First pick
Forêt des Mayons
Wood or forest
2,015 ha22.5 km of path
5 hto walk all 22.5 km of path
6.7 km eastfrom the center
Piste Vallon Notre-DameRoute des Lonnes, Piste de Cros-de-Mouton
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Aussie Oc · CC BY-SA 4.043%of the land protected
Outdoors in Pignans · protected areas, woods and footpaths
43% of Pignans’ land is protected for nature
50% of Pignans is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 34 km across Pignans (1 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 9 km in Pignans. 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
50%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
34 km
1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
9 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: Forêt des Mayons
The sea
20 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 Pignans?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside43% of the land lies in protected areas.A wooded commune50% mapped woodland, more than in 92% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Pignans apart: its protected countryside, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Pignans 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
Woodland50%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
92out of 100
Footpaths1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
32out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
43out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Pignans has the 20th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,801 to 4,876 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Quiberon (6.6 km per km²) to Bonneval (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quiberon Morbihan | 6.6 | 2.8% | 18% | On it |
| 2 | Rosières-près-Troyes Aube | 4 | 9.4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 3 | Phalempin Nord | 4 | 32% | 0% | 72 km |
| 4 | Ceyreste Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 42% | 49% | 2.9 km |
| 5 | La Turballe Loire-Atlantique | 2.7 | 13% | 24% | On it |
| 6 | Die Drôme | 2.4 | 60% | 100% | 150 km |
| 7 | Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Haut-Rhin | 2 | 76% | 100% | 450 km |
| 8 | Paron Yonne | 2 | 26% | 1.2% | 249 km |
| 9 | L'Horme Loire | 2 | 3.4% | 0% | 217 km |
| 10 | Plateau d'Hauteville Ain | 1.9 | 65% | 1.2% | 284 km |
| 11 | Robion Vaucluse | 1.8 | 24% | 100% | 48 km |
| 12 | Charly Rhône | 1.7 | 0.2% | 0% | 239 km |
| 13 | Rilhac-Rancon Haute-Vienne | 1.6 | 33% | 0% | 170 km |
| 14 | La Voulte-sur-Rhône Ardèche | 1.5 | 15% | 33% | 149 km |
| 15 | Bourgbarré Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 62 km |
| 16 | Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues Gard | 1.3 | 49% | 0% | 67 km |
| 17 | Montbazon Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 29% | 0% | 178 km |
| 18 | Le Coudray-Montceaux Essonne | 1.2 | 19% | 0% | 182 km |
| 19 | Blendecques Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 18% | 84% | 32 km |
| 20 | Pignans Var | 1 | 50% | 43% | 20 km |
| 21 | Desvres Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 56% | 100% | 18 km |
| 22 | Milizac-Guipronvel Finistère | 0.9 | 6.1% | 0% | 9.1 km |
| 23 | Cysoing Nord | 0.8 | 26% | 0% | 74 km |
| 24 | Tinchebray-Bocage Orne | 0.8 | 4.9% | 0% | 48 km |
| 25 | Fagnières Marne | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 235 km |
| 26 | Écommoy Sarthe | 0.5 | 28% | 0.2% | 151 km |
| 27 | La Côte-Saint-André Isère | 0.5 | 10% | 0% | 218 km |
| 28 | Cazères Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 4.1% | 11% | 162 km |
| 29 | Ruy-Montceau Isère | 0.4 | 21% | 12% | 240 km |
| 30 | Conches-en-Ouche Eure | 0.4 | 51% | 0% | 68 km |
| 31 | Billom Puy-de-Dôme | 0.4 | 7.1% | 100% | 247 km |
| 32 | Saint-Jean-de-Bournay Isère | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 229 km |
| 33 | Monnaie Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 197 km |
| 34 | Bornel Oise | 0.3 | 33% | 0.1% | 112 km |
| 35 | Vic-en-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 0.3 | 20% | 2.2% | 125 km |
| 36 | Saverdun Ariège | 0.2 | 13% | 0.7% | 123 km |
| 37 | Bazas Gironde | 0.2 | 30% | 2.9% | 69 km |
| 38 | Legé Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 33 km |
| 39 | Salbris Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 81% | 100% | 256 km |
| 40 | Vitry-en-Artois Pas-de-Calais | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 90 km |
| 41 | Bonneval Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 | 9.3% | 30% | 159 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 Pignans
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt des Mayons leads, at 2,015 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Espace naturel sensible Le Colombier
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Pignans
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 Pignans
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
La plaine et le massif des Maures
43% of the commune1.5 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area43%
Natura 2000 site43%
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 Pignans’ land is protected, more than in 85% 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
34 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Pignans
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
34 km
1 km per km²
Hiking routes
9 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
50%
about 17.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PignansVar medianFrance median
Footpaths1
Hiking routes0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PignansVar medianFrance median
Woodland50%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 68% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 92% 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 Pignans is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 904.6 km
GR 90 passes within 2 km of Pignans.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Pignans: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Collobrieres_Sapc, 7.9 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 | 17 | 19 | 24 | 28 | 31 | 31 | 26 | 22 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 98 | 61 | 60 | 67 | 47 | 40 | 12 | 18 | 78 | 108 | 143 | 91 |
July is the driest month (12 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 143 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Pignans →
Neighbors
Next to Pignans
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
CarnoulesGonfaronBesse-sur-IssolePuget-VilleFlassans-sur-IssolePierrefeu-du-VarPignans
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pignans | 43% | 50% | 1 | 20 km |
| Carnoules 4,388 · 3.4 km | 21% | 43% | 0.6 | 21 km |
| Gonfaron 4,496 · 5.2 km | 23% | 42% | 0.4 | 21 km |
| Besse-sur-Issole 3,125 · 6.8 km | 0.7% | 36% | 1.3 | 26 km |
| Puget-Ville 4,610 · 8 km | 19% | 23% | 0.9 | 20 km |
| Flassans-sur-Issole 3,706 · 8 km | 0.8% | 58% | 0.7 | 28 km |
| Pierrefeu-du-Var 6,084 · 10 km | 28% | 24% | 1.6 | 13 km |
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 Pignans
Is Pignans in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 43% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Pignans?
OpenStreetMap maps 34 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Pignans is woodland?
50% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Pignans near the sea?
No: the coast is 20 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Pignans?
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.