First pick
Saint-Médard
Wood or forest
8.9 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
0.9 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Pierre Bona · CC BY-SA 3.051%of the land protected
Outdoors in Garéoult · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Garéoult lies inside Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 51% of Garéoult’s land. 30% of Garéoult is mapped woodland. 35 km of footpaths cross Garéoult (2.2 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
51%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
30%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
35 km
2.2 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
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Saint-Médard
The sea
26 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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Garéoult?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park51% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune30% mapped woodland, more than in 76% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Garéoult apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Garéoult 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 areas51%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
87out of 100
Woodland30%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
76out of 100
Footpaths2.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
61out 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
Garéoult has the 15th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,798 to 5,873 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Grand-Charmont (5.8 km per km²) to Lesparre-Médoc (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand-Charmont Doubs | 5.8 | 39% | 0% | 420 km |
| 2 | Buc Yvelines | 5.6 | 45% | 0% | 148 km |
| 3 | Chambourcy Yvelines | 4.7 | 37% | 0% | 133 km |
| 4 | Algrange Moselle | 3.6 | 48% | 0% | 302 km |
| 5 | Roquefort-la-Bédoule Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 50% | 40% | 5.6 km |
| 6 | Boé Lot-et-Garonne | 3.2 | 2.6% | 4.3% | 135 km |
| 7 | Oberhausbergen Bas-Rhin | 3.1 | 6.2% | 0% | 446 km |
| 8 | Sillingy Haute-Savoie | 3.1 | 21% | 0% | 267 km |
| 9 | Douvrin Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 8.1% | 0% | 67 km |
| 10 | Ludres Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.9 | 24% | 0% | 369 km |
| 11 | Seloncourt Doubs | 2.8 | 36% | 0% | 412 km |
| 12 | Riantec Morbihan | 2.6 | 27% | 7% | On it |
| 13 | Villabé Essonne | 2.6 | 22% | 0% | 179 km |
| 14 | Annezin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 10% | 0% | 59 km |
| 15 | Garéoult Var | 2.2 | 30% | 51% | 26 km |
| 16 | Ventabren Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.9 | 8% | 45% | 20 km |
| 17 | Dol-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 6.4 km |
| 18 | Arradon Morbihan | 1.8 | 16% | 100% | On it |
| 19 | Nieul-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 1.8 | 0.2% | 4.5% | On it |
| 20 | Bédarieux Hérault | 1.6 | 23% | 100% | 41 km |
| 21 | Port-la-Nouvelle Aude | 1.6 | 5.2% | 82% | On it |
| 22 | La Wantzenau Bas-Rhin | 1.5 | 27% | 41% | 449 km |
| 23 | Cessy Ain | 1.5 | 5.4% | 0.2% | 304 km |
| 24 | Gond-Pontouvre Charente | 1.4 | 15% | 16% | 77 km |
| 25 | Lannemezan Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.2 | 26% | 0% | 160 km |
| 26 | Kembs Haut-Rhin | 1.1 | 50% | 63% | 431 km |
| 27 | Saint-Just-en-Chaussée Oise | 0.8 | 7.8% | 0% | 92 km |
| 28 | Roye Somme | 0.8 | 3.5% | 0% | 96 km |
| 29 | Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 0.3% | 100% | 27 km |
| 30 | Viry Haute-Savoie | 0.7 | 30% | 0% | 284 km |
| 31 | Saint-Galmier Loire | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | 227 km |
| 32 | Bessan Hérault | 0.6 | 3.4% | 39% | 8.1 km |
| 33 | Mouroux Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 21% | 0% | 180 km |
| 34 | Le Poinçonnet Indre | 0.5 | 66% | 0% | 224 km |
| 35 | Briec Finistère | 0.5 | 6.1% | 0% | 14 km |
| 36 | Montmorillon Vienne | 0.4 | 11% | 28% | 152 km |
| 37 | Fismes Marne | 0.4 | 21% | 0% | 174 km |
| 38 | Le Barp Gironde | 0.2 | 67% | 100% | 21 km |
| 39 | Montpon-Ménestérol Dordogne | 0.2 | 37% | 12% | 59 km |
| 40 | Rabastens Tarn | 0.2 | 4.3% | 0.1% | 139 km |
| 41 | Lesparre-Médoc Gironde | 0.1 | 58% | 100% | 11 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 Garéoult
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Saint-Médard leads, at 8.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc naturel du Vivier
Park or garden
1.8 ha0.2 km of path
1.1 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Garéoult
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
51% of the commune1.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area51%
Regional nature park51%
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.
51% of Garéoult’s land is protected, more than in 87% 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
35 km of footpaths cross Garéoult
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
35 km
2.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
30%
about 4.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GaréoultVar medianFrance median
Footpaths2.2
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GaréoultVar medianFrance median
Woodland30%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 61% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 76% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Garéoult’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Garéoult: June and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Entrecasteaux, 26 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) | 12 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 27 | 22 | 16 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 59 | 50 | 52 | 70 | 81 | 59 | 20 | 30 | 60 | 111 | 141 | 72 |
July is the driest month (20 mm) and the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 141 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 37 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Garéoult →
Neighbors
Next to Garéoult
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ForcalqueiretNéoulesRocbaronLa RoquebrussanneBrignolesPuget-VilleGaréoult
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garéoult | 51% | 30% | 2.2 | 26 km |
| Forcalqueiret 3,389 · 3.2 km | 0% | 29% | 2 | 26 km |
| Néoules 2,976 · 4.1 km | 100% | 71% | 2.4 | 22 km |
| Rocbaron 5,660 · 4.1 km | 0% | 53% | 1.8 | 24 km |
| La Roquebrussanne 2,817 · 5.2 km | 100% | 36% | 1.9 | 24 km |
| Brignoles 17,850 · 8.1 km | 17% | 48% | 0.9 | 34 km |
| Puget-Ville 4,610 · 8.9 km | 19% | 23% | 0.9 | 20 km |
Néoules, Rocbaron and Brignoles 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 Garéoult
Is Garéoult in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Garéoult lies in Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park (51% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Garéoult?
OpenStreetMap maps 35 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Garéoult is woodland?
30% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Garéoult near the sea?
No: the coast is 26 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Garéoult?
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.