First pick
Parc Nature Du Plan
Park or garden · 30 m outside the commune
58 ha9.8 km of path
2 h 10 minto walk all 9.8 km of path
1.7 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Esby · CC BY-SA 3.043%of the land protected
Outdoors in Le Pradet · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Le Pradet is on the coast
43% of Le Pradet’s land lies in protected areas. Footpaths add up to 47 km across Le Pradet (4.6 km per km²). Le Pradet has 7 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
43%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
11%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
47 km
4.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.1 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Nature Du Plan
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 0.7 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 Le Pradet?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 0.7 km from its center.A place of footpaths4.6 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Protected countryside43% of the land lies in protected areas.
What sets Le Pradet apart: the sea, then its footpaths.
Against French towns
How Le Pradet 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 areas43%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
85out of 100
Woodland11%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
43out of 100
Footpaths4.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
88out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
71out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Le Pradet has the 9th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (10,739 to 11,108 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vitry-le-François (9.3 km per km²) to Lavaur (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vitry-le-François Marne | 9.3 | 10% | 0% | 266 km |
| 2 | Igny Essonne | 5.5 | 20% | 0% | 156 km |
| 3 | Bondoufle Essonne | 5.3 | 7.9% | 0% | 173 km |
| 4 | Villeneuve-Tolosane Haute-Garonne | 5.1 | 0.7% | 1.1% | 151 km |
| 5 | Ormesson-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5 | 6.8% | 0% | 164 km |
| 6 | Dinard Ille-et-Vilaine | 5 | 7.9% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Vétraz-Monthoux Haute-Savoie | 4.8 | 18% | 0% | 284 km |
| 8 | Mouans-Sartoux Alpes-Maritimes | 4.6 | 22% | 0% | 8 km |
| 9 | Le Pradet Var | 4.6 | 11% | 43% | On it |
| 10 | Chanteloup-les-Vignes Yvelines | 4.4 | 21% | 0% | 126 km |
| 11 | Le Pont-de-Claix Isère | 4.3 | 15% | 2.9% | 198 km |
| 12 | Déville-lès-Rouen Seine-Maritime | 4.3 | 19% | 0.1% | 49 km |
| 13 | Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur Côte-d'Or | 4.2 | 27% | 0% | 408 km |
| 14 | Arcachon Gironde | 4 | 22% | 6.4% | On it |
| 15 | Maromme Seine-Maritime | 3.4 | 39% | 0% | 48 km |
| 16 | Croissy-sur-Seine Yvelines | 3.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 139 km |
| 17 | Allonnes Sarthe | 3.2 | 15% | 0% | 134 km |
| 18 | Thouaré-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 2.9 | 9.4% | 25% | 49 km |
| 19 | Stiring-Wendel Moselle | 2.8 | 3.4% | 0% | 360 km |
| 20 | Tinqueux Marne | 2.8 | 2.4% | 0% | 196 km |
| 21 | Annœullin Nord | 2.8 | 4.2% | 0% | 68 km |
| 22 | Passy Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 29% | 44% | 246 km |
| 23 | Amnéville Moselle | 2.3 | 12% | 0% | 315 km |
| 24 | Le Taillan-Médoc Gironde | 2.3 | 34% | 13% | 13 km |
| 25 | Châteaugiron Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 62 km |
| 26 | La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin Loiret | 2 | 6.2% | 11% | 203 km |
| 27 | Wambrechies Nord | 1.9 | 2.9% | 0% | 57 km |
| 28 | Saint-Martin-Boulogne Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 8.3% | 0.1% | 2.1 km |
| 29 | Trets Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 18% | 34% | 28 km |
| 30 | Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone Hérault | 1.2 | 0.7% | 52% | On it |
| 31 | Fondettes Indre-et-Loire | 1.1 | 15% | 5.3% | 180 km |
| 32 | Saint-Saulve Nord | 1.1 | 8.2% | 0.3% | 105 km |
| 33 | Tarare Rhône | 1.1 | 41% | 0% | 261 km |
| 34 | Pélissanne Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.1 | 4.7% | 57% | 27 km |
| 35 | Erstein Bas-Rhin | 0.9 | 32% | 38% | 459 km |
| 36 | Orthez Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.9 | 21% | 25% | 57 km |
| 37 | Pont-Saint-Esprit Gard | 0.8 | 5.3% | 14% | 89 km |
| 38 | Boulazac Isle Manoire Dordogne | 0.7 | 48% | 0% | 108 km |
| 39 | Brissac Loire Aubance Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 13% | 39% | 124 km |
| 40 | Doué-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 9.6% | 100% | 118 km |
| 41 | Lavaur Tarn | 0.3 | 9.6% | 0.8% | 125 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 Le Pradet
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Nature Du Plan leads, at 58 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Courbebaisse
Wood or forest
11 ha2.4 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Le Pradet
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Cravero
Park or garden
1.5 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
Centralin the middle of Le Pradet
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
43% of Le Pradet 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
43% of the commune0 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area43%
National park, outer area43%
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.
43% of Le Pradet’s land is protected, more than in 85% 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
47 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Le Pradet
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
47 km
4.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.1 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
11%
about 1.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Le PradetVar medianFrance median
Footpaths4.6
Hiking routes0.7
036 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Le PradetVar medianFrance median
Woodland11%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 88% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 57% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 97% of Le Pradet’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Le sentier du Littoral – Carqueiranne8.7 km
Sentier de Découverte Jean-François Jubé1.3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Le Pradet: April to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cap Cepet, 7.3 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 | 10.5 | 11.8 | 13.3 | 14.6 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 12 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 72 | 50 | 42 | 55 | 38 | 27 | 7 | 12 | 70 | 108 | 99 | 68 |
July is the driest month (7 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 108 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 2 nights a year. The climate in Le Pradet →
Neighbors
Next to Le Pradet
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
La GardeCarqueiranneLa Valette-du-VarLa CrauLa FarlèdeToulonLe Pradet
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Pradet | 43% | 11% | 4.6 | On it |
| La Garde 26,476 · 2.3 km | 25% | 7.6% | 3.8 | On it |
| Carqueiranne 9,408 · 4.4 km | 0.1% | 28% | 3.9 | On it |
| La Valette-du-Var 23,719 · 4.7 km | 32% | 23% | 3.4 | 3.7 km |
| La Crau 19,556 · 6.1 km | 1.8% | 23% | 2.3 | 6.1 km |
| La Farlède 10,014 · 6.9 km | 15% | 8.7% | 1.1 | 7.4 km |
| Toulon 179,116 · 7.8 km | 26% | 23% | 3.6 | On it |
Carqueiranne, La Valette-du-Var and La Crau 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 Le Pradet
Is Le Pradet in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Le Pradet lies in Port-Cros National Park (43% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Le Pradet?
OpenStreetMap maps 47 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 4.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Le Pradet is woodland?
11% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Pradet near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 0.7 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Le Pradet?
April to August: 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.