First pick
Parc des Champs Elysées
Park or garden
13 ha5.5 km of path
1 h 15 minto walk all 5.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Saint-Quentin
Allée Arthur Van RoekeghemAllée Florent DebuissonAllée Moïse Godet
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: René Hourdry · CC BY-SA 4.01.2%of the land protected
Outdoors in Saint-Quentin · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Saint-Quentin is within 800 m of a park or wood
73 km of footpaths cross Saint-Quentin (3.2 km per km²). Saint-Quentin has 16 km of waymarked hiking routes. 7.4% of Saint-Quentin is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
1.2%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
7.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
73 km
3.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
16 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
6
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc des Champs Elysées
Throughout this page, the Aisne 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 Saint-Quentin 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 areas1.2%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
57out of 100
Woodland7.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
32out of 100
Footpaths3.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
76out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
72out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Quentin has the 14th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (48,193 to 58,029 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 5e (12.9 km per km²) to Arles (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 5e Paris | 12.9 | 1% | 0% | 151 km |
| 2 | Lyon 6e Rhône | 12.3 | 7% | 0% | 253 km |
| 3 | Maisons-Alfort Val-de-Marne | 10.3 | 2.1% | 0% | 158 km |
| 4 | Massy Essonne | 9.4 | 5.3% | 0% | 158 km |
| 5 | Suresnes Hauts-de-Seine | 9.2 | 5.9% | 0% | 143 km |
| 6 | Sevran Seine-Saint-Denis | 9.1 | 10% | 7.9% | 150 km |
| 7 | Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine Seine-Saint-Denis | 8.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 144 km |
| 8 | Bobigny Seine-Saint-Denis | 7.3 | 0.3% | 0% | 149 km |
| 9 | Saint-Herblain Loire-Atlantique | 6.6 | 12% | 1.9% | 34 km |
| 10 | Marseille 4e Bouches-du-Rhône | 6.4 | 0.8% | 0% | 2.5 km |
| 11 | Fontenay-sous-Bois Val-de-Marne | 6.4 | 1.4% | 0% | 155 km |
| 12 | Épinay-sur-Seine Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.3 | 0.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 13 | Lyon 9e Rhône | 5.9 | 9.8% | 0% | 253 km |
| 14 | Vincennes Val-de-Marne | 5.5 | 0.1% | 0% | 154 km |
| 15 | Bondy Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.1 | 1.6% | 0% | 151 km |
| 16 | Paris 9e Paris | 5.1 | 0% | 0% | 147 km |
| 17 | Meaux Seine-et-Marne | 5.1 | 7.8% | 5.5% | 162 km |
| 18 | Marseille 3e Bouches-du-Rhône | 5.1 | 0% | 0% | 1.1 km |
| 19 | Chelles Seine-et-Marne | 5 | 9.3% | 0.8% | 158 km |
| 20 | Vannes Morbihan | 4.6 | 12% | 33% | On it |
| 21 | Laval Mayenne | 4.5 | 8.6% | 0% | 76 km |
| 22 | Saint-Priest Rhône | 4.4 | 4.1% | 0% | 247 km |
| 23 | Vaulx-en-Velin Rhône | 3.9 | 16% | 35% | 255 km |
| 24 | Bayonne Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.9 | 23% | 17% | 5.5 km |
| 25 | Évreux Eure | 3.6 | 26% | 12% | 74 km |
| 26 | Gennevilliers Hauts-de-Seine | 3.4 | 2.1% | 0% | 141 km |
| 27 | Beauvais Oise | 3.3 | 12% | 0.1% | 87 km |
| 28 | Saint-Quentin Aisne | 3.2 | 7.4% | 1.2% | 121 km |
| 29 | Sartrouville Yvelines | 3 | 0.9% | 0% | 135 km |
| 30 | Corbeil-Essonnes Essonne | 3 | 5.5% | 0% | 178 km |
| 31 | Hyères Var | 3 | 25% | 83% | On it |
| 32 | Martigues Bouches-du-Rhône | 3 | 13% | 0.2% | On it |
| 33 | Les Sables-d'Olonne Vendée | 2.8 | 16% | 26% | On it |
| 34 | La Roche-sur-Yon Vendée | 2.2 | 7.5% | 0% | 30 km |
| 35 | Grasse Alpes-Maritimes | 1.8 | 23% | 32% | 12 km |
| 36 | Cholet Maine-et-Loire | 1.7 | 4.1% | 0% | 84 km |
| 37 | Albi Tarn | 1.7 | 2.6% | 0% | 118 km |
| 38 | Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes | 1.6 | 20% | 2.1% | On it |
| 39 | Narbonne Aude | 1.2 | 11% | 63% | On it |
| 40 | Saint-Louis Réunion | 0.8 | 48% | 66% | On it |
| 41 | Arles Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.4 | 3.1% | 90% | On it |
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 Saint-Quentin
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc des Champs Elysées leads, at 13 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Le parc d'Isle
Park or garden
8.3 ha2.9 km of path
40 minto walk all 2.9 km of path
1.5 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Jean Bouin
Park or garden · 150 m outside the commune
1.3 ha0.3 km of path
1.8 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Jean Rigollot
Park or garden · 360 m outside the commune
0.6 ha0.3 km of path
2.9 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square Winston Churchill
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Saint-Quentin
Directionsto a point inside
Place du Marché Franc
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Saint-Quentin
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
1.2% of Saint-Quentin lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Marais d’Isle nature reserve
1.2% of the commune1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Marais d’Isle
1.2% of the commune1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area1.2%
Nature reserve1.2%
Natura 2000 site1.2%
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.
1.2% of Saint-Quentin’s land is protected, more than in 57% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Aisne has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
73 km of footpaths and 16 km of hiking routes cross Saint-Quentin
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
73 km
3.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
16 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
7.4%
about 1.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-QuentinAisne medianFrance median
Footpaths3.2
Hiking routes0.7
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-QuentinAisne medianFrance median
Woodland7.4%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 76% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 68% 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 Saint-Quentin is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 14510 km
de Saint-Quentin à Orrouy (selon GR 655)6.2 km
Saint-Quentin - Péronne6.2 km
Fonsommes - Saint-Quentin6.1 km
Hordain - Saint-Quentin5.5 km
GR 145 passes within 2 km of Saint-Quentin.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saint-Quentin: April to July and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St Quentin, 6.9 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) | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.3 | 15.9 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 9.0 | 8.1 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 48 | 51 | 43 | 57 | 60 | 60 | 71 | 51 | 60 | 57 | 70 |
April is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 71 mm of rain falls in August, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 49 nights a year. The climate in Saint-Quentin →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Saint-Quentin
Named gardens in the commune.
Parc d'IsleIn Saint-Quentin
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Quentin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GauchyFresnoy-le-GrandHamBohain-en-VermandoisTergnierBeautorSaint-Quentin
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Quentin | 1.2% | 7.4% | 3.2 |
| Gauchy 5,183 · 2.7 km | 0% | 12% | 2 |
| Fresnoy-le-Grand 2,890 · 14 km | 0% | 2.4% | 2.2 |
| Ham 4,378 · 19 km | 0% | 6.1% | 0.9 |
| Bohain-en-Vermandois 5,605 · 19 km | 0% | 12% | 0.8 |
| Tergnier 13,045 · 21 km | 4.8% | 9% | 1.2 |
| Beautor 2,579 · 21 km | 40% | 3.6% | 1.3 |
Beautor has 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 Saint-Quentin
Is Saint-Quentin in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 1.2% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Saint-Quentin?
OpenStreetMap maps 73 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 16 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saint-Quentin is woodland?
7.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Quentin near the sea?
No: the coast is 121 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saint-Quentin?
April to July and 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.