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).
90% within 800 m9.9% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
BrignolesVar medianFrance median
Within 800 m90%
0%50%100%
About 1,800 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
17% of Brignoles lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park
17% of the commune2 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area17%
Regional nature park17%
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.
17% of Brignoles’ land is protected, more than in 76% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Var has 19%. 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
67 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Brignoles
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
67 km
0.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.9 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
48%
about 34.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BrignolesVar medianFrance median
Footpaths0.9
Hiking routes0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BrignolesVar medianFrance median
Woodland48%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 70% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 91% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Via Aurelia, Le Val - Fontrouvière11 km
Via Aurelia, Fontrouvière - Bras6.1 km
Via Aurelia, Le Val - St Maximin5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Brignoles: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Montfort-Sur-Argens_Sapc, 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 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 13 | 14 | 18 | 20 | 25 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 27 | 22 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 65 | 46 | 43 | 69 | 64 | 51 | 25 | 31 | 86 | 114 | 123 | 72 |
July is the driest month (25 mm) and the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 123 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Brignoles →
Neighbors
Next to Brignoles
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Le ValGaréoultForcalqueiretLa RoquebrussanneRocbaronBesse-sur-IssoleBrignoles
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brignoles | 17% | 48% | 0.9 | 34 km |
| Le Val 4,335 · 3.5 km | 7.3% | 63% | 1.5 | 37 km |
| Garéoult 5,835 · 8.1 km | 51% | 30% | 2.2 | 26 km |
| Forcalqueiret 3,389 · 8.1 km | 0% | 29% | 2 | 26 km |
| La Roquebrussanne 2,817 · 10 km | 100% | 36% | 1.9 | 24 km |
| Rocbaron 5,660 · 11 km | 0% | 53% | 1.8 | 24 km |
| Besse-sur-Issole 3,125 · 11 km | 0.7% | 36% | 1.3 | 26 km |
Garéoult and La Roquebrussanne have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Brignoles
Is Brignoles in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Brignoles lies in Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park (17% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Brignoles?
OpenStreetMap maps 67 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Brignoles is woodland?
48% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Brignoles near the sea?
No: the coast is 34 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Brignoles?
April to June: 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.