First pick
Sentier Botanique de Cogolin
Park or garden
3.9 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
1.8 km south-eastfrom the center
Sentier Botanique
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Net-breuer · CC BY-SA 3.046%woodland
Outdoors in Cogolin · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Cogolin is on the coast
Mapped woodland covers 46% of Cogolin. Footpaths add up to 74 km across Cogolin (2.7 km per km²). No protected area reaches Cogolin; the nearest, Port-Cros National Park, is 4.1 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: Port-Cros National Park, 4.1 km
Woodland
46%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
74 km
2.7 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
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Sentier Botanique de Cogolin
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 4.7 km from its center
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Cogolin?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 4.7 km from its center.A wooded commune46% mapped woodland, more than in 89% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyPort-Cros National Park is 4.1 km from the town center.
What sets Cogolin apart: the sea, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Cogolin 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
Woodland46%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
89out of 100
Footpaths2.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
69out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Cogolin has the 16th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (12,035 to 12,576 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Villetaneuse (11 km per km²) to Saint-Gaudens (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Villetaneuse Seine-Saint-Denis | 11 | 5.1% | 0% | 140 km |
| 2 | La Queue-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.3 | 47% | 0% | 165 km |
| 3 | Saint-Cyprien Pyrénées-Orientales | 6.1 | 0.4% | 3% | On it |
| 4 | Ferney-Voltaire Ain | 5.2 | 20% | 0% | 296 km |
| 5 | L'Isle-Adam Val-d'Oise | 5.2 | 60% | 0.2% | 121 km |
| 6 | Riedisheim Haut-Rhin | 4.4 | 29% | 0% | 440 km |
| 7 | Roquebrune-Cap-Martin Alpes-Maritimes | 4.3 | 23% | 36% | On it |
| 8 | Harnes Pas-de-Calais | 4.2 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 km |
| 9 | Saint-Avé Morbihan | 3.7 | 24% | 97% | 4.5 km |
| 10 | Granville Manche | 3.6 | 1.3% | 7.2% | On it |
| 11 | Oissel-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 3.5 | 48% | 3.9% | 54 km |
| 12 | Bully-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 3.1% | 0% | 71 km |
| 13 | Raismes Nord | 3.2 | 71% | 100% | 100 km |
| 14 | Triel-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.8 | 34% | 0% | 124 km |
| 15 | Le Chambon-Feugerolles Loire | 2.8 | 43% | 0.1% | 205 km |
| 16 | Cogolin Var | 2.7 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 17 | Craponne Rhône | 2.7 | 12% | 0% | 248 km |
| 18 | Creutzwald Moselle | 2.4 | 57% | 0% | 348 km |
| 19 | Quimperlé Finistère | 2.4 | 24% | 3.9% | 9.2 km |
| 20 | Mende Lozère | 2.4 | 54% | 0% | 115 km |
| 21 | Sarrebourg Moselle | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 403 km |
| 22 | Guidel Morbihan | 2.3 | 23% | 7.8% | On it |
| 23 | La Motte-Servolex Savoie | 2.1 | 41% | 0% | 238 km |
| 24 | Brignais Rhône | 2 | 14% | 0% | 241 km |
| 25 | Pont-Sainte-Maxence Oise | 1.8 | 47% | 99% | 118 km |
| 26 | Onet-le-Château Aveyron | 1.7 | 2.3% | 1.4% | 137 km |
| 27 | Solliès-Pont Var | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 11 km |
| 28 | Aubenas Ardèche | 1.6 | 6.8% | 18% | 120 km |
| 29 | Vernouillet Eure-et-Loir | 1.5 | 9.6% | 0% | 107 km |
| 30 | Châteaubriant Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0% | 76 km |
| 31 | Cernay Haut-Rhin | 1.4 | 26% | 0.1% | 448 km |
| 32 | Pont-du-Château Puy-de-Dôme | 1.2 | 8.9% | 9.7% | 257 km |
| 33 | Bischwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 443 km |
| 34 | Louvres Val-d'Oise | 1.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 139 km |
| 35 | Sablé-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 1 | 12% | 0% | 116 km |
| 36 | Gisors Eure | 0.9 | 34% | 0% | 87 km |
| 37 | Florange Moselle | 0.9 | 24% | 0% | 309 km |
| 38 | Mios Gironde | 0.8 | 81% | 100% | 9.9 km |
| 39 | Rognac Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 22% | 10% | 16 km |
| 40 | Castelnaudary Aude | 0.4 | 2% | 0% | 96 km |
| 41 | Saint-Gaudens Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 9.3% | 3.9% | 186 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 Cogolin
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Sentier Botanique de Cogolin leads, at 3.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Port-Cros National Park is the nearest protected area, 4.1 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
National park, outer area
Port-Cros National Park
4.1 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
74 km of footpaths cross Cogolin
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
74 km
2.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
46%
about 12.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CogolinVar medianFrance median
Footpaths2.7
Hiking routes0
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CogolinVar medianFrance median
Woodland46%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 69% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 89% 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 Cogolin is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin de la chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Compassion0.9 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Cogolin: April to June and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cogolin_Sapc, 2.3 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) | 14 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 28 | 23 | 17 | 14 |
| Rain (mm) | 96 | 76 | 70 | 82 | 59 | 32 | 14 | 21 | 74 | 136 | 178 | 121 |
July is the driest month (14 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 178 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 36 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Cogolin →
Neighbors
Next to Cogolin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GrimaudGassinLa Croix-ValmerCavalaire-sur-MerSaint-TropezLe Plan-de-la-TourCogolin
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cogolin | 0% | 46% | 2.7 | On it |
| Grimaud 4,587 · 3.1 km | 4.5% | 41% | 1.7 | On it |
| Gassin 2,687 · 4.6 km | 0% | 46% | 3.5 | On it |
| La Croix-Valmer 3,855 · 5.7 km | 95% | 40% | 1.3 | On it |
| Cavalaire-sur-Mer 8,121 · 8.3 km | 0.1% | 45% | 1.8 | On it |
| Saint-Tropez 3,582 · 9 km | 0.1% | 16% | 1.5 | On it |
| Le Plan-de-la-Tour 3,125 · 10 km | 0% | 40% | 1.1 | 7.3 km |
La Croix-Valmer has 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 Cogolin
Is Cogolin in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Port-Cros National Park, 4.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Cogolin?
OpenStreetMap maps 74 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Cogolin is woodland?
46% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Cogolin near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 4.7 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Cogolin?
April to June and 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.