First pick
Parc de Déomas
Park or garden
13 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
1.2 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: PASQUION · CC BY-SA 3.030%woodland
Outdoors in Annonay · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Annonay is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 30% of Annonay. No protected area reaches Annonay; the nearest, Pilat Regional Nature Park, is 5.1 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 48 km across Annonay (2.3 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.2%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Pilat Regional Nature Park, 5.1 km
Woodland
30%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
48 km
2.3 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: Parc de Déomas
Throughout this page, the Ardèche 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 Annonay?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune30% mapped woodland, more than in 76% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyPilat Regional Nature Park is 5.1 km from the town center.
What sets Annonay apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Annonay 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 areas0.2%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
52out of 100
Woodland30%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
76out of 100
Footpaths2.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
62out 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
Annonay has the 20th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (16,666 to 17,909 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Jouy-le-Moutier (10.3 km per km²) to Marmande (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jouy-le-Moutier Val-d'Oise | 10.3 | 23% | 0% | 123 km |
| 2 | Viroflay Yvelines | 9.5 | 42% | 0% | 148 km |
| 3 | Marly-le-Roi Yvelines | 7.6 | 37% | 0% | 138 km |
| 4 | Les Clayes-sous-Bois Yvelines | 6.3 | 35% | 0% | 137 km |
| 5 | Le Pré-Saint-Gervais Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.8 | 0% | 0% | 149 km |
| 6 | L'Isle-d'Abeau Isère | 5.2 | 9.8% | 0% | 242 km |
| 7 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire Indre-et-Loire | 5 | 9.4% | 1.9% | 184 km |
| 8 | Villeneuve-Loubet Alpes-Maritimes | 5 | 30% | 16% | On it |
| 9 | Boissy-Saint-Léger Val-de-Marne | 4.4 | 50% | 0% | 166 km |
| 10 | Balma Haute-Garonne | 4.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 142 km |
| 11 | Chamalières Puy-de-Dôme | 4.1 | 3.4% | 0.1% | 258 km |
| 12 | Saran Loiret | 3.9 | 24% | 0% | 200 km |
| 13 | Garches Hauts-de-Seine | 3.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 144 km |
| 14 | Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle Loiret | 3.5 | 4.9% | 3% | 203 km |
| 15 | Avion Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 13% | 0% | 77 km |
| 16 | Firminy Loire | 3 | 25% | 0% | 204 km |
| 17 | Cluses Haute-Savoie | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 264 km |
| 18 | Yutz Moselle | 2.6 | 18% | 0% | 310 km |
| 19 | Carvin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 73 km |
| 20 | Annonay Ardèche | 2.3 | 30% | 0.2% | 193 km |
| 21 | Fécamp Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 25% | 2.9% | On it |
| 22 | Lattes Hérault | 2.2 | 0.8% | 22% | 5.5 km |
| 23 | Limay Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 6.1% | 112 km |
| 24 | Sedan Ardennes | 2 | 17% | 0% | 222 km |
| 25 | Sallanches Haute-Savoie | 2 | 32% | 35% | 250 km |
| 26 | Montceau-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire | 1.8 | 6.6% | 0% | 347 km |
| 27 | La Baule-Escoublac Loire-Atlantique | 1.7 | 9.6% | 37% | 0.8 km |
| 28 | Valserhône Ain | 1.7 | 59% | 19% | 292 km |
| 29 | Blanquefort Gironde | 1.7 | 15% | 7.6% | 11 km |
| 30 | Guérande Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 7.1% | 76% | On it |
| 31 | Verdun Meuse | 1.4 | 21% | 3.6% | 290 km |
| 32 | Cestas Gironde | 1 | 58% | 0% | 28 km |
| 33 | Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume Var | 1 | 41% | 34% | 33 km |
| 34 | Brignoles Var | 0.9 | 48% | 17% | 34 km |
| 35 | Lamballe-Armor Côtes-d'Armor | 0.8 | 5% | 2% | On it |
| 36 | Vire Normandie Calvados | 0.6 | 3.9% | 0% | 41 km |
| 37 | Orée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 11% | 12% | 66 km |
| 38 | Segré-en-Anjou Bleu Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 4.6% | 0% | 108 km |
| 39 | Loire-Authion Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 10% | 100% | 130 km |
| 40 | Ambarès-et-Lagrave Gironde | 0.4 | 4.8% | 35% | 11 km |
| 41 | Marmande Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 11% | 4% | 82 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 Annonay
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de Déomas leads, at 13 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de La Lombardière
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
2.9 ha0.5 km of path
2.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Mignot
Park or garden
1.5 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
0.7 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Saint-Exupéry
Park or garden
1.7 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Annonay
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Simone de Beauvoir
Park or garden
1 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
Centralin the middle of Annonay
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Pilat Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 5.1 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
Pilat Regional Nature Park
5.1 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.2%
Regional nature park0.2%
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.
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
48 km of footpaths cross Annonay
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
48 km
2.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
30%
about 6.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AnnonayArdèche medianFrance median
Footpaths2.3
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AnnonayArdèche medianFrance median
Woodland30%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 62% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 76% 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 Annonay is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Annonay: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Annonay, 0.2 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) | 9.1 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.9 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.4 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 34 | 40 | 62 | 76 | 63 | 68 | 57 | 88 | 107 | 106 | 51 |
February is the driest month (34 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 107 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 60 nights a year. The climate in Annonay →
Neighbors
Next to Annonay
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
RoiffieuxDavézieuxVernosc-lès-AnnonayBourg-ArgentalSaint-Rambert-d'AlbonSaint-VallierAnnonay
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annonay | 0.2% | 30% | 2.3 |
| Roiffieux 2,743 · 2.3 km | 0% | 40% | 0.9 |
| Davézieux 3,205 · 2.8 km | 0% | 4.3% | 1.2 |
| Vernosc-lès-Annonay 2,725 · 4.3 km | 2.2% | 22% | 1.5 |
| Bourg-Argental 2,886 · 10 km | 100% | 42% | 0.8 |
| Saint-Rambert-d'Albon 7,001 · 13 km | 1.6% | 6.2% | 1.8 |
| Saint-Vallier 4,027 · 13 km | 0% | 32% | 3.8 |
Bourg-Argental 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 Annonay
Is Annonay in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Pilat Regional Nature Park, 5.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Annonay?
OpenStreetMap maps 48 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Annonay is woodland?
30% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Annonay near the sea?
No: the coast is 193 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Annonay?
April and June to August: 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.