Photo: Marianne Casamance · CC BY-SA 3.0Almost every home in Bollène is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 28% of Bollène. Footpaths add up to 121 km across Bollène (2.2 km per km²). 9.5% of Bollène’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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.
How Bollène 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Bollène has the 16th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (13,651 to 14,432 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lieusaint (8.8 km per km²) to Castelsarrasin (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lieusaint Seine-et-Marne | 8.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 178 km |
| 2 | Valenton Val-de-Marne | 8.7 | 6.6% | 0% | 164 km |
| 3 | Vaires-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 7.7 | 21% | 11% | 161 km |
| 4 | Billère Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 6.7 | 4.2% | 9.2% | 93 km |
| 5 | Chenôve Côte-d'Or | 6.5 | 10% | 17% | 403 km |
| 6 | Avon Seine-et-Marne | 6.4 | 30% | 27% | 206 km |
| 7 | Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande Ille-et-Vilaine | 5.9 | 8.1% | 0% | 50 km |
| 8 | Audincourt Doubs | 5.3 | 36% | 0% | 414 km |
| 9 | Auray Morbihan | 5 | 8.3% | 100% | On it |
| 10 | Saint-Genis-Pouilly Ain | 4.5 | 17% | 0.3% | 298 km |
| 11 | Fleury-Mérogis Essonne | 4.2 | 35% | 0% | 170 km |
| 12 | Lys-lez-Lannoy Nord | 4.2 | 3.9% | 0% | 64 km |
| 13 | Juvignac Hérault | 4.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 14 km |
| 14 | Ostwald Bas-Rhin | 4 | 10% | 0% | 452 km |
| 15 | Andrésy Yvelines | 3.8 | 23% | 0% | 126 km |
| 16 | Canteleu Seine-Maritime | 3.7 | 64% | 100% | 49 km |
| 17 | Fontenay-le-Fleury Yvelines | 3.3 | 8% | 0% | 141 km |
| 18 | Douarnenez Finistère | 3.3 | 16% | 3.8% | On it |
| 19 | Montataire Oise | 2.9 | 11% | 0.1% | 116 km |
| 20 | Plérin Côtes-d'Armor | 2.9 | 14% | 1.8% | On it |
| 21 | Rixheim Haut-Rhin | 2.8 | 41% | 23% | 441 km |
| 22 | Caudry Nord | 2.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 123 km |
| 23 | Persan Val-d'Oise | 2.5 | 0.3% | 0.1% | 120 km |
| 24 | Carros Alpes-Maritimes | 2.3 | 25% | 64% | 11 km |
| 25 | Roncq Nord | 2.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 53 km |
| 26 | Bollène Vaucluse | 2.2 | 28% | 9.5% | 93 km |
| 27 | Sainte-Maxime Var | 2.1 | 65% | 19% | On it |
| 28 | Morangis Essonne | 2.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 163 km |
| 29 | Crépy-en-Valois Oise | 2 | 16% | 0% | 137 km |
| 30 | Pont-à-Mousson Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.8 | 31% | 0.4% | 341 km |
| 31 | Hautmont Nord | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 130 km |
| 32 | Saint-Omer Pas-de-Calais | 1.6 | 2.8% | 100% | 28 km |
| 33 | Mions Rhône | 1.5 | 1.3% | 0% | 244 km |
| 34 | Berre-l'Étang Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 1.1% | 15% | 16 km |
| 35 | Belleville-en-Beaujolais Rhône | 1.1 | 5.4% | 7.1% | 288 km |
| 36 | Fontenay-le-Comte Vendée | 1.1 | 2% | 100% | 31 km |
| 37 | Méru Oise | 0.8 | 16% | 0% | 106 km |
| 38 | Pierrelatte Drôme | 0.7 | 2.8% | 4.4% | 103 km |
| 39 | Saint-Martin-de-Crau Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.4 | 3.6% | 91% | 21 km |
| 40 | Thouars Deux-Sèvres | 0.3 | 12% | 0.4% | 102 km |
| 41 | Castelsarrasin Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 5.6% | 6.8% | 173 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
9.5% of Bollène lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Le Rhône aval
Marais de l’Ile Vieille et alentour
Sables du Tricastin
Share of the commune’s land
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.
9.5% of Bollène’s land is protected, more than in 71% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Vaucluse has 14%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
121 km of footpaths and 16 km of hiking routes cross Bollène
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is more than in 62% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 74% 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 Bollène is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Bollène: April, June and August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pierrelatte, 7.5 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 | 14.8 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 11 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 20 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 62 | 39 | 46 | 65 | 69 | 45 | 40 | 51 | 103 | 111 | 112 | 53 |
February is the driest month (39 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 30 °C). 112 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 25 nights a year. Summer highs reach 30 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Bollène →
Next to Bollène
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bollène | 9.5% | 28% | 2.2 |
| Lapalud 3,853 · 5.3 km | 6.7% | 5% | 0.6 |
| Mondragon 3,833 · 6.1 km | 17% | 30% | 0.7 |
| Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux 8,981 · 6.7 km | 0% | 19% | 2.3 |
| Pont-Saint-Esprit 10,958 · 9.5 km | 14% | 5.3% | 0.8 |
| Mornas 2,569 · 9.7 km | 5% | 35% | 1.5 |
| Pierrelatte 13,756 · 10 km | 4.4% | 2.8% | 0.7 |
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 Bollène
Is Bollène in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 9.5% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Bollène?
OpenStreetMap maps 121 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 16 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Bollène is woodland?
28% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bollène near the sea?
No: the coast is 93 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bollène?
April, June and 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.