First pick
Jardin de la Muscatelle
Park or garden
0.7 ha0.3 km of path
0.7 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Moumousse13 · CC BY-SA 3.06.3%of the land protected
Outdoors in Lorgues · protected areas, woods and footpaths
53% of Lorgues is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
36 km of footpaths cross Lorgues (0.6 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 14 km in Lorgues. 6.3% of Lorgues’ land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
6.3%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
53%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
36 km
0.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 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: Jardin de la Muscatelle
The sea
30 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 Lorgues?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune53% mapped woodland, more than in 93% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Few mapped footpaths0.6 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Lorgues apart: its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Lorgues 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 areas6.3%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
67out of 100
Woodland53%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
93out of 100
Footpaths0.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
16out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
39out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Lorgues has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (9,679 to 10,024 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Max (5.1 km per km²) to Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Max Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.1 | 4.9% | 0.3% | 366 km |
| 2 | Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 4.4 | 10% | 0.1% | 123 km |
| 3 | Beauchamp Val-d'Oise | 4.2 | 12% | 0% | 129 km |
| 4 | Saint-Grégoire Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.2 | 5% | 0% | 44 km |
| 5 | Montlhéry Essonne | 4.1 | 9.8% | 0% | 165 km |
| 6 | Aytré Charente-Maritime | 3.7 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 7 | Méry-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.6 | 35% | 0% | 124 km |
| 8 | Vernouillet Yvelines | 3.5 | 19% | 0% | 124 km |
| 9 | Le Rheu Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 46 km |
| 10 | Frouzins Haute-Garonne | 3.3 | 7.7% | 11% | 152 km |
| 11 | Voreppe Isère | 3.3 | 42% | 35% | 213 km |
| 12 | Montigny-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 7.7% | 0% | 78 km |
| 13 | Portet-sur-Garonne Haute-Garonne | 3 | 9.8% | 15% | 146 km |
| 14 | Grand-Couronne Seine-Maritime | 2.9 | 42% | 0.2% | 48 km |
| 15 | Basse-Goulaine Loire-Atlantique | 2.5 | 14% | 14% | 44 km |
| 16 | Neuville-en-Ferrain Nord | 2.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 54 km |
| 17 | Bondues Nord | 2.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 56 km |
| 18 | Ézanville Val-d'Oise | 2.2 | 0.7% | 0% | 134 km |
| 19 | Foix Ariège | 2.2 | 28% | 21% | 117 km |
| 20 | Figeac Lot | 2.1 | 27% | 0% | 182 km |
| 21 | Pont-Audemer Eure | 1.8 | 20% | 65% | 15 km |
| 22 | Roche-la-Molière Loire | 1.8 | 8.5% | 0% | 209 km |
| 23 | Léguevin Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 14% | 0% | 161 km |
| 24 | Saint-Lys Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 9.5% | 0% | 162 km |
| 25 | Aniche Nord | 1.4 | 6.8% | 0.1% | 98 km |
| 26 | Lambesc Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 32% | 65% | 33 km |
| 27 | Saint-Amand-Montrond Cher | 1.3 | 10% | 6.4% | 282 km |
| 28 | Chambly Oise | 1.2 | 5.4% | 0.1% | 117 km |
| 29 | Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.2 | 0.1% | 45% | 3.8 km |
| 30 | La Farlède Var | 1.1 | 8.7% | 15% | 7.4 km |
| 31 | Merville Nord | 1 | 2% | 0% | 48 km |
| 32 | Bourg-de-Péage Drôme | 0.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 176 km |
| 33 | Bernay Eure | 0.9 | 15% | 4.7% | 42 km |
| 34 | Lançon-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 2.7% | 80% | 23 km |
| 35 | Loudéac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.7 | 14% | 0% | 35 km |
| 36 | Revel Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 4.3% | 0% | 99 km |
| 37 | Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe Tarn | 0.6 | 6.1% | 1.1% | 138 km |
| 38 | Lorgues Var | 0.6 | 53% | 6.3% | 30 km |
| 39 | Mézidon Vallée d'Auge Calvados | 0.5 | 8.1% | 0% | 24 km |
| 40 | Carmaux Tarn | 0.4 | 3.3% | 0% | 127 km |
| 41 | Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire Nièvre | 0.3 | 24% | 3.8% | 295 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 Lorgues
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin de la Muscatelle leads, at 0.7 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
6.3% of Lorgues lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Val d’Argens
6.3% of the commune3.4 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area6.3%
Natura 2000 site6.3%
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.
6.3% of Lorgues’ land is protected, more than in 67% 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.
Footpaths and woods
36 km of footpaths and 14 km of hiking routes cross Lorgues
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
36 km
0.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
53%
about 34.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LorguesVar medianFrance median
Footpaths0.6
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LorguesVar medianFrance median
Woodland53%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 84% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 93% 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 Lorgues is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Lorgues: May, June and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Draguignan_Sapc, 8.6 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 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| High (°C) | 13 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 27 | 22 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 69 | 52 | 55 | 78 | 66 | 61 | 20 | 35 | 70 | 111 | 157 | 90 |
July is the driest month (20 mm) and the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 157 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 34 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Lorgues →
Neighbors
Next to Lorgues
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
FlayoscLe ThoronetVidaubanDraguignanLes ArcsTrans-en-ProvenceLorgues
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lorgues | 6.3% | 53% | 0.6 | 30 km |
| Flayosc 4,673 · 5.6 km | 0% | 36% | 0.8 | 32 km |
| Le Thoronet 2,631 · 5.8 km | 31% | 49% | 0.6 | 29 km |
| Vidauban 12,608 · 9.5 km | 34% | 22% | 0.7 | 20 km |
| Draguignan 40,826 · 9.9 km | 0% | 29% | 1.5 | 26 km |
| Les Arcs 8,109 · 10 km | 12% | 35% | 1.1 | 21 km |
| Trans-en-Provence 6,905 · 10 km | 0% | 26% | 1.1 | 23 km |
Le Thoronet and Vidauban have 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 Lorgues
Is Lorgues in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 6.3% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Lorgues?
OpenStreetMap maps 36 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 14 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Lorgues is woodland?
53% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lorgues near the sea?
No: the coast is 30 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Lorgues?
May, 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.