First pick
Parc de l'Auzon
Park or garden
5.6 ha1.8 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.8 km of path
Centralin the middle of Carpentras
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jean-Marc Rosier ( http://www.cjrosier.com + http://www.gordes-immobilier.com ) · CC BY-SA 3.064%of the land protected
Outdoors in Carpentras · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Carpentras lies inside Mont Ventoux Regional Nature Park
64% of Carpentras’ land lies in protected areas. Mapped woodland covers 6% of Carpentras. 44 km of footpaths cross Carpentras (1.1 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
64%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
6%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
44 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.9 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: Parc de l'Auzon
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.
Against French towns
How Carpentras 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 areas64%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
89out of 100
Woodland6%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
27out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
36out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
34out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Carpentras has the fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (30,053 to 33,162 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Cachan (11.5 km per km²) to Carpentras (1.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cachan Val-de-Marne | 11.5 | 1.2% | 0% | 155 km |
| 2 | Montigny-le-Bretonneux Yvelines | 10 | 18% | 4.9% | 143 km |
| 3 | Tournefeuille Haute-Garonne | 7.5 | 9.4% | 0% | 153 km |
| 4 | L'Haÿ-les-Roses Val-de-Marne | 7.5 | 4% | 0% | 156 km |
| 5 | Thiais Val-de-Marne | 7.3 | 5.4% | 0% | 160 km |
| 6 | Villiers-le-Bel Val-d'Oise | 7 | 5.1% | 0% | 138 km |
| 7 | Savigny-le-Temple Seine-et-Marne | 6.5 | 15% | 0% | 183 km |
| 8 | Paris 3e Paris | 6.4 | 0.1% | 0% | 149 km |
| 9 | Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt Yvelines | 6.3 | 21% | 0% | 144 km |
| 10 | Pontoise Val-d'Oise | 6.2 | 11% | 0.5% | 121 km |
| 11 | Malakoff Hauts-de-Seine | 5.6 | 0% | 0% | 151 km |
| 12 | Plaisir Yvelines | 5.5 | 26% | 0% | 135 km |
| 13 | Viry-Châtillon Essonne | 5.4 | 4.4% | 0% | 168 km |
| 14 | Bègles Gironde | 5.3 | 5.5% | 8.9% | 23 km |
| 15 | Agen Lot-et-Garonne | 5 | 4.9% | 3.6% | 132 km |
| 16 | Liévin Pas-de-Calais | 4.7 | 5.2% | 0% | 74 km |
| 17 | Draveil Essonne | 4.6 | 47% | 0% | 168 km |
| 18 | Ris-Orangis Essonne | 4.6 | 7.7% | 0% | 171 km |
| 19 | Lens Pas-de-Calais | 4.6 | 6.4% | 0% | 74 km |
| 20 | Chatou Yvelines | 4.5 | 0.3% | 0% | 138 km |
| 21 | Nogent-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 4.4 | 2.8% | 0% | 157 km |
| 22 | Vigneux-sur-Seine Essonne | 4.3 | 21% | 0% | 167 km |
| 23 | Aix-les-Bains Savoie | 3.9 | 14% | 20% | 246 km |
| 24 | Épinal Vosges | 3.7 | 67% | 0% | 413 km |
| 25 | Rillieux-la-Pape Rhône | 3.5 | 16% | 6.1% | 259 km |
| 26 | Menton Alpes-Maritimes | 3.5 | 32% | 20% | On it |
| 27 | Nevers Nièvre | 3.3 | 1.2% | 11% | 336 km |
| 28 | Villiers-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 3 | 2% | 0% | 160 km |
| 29 | Cambrai Nord | 2.8 | 4.5% | 0% | 111 km |
| 30 | Herblay-sur-Seine Val-d'Oise | 2.7 | 10% | 0% | 128 km |
| 31 | Dreux Eure-et-Loir | 2.7 | 24% | 2.4% | 107 km |
| 32 | Bourgoin-Jallieu Isère | 2.7 | 13% | 0% | 240 km |
| 33 | Vienne Isère | 2.6 | 30% | 0.1% | 227 km |
| 34 | Montluçon Allier | 2.4 | 7.5% | 2.3% | 279 km |
| 35 | La Garenne-Colombes Hauts-de-Seine | 2.2 | 0% | 0% | 141 km |
| 36 | Saint-Laurent-du-Var Alpes-Maritimes | 2.2 | 6.3% | 8.8% | On it |
| 37 | Mont-de-Marsan Landes | 2.1 | 33% | 4.9% | 70 km |
| 38 | Goussainville Val-d'Oise | 1.7 | 2.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 39 | Saint-Médard-en-Jalles Gironde | 1.7 | 46% | 4.4% | 17 km |
| 40 | Châtellerault Vienne | 1.6 | 4.3% | 0% | 140 km |
| 41 | Carpentras Vaucluse | 1.1 | 6% | 64% | 69 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 Carpentras
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de l'Auzon leads, at 5.6 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc du château de la roseraie
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Carpentras
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 Carpentras
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Mont Ventoux Regional Nature Park
64% of the commune
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area64%
Regional nature park64%
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.
64% of Carpentras’ land is protected, more than in 89% 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
44 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Carpentras
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
44 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.9 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
6%
about 2.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CarpentrasVaucluse medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CarpentrasVaucluse medianFrance median
Woodland6%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 64% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 73% 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 Carpentras 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 Carpentras: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Carpentras, 3.1 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 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 11 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 25 | 29 | 32 | 32 | 26 | 21 | 15 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 46 | 34 | 41 | 61 | 56 | 42 | 26 | 41 | 99 | 88 | 91 | 42 |
July is the driest month (26 mm) and the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 99 mm of rain falls in September, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Carpentras →
Neighbors
Next to Carpentras
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MonteuxAubignanMazanPernes-les-FontainesCarombSarriansCarpentras
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Caromb 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 Carpentras
Is Carpentras in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Carpentras lies in Mont Ventoux Regional Nature Park (64% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Carpentras?
OpenStreetMap maps 44 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Carpentras is woodland?
6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Carpentras near the sea?
No: the coast is 69 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Carpentras?
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.