First pick
Zone de loisirs de Dagneux
Park or garden
20 ha2.9 km of path
40 minto walk all 2.9 km of path
1.1 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Benoît Prieur · CC018%woodland
Outdoors in Dagneux · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Dagneux is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 17 km across Dagneux (2.5 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 18% of Dagneux. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 2 km in Dagneux. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Milieux alluviaux et aquatiques du fleuve Rhône, de Jons à Anthon, 2.5 km
Woodland
18%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
17 km
2.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.3 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: Zone de loisirs de Dagneux
Throughout this page, the Ain 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 Dagneux 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 areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland18%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
60out of 100
Footpaths2.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
67out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
49out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Dagneux has the 5th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,741 to 4,816 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Marolles-en-Brie (6.1 km per km²) to Sanilhac (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marolles-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.1 | 42% | 0% | 169 km |
| 2 | Pompey Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.3 | 68% | 0% | 356 km |
| 3 | Chasseneuil-du-Poitou Vienne | 3.4 | 6.9% | 30% | 121 km |
| 4 | Teyran Hérault | 3.2 | 11% | 10% | 15 km |
| 5 | Dagneux Ain | 2.5 | 18% | 0% | 266 km |
| 6 | Écouflant Maine-et-Loire | 2.1 | 10% | 46% | 123 km |
| 7 | Ingersheim Haut-Rhin | 2 | 17% | 1.3% | 469 km |
| 8 | L'Horme Loire | 2 | 3.4% | 0% | 217 km |
| 9 | La Haie-Fouassière Loire-Atlantique | 1.7 | 12% | 0% | 47 km |
| 10 | La Grand-Combe Gard | 1.7 | 71% | 0% | 73 km |
| 11 | Saint-Martin-des-Champs Finistère | 1.7 | 17% | 1.4% | On it |
| 12 | Charly Rhône | 1.7 | 0.2% | 0% | 239 km |
| 13 | Locminé Morbihan | 1.6 | 7.8% | 0% | 24 km |
| 14 | Rilhac-Rancon Haute-Vienne | 1.6 | 33% | 0% | 170 km |
| 15 | Marvejols Lozère | 1.6 | 19% | 0.1% | 125 km |
| 16 | Bourgbarré Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 62 km |
| 17 | Limas Rhône | 1.4 | 8.5% | 0% | 273 km |
| 18 | Sadirac Gironde | 1.4 | 37% | 3.6% | 29 km |
| 19 | Saint-Romain-de-Colbosc Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 3.5% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 20 | Verneuil-en-Halatte Oise | 1.3 | 49% | 58% | 117 km |
| 21 | Le Coudray-Montceaux Essonne | 1.2 | 19% | 0% | 182 km |
| 22 | Cléon Seine-Maritime | 1.1 | 16% | 2% | 51 km |
| 23 | Cerizay Deux-Sèvres | 1.1 | 3.5% | 0% | 67 km |
| 24 | Vittel Vosges | 1.1 | 23% | 0% | 381 km |
| 25 | Milizac-Guipronvel Finistère | 0.9 | 6.1% | 0% | 9.1 km |
| 26 | Tinchebray-Bocage Orne | 0.8 | 4.9% | 0% | 48 km |
| 27 | Casteljaloux Lot-et-Garonne | 0.7 | 49% | 0.8% | 94 km |
| 28 | La Plaine-sur-Mer Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 6% | 0.1% | On it |
| 29 | Sanguinet Landes | 0.6 | 73% | 21% | 14 km |
| 30 | Maraussan Hérault | 0.6 | 1.3% | 0% | 17 km |
| 31 | Les Monts d'Aunay Calvados | 0.6 | 23% | 25% | 37 km |
| 32 | Venansault Vendée | 0.5 | 6.2% | 0% | 27 km |
| 33 | Salies-de-Béarn Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.5 | 34% | 27% | 46 km |
| 34 | La Ferté-Gaucher Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 7.6% | 0% | 195 km |
| 35 | Ruy-Montceau Isère | 0.4 | 21% | 12% | 240 km |
| 36 | Saint-Germain-du-Puy Cher | 0.4 | 7.4% | 0% | 290 km |
| 37 | Billom Puy-de-Dôme | 0.4 | 7.1% | 100% | 247 km |
| 38 | Argenton-sur-Creuse Indre | 0.3 | 25% | 3.9% | 205 km |
| 39 | Saverdun Ariège | 0.2 | 13% | 0.7% | 123 km |
| 40 | Salbris Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 81% | 100% | 256 km |
| 41 | Sanilhac Dordogne | 0.1 | 56% | 0% | 105 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 Dagneux
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Zone de loisirs de Dagneux leads, at 20 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Square Jolion
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
0.7 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Milieux alluviaux et aquatiques du fleuve Rhône, de Jons à Anthon is the nearest protected area, 2.5 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Milieux alluviaux et aquatiques du fleuve Rhône, de Jons à Anthon
2.5 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
17 km of footpaths cross Dagneux
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
17 km
2.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.3 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
18%
about 1.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
DagneuxAin medianFrance median
Footpaths2.5
Hiking routes0.3
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
DagneuxAin medianFrance median
Woodland18%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 67% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 60% 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 Dagneux is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Via Lugdunum, Geneva to Lyon8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Dagneux: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lyon-St Exupery, 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) | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.4 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 27 | 23 | 17 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 55 | 47 | 54 | 72 | 83 | 71 | 67 | 71 | 87 | 101 | 92 | 63 |
February is the driest month (47 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 101 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Dagneux →
Neighbors
Next to Dagneux
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MontluelLa BoisseBalanBéligneuxBeynostJonageDagneux
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Montluel, Balan and Jonage 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 Dagneux
Is Dagneux in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Milieux alluviaux et aquatiques du fleuve Rhône, de Jons à Anthon, 2.5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Dagneux?
OpenStreetMap maps 17 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Dagneux is woodland?
18% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Dagneux near the sea?
No: the coast is 266 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Dagneux?
April and June to August: 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.