First pick
Parc naturel du Vivier
Park or garden · 220 m outside the commune
1.8 ha0.2 km of path
3.1 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Fadli Mehmed · CC BY 3.053%woodland
Outdoors in Rocbaron · protected areas, woods and footpaths
53% of Rocbaron is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 20 km in Rocbaron. No protected area reaches Rocbaron; the nearest, Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park, is 2 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 37 km across Rocbaron (1.8 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park, 2 km
Woodland
53%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
37 km
1.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
20 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: Parc naturel du Vivier
The sea
24 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 Rocbaron?
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.On waymarked routes20 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbySainte-Baume Regional Nature Park is 2 km from the town center.
What sets Rocbaron apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Rocbaron 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 areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
48out of 100
Woodland53%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
93out of 100
Footpaths1.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
53out of 100
Hiking routes1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
83out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Rocbaron has the 16th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,616 to 5,709 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Montbonnot-Saint-Martin (4.6 km per km²) to Missillac (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montbonnot-Saint-Martin Isère | 4.6 | 9.5% | 0% | 205 km |
| 2 | Carry-le-Rouet Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.3 | 19% | 59% | On it |
| 3 | Challes-les-Eaux Savoie | 3.9 | 32% | 40% | 229 km |
| 4 | Cancale Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.8 | 10% | 22% | On it |
| 5 | Mourenx Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.6 | 20% | 9.2% | 73 km |
| 6 | L'Isle-d'Espagnac Charente | 3.4 | 13% | 0% | 78 km |
| 7 | Santes Nord | 3 | 11% | 0% | 62 km |
| 8 | Lèves Eure-et-Loir | 2.7 | 24% | 0% | 135 km |
| 9 | Saint-Georges-d'Orques Hérault | 2.7 | 0.3% | 0% | 14 km |
| 10 | Longueau Somme | 2.6 | 0.4% | 4% | 60 km |
| 11 | Saleilles Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.3 | 1.4% | 0% | 7.1 km |
| 12 | Parmain Val-d'Oise | 2.1 | 45% | 100% | 120 km |
| 13 | La Roquette-sur-Siagne Alpes-Maritimes | 2.1 | 22% | 0% | 4.6 km |
| 14 | Dainville Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 4.1% | 0% | 75 km |
| 15 | Delle Territoire de Belfort | 1.8 | 32% | 20% | 416 km |
| 16 | Rocbaron Var | 1.8 | 53% | 0% | 24 km |
| 17 | Altkirch Haut-Rhin | 1.6 | 23% | 0% | 427 km |
| 18 | Sainghin-en-Weppes Nord | 1.5 | 4.8% | 0% | 64 km |
| 19 | Saint-Privat-des-Vieux Gard | 1.4 | 24% | 0% | 65 km |
| 20 | Caumont-sur-Durance Vaucluse | 1.4 | 16% | 18% | 50 km |
| 21 | Montrond-les-Bains Loire | 1.2 | 3.1% | 17% | 231 km |
| 22 | Mondelange Moselle | 1.2 | 2% | 0% | 316 km |
| 23 | Lannilis Finistère | 1.2 | 5.5% | 14% | On it |
| 24 | Marcheprime Gironde | 1.2 | 83% | 100% | 14 km |
| 25 | Marolles-en-Hurepoix Essonne | 1.2 | 14% | 0% | 172 km |
| 26 | Pouzauges Vendée | 1.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 57 km |
| 27 | Sausheim Haut-Rhin | 1 | 30% | 25% | 445 km |
| 28 | Montval-sur-Loir Sarthe | 1 | 5.9% | 0% | 168 km |
| 29 | Sigean Aude | 0.9 | 6.3% | 98% | 7.1 km |
| 30 | Saint-Xandre Charente-Maritime | 0.9 | 1.2% | 7.3% | 5.2 km |
| 31 | La Gorgue Nord | 0.8 | 0.8% | 0% | 51 km |
| 32 | Wallers Nord | 0.8 | 28% | 99% | 99 km |
| 33 | Aimargues Gard | 0.7 | 1.6% | 19% | 17 km |
| 34 | La Crèche Deux-Sèvres | 0.6 | 3.7% | 0% | 63 km |
| 35 | Gan Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.5 | 38% | 4.7% | 97 km |
| 36 | Tournus Saône-et-Loire | 0.4 | 9.6% | 6.5% | 340 km |
| 37 | Bédarrides Vaucluse | 0.3 | 5.1% | 6.2% | 65 km |
| 38 | Valdahon Doubs | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 385 km |
| 39 | Rives-du-Loir-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 17% | 26% | 131 km |
| 40 | Valdallière Calvados | 0.2 | 2% | 12% | 52 km |
| 41 | Missillac Loire-Atlantique | 0 | 19% | 100% | 16 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 Rocbaron
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc naturel du Vivier leads, at 1.8 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 2 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park
2 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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.
A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
37 km of footpaths and 20 km of hiking routes cross Rocbaron
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
37 km
1.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
20 km
waymarked: 1 km per km²
Woodland
53%
about 10.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RocbaronVar medianFrance median
Footpaths1.8
Hiking routes1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RocbaronVar medianFrance median
Woodland53%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 53% 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 Rocbaron is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Priscat EST-Pei Cau Est2.5 km
Château Saint-Sauveur0.9 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Rocbaron: April to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Castellet-Aero, 25 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) | 11 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 19 | 14 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 73 | 44 | 48 | 64 | 48 | 31 | 12 | 22 | 80 | 95 | 103 | 70 |
July is the driest month (12 mm) and the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 103 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 30 nights a year. The climate in Rocbaron →
Neighbors
Next to Rocbaron
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ForcalqueiretGaréoultPuget-VilleNéoulesCuersLa RoquebrussanneRocbaron
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocbaron | 0% | 53% | 1.8 | 24 km |
| Forcalqueiret 3,389 · 3.1 km | 0% | 29% | 2 | 26 km |
| Garéoult 5,835 · 4.1 km | 51% | 30% | 2.2 | 26 km |
| Puget-Ville 4,610 · 4.9 km | 19% | 23% | 0.9 | 20 km |
| Néoules 2,976 · 5.4 km | 100% | 71% | 2.4 | 22 km |
| Cuers 13,271 · 8.1 km | 0% | 32% | 1.5 | 16 km |
| La Roquebrussanne 2,817 · 8.5 km | 100% | 36% | 1.9 | 24 km |
Garéoult, Puget-Ville and Néoules 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 Rocbaron
Is Rocbaron in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park, 2 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Rocbaron?
OpenStreetMap maps 37 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 20 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Rocbaron is woodland?
53% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Rocbaron near the sea?
No: the coast is 24 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Rocbaron?
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.