First pick
Parc de l'Ange Claude
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.1 km of path
0.9 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: WolfBlur · CC0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Cavaillon · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Cavaillon lies inside Luberon Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Cavaillon’s land. Mapped woodland covers 3.2% of Cavaillon. 50 km of footpaths cross Cavaillon (1.1 km per km²). 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
3.2%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
50 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.2 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
90%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
45 km
from the town center to the coast
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 Cavaillon?
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.Little mapped woodland3.2% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Cavaillon apart: the regional nature park around it. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Cavaillon 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
95out of 100
Woodland3.2%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
16out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
35out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
34out of 100
Green space nearby90%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
8out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Cavaillon has the 5th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (24,378 to 26,952 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Les Ulis (10.9 km per km²) to Sainte-Suzanne (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Les Ulis Essonne | 10.9 | 13% | 0.2% | 156 km |
| 2 | Villeneuve-la-Garenne Hauts-de-Seine | 9.8 | 4.2% | 0% | 141 km |
| 3 | Vichy Allier | 8.8 | 1.3% | 12% | 290 km |
| 4 | Grigny Essonne | 8.7 | 7.2% | 0% | 170 km |
| 5 | Élancourt Yvelines | 8.2 | 26% | 3.5% | 138 km |
| 6 | Gradignan Gironde | 6.8 | 17% | 0% | 26 km |
| 7 | Sannois Val-d'Oise | 6 | 17% | 0% | 135 km |
| 8 | Cenon Gironde | 5.4 | 8.9% | 0% | 18 km |
| 9 | Brunoy Essonne | 5.2 | 18% | 0% | 170 km |
| 10 | Eaubonne Val-d'Oise | 5 | 1.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 11 | Montbéliard Doubs | 4.9 | 22% | 0% | 418 km |
| 12 | Alençon Orne | 4.8 | 2.3% | 5.5% | 97 km |
| 13 | Marseille 2e Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.8 | 0% | 0% | On it |
| 14 | Lormont Gironde | 4.7 | 12% | 7.4% | 16 km |
| 15 | Castelnau-le-Lez Hérault | 4.6 | 4.5% | 1.2% | 11 km |
| 16 | Miramas Bouches-du-Rhône | 4 | 9.2% | 5.7% | 18 km |
| 17 | Béthune Pas-de-Calais | 4 | 4% | 0% | 60 km |
| 18 | Orly Val-de-Marne | 3.9 | 5% | 0% | 162 km |
| 19 | Eysines Gironde | 3.9 | 7.6% | 3.1% | 15 km |
| 20 | Hénin-Beaumont Pas-de-Calais | 3.8 | 5.6% | 0% | 80 km |
| 21 | La Garde Var | 3.8 | 7.6% | 25% | On it |
| 22 | Biarritz Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.5 | 11% | 3.5% | On it |
| 23 | Le Grand-Quevilly Seine-Maritime | 3.4 | 4.9% | 0.1% | 50 km |
| 24 | Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône Val-d'Oise | 3.2 | 7.4% | 0% | 123 km |
| 25 | Vertou Loire-Atlantique | 3.1 | 19% | 0% | 41 km |
| 26 | Le Bouscat Gironde | 3 | 1.4% | 0% | 16 km |
| 27 | Brétigny-sur-Orge Essonne | 3 | 9.5% | 0% | 169 km |
| 28 | Aurillac Cantal | 2.7 | 2.9% | 0.2% | 195 km |
| 29 | Vernon Eure | 2.5 | 56% | 3.5% | 90 km |
| 30 | Lunel Hérault | 2.2 | 0.4% | 0.6% | 14 km |
| 31 | Libourne Gironde | 2 | 2.5% | 14% | 30 km |
| 32 | Villeparisis Seine-et-Marne | 1.9 | 13% | 0% | 153 km |
| 33 | Saintes Charente-Maritime | 1.9 | 12% | 9.3% | 26 km |
| 34 | Les Pavillons-sous-Bois Seine-Saint-Denis | 1.9 | 0% | 0% | 151 km |
| 35 | Saumur Maine-et-Loire | 1.5 | 15% | 100% | 133 km |
| 36 | Muret Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 10% | 3.2% | 150 km |
| 37 | Cavaillon Vaucluse | 1.1 | 3.2% | 100% | 45 km |
| 38 | Étampes Essonne | 1 | 12% | 0% | 172 km |
| 39 | Vierzon Cher | 0.8 | 44% | 0% | 265 km |
| 40 | Sèvremoine Maine-et-Loire | 0.6 | 5.3% | 0% | 70 km |
| 41 | Sainte-Suzanne Réunion | 0.4 | 31% | 49% | On it |
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 Cavaillon
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de l'Ange Claude leads, at 0.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Cavaillon live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
90% within 800 m10% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
CavaillonVaucluse medianFrance median
Within 800 m90%
0%50%100%
About 3,000 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Cavaillon
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
Regional nature park
Alpilles Regional Nature Park
2.4 km from the town center
Nature reserve
Petit Luberon nature reserve
4.5 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
La Durance
5.1% of the commune1.6 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
La Durance
5.1% of the commune1.6 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Le Calavon et l’Encrème
1.8% of the commune1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site7.1%
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 Cavaillon’s land is protected, more than in 95% 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.
All 8 protected areas
Massif du LuberonNatura 2000 site · 4.1 km
Massif du Petit LuberonNatura 2000 site · 4.4 km
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
50 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Cavaillon
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
50 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.2 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
3.2%
about 1.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CavaillonVaucluse medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CavaillonVaucluse medianFrance median
Woodland3.2%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 65% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 84% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Via Domitia, Montgenèvre - Eygalières15 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Cavaillon: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Avignon, 14 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 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 11 | 12 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 29 | 32 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 15 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 56 | 36 | 36 | 60 | 52 | 35 | 24 | 35 | 91 | 89 | 92 | 44 |
July is the driest month (24 mm) and the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 92 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 35 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Cavaillon →
Neighbors
Next to Cavaillon
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Plan-d'OrgonRobionCheval-BlancOrgonCabannesSaint-AndiolCavaillon
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cavaillon | 100% | 3.2% | 1.1 | 45 km |
| Plan-d'Orgon 3,573 · 4.7 km | 12% | 5.9% | 1 | 41 km |
| Robion 4,816 · 5.2 km | 100% | 24% | 1.8 | 48 km |
| Cheval-Blanc 4,362 · 5.4 km | 100% | 19% | 1.7 | 42 km |
| Orgon 2,762 · 5.5 km | 100% | 17% | 0.8 | 40 km |
| Cabannes 4,595 · 7.6 km | 14% | 1.5% | 0.3 | 46 km |
| Saint-Andiol 3,353 · 7.8 km | 0% | 0% | 0.5 | 43 km |
Robion 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 Cavaillon
Is Cavaillon in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Cavaillon lies in Luberon Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Cavaillon?
OpenStreetMap maps 50 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); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Cavaillon is woodland?
3.2% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Cavaillon near the sea?
No: the coast is 45 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Cavaillon?
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.