Photo: Jeanlouiszimmermann · CC BY-SA 3.035% of Mornas is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 27 km in Mornas. 5% of Mornas’ land lies in protected areas. Footpaths add up to 38 km across Mornas (1.5 km per km²). 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.
What kind of outdoors place is Mornas?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Mornas apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
How Mornas 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.
Mornas has the 13th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,540 to 2,600 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From École-Valentin (3.9 km per km²) to Cauchy-à-la-Tour (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | École-Valentin Doubs | 3.9 | 16% | 0% | 405 km |
| 2 | Josselin Morbihan | 3.7 | 15% | 0% | 36 km |
| 3 | Mers-les-Bains Somme | 3.5 | 10% | 100% | On it |
| 4 | Villejust Essonne | 2.4 | 4.4% | 0% | 160 km |
| 5 | Sainte-Feyre Creuse | 2.1 | 30% | 0% | 222 km |
| 6 | Tourville-la-Rivière Seine-Maritime | 2 | 15% | 15% | 55 km |
| 7 | Camiers Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 30% | 32% | On it |
| 8 | Sain-Bel Rhône | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 253 km |
| 9 | Entzheim Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 1.5% | 0% | 449 km |
| 10 | Damparis Jura | 1.6 | 35% | 0% | 401 km |
| 11 | Hardricourt Yvelines | 1.6 | 15% | 0.4% | 118 km |
| 12 | Longueil-Annel Oise | 1.5 | 21% | 0% | 116 km |
| 13 | Mornas Vaucluse | 1.5 | 35% | 5% | 84 km |
| 14 | Le Palais Morbihan | 1.5 | 5% | 26% | On it |
| 15 | Saint-Jean-du-Gard Gard | 1.4 | 84% | 100% | 62 km |
| 16 | Watten Nord | 1.4 | 24% | 100% | 18 km |
| 17 | Beautor Aisne | 1.3 | 3.6% | 40% | 133 km |
| 18 | Cattenom Moselle | 1.1 | 37% | 0% | 308 km |
| 19 | Pîtres Eure | 0.9 | 47% | 0.2% | 64 km |
| 20 | Villages du Lac de Paladru Isère | 0.8 | 21% | 0% | 230 km |
| 21 | Arelaune-en-Seine Seine-Maritime | 0.7 | 69% | 100% | 29 km |
| 22 | La Croix-en-Touraine Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 24% | 0% | 199 km |
| 23 | Lusignan Vienne | 0.7 | 17% | 0% | 97 km |
| 24 | Avelin Nord | 0.6 | 6.1% | 0% | 72 km |
| 25 | La Châtaigneraie Vendée | 0.6 | 4.5% | 0% | 48 km |
| 26 | Le Cailar Gard | 0.4 | 2% | 68% | 17 km |
| 27 | Xertigny Vosges | 0.4 | 42% | 0% | 417 km |
| 28 | Vervins Aisne | 0.4 | 1.1% | 0% | 164 km |
| 29 | Frans Ain | 0.4 | 4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 30 | Baldersheim Haut-Rhin | 0.4 | 63% | 60% | 446 km |
| 31 | Toucy Yonne | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 288 km |
| 32 | Saint-Yzan-de-Soudiac Gironde | 0.3 | 13% | 3% | 19 km |
| 33 | Charly-sur-Marne Aisne | 0.3 | 21% | 0% | 177 km |
| 34 | Semussac Charente-Maritime | 0.3 | 3.8% | 6.9% | 5.1 km |
| 35 | Auxi-le-Château Pas-de-Calais | 0.3 | 25% | 1% | 31 km |
| 36 | Vivy Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 15% | 100% | 140 km |
| 37 | Nogent-sur-Vernisson Loiret | 0.2 | 46% | 0.3% | 249 km |
| 38 | Eymet Dordogne | 0.2 | 8.6% | 0.4% | 86 km |
| 39 | Athies-sous-Laon Aisne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 0% | 159 km |
| 40 | Noyen-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 0.1 | 28% | 0% | 126 km |
| 41 | Cauchy-à-la-Tour Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.4% | 0% | 54 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
5% of Mornas 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
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.
5% of Mornas’ land is protected, more than in 65% 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.
38 km of footpaths and 27 km of hiking routes cross Mornas
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 less than in 55% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 81% 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 Mornas is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Mornas: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pont St Esprit, 10 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 | 9.5 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 11 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 27 | 31 | 30 | 25 | 19 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 68 | 44 | 47 | 67 | 64 | 49 | 40 | 47 | 109 | 118 | 118 | 59 |
July is the driest month (40 mm) and the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 118 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 31 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Mornas →
Next to Mornas
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mornas | 5% | 35% | 1.5 |
| Piolenc 5,718 · 3.2 km | 1.9% | 20% | 1.4 |
| Mondragon 3,833 · 4.4 km | 17% | 30% | 0.7 |
| Sérignan-du-Comtat 2,939 · 8.6 km | 1.7% | 28% | 1.2 |
| Orange 29,706 · 9.4 km | 2.3% | 8% | 1.5 |
| Bollène 14,024 · 9.7 km | 9.5% | 28% | 2.2 |
| Pont-Saint-Esprit 10,958 · 10 km | 14% | 5.3% | 0.8 |
Mondragon and Pont-Saint-Esprit have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Mornas
Is Mornas in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 5% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Mornas?
OpenStreetMap maps 38 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 27 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Mornas is woodland?
35% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Mornas near the sea?
No: the coast is 84 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Mornas?
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.