First pick
Jardin du Monde
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
0.6 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Véronique PAGNIER · CC0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Apt · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Apt lies inside Luberon Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Apt’s land. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 45 km in Apt. 29% of Apt is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
29%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
55 km
1.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
45 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 du Monde
Throughout this page, the Vaucluse 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 Apt?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Luberon Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.On waymarked routes45 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.A wooded commune29% mapped woodland, more than in 76% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Apt apart: the regional nature park around it, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Apt 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
99out of 100
Woodland29%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
76out of 100
Footpaths1.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
38out 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
Apt has the 11th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (9,983 to 10,326 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Maxéville (5.5 km per km²) to Saint-Loubès (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maxéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.5 | 24% | 0% | 363 km |
| 2 | Serris Seine-et-Marne | 5.1 | 2.1% | 0% | 168 km |
| 3 | Villerupt Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.2 | 30% | 0% | 288 km |
| 4 | Courrières Pas-de-Calais | 4.1 | 11% | 0% | 76 km |
| 5 | Villebon-sur-Yvette Essonne | 3.8 | 23% | 0% | 159 km |
| 6 | Oignies Pas-de-Calais | 3.7 | 12% | 0% | 77 km |
| 7 | Cabriès Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 28% | 1.6% | 11 km |
| 8 | Méry-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.6 | 35% | 0% | 124 km |
| 9 | Grigny-sur-Rhône Rhône | 3.5 | 16% | 0% | 234 km |
| 10 | Feyzin Rhône | 3.4 | 12% | 0% | 242 km |
| 11 | Soyaux Charente | 3.3 | 35% | 9% | 78 km |
| 12 | Auchel Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 8.6% | 0% | 55 km |
| 13 | Marly Moselle | 3 | 4.4% | 0% | 332 km |
| 14 | Sainte-Savine Aube | 2.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 271 km |
| 15 | Neuville-en-Ferrain Nord | 2.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 54 km |
| 16 | Beaumont-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 2.4 | 26% | 35% | 121 km |
| 17 | Pierrelaye Val-d'Oise | 2.4 | 20% | 0% | 126 km |
| 18 | Buxerolles Vienne | 2.3 | 10% | 0% | 119 km |
| 19 | Pfastatt Haut-Rhin | 2.2 | 22% | 0.1% | 443 km |
| 20 | Fillière Haute-Savoie | 2.1 | 49% | 20% | 266 km |
| 21 | Parthenay Deux-Sèvres | 2 | 3.8% | 0.1% | 78 km |
| 22 | Avranches Manche | 1.9 | 1.5% | 0% | 2.5 km |
| 23 | La Ferté-sous-Jouarre Seine-et-Marne | 1.9 | 30% | 0% | 172 km |
| 24 | Pont-Audemer Eure | 1.8 | 20% | 65% | 15 km |
| 25 | Jeumont Nord | 1.8 | 25% | 0.1% | 133 km |
| 26 | Ingré Loiret | 1.8 | 11% | 0% | 200 km |
| 27 | Le Muy Var | 1.7 | 35% | 46% | 16 km |
| 28 | Saint-Pierre-du-Mont Landes | 1.5 | 58% | 3.4% | 69 km |
| 29 | Le Beausset Var | 1.5 | 18% | 69% | 7.1 km |
| 30 | Lambesc Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 32% | 65% | 33 km |
| 31 | Apt Vaucluse | 1.2 | 29% | 100% | 58 km |
| 32 | Mazamet Tarn | 1.2 | 77% | 0.1% | 74 km |
| 33 | Ploërmel Morbihan | 1.1 | 15% | 0% | 39 km |
| 34 | La Farlède Var | 1.1 | 8.7% | 15% | 7.4 km |
| 35 | Couzeix Haute-Vienne | 1.1 | 21% | 0% | 163 km |
| 36 | Douchy-les-Mines Nord | 1 | 11% | 0% | 106 km |
| 37 | Borgo Haute-Corse | 0.8 | 11% | 28% | On it |
| 38 | Loudéac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.7 | 14% | 0% | 35 km |
| 39 | Lillers Pas-de-Calais | 0.5 | 7.8% | 0% | 53 km |
| 40 | Carentan-les-Marais Manche | 0.3 | 0.2% | 100% | On it |
| 41 | Saint-Loubès Gironde | 0.2 | 4% | 28% | 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 Apt
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin du Monde leads, at 0.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Apt
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Luberon Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Le Calavon et l’Encrème
1.4% of the commune0.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Ocres de Roussillon et de Gignac - Marnes de Perreal
4.5 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site1.4%
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.
100% of Apt’s land is protected, more than in 99% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Vaucluse has 14%. 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
55 km of footpaths and 45 km of hiking routes cross Apt
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
55 km
1.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
45 km
waymarked: 1 km per km²
Woodland
29%
about 13.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AptVaucluse medianFrance median
Footpaths1.2
Hiking routes1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AptVaucluse medianFrance median
Woodland29%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 62% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 76% 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 Apt is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
37 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Via Domitia, Montgenèvre - Eygalières18 km
Cité St-Michel - St Philibert4.7 km
Tour du Grand Luberon3.5 km
Château des Tourettes - St Vincent3.1 km
Le Château - Le Logis Neuf2.5 km
Barbe Blanche - Sivergues2.4 km
Gargas - Perréal2.3 km
Chante Duc - Barbe Blanche2.3 km
Les Bruyères - Les Jean-Jean2.1 km
Gargas - L'Urbane2 km
Ravin d'Enfer - Sivergues2 km
Garrigue - La Glaurivette1.9 km
+25 more
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Apt: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Apt-Viton, 1.5 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) | 9.2 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 11 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 25 | 29 | 33 | 32 | 27 | 21 | 15 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 69 | 44 | 47 | 75 | 69 | 38 | 27 | 37 | 85 | 98 | 114 | 69 |
July is the driest month (27 mm) and the warmest (highs of 33 °C). 114 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 73 nights a year. Summer highs reach 33 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Apt →
Neighbors
Next to Apt
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GargasSaint-Saturnin-lès-AptLaurisCadenetVillelaureLa Roque-d'AnthéronApt
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apt | 100% | 29% | 1.2 | 58 km |
| Gargas 3,035 · 4 km | 100% | 23% | 1.8 | 60 km |
| Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt 3,004 · 6.9 km | 100% | 68% | 1.9 | 64 km |
| Lauris 3,921 · 16 km | 100% | 41% | 1.8 | 43 km |
| Cadenet 4,363 · 16 km | 100% | 28% | 1.1 | 42 km |
| Villelaure 3,398 · 19 km | 100% | 26% | 1.2 | 40 km |
| La Roque-d'Anthéron 5,459 · 19 km | 51% | 36% | 2.3 | 39 km |
Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt is 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 Apt
Is Apt in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Apt lies in Luberon Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Apt?
OpenStreetMap maps 55 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 45 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Apt is woodland?
29% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Apt near the sea?
No: the coast is 58 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Apt?
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.