Photo: Leon petrosyan · CC BY-SA 4.0Parks, woods and footpaths in Le Luc
24 km of footpaths cross Le Luc (0.5 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 19% of Le Luc. Protected areas cover 10% of Le Luc’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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 outdoors place is Le Luc?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Le Luc apart: its nature reserve. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Le Luc 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.
Le Luc has the fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (11,044 to 11,596 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Cesson (6.8 km per km²) to Le Luc (0.5 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cesson Seine-et-Marne | 6.8 | 26% | 0% | 186 km |
| 2 | Enghien-les-Bains Val-d'Oise | 5.4 | 0% | 0% | 137 km |
| 3 | Villeneuve-Tolosane Haute-Garonne | 5.1 | 0.7% | 1.1% | 151 km |
| 4 | Guilherand-Granges Ardèche | 5 | 1.9% | 17% | 164 km |
| 5 | Guebwiller Haut-Rhin | 4.5 | 47% | 100% | 459 km |
| 6 | Briançon Hautes-Alpes | 4.4 | 62% | 0% | 142 km |
| 7 | Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur Côte-d'Or | 4.2 | 27% | 0% | 408 km |
| 8 | Saint-Jean Haute-Garonne | 4 | 10% | 0% | 145 km |
| 9 | Arcachon Gironde | 4 | 22% | 6.4% | On it |
| 10 | Gravelines Nord | 3.9 | 7.7% | 0% | On it |
| 11 | Gaillard Haute-Savoie | 3.9 | 14% | 8% | 286 km |
| 12 | Chassieu Rhône | 3.3 | 0.5% | 0% | 252 km |
| 13 | Maizières-lès-Metz Moselle | 3.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 319 km |
| 14 | Le Haillan Gironde | 3.2 | 18% | 3.4% | 16 km |
| 15 | Yvetot Seine-Maritime | 3 | 3.5% | 100% | 28 km |
| 16 | Dourdan Essonne | 2.8 | 58% | 0% | 157 km |
| 17 | Panazol Haute-Vienne | 2.7 | 21% | 0% | 167 km |
| 18 | Tournon-sur-Rhône Ardèche | 2.5 | 41% | 12% | 177 km |
| 19 | Ploufragan Côtes-d'Armor | 2.5 | 13% | 0.2% | 5.7 km |
| 20 | Corbas Rhône | 2.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 243 km |
| 21 | Saverne Bas-Rhin | 2.5 | 65% | 0% | 418 km |
| 22 | Nœux-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 2.4 | 4.6% | 0% | 66 km |
| 23 | Vaux-le-Pénil Seine-et-Marne | 2.4 | 27% | 0% | 194 km |
| 24 | Castelginest Haute-Garonne | 2.4 | 1.3% | 0% | 151 km |
| 25 | Le Taillan-Médoc Gironde | 2.3 | 34% | 13% | 13 km |
| 26 | Montlouis-sur-Loire Indre-et-Loire | 2.1 | 15% | 7.6% | 192 km |
| 27 | La Roche-sur-Foron Haute-Savoie | 2.1 | 21% | 0% | 270 km |
| 28 | Les Avirons Réunion | 1.7 | 47% | 78% | On it |
| 29 | Fourmies Nord | 1.6 | 48% | 100% | 157 km |
| 30 | Bolbec Seine-Maritime | 1.5 | 7.1% | 0% | 17 km |
| 31 | Riorges Loire | 1.5 | 3% | 0% | 276 km |
| 32 | Chauny Aisne | 1.2 | 5.7% | 10% | 127 km |
| 33 | Villefranche-de-Rouergue Aveyron | 1.2 | 30% | 0.5% | 159 km |
| 34 | Biganos Gironde | 1.1 | 71% | 100% | On it |
| 35 | Pélissanne Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.1 | 4.7% | 57% | 27 km |
| 36 | La Hague Manche | 1 | 5.5% | 14% | On it |
| 37 | Saint-Junien Haute-Vienne | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 139 km |
| 38 | Porto-Vecchio Corse-du-Sud | 0.8 | 26% | 38% | On it |
| 39 | Issoudun Indre | 0.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 250 km |
| 40 | Pontchâteau Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.4% | 24% | 16 km |
| 41 | Le Luc Var | 0.5 | 19% | 10% | 25 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
9 in 10 residents of Le Luc 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 1,400 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.
10% of Le Luc lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Plaine des Maures nature reserve
La plaine et le massif des Maures
Plaine des Maures
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.
10% of Le Luc’s land is protected, more than in 72% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Var has 19%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
24 km of footpaths cross Le Luc
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 less than in 85% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 61% 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).
The best walking months in Le Luc: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Luc, 6.2 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 | 17 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 73 | 48 | 52 | 67 | 56 | 51 | 16 | 34 | 87 | 129 | 141 | 79 |
July is the driest month (16 mm) and the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 141 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Le Luc →
Next to Le Luc
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Luc | 10% | 19% | 0.5 | 25 km |
| Le Cannet-des-Maures 5,140 · 2.8 km | 52% | 31% | 1 | 23 km |
| Le Thoronet 2,631 · 7 km | 31% | 49% | 0.6 | 29 km |
| Flassans-sur-Issole 3,706 · 7.5 km | 0.8% | 58% | 0.7 | 28 km |
| Gonfaron 4,496 · 7.7 km | 23% | 42% | 0.4 | 21 km |
| Vidauban 12,608 · 10 km | 34% | 22% | 0.7 | 20 km |
| Pignans 4,838 · 12 km | 43% | 50% | 1 | 20 km |
Le Cannet-des-Maures, Le Thoronet and Gonfaron have at least twice as much protected land. Le Cannet-des-Maures, Le Thoronet and Flassans-sur-Issole are more wooded.
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 Le Luc
Is Le Luc in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 10% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Le Luc?
OpenStreetMap maps 24 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Le Luc is woodland?
19% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Luc near the sea?
No: the coast is 25 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Le Luc?
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.