First pick
Grand bois des Housseaux
Wood or forest
681 ha6.5 km of path
1 h 25 minto walk all 6.5 km of path
4.2 km westfrom the center
Laie de la Faisanderie
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Édouard Brissy · CC BY-SA 4.04.8%of the land protected
Outdoors in Tergnier · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Tergnier is within 800 m of a park or wood
Tergnier has 13 km of waymarked hiking routes. 9% of Tergnier is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 23 km across Tergnier (1.2 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
4.8%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
9%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
23 km
1.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
13 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: Grand bois des Housseaux
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 Tergnier 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 areas4.8%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
65out of 100
Woodland9%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
37out of 100
Footpaths1.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
39out 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
Tergnier has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (12,723 to 13,369 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-André-lez-Lille (8.6 km per km²) to Graulhet (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-André-lez-Lille Nord | 8.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 59 km |
| 2 | Anzin Nord | 5.4 | 3.1% | 0.5% | 103 km |
| 3 | Nemours Seine-et-Marne | 4.3 | 49% | 2.7% | 215 km |
| 4 | Freyming-Merlebach Moselle | 4.1 | 19% | 0% | 358 km |
| 5 | Saint-Jean-de-Védas Hérault | 3.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 9 km |
| 6 | Pornichet Loire-Atlantique | 3.3 | 12% | 0.1% | On it |
| 7 | Villeneuve-lès-Avignon Gard | 3.1 | 13% | 22% | 58 km |
| 8 | Val-de-Reuil Eure | 3.1 | 16% | 24% | 64 km |
| 9 | Mouvaux Nord | 3 | 3.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 10 | Les Ponts-de-Cé Maine-et-Loire | 2.8 | 6.5% | 33% | 120 km |
| 11 | Lourdes Hautes-Pyrénées | 2.8 | 52% | 6.8% | 129 km |
| 12 | Mayenne Mayenne | 2.8 | 2.5% | 0% | 66 km |
| 13 | Kingersheim Haut-Rhin | 2.7 | 13% | 0% | 445 km |
| 14 | Canet-en-Roussillon Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.6 | 1.1% | 50% | On it |
| 15 | Outreau Pas-de-Calais | 2.6 | 4.8% | 0% | 1.7 km |
| 16 | Betton Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.5 | 3.3% | 0.2% | 43 km |
| 17 | Guéret Creuse | 2.5 | 39% | 0.1% | 220 km |
| 18 | Saint-André-les-Vergers Aube | 2.5 | 4.4% | 0% | 273 km |
| 19 | Aubergenville Yvelines | 2.4 | 9.1% | 0% | 121 km |
| 20 | Berck Pas-de-Calais | 2.3 | 19% | 29% | On it |
| 21 | Claye-Souilly Seine-et-Marne | 2.3 | 30% | 0% | 155 km |
| 22 | Tarnos Landes | 2.3 | 41% | 21% | On it |
| 23 | Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez Vendée | 2.3 | 12% | 48% | On it |
| 24 | Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 26% | 8.9% | 213 km |
| 25 | Bonneville Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 47% | 5.2% | 269 km |
| 26 | Seclin Nord | 1.8 | 3.3% | 0% | 69 km |
| 27 | Auriol Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 49% | 75% | 19 km |
| 28 | Noyon Oise | 1.6 | 19% | 18% | 116 km |
| 29 | Cuers Var | 1.5 | 32% | 0% | 16 km |
| 30 | Amboise Indre-et-Loire | 1.4 | 58% | 5% | 203 km |
| 31 | Fonsorbes Haute-Garonne | 1.4 | 8.5% | 1.7% | 160 km |
| 32 | Autun Saône-et-Loire | 1.3 | 43% | 100% | 377 km |
| 33 | Yzeure Allier | 1.3 | 25% | 0% | 338 km |
| 34 | Tergnier Aisne | 1.2 | 9% | 4.8% | 130 km |
| 35 | Comines Nord | 0.9 | 2.3% | 0% | 48 km |
| 36 | Cusset Allier | 0.9 | 18% | 1.4% | 290 km |
| 37 | Châteaudun Eure-et-Loir | 0.8 | 9.7% | 2.7% | 168 km |
| 38 | Monteux Vaucluse | 0.7 | 2.6% | 26% | 65 km |
| 39 | Petite-Île Réunion | 0.6 | 22% | 4.9% | On it |
| 40 | Bras-Panon Réunion | 0.6 | 69% | 83% | On it |
| 41 | Graulhet Tarn | 0.3 | 9.2% | 0% | 116 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 Tergnier
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Grand bois des Housseaux leads, at 681 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
Park or garden
3 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
1.6 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Sellier
Park or garden
1.4 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Tergnier
Directionsto a point inside
Square Henri Lefèvre
Park or garden · 160 m outside the commune
0.7 ha0.1 km of path
2.7 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square Marcel Laurence
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.1 km of path
0.6 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
4.8% of Tergnier lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Moyenne vallée de l’Oise
4.3% of the commune2.8 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Prairies alluviales de l’Oise de la Fère à Sempigny
2.7% of the commune2.4 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area4.8%
Natura 2000 site4.8%
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.
4.8% of Tergnier’s land is protected, more than in 65% 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
23 km of footpaths and 13 km of hiking routes cross Tergnier
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
23 km
1.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
13 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
9%
about 1.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
TergnierAisne medianFrance median
Footpaths1.2
Hiking routes0.7
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
TergnierAisne medianFrance median
Woodland9%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 61% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 63% 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 Tergnier is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 14511 km
Tergnier ou la Bataille du Rail8.9 km
GR 145 passes within 2 km of Tergnier.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Tergnier: April to July and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Chauny, 7.5 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) | 8.6 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.3 | 15.9 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 9.0 | 8.1 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 54 | 55 | 44 | 62 | 60 | 61 | 69 | 52 | 64 | 58 | 75 |
April is the driest month (44 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Tergnier →
Neighbors
Next to Tergnier
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BeautorLa FèreChaunyHamGauchySaint-QuentinTergnier
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Beautor, La Fère and Chauny 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 Tergnier
Is Tergnier in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 4.8% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Tergnier?
OpenStreetMap maps 23 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 13 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Tergnier is woodland?
9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Tergnier near the sea?
No: the coast is 130 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Tergnier?
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 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.