First pick
Bois Perriod
Wood or forest
266 ha7.6 km of path
1 h 40 minto walk all 7.6 km of path
5.2 km south-westfrom the center
Promenade de l'AllondonChemin de MolletChemin de Marais+1 path
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Patrub01 · CC BY-SA 3.017%woodland
Outdoors in Prévessin-Moëns · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Prévessin-Moëns is within 800 m of a park or wood
35 km of footpaths cross Prévessin-Moëns (2.9 km per km²). No protected area reaches Prévessin-Moëns; the nearest, Haut-Jura Regional Nature Park, is 4 km from the town center. 17% of Prévessin-Moëns is mapped woodland. 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: Haut-Jura Regional Nature Park, 4 km
Woodland
17%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
35 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
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois Perriod
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 Prévessin-Moëns 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
Woodland17%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
57out of 100
Footpaths2.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
73out 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
Prévessin-Moëns has the 16th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,981 to 9,329 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Magny-le-Hongre (6.5 km per km²) to Valréas (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magny-le-Hongre Seine-et-Marne | 6.5 | 11% | 0% | 167 km |
| 2 | Grabels Hérault | 6.1 | 9.7% | 0% | 17 km |
| 3 | Capbreton Landes | 5.9 | 58% | 11% | On it |
| 4 | Le Crès Hérault | 5.2 | 9.9% | 0% | 12 km |
| 5 | Poisy Haute-Savoie | 5 | 33% | 0% | 263 km |
| 6 | Bougival Yvelines | 4.8 | 20% | 0% | 140 km |
| 7 | Évian-les-Bains Haute-Savoie | 4.8 | 11% | 0% | 299 km |
| 8 | Ouistreham Calvados | 4.6 | 3.8% | 8.5% | On it |
| 9 | Tomblaine Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.3 | 2.9% | 0% | 368 km |
| 10 | Vert-Saint-Denis Seine-et-Marne | 3.9 | 23% | 0% | 187 km |
| 11 | Condé-sur-l'Escaut Nord | 3.5 | 44% | 99% | 98 km |
| 12 | Fontaine-lès-Dijon Côte-d'Or | 3.4 | 2.6% | 0% | 400 km |
| 13 | Le Passage Lot-et-Garonne | 3.2 | 7.8% | 9% | 131 km |
| 14 | Hagondange Moselle | 3.1 | 11% | 0% | 317 km |
| 15 | Quéven Morbihan | 2.9 | 26% | 5.9% | On it |
| 16 | Prévessin-Moëns Ain | 2.9 | 17% | 0% | 297 km |
| 17 | Chécy Loiret | 2.9 | 18% | 9.7% | 210 km |
| 18 | Escaudain Nord | 2.9 | 6.3% | 0.2% | 101 km |
| 19 | Breuillet Essonne | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 164 km |
| 20 | Dardilly Rhône | 2.8 | 20% | 0% | 256 km |
| 21 | Irigny Rhône | 2.8 | 13% | 0% | 242 km |
| 22 | Launaguet Haute-Garonne | 2.7 | 7.2% | 0% | 149 km |
| 23 | Lamorlaye Oise | 2.5 | 42% | 100% | 125 km |
| 24 | Molsheim Bas-Rhin | 2.5 | 8.8% | 0% | 441 km |
| 25 | Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Drôme | 2.3 | 19% | 0% | 100 km |
| 26 | Morières-lès-Avignon Vaucluse | 2.1 | 4.7% | 0% | 54 km |
| 27 | Beuvry Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 14% | 0% | 61 km |
| 28 | Sarzeau Morbihan | 2 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 29 | Les Sorinières Loire-Atlantique | 2 | 9.8% | 0% | 37 km |
| 30 | Scionzier Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 56% | 9.8% | 264 km |
| 31 | Paray-le-Monial Saône-et-Loire | 1.3 | 20% | 0% | 321 km |
| 32 | Varennes-Vauzelles Nièvre | 0.9 | 20% | 0% | 336 km |
| 33 | Joigny Yonne | 0.9 | 70% | 0% | 274 km |
| 34 | Nogent-le-Rotrou Eure-et-Loir | 0.8 | 7.9% | 100% | 127 km |
| 35 | Livron-sur-Drôme Drôme | 0.8 | 11% | 4.3% | 147 km |
| 36 | Ussel Corrèze | 0.7 | 38% | 0.1% | 235 km |
| 37 | Le Teich Gironde | 0.6 | 81% | 100% | On it |
| 38 | Rivesaltes Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 13 km |
| 39 | Grenade Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 9.5% | 14% | 165 km |
| 40 | La Fare-les-Oliviers Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.2 | 0.8% | 44% | 23 km |
| 41 | Valréas Vaucluse | 0.1 | 21% | 0% | 104 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 Prévessin-Moëns
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois Perriod leads, at 266 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc du Château
Park or garden
19 ha2.6 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Prévessin-Moëns
Directionsto a point inside
Bois de Serves
Wood or forest
60 ha2.5 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.5 km of path
2.9 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Château de Voltaire
Park or garden · 240 m outside the commune
7.6 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
1.9 km eastfrom the center
Allée des Charmilles
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Hérissons
Park or garden · 140 m outside the commune
1.2 ha0.3 km of path
2.1 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Haut-Jura Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 4 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Haut-Jura Regional Nature Park
4 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
35 km of footpaths cross Prévessin-Moëns
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
35 km
2.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
17%
about 2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Prévessin-MoënsAin medianFrance median
Footpaths2.9
Hiking routes0
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Prévessin-MoënsAin medianFrance median
Woodland17%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 73% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 57% 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 Prévessin-Moëns 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
Parcours de santé de Bois de Serve2.3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Prévessin-Moëns: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Gaillard, 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 | 15.0 | 15.8 | 15.4 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.6 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 27 | 22 | 17 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 63 | 54 | 63 | 76 | 89 | 87 | 83 | 88 | 96 | 98 | 88 | 82 |
February is the driest month (54 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 98 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 79 nights a year. The climate in Prévessin-Moëns →
Neighbors
Next to Prévessin-Moëns
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Ferney-VoltaireOrnexSaint-Genis-PouillySégnyCessyThoiryPrévessin-Moëns
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prévessin-Moëns | 0% | 17% | 2.9 |
| Ferney-Voltaire 12,094 · 2.4 km | 0% | 20% | 5.2 |
| Ornex 5,082 · 2.5 km | 0% | 22% | 3.2 |
| Saint-Genis-Pouilly 14,432 · 4 km | 0.3% | 17% | 4.5 |
| Ségny 2,941 · 4.4 km | 0.5% | 17% | 1.8 |
| Cessy 5,832 · 7 km | 0.2% | 5.4% | 1.5 |
| Thoiry 6,569 · 8 km | 63% | 44% | 2.4 |
Thoiry has at least twice as much protected land. Thoiry 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 Prévessin-Moëns
Is Prévessin-Moëns in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Haut-Jura Regional Nature Park, 4 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Prévessin-Moëns?
OpenStreetMap maps 35 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 Prévessin-Moëns is woodland?
17% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Prévessin-Moëns near the sea?
No: the coast is 297 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Prévessin-Moëns?
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 8, 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.