First pick
Bois Seigneur
Wood or forest · 70 m outside the commune
21 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
2.8 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Yzergues · CC BY-SA 4.05.1%woodland
Outdoors in Massieux · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Massieux is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 5.1% of Massieux. No protected area reaches Massieux; the nearest, La Dombes (Natura 2000), is 4.6 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 2 km in Massieux. 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: La Dombes, 4.6 km
Woodland
5.1%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
5.1 km
1.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.9 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: Bois Seigneur
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 Massieux 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
Woodland5.1%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
23out of 100
Footpaths1.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
48out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
67out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Massieux has the 12th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,810 to 2,876 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Courchelettes (4.3 km per km²) to La Boixe (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Courchelettes Nord | 4.3 | 6.5% | 0% | 91 km |
| 2 | Burbure Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 3.7% | 0% | 55 km |
| 3 | L'Aiguillon-la-Presqu'île Vendée | 2.3 | 7.9% | 100% | On it |
| 4 | Pérignat-lès-Sarliève Puy-de-Dôme | 2.2 | 3.7% | 4.6% | 251 km |
| 5 | Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets Ille-et-Vilaine | 2 | 5% | 85% | On it |
| 6 | Sainghin-en-Mélantois Nord | 1.8 | 6.5% | 0% | 70 km |
| 7 | Bar-sur-Seine Aube | 1.7 | 40% | 0% | 302 km |
| 8 | Arles-sur-Tech Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.7 | 72% | 6.8% | 36 km |
| 9 | Ibos Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.7 | 31% | 0% | 126 km |
| 10 | Anzin-Saint-Aubin Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 6.2% | 0% | 77 km |
| 11 | Saint-Jean-en-Royans Drôme | 1.7 | 60% | 100% | 177 km |
| 12 | Massieux Ain | 1.6 | 5.1% | 0% | 267 km |
| 13 | Le Faouët Morbihan | 1.4 | 21% | 7.3% | 24 km |
| 14 | Colombiers Hérault | 1.2 | 1.4% | 0% | 13 km |
| 15 | Fraize Vosges | 1.2 | 48% | 100% | 447 km |
| 16 | Saint-Jean-du-Falga Ariège | 1.2 | 3.1% | 2.2% | 117 km |
| 17 | Trélivan Côtes-d'Armor | 1.1 | 18% | 100% | 9.5 km |
| 18 | Rozay-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 1.1% | 0.3% | 191 km |
| 19 | Pont-d'Ain Ain | 1 | 22% | 18% | 291 km |
| 20 | Colombier-Saugnieu Rhône | 1 | 2.7% | 0% | 252 km |
| 21 | Ambronay Ain | 1 | 28% | 1.3% | 286 km |
| 22 | Saint-Clément Yonne | 0.8 | 1.9% | 0% | 248 km |
| 23 | Étaules Charente-Maritime | 0.7 | 9.6% | 39% | On it |
| 24 | Langogne Lozère | 0.7 | 23% | 0.1% | 131 km |
| 25 | Ayguesvives Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 8.4% | 0% | 128 km |
| 26 | Uzerche Corrèze | 0.7 | 22% | 0.9% | 176 km |
| 27 | Fère-en-Tardenois Aisne | 0.7 | 40% | 0% | 171 km |
| 28 | Seiches-sur-le-Loir Maine-et-Loire | 0.6 | 31% | 0% | 137 km |
| 29 | Aoste Isère | 0.6 | 13% | 4.6% | 245 km |
| 30 | Longny les Villages Orne | 0.5 | 35% | 100% | 104 km |
| 31 | Saint-Loup-sur-Semouse Haute-Saône | 0.5 | 46% | 46% | 422 km |
| 32 | Margaux-Cantenac Gironde | 0.4 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 33 | Cour-Cheverny Loir-et-Cher | 0.4 | 41% | 29% | 229 km |
| 34 | Blangy-sur-Bresle Seine-Maritime | 0.4 | 32% | 0.5% | 23 km |
| 35 | Vendays-Montalivet Gironde | 0.3 | 74% | 100% | On it |
| 36 | Rosières-aux-Salines Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.3 | 24% | 0% | 381 km |
| 37 | Buchy Seine-Maritime | 0.3 | 4.8% | 0% | 42 km |
| 38 | Lafrançaise Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 19% | 0.8% | 175 km |
| 39 | Miremont Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 7.8% | 0.2% | 139 km |
| 40 | Thiviers Dordogne | 0.2 | 27% | 0.1% | 127 km |
| 41 | La Boixe Charente | 0.1 | 10% | 23% | 78 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 Massieux
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois Seigneur leads, at 21 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Île Beyne
Wood or forest · 70 m outside the commune
14 ha
1.3 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Eco-Parc
Park or garden
1.1 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Massieux
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
La Dombes is the nearest protected area, 4.6 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
La Dombes
4.6 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
5 km of footpaths cross Massieux
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
5.1 km
1.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.9 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
5.1%
about 0.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MassieuxAin medianFrance median
Footpaths1.6
Hiking routes0.6
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MassieuxAin medianFrance median
Woodland5.1%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 52% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 77% 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 Massieux is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Beaujolais au Bugey, de Trévoux à Souclin8.1 km
Chemin d'Assise, Cluny - Montcenis8.1 km
Sur les traces d’Ampèreq2.3 km
Grand Tour des Monts d'Or0.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Massieux: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Villefranche, 11 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) | 8 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 23 | 27 | 29 | 29 | 24 | 18 | 12 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 48 | 38 | 47 | 63 | 74 | 74 | 77 | 71 | 68 | 90 | 88 | 54 |
February is the driest month (38 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 90 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. The climate in Massieux →
Neighbors
Next to Massieux
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GenayReyrieuxSaint-Germain-au-Mont-d'OrNeuville-sur-SaôneQuincieuxMontanayMassieux
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massieux | 0% | 5.1% | 1.6 |
| Genay 5,585 · 1.6 km | 0% | 9% | 1.2 |
| Reyrieux 5,358 · 2.8 km | 2.2% | 11% | 0.4 |
| Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or 3,124 · 3.2 km | 0% | 24% | 2.3 |
| Neuville-sur-Saône 7,812 · 3.8 km | 0% | 18% | 3.3 |
| Quincieux 3,679 · 4 km | 0% | 4.2% | 0.5 |
| Montanay 3,308 · 4.4 km | 0% | 7.1% | 0.8 |
Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or is more wooded.
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 Massieux
Is Massieux in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is La Dombes, 4.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Massieux?
OpenStreetMap maps 5 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Massieux is woodland?
5.1% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Massieux near the sea?
No: the coast is 267 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Massieux?
April to September: 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.