First pick
Parc du Béal
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of La Crau
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Popolon · CC BY-SA 3.01.8%of the land protected
Outdoors in La Crau · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in La Crau
23% of La Crau is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 85 km across La Crau (2.3 km per km²). Protected areas cover 1.8% of La Crau’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
1.8%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
23%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
85 km
2.3 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
91%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
6.1 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 La Crau 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 areas1.8%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
58out of 100
Woodland23%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
68out of 100
Footpaths2.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
62out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Green space nearby91%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
9out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
La Crau has the 14th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (18,710 to 20,352 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Meylan (9.2 km per km²) to Bressuire (0.6 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meylan Isère | 9.2 | 18% | 12% | 205 km |
| 2 | Villefontaine Isère | 9.1 | 21% | 1.7% | 241 km |
| 3 | Gentilly Val-de-Marne | 8 | 1.8% | 0% | 153 km |
| 4 | Le Mée-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 7.9 | 34% | 0% | 190 km |
| 5 | Mont-Saint-Aignan Seine-Maritime | 7.3 | 12% | 0% | 50 km |
| 6 | Juvisy-sur-Orge Essonne | 6.4 | 1.3% | 0% | 166 km |
| 7 | Moulins Allier | 6.1 | 3.3% | 11% | 338 km |
| 8 | Chevilly-Larue Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 3.8% | 0% | 158 km |
| 9 | Chennevières-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5.4 | 6.2% | 0% | 163 km |
| 10 | Fougères Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 33 km |
| 11 | Paris 2e Paris | 4.6 | 0% | 0% | 148 km |
| 12 | Albertville Savoie | 4.1 | 47% | 0% | 228 km |
| 13 | Mougins Alpes-Maritimes | 4 | 28% | 0% | 5.1 km |
| 14 | Cesson-Sévigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.9 | 5.2% | 0% | 50 km |
| 15 | Bruz Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.8 | 14% | 0% | 55 km |
| 16 | Bruges Gironde | 3.7 | 9.3% | 23% | 14 km |
| 17 | Ronchin Nord | 3.7 | 1.8% | 0% | 66 km |
| 18 | Cournon-d'Auvergne Puy-de-Dôme | 3.3 | 6.6% | 6.3% | 251 km |
| 19 | Ploemeur Morbihan | 3.3 | 15% | 4.9% | On it |
| 20 | Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Vosges | 3.2 | 58% | 1.9% | 436 km |
| 21 | Saint-Lô Manche | 2.9 | 5% | 0% | 26 km |
| 22 | Royan Charente-Maritime | 2.8 | 8.7% | 12% | On it |
| 23 | Grande-Synthe Nord | 2.8 | 5.3% | 7.4% | On it |
| 24 | Sarreguemines Moselle | 2.6 | 32% | 0.9% | 374 km |
| 25 | Beaune Côte-d'Or | 2.6 | 16% | 25% | 389 km |
| 26 | Lisieux Calvados | 2.4 | 1.9% | 0% | 26 km |
| 27 | Lannion Côtes-d'Armor | 2.3 | 15% | 5.9% | On it |
| 28 | La Crau Var | 2.3 | 23% | 1.8% | 6.1 km |
| 29 | Saint-Fons Rhône | 2.3 | 4.1% | 0% | 246 km |
| 30 | Vence Alpes-Maritimes | 2.2 | 28% | 64% | 8.3 km |
| 31 | Vitré Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 32 | Cahors Lot | 1.9 | 42% | 0% | 172 km |
| 33 | Bourg-lès-Valence Drôme | 1.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 166 km |
| 34 | Sorgues Vaucluse | 1.7 | 9.7% | 22% | 62 km |
| 35 | Pertuis Vaucluse | 1.5 | 18% | 100% | 40 km |
| 36 | Brie-Comte-Robert Seine-et-Marne | 1.3 | 4.7% | 0% | 176 km |
| 37 | Riom Puy-de-Dôme | 1.1 | 2.4% | 1.3% | 269 km |
| 38 | Sélestat Bas-Rhin | 1 | 40% | 56% | 462 km |
| 39 | Pornic Loire-Atlantique | 1 | 4.4% | 0% | On it |
| 40 | L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue Vaucluse | 0.8 | 4.8% | 7.3% | 54 km |
| 41 | Bressuire Deux-Sèvres | 0.6 | 2.4% | 0% | 77 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 La Crau
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Béal leads, at 0.9 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 La Crau 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).
91% within 800 m8.6% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
La CrauVar medianFrance median
Within 800 m91%
0%50%100%
About 1,700 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
1.8% of La Crau lies in protected areas
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
1.1 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
La plaine et le massif des Maures
1.8% of the commune1.6 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area1.8%
Natura 2000 site1.8%
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.
1.8% of La Crau’s land is protected, more than in 58% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Var has 19%. A national park’s outer area (aire d’adhésion) is made of the communes that signed the park’s charter: it guides how they grow, but it isn’t strict protection like the core.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
85 km of footpaths cross La Crau
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
85 km
2.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
23%
about 8.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
La CrauVar medianFrance median
Footpaths2.3
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
La CrauVar medianFrance median
Woodland23%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 62% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 68% 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 La Crau: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Hyeres, 7.4 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 | 10.5 | 11.8 | 13.3 | 14.6 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 14 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 25 | 21 | 17 | 14 |
| Rain (mm) | 74 | 51 | 44 | 55 | 40 | 37 | 8 | 14 | 58 | 105 | 109 | 75 |
July is the driest month (8 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 109 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 7 nights a year. The climate in La Crau →
Neighbors
Next to La Crau
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
La FarlèdeSolliès-VilleCarqueiranneHyèresLe PradetLa GardeLa Crau
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Crau | 1.8% | 23% | 2.3 | 6.1 km |
| La Farlède 10,014 · 3.7 km | 15% | 8.7% | 1.1 | 7.4 km |
| Solliès-Ville 2,504 · 5 km | 47% | 62% | 3.4 | 8.8 km |
| Carqueiranne 9,408 · 5.4 km | 0.1% | 28% | 3.9 | On it |
| Hyères 55,858 · 5.8 km | 83% | 25% | 3 | On it |
| Le Pradet 10,933 · 6.1 km | 43% | 11% | 4.6 | On it |
| La Garde 26,476 · 6.1 km | 25% | 7.6% | 3.8 | On it |
La Farlède, Solliès-Ville and Hyères have at least twice as much protected land. Solliès-Ville is 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 La Crau
Is La Crau in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 1.8% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in La Crau?
OpenStreetMap maps 85 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of La Crau is woodland?
23% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is La Crau near the sea?
No: the coast is 6.1 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in La Crau?
April 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.