First pick
Bois de Saint-Gilles
Wood or forest
66 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
2.1 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Roi.dagobert · CC BY-SA 3.016%woodland
Outdoors in Argences · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Argences is within 800 m of a park or wood
Argences has 16 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Argences; the nearest, Marais alcalin de Chicheboville-Bellengreville (Natura 2000), is 2.4 km from the town center. 15 km of footpaths cross Argences (1.5 km per km²). 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: Marais alcalin de Chicheboville-Bellengreville, 2.4 km
Woodland
16%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
15 km
1.5 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
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Saint-Gilles
The sea
18 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Calvados 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 Argences?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes16 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyMarais alcalin de Chicheboville-Bellengreville (Natura 2000) is 2.4 km from the town center.
What sets Argences apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Argences 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
Woodland16%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
54out of 100
Footpaths1.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
47out of 100
Hiking routes1.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
94out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Argences has the 12th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,932 to 3,986 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Rochette (3.6 km per km²) to Aiguillon (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Rochette Seine-et-Marne | 3.6 | 67% | 56% | 193 km |
| 2 | Ferrières-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 3.3 | 45% | 0% | 168 km |
| 3 | Jarrie Isère | 3.2 | 33% | 0.8% | 196 km |
| 4 | Saint-Nabord Vosges | 2.1 | 62% | 3.6% | 429 km |
| 5 | Allevard Isère | 2 | 55% | 0% | 211 km |
| 6 | Pujaut Gard | 2 | 10% | 0% | 62 km |
| 7 | Condrieu Rhône | 2 | 20% | 100% | 219 km |
| 8 | Montry Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 20% | 0% | 166 km |
| 9 | Mozac Puy-de-Dôme | 2 | 1.7% | 0% | 270 km |
| 10 | Toufflers Nord | 1.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 65 km |
| 11 | Hondschoote Nord | 1.6 | 0% | 0% | 12 km |
| 12 | Argences Calvados | 1.5 | 16% | 0% | 18 km |
| 13 | Porte-de-Savoie Savoie | 1.4 | 18% | 86% | 224 km |
| 14 | Erquy Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 6.8% | 15% | On it |
| 15 | Quévert Côtes-d'Armor | 1.3 | 12% | 100% | 6.9 km |
| 16 | Allaire Morbihan | 1.2 | 17% | 6.3% | 22 km |
| 17 | Boos Seine-Maritime | 1.2 | 21% | 0% | 60 km |
| 18 | Boissise-le-Roi Seine-et-Marne | 1.2 | 10% | 100% | 190 km |
| 19 | Rousies Nord | 1.2 | 20% | 100% | 132 km |
| 20 | Pierrevert Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.1 | 36% | 100% | 61 km |
| 21 | Tinténiac Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 3.9% | 2.2% | 22 km |
| 22 | Plouvien Finistère | 1 | 9.4% | 0.6% | 3.9 km |
| 23 | Fontaine-le-Comte Vienne | 0.9 | 20% | 0% | 110 km |
| 24 | Semur-en-Auxois Côte-d'Or | 0.9 | 21% | 0% | 357 km |
| 25 | Saint-Martin-en-Haut Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 236 km |
| 26 | Cires-lès-Mello Oise | 0.8 | 36% | 0% | 112 km |
| 27 | Sailly-sur-la-Lys Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 1.3% | 0.9% | 51 km |
| 28 | Le Bignon Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 14% | 0% | 37 km |
| 29 | Maing Nord | 0.7 | 4.2% | 0% | 108 km |
| 30 | Villeveyrac Hérault | 0.6 | 7% | 85% | 12 km |
| 31 | Gourin Morbihan | 0.6 | 12% | 1.7% | 34 km |
| 32 | Le Lude Sarthe | 0.5 | 23% | 7.6% | 157 km |
| 33 | Châtelaudren-Plouagat Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 4.2% | 0% | 14 km |
| 34 | Verfeil Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 7.7% | 0% | 133 km |
| 35 | Poligny Jura | 0.4 | 77% | 0.1% | 368 km |
| 36 | Salses-le-Château Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 4.1% | 34% | 10 km |
| 37 | Replonges Ain | 0.3 | 9.3% | 19% | 311 km |
| 38 | Moreuil Somme | 0.3 | 21% | 1.9% | 73 km |
| 39 | Suippes Marne | 0.2 | 24% | 0% | 237 km |
| 40 | Saint-Chély-d'Apcher Lozère | 0.2 | 21% | 0% | 150 km |
| 41 | Aiguillon Lot-et-Garonne | 0.1 | 1.4% | 2.5% | 108 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 Argences
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Saint-Gilles leads, at 66 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Michel Crépeau
Park or garden · 350 m outside the commune
1 ha0.4 km of path
1.1 km southfrom the center
Allée Lucrèce de Couville
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Marais alcalin de Chicheboville-Bellengreville is the nearest protected area, 2.4 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Marais alcalin de Chicheboville-Bellengreville
2.4 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
15 km of footpaths and 16 km of hiking routes cross Argences
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
15 km
1.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
16 km
waymarked: 1.7 km per km²
Woodland
16%
about 1.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ArgencesCalvados medianFrance median
Footpaths1.5
Hiking routes1.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ArgencesCalvados medianFrance median
Woodland16%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 53% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 54% 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 Argences 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 Argences: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St Sylvain_Sapc, 8.7 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 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 17 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 46 | 47 | 52 | 58 | 56 | 47 | 54 | 54 | 70 | 67 | 73 |
February is the driest month (46 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 73 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 30 nights a year. The climate in Argences →
Neighbors
Next to Argences
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Moult-ChichebovilleTroarnDémouvilleBourguébusMézidon Vallée d'AugeGibervilleArgences
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argences | 0% | 16% | 1.5 | 18 km |
| Moult-Chicheboville 3,441 · 1.7 km | 6% | 8.3% | 0.5 | 19 km |
| Troarn 3,439 · 6.4 km | 0% | 19% | 1 | 11 km |
| Démouville 3,035 · 9.6 km | 0% | 0.1% | 2.2 | 11 km |
| Bourguébus 2,613 · 9.6 km | 0% | 1.1% | 1.5 | 18 km |
| Mézidon Vallée d'Auge 9,766 · 10 km | 0% | 8.1% | 0.5 | 24 km |
| Giberville 5,077 · 11 km | 0% | 3.2% | 5.1 | 11 km |
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 Argences
Is Argences in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais alcalin de Chicheboville-Bellengreville, 2.4 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Argences?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 16 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Argences is woodland?
16% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Argences near the sea?
No: the coast is 18 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Argences?
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.