First pick
Parc Chico Mendes
Park or garden · 380 m outside the commune
6.4 ha3.2 km of path
45 minto walk all 3.2 km of path
2 km south-westfrom the center
Allée du Clos de la Sacristie
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Vi..Cult... · CC BY-SA 3.03.4%of the land protected
Outdoors in Le Pontet · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Le Pontet is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 31 km across Le Pontet (2.9 km per km²). 2.8% of Le Pontet is mapped woodland. Protected areas cover 3.4% of Le Pontet’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
3.4%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
2.8%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
31 km
2.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Chico Mendes
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 Le Pontet 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 areas3.4%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
62out of 100
Woodland2.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
14out of 100
Footpaths2.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
72out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Le Pontet has the 20th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (17,743 to 19,006 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Jouy-le-Moutier (10.3 km per km²) to Mauges-sur-Loire (0.5 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jouy-le-Moutier Val-d'Oise | 10.3 | 23% | 0% | 123 km |
| 2 | Meylan Isère | 9.2 | 18% | 12% | 205 km |
| 3 | Saint-Égrève Isère | 5.8 | 22% | 30% | 208 km |
| 4 | Bonneuil-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 3.6% | 0% | 163 km |
| 5 | Chennevières-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5.4 | 6.2% | 0% | 163 km |
| 6 | Floirac Gironde | 5.1 | 16% | 2.6% | 19 km |
| 7 | Bischheim Bas-Rhin | 5.1 | 3.6% | 0.6% | 449 km |
| 8 | Faches-Thumesnil Nord | 4.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 66 km |
| 9 | Balma Haute-Garonne | 4.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 142 km |
| 10 | Éragny-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 4.1 | 15% | 0% | 124 km |
| 11 | Cesson-Sévigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.9 | 5.2% | 0% | 50 km |
| 12 | Moissy-Cramayel Seine-et-Marne | 3.9 | 4.7% | 0% | 180 km |
| 13 | Écully Rhône | 3.8 | 14% | 0% | 253 km |
| 14 | Garches Hauts-de-Seine | 3.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 144 km |
| 15 | Bry-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 3.6 | 7% | 0% | 158 km |
| 16 | Cognac Charente | 3.5 | 13% | 17% | 43 km |
| 17 | Hendaye Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.4 | 8% | 26% | On it |
| 18 | Ploemeur Morbihan | 3.3 | 15% | 4.9% | On it |
| 19 | Osny Val-d'Oise | 3.2 | 14% | 0.1% | 119 km |
| 20 | Hem Nord | 3 | 5.1% | 0% | 64 km |
| 21 | Le Puy-en-Velay Haute-Loire | 2.9 | 12% | 0% | 165 km |
| 22 | Le Pontet Vaucluse | 2.9 | 2.8% | 3.4% | 56 km |
| 23 | Louviers Eure | 2.8 | 55% | 0.1% | 64 km |
| 24 | Cluses Haute-Savoie | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 264 km |
| 25 | Soisy-sous-Montmorency Val-d'Oise | 2.6 | 5% | 0% | 135 km |
| 26 | Carvin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 73 km |
| 27 | Digne-les-Bains Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 2.5 | 50% | 4% | 85 km |
| 28 | Pontarlier Doubs | 2.4 | 48% | 0% | 359 km |
| 29 | Sanary-sur-Mer Var | 2.2 | 16% | 0% | On it |
| 30 | Lunéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.1 | 9% | 0.1% | 389 km |
| 31 | Limay Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 6.1% | 112 km |
| 32 | Châteauneuf-les-Martigues Bouches-du-Rhône | 2 | 17% | 27% | 6 km |
| 33 | Sorgues Vaucluse | 1.7 | 9.7% | 22% | 62 km |
| 34 | Bagnols-sur-Cèze Gard | 1.6 | 27% | 8.2% | 79 km |
| 35 | Brie-Comte-Robert Seine-et-Marne | 1.3 | 4.7% | 0% | 176 km |
| 36 | Riom Puy-de-Dôme | 1.1 | 2.4% | 1.3% | 269 km |
| 37 | Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume Var | 1 | 41% | 34% | 33 km |
| 38 | Pornic Loire-Atlantique | 1 | 4.4% | 0% | On it |
| 39 | Brignoles Var | 0.9 | 48% | 17% | 34 km |
| 40 | Romorantin-Lanthenay Loir-et-Cher | 0.8 | 30% | 100% | 249 km |
| 41 | Mauges-sur-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 4.7% | 11% | 88 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 Le Pontet
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Chico Mendes leads, at 6.4 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de la Mairie
Park or garden
4.9 ha1.3 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Le Pontet
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Clos de la Murette
Park or garden · 10 m outside the commune
2.8 ha1.3 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.3 km of path
2.1 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de Saint Louis
Park or garden
1.4 ha0.5 km of path
0.8 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
3.4% of Le Pontet lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Le Rhône aval
3.4% of the commune1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area3.4%
Natura 2000 site3.4%
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.
3.4% of Le Pontet’s land is protected, more than in 62% 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.
Footpaths and woods
31 km of footpaths cross Le Pontet
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
31 km
2.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
2.8%
about 0.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Le PontetVaucluse medianFrance median
Footpaths2.9
Hiking routes0
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Le PontetVaucluse medianFrance median
Woodland2.8%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 72% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less 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 Le Pontet 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 Le Pontet: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Avignon, 6.3 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 | 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 Le Pontet →
Neighbors
Next to Le Pontet
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
AvignonMorières-lès-AvignonVedèneSorguesSaint-Saturnin-lès-AvignonVilleneuve-lès-AvignonLe Pontet
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Pontet | 3.4% | 2.8% | 2.9 |
| Avignon 92,188 · 3.6 km | 27% | 2.9% | 3.3 |
| Morières-lès-Avignon 9,019 · 3.7 km | 0% | 4.7% | 2.1 |
| Vedène 11,974 · 3.9 km | 0% | 4% | 2.4 |
| Sorgues 19,006 · 5.4 km | 22% | 9.7% | 1.7 |
| Saint-Saturnin-lès-Avignon 5,206 · 5.4 km | 9.7% | 1.3% | 1.1 |
| Villeneuve-lès-Avignon 13,148 · 6.3 km | 22% | 13% | 3.1 |
Avignon, Sorgues and Villeneuve-lès-Avignon have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Le Pontet
Is Le Pontet in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 3.4% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Le Pontet?
OpenStreetMap maps 31 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Le Pontet is woodland?
2.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Pontet near the sea?
No: the coast is 56 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Le Pontet?
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 9, 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.