First pick
La forêt des cèdres du petit Luberon
Wood or forest · 20 m outside the commune
190 ha8.4 km of path
1 h 50 minto walk all 8.4 km of path
6 km north-westfrom the center
vallon de Sanguinette
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Vitek · CC BY-SA 4.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Lauris · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Lauris lies inside Luberon Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Lauris’ land. 41% of Lauris is mapped woodland. Lauris has 14 km of waymarked hiking routes. 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
41%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
41 km
1.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: La forêt des cèdres du petit Luberon
The sea
43 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 Lauris?
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.A wooded commune41% mapped woodland, more than in 86% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Lauris apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Lauris 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
Woodland41%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
86out of 100
Footpaths1.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
54out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
68out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Lauris has the 13th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,888 to 3,955 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Coye-la-Forêt (6.4 km per km²) to Arvert (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coye-la-Forêt Oise | 6.4 | 60% | 100% | 129 km |
| 2 | La Rochette Seine-et-Marne | 3.6 | 67% | 56% | 193 km |
| 3 | Pagny-sur-Moselle Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.4 | 41% | 100% | 333 km |
| 4 | Ferrières-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 3.3 | 45% | 0% | 168 km |
| 5 | Jarrie Isère | 3.2 | 33% | 0.8% | 196 km |
| 6 | Santeny Val-de-Marne | 3.2 | 51% | 0% | 171 km |
| 7 | Hussigny-Godbrange Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.5 | 62% | 0% | 282 km |
| 8 | Belz Morbihan | 2.4 | 25% | 13% | On it |
| 9 | Saint-Nabord Vosges | 2.1 | 62% | 3.6% | 429 km |
| 10 | Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans Doubs | 2.1 | 67% | 4.5% | 405 km |
| 11 | Montry Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 20% | 0% | 166 km |
| 12 | Mézières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 1.9 | 28% | 5.5% | 117 km |
| 13 | Lauris Vaucluse | 1.8 | 41% | 100% | 43 km |
| 14 | Richwiller Haut-Rhin | 1.7 | 25% | 0% | 444 km |
| 15 | Nouvoitou Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 1.6% | 0% | 60 km |
| 16 | Lexy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.4 | 18% | 0% | 275 km |
| 17 | Oudon Loire-Atlantique | 1.3 | 17% | 27% | 63 km |
| 18 | Aix-Noulette Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 16% | 0% | 73 km |
| 19 | Touques Calvados | 1.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 2.8 km |
| 20 | Saint-Germain-sur-Morin Seine-et-Marne | 1.3 | 15% | 0% | 167 km |
| 21 | Quévert Côtes-d'Armor | 1.3 | 12% | 100% | 6.9 km |
| 22 | Folschviller Moselle | 1.2 | 22% | 0% | 357 km |
| 23 | Mortagne-au-Perche Orne | 1.2 | 6.1% | 100% | 98 km |
| 24 | Boissise-le-Roi Seine-et-Marne | 1.2 | 10% | 100% | 190 km |
| 25 | Pierrevert Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.1 | 36% | 100% | 61 km |
| 26 | Tinténiac Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 3.9% | 2.2% | 22 km |
| 27 | Verberie Oise | 1 | 20% | 8.1% | 123 km |
| 28 | Saint-Chef Isère | 1 | 24% | 12% | 246 km |
| 29 | Tavaux Jura | 0.9 | 10% | 0% | 398 km |
| 30 | Saint-Martin-en-Haut Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 236 km |
| 31 | Fay-aux-Loges Loiret | 0.8 | 36% | 12% | 213 km |
| 32 | Maing Nord | 0.7 | 4.2% | 0% | 108 km |
| 33 | Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny Manche | 0.7 | 2.5% | 0.6% | 21 km |
| 34 | Blainville-sur-l'Eau Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 388 km |
| 35 | Grosseto-Prugna Corse-du-Sud | 0.6 | 59% | 0.2% | On it |
| 36 | Ablis Yvelines | 0.5 | 8.6% | 0% | 149 km |
| 37 | Verfeil Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 7.7% | 0% | 133 km |
| 38 | Moreuil Somme | 0.3 | 21% | 1.9% | 73 km |
| 39 | Val d'Anast Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 52 km |
| 40 | Suippes Marne | 0.2 | 24% | 0% | 237 km |
| 41 | Arvert Charente-Maritime | 0.2 | 5.8% | 31% | 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 Lauris
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: La forêt des cèdres du petit Luberon leads, at 190 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin des plantes tinctoriales
Park or garden
0.2 ha
Centralin the middle of Lauris
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 Lauris
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
Massif du Petit Luberon
36% of the commune2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Massif du Luberon
27% of the commune2.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
La Durance
4.8% of the commune1.1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
La Durance
4.8% of the commune1.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
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.
100% of Lauris’ 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
41 km of footpaths and 14 km of hiking routes cross Lauris
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
41 km
1.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
41%
about 9.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LaurisVaucluse medianFrance median
Footpaths1.8
Hiking routes0.6
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LaurisVaucluse medianFrance median
Woodland41%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 54% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 86% 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 Lauris is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Merindol - Vallis Jovina16 km
Sentier du Portalas3 km
Chemin des Cèdres1.1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Lauris: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cabrieres d’avignon, 19 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 | 16 | 19 | 24 | 28 | 31 | 30 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 38 | 40 | 65 | 58 | 39 | 22 | 41 | 92 | 100 | 95 | 51 |
July is the driest month (22 mm) and the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 100 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 54 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Lauris →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Lauris
Named gardens in the commune.
Jardin des plantes tinctorialesIn Lauris
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Lauris
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
La Roque-d'AnthéronCadenetCharlevalRognesMallemortVillelaureLauris
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lauris | 100% | 41% | 1.8 | 43 km |
| La Roque-d'Anthéron 5,459 · 3.8 km | 51% | 36% | 2.3 | 39 km |
| Cadenet 4,363 · 5.4 km | 100% | 28% | 1.1 | 42 km |
| Charleval 2,640 · 6.3 km | 34% | 17% | 2.2 | 40 km |
| Rognes 4,693 · 10 km | 12% | 51% | 0.9 | 34 km |
| Mallemort 6,166 · 11 km | 20% | 4.4% | 0.7 | 38 km |
| Villelaure 3,398 · 11 km | 100% | 26% | 1.2 | 40 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 Lauris
Is Lauris in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Lauris lies in Luberon Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Lauris?
OpenStreetMap maps 41 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 14 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Lauris is woodland?
41% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lauris near the sea?
No: the coast is 43 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Lauris?
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.