First pick
Bois Perriod
Wood or forest
302 ha7.8 km of path
1 h 45 minto walk all 7.8 km of path
4.3 km north-eastfrom the center
Promenade de l'AllondonChemin de MaraisChemin de Mollet+1 path
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France · CC BY 2.063%of the land protected
Outdoors in Thoiry · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Thoiry lies inside Haut-Jura Regional Nature Park
63% of Thoiry’s land lies in protected areas. Mapped woodland covers 44% of Thoiry. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 20 km in Thoiry. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
63%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
44%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
69 km
2.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
20 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Thoiry?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Haut-Jura Regional Nature Park62% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune44% mapped woodland, more than in 88% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.A nature reserveHaute Chaîne du Jura nature reserve covers 42% of the commune.
What sets Thoiry apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Thoiry 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 areas63%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
88out of 100
Woodland44%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
88out of 100
Footpaths2.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
65out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
71out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Thoiry has the 13th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,522 to 6,621 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bouffémont (9.6 km per km²) to Longué-Jumelles (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bouffémont Val-d'Oise | 9.6 | 54% | 0.9% | 131 km |
| 2 | Champigneulles Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.7 | 77% | 0% | 361 km |
| 3 | Ceyrat Puy-de-Dôme | 4.6 | 48% | 100% | 254 km |
| 4 | Gémenos Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.1 | 22% | 92% | 11 km |
| 5 | La Mulatière Rhône | 4 | 9.1% | 0% | 248 km |
| 6 | Marange-Silvange Moselle | 3.4 | 52% | 0% | 317 km |
| 7 | Saint-Alban Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 0% | 0% | 152 km |
| 8 | Cormontreuil Marne | 2.9 | 6.1% | 1.5% | 202 km |
| 9 | La Penne-sur-Huveaune Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.8 | 41% | 37% | 7.3 km |
| 10 | L'Arbresle Rhône | 2.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 256 km |
| 11 | Canohès Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 16 km |
| 12 | Ondres Landes | 2.5 | 59% | 5.2% | On it |
| 13 | Thoiry Ain | 2.4 | 44% | 63% | 298 km |
| 14 | La Bouilladisse Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 40% | 0% | 21 km |
| 15 | Neuves-Maisons Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.2 | 5.8% | 0% | 365 km |
| 16 | Bouchemaine Maine-et-Loire | 2.2 | 14% | 11% | 113 km |
| 17 | Chasse-sur-Rhône Isère | 2.2 | 12% | 0% | 232 km |
| 18 | Eaunes Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 15% | 0% | 146 km |
| 19 | Furiani Haute-Corse | 1.9 | 0.6% | 6.3% | On it |
| 20 | Saint-Juéry Tarn | 1.8 | 11% | 0% | 116 km |
| 21 | Ploudalmézeau Finistère | 1.7 | 3.4% | 4.3% | On it |
| 22 | Labarthe-sur-Lèze Haute-Garonne | 1.6 | 5.1% | 2% | 144 km |
| 23 | Bon-Encontre Lot-et-Garonne | 1.6 | 8.4% | 0% | 134 km |
| 24 | Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds Loire | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 212 km |
| 25 | Labruguière Tarn | 1.4 | 44% | 100% | 84 km |
| 26 | Rives Isère | 1.1 | 13% | 0% | 217 km |
| 27 | Montauban-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 13% | 0% | 32 km |
| 28 | Longuenée-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 6.8% | 2.3% | 114 km |
| 29 | La Chevrolière Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 16% | 11% | 29 km |
| 30 | Loriol-sur-Drôme Drôme | 0.7 | 12% | 4.7% | 144 km |
| 31 | Brioude Haute-Loire | 0.7 | 7.1% | 1.6% | 200 km |
| 32 | Chatuzange-le-Goubet Drôme | 0.6 | 11% | 0% | 175 km |
| 33 | Gueugnon Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 17% | 0% | 338 km |
| 34 | Sainte-Rose Réunion | 0.5 | 48% | 100% | On it |
| 35 | Sury-le-Comtal Loire | 0.5 | 2.4% | 0.6% | 220 km |
| 36 | Estaires Nord | 0.4 | 0.7% | 0% | 50 km |
| 37 | Héric Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 42 km |
| 38 | Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 2.4% | 0.2% | 115 km |
| 39 | Lezoux Puy-de-Dôme | 0.2 | 19% | 5.3% | 258 km |
| 40 | Le Mené Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 25 km |
| 41 | Longué-Jumelles Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 21% | 100% | 143 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 Thoiry
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois Perriod leads, at 302 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Grands Bois
Wood or forest
155 ha3.6 km of path
45 minto walk all 3.6 km of path
2.9 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Plaine sportive et ludique du Creux
Park or garden
3.7 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
0.7 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Place du Souvenir
Park or garden
0.2 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Thoiry
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Thoiry
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
62% of the commune0.8 km from the center
Nature reserve
Haute Chaîne du Jura nature reserve
42% of the commune1.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Crêts du haut-Jura
50% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Crêts du Haut-Jura
50% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area63%
Regional nature park62%
Nature reserve42%
Natura 2000 site50%
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.
63% of Thoiry’s land is protected, more than in 88% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Ain has 1.2%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
69 km of footpaths and 20 km of hiking routes cross Thoiry
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
69 km
2.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
20 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
44%
about 12.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ThoiryAin medianFrance median
Footpaths2.4
Hiking routes0.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ThoiryAin medianFrance median
Woodland44%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 65% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 88% 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 Thoiry 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
Du Jura à la Méditerranée, Refuge de la Loge - La Corne10 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Thoiry: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Archamps, 17 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 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.6 |
| High (°C) | 4 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 20 | 15 | 8 | 5 |
| Rain (mm) | 97 | 79 | 83 | 94 | 99 | 97 | 88 | 100 | 106 | 112 | 104 | 113 |
February is the driest month (79 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 113 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 72 nights a year. The climate in Thoiry →
Neighbors
Next to Thoiry
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Genis-PouillyPéronPrévessin-MoënsSégnyOrnexFerney-VoltaireThoiry
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thoiry | 63% | 44% | 2.4 |
| Saint-Genis-Pouilly 14,432 · 4 km | 0.3% | 17% | 4.5 |
| Péron 2,916 · 6.8 km | 100% | 56% | 1.3 |
| Prévessin-Moëns 9,153 · 8 km | 0% | 17% | 2.9 |
| Ségny 2,941 · 9.8 km | 0.5% | 17% | 1.8 |
| Ornex 5,082 · 9.8 km | 0% | 22% | 3.2 |
| Ferney-Voltaire 12,094 · 10 km | 0% | 20% | 5.2 |
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 Thoiry
Is Thoiry in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Thoiry lies in Haut-Jura Regional Nature Park (62% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Thoiry?
OpenStreetMap maps 69 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 20 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Thoiry is woodland?
44% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Thoiry near the sea?
No: the coast is 298 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Thoiry?
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 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.