First pick
Parc Marie Astoin
Park or garden · 320 m outside the commune
2.8 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
1.7 km south-eastfrom the center
Promenade des Danese et es Messieurs
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Fadli Mehmed · CC BY 3.056%of the land protected
Outdoors in Solliès-Toucas · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Solliès-Toucas lies inside Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 56% of Solliès-Toucas’ land. Mapped woodland covers 61% of Solliès-Toucas. 73 km of footpaths cross Solliès-Toucas (2.4 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
56%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
61%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
73 km
2.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 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: Parc Marie Astoin
The sea
11 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 Solliès-Toucas?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park55% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune61% mapped woodland, more than in 96% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Solliès-Toucas apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Solliès-Toucas 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 areas56%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
87out of 100
Woodland61%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
96out of 100
Footpaths2.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
65out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Solliès-Toucas has the 14th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,202 to 6,332 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Mesnil-le-Roi (3.9 km per km²) to Livarot-Pays-d'Auge (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Mesnil-le-Roi Yvelines | 3.9 | 13% | 0% | 133 km |
| 2 | Wimereux Pas-de-Calais | 3.9 | 3.6% | 100% | On it |
| 3 | Jassans-Riottier Ain | 3.9 | 9.6% | 0% | 274 km |
| 4 | Châtel-Guyon Puy-de-Dôme | 3.5 | 41% | 100% | 273 km |
| 5 | Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 3.3 | 15% | 0% | 255 km |
| 6 | Dompierre-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 2.8 | 6.2% | 0% | 7 km |
| 7 | Pont-de-Chéruy Isère | 2.8 | 12% | 0% | 257 km |
| 8 | Thyez Haute-Savoie | 2.7 | 29% | 2.7% | 267 km |
| 9 | Lallaing Nord | 2.7 | 16% | 98% | 89 km |
| 10 | Saint-Pryvé-Saint-Mesmin Loiret | 2.7 | 7% | 20% | 206 km |
| 11 | Louvroil Nord | 2.7 | 5.6% | 0% | 131 km |
| 12 | Cuges-les-Pins Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.6 | 37% | 100% | 10 km |
| 13 | Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.4 | 21% | 0% | 257 km |
| 14 | Solliès-Toucas Var | 2.4 | 61% | 56% | 11 km |
| 15 | Bruguières Haute-Garonne | 2.3 | 11% | 0% | 154 km |
| 16 | Homécourt Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.3 | 28% | 0% | 311 km |
| 17 | Saint-Marcel Saône-et-Loire | 2 | 6% | 0% | 363 km |
| 18 | Avallon Yonne | 1.9 | 45% | 100% | 340 km |
| 19 | Pluneret Morbihan | 1.8 | 19% | 100% | On it |
| 20 | Bonchamp-lès-Laval Mayenne | 1.7 | 1.2% | 0% | 79 km |
| 21 | Châtenoy-le-Royal Saône-et-Loire | 1.5 | 16% | 0% | 364 km |
| 22 | Vaugneray Rhône | 1.5 | 31% | 0% | 246 km |
| 23 | Milhaud Gard | 1.4 | 30% | 8% | 31 km |
| 24 | Pont-Évêque Isère | 1.4 | 17% | 0% | 229 km |
| 25 | Mornant Rhône | 1.3 | 6.3% | 0% | 233 km |
| 26 | Vouneuil-sous-Biard Vienne | 1.2 | 28% | 0% | 112 km |
| 27 | Migné-Auxances Vienne | 1.1 | 7.4% | 16% | 116 km |
| 28 | Esvres Indre-et-Loire | 1 | 31% | 0% | 183 km |
| 29 | Mazan Vaucluse | 1 | 13% | 100% | 70 km |
| 30 | Loches Indre-et-Loire | 0.9 | 17% | 5% | 186 km |
| 31 | Terrasson-Lavilledieu Dordogne | 0.9 | 39% | 7.1% | 149 km |
| 32 | Bellevigny Vendée | 0.9 | 7.1% | 0% | 38 km |
| 33 | Noyal-sur-Vilaine Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 6.9% | 0% | 55 km |
| 34 | Mer Loir-et-Cher | 0.8 | 8.5% | 22% | 211 km |
| 35 | Malaunay Seine-Maritime | 0.7 | 24% | 0% | 43 km |
| 36 | Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx Landes | 0.7 | 51% | 33% | 9.2 km |
| 37 | Guer Morbihan | 0.7 | 20% | 0% | 50 km |
| 38 | Belin-Béliet Gironde | 0.4 | 86% | 100% | 26 km |
| 39 | Aire-sur-l'Adour Landes | 0.4 | 22% | 2.6% | 93 km |
| 40 | Fleurance Gers | 0.4 | 10% | 0% | 161 km |
| 41 | Livarot-Pays-d'Auge Calvados | 0.3 | 14% | 0.9% | 38 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 Solliès-Toucas
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Marie Astoin leads, at 2.8 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc des Frères Tocasso
Park or garden
0.2 ha
Centralin the middle of Solliès-Toucas
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 Solliès-Toucas
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
55% of the commune1.8 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Mont Caume - mont Faron - forêt domaniale des Morières
41% of the commune2.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area56%
Regional nature park55%
Natura 2000 site41%
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.
56% of Solliès-Toucas’ land is protected, more than in 87% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Var has 19%. 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
73 km of footpaths cross Solliès-Toucas
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
73 km
2.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
61%
about 18.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Solliès-ToucasVar medianFrance median
Footpaths2.4
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Solliès-ToucasVar medianFrance median
Woodland61%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 65% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 96% 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 Solliès-Toucas 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 Solliès-Toucas: April to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cap Cepet, 16 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 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 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 Solliès-Toucas →
Neighbors
Next to Solliès-Toucas
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Solliès-PontSolliès-VilleLa FarlèdeCuersLa Valette-du-VarLa CrauSolliès-Toucas
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solliès-Toucas | 56% | 61% | 2.4 | 11 km |
| Solliès-Pont 12,521 · 2.4 km | 0% | 28% | 1.7 | 11 km |
| Solliès-Ville 2,504 · 3.3 km | 47% | 62% | 3.4 | 8.8 km |
| La Farlède 10,014 · 4.9 km | 15% | 8.7% | 1.1 | 7.4 km |
| Cuers 13,271 · 5.6 km | 0% | 32% | 1.5 | 16 km |
| La Valette-du-Var 23,719 · 7.8 km | 32% | 23% | 3.4 | 3.7 km |
| La Crau 19,556 · 8.3 km | 1.8% | 23% | 2.3 | 6.1 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 Solliès-Toucas
Is Solliès-Toucas in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Solliès-Toucas lies in Sainte-Baume Regional Nature Park (55% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Solliès-Toucas?
OpenStreetMap maps 73 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Solliès-Toucas is woodland?
61% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Solliès-Toucas near the sea?
No: the coast is 11 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Solliès-Toucas?
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 9, 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.