First pick
Parc Gentilly
Park or garden
1.6 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Sorgues
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Communication.Sorgues · CC BY-SA 4.022%of the land protected
Outdoors in Sorgues · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Sorgues is within 800 m of a park or wood
Protected areas cover 22% of Sorgues’ land. 9.7% of Sorgues is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 55 km across Sorgues (1.7 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
22%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
9.7%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
55 km
1.7 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
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Gentilly
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 Sorgues 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 areas22%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
79out of 100
Woodland9.7%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
39out of 100
Footpaths1.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
50out 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
Sorgues has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (18,262 to 19,787 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Meylan (9.2 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 | Meylan Isère | 9.2 | 18% | 12% | 205 km |
| 2 | Villefontaine Isère | 9.1 | 21% | 1.7% | 241 km |
| 3 | Le Mée-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 7.9 | 34% | 0% | 190 km |
| 4 | Juvisy-sur-Orge Essonne | 6.4 | 1.3% | 0% | 166 km |
| 5 | Moulins Allier | 6.1 | 3.3% | 11% | 338 km |
| 6 | Bonneuil-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 3.6% | 0% | 163 km |
| 7 | Chennevières-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5.4 | 6.2% | 0% | 163 km |
| 8 | Floirac Gironde | 5.1 | 16% | 2.6% | 19 km |
| 9 | Bischheim Bas-Rhin | 5.1 | 3.6% | 0.6% | 449 km |
| 10 | Faches-Thumesnil Nord | 4.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 66 km |
| 11 | Éragny-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 4.1 | 15% | 0% | 124 km |
| 12 | Mougins Alpes-Maritimes | 4 | 28% | 0% | 5.1 km |
| 13 | Cesson-Sévigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.9 | 5.2% | 0% | 50 km |
| 14 | Moissy-Cramayel Seine-et-Marne | 3.9 | 4.7% | 0% | 180 km |
| 15 | Bruz Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.8 | 14% | 0% | 55 km |
| 16 | Ronchin Nord | 3.7 | 1.8% | 0% | 66 km |
| 17 | Bry-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 3.6 | 7% | 0% | 158 km |
| 18 | Cognac Charente | 3.5 | 13% | 17% | 43 km |
| 19 | Ploemeur Morbihan | 3.3 | 15% | 4.9% | On it |
| 20 | Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Vosges | 3.2 | 58% | 1.9% | 436 km |
| 21 | Hem Nord | 3 | 5.1% | 0% | 64 km |
| 22 | Le Puy-en-Velay Haute-Loire | 2.9 | 12% | 0% | 165 km |
| 23 | Saint-Lô Manche | 2.9 | 5% | 0% | 26 km |
| 24 | Le Pontet Vaucluse | 2.9 | 2.8% | 3.4% | 56 km |
| 25 | Royan Charente-Maritime | 2.8 | 8.7% | 12% | On it |
| 26 | Louviers Eure | 2.8 | 55% | 0.1% | 64 km |
| 27 | Lisieux Calvados | 2.4 | 1.9% | 0% | 26 km |
| 28 | La Crau Var | 2.3 | 23% | 1.8% | 6.1 km |
| 29 | Saint-Fons Rhône | 2.3 | 4.1% | 0% | 246 km |
| 30 | Sanary-sur-Mer Var | 2.2 | 16% | 0% | On it |
| 31 | Vitré Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 32 | Lunéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.1 | 9% | 0.1% | 389 km |
| 33 | Châteauneuf-les-Martigues Bouches-du-Rhône | 2 | 17% | 27% | 6 km |
| 34 | Sorgues Vaucluse | 1.7 | 9.7% | 22% | 62 km |
| 35 | Pertuis Vaucluse | 1.5 | 18% | 100% | 40 km |
| 36 | Brie-Comte-Robert Seine-et-Marne | 1.3 | 4.7% | 0% | 176 km |
| 37 | Riom Puy-de-Dôme | 1.1 | 2.4% | 1.3% | 269 km |
| 38 | Sélestat Bas-Rhin | 1 | 40% | 56% | 462 km |
| 39 | Pornic Loire-Atlantique | 1 | 4.4% | 0% | On it |
| 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 Sorgues
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Gentilly leads, at 1.6 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
22% of Sorgues 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
21% of the commune2.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
La Sorgue et l’Auzon
1.4% of the commune2.7 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area22%
Natura 2000 site22%
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.
22% of Sorgues’ land is protected, more than in 79% 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
55 km of footpaths cross Sorgues
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
55 km
1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
9.7%
about 3.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
SorguesVaucluse medianFrance median
Footpaths1.7
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
SorguesVaucluse medianFrance median
Woodland9.7%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 50% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 61% 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 Sorgues is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 422.7 km
GR 42 passes within 2 km of Sorgues.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Sorgues: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pujaut, 9.2 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 | 16 | 19 | 24 | 28 | 31 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 14 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 53 | 35 | 38 | 61 | 52 | 39 | 31 | 37 | 93 | 88 | 96 | 48 |
July is the driest month (31 mm) and the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 96 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 36 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Sorgues →
Neighbors
Next to Sorgues
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Entraigues-sur-la-SorgueBédarridesVedèneLe PontetAlthen-des-PaludsSaint-Saturnin-lès-AvignonSorgues
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sorgues | 22% | 9.7% | 1.7 |
| Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue 8,913 · 4.1 km | 11% | 2% | 0.5 |
| Bédarrides 5,671 · 4.1 km | 6.2% | 5.1% | 0.3 |
| Vedène 11,974 · 4.5 km | 0% | 4% | 2.4 |
| Le Pontet 18,386 · 5.4 km | 3.4% | 2.8% | 2.9 |
| Althen-des-Paluds 2,960 · 6.8 km | 13% | 1.7% | 0.3 |
| Saint-Saturnin-lès-Avignon 5,206 · 7.1 km | 9.7% | 1.3% | 1.1 |
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 Sorgues
Is Sorgues in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 22% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Sorgues?
OpenStreetMap maps 55 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Sorgues is woodland?
9.7% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Sorgues near the sea?
No: the coast is 62 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Sorgues?
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.