First pick
Place de l'Espoir
Park or garden
0.3 ha
Centralin the middle of Genlis
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Yzergues · CC BY-SA 4.00.4%woodland
Outdoors in Genlis · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Genlis
No protected area reaches Genlis; the nearest, Vallée de la Saône (Natura 2000), is 3.3 km from the town center. Genlis has almost no mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 15 km across Genlis (1.3 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: Vallée de la Saône, 3.3 km
Woodland
0.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
15 km
1.3 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
Green space nearby
92%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
Throughout this page, the Côte-d'Or 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 Genlis?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyVallée de la Saône (Natura 2000) is 3.3 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0.4% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Genlis apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Genlis 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
Woodland0.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
4out of 100
Footpaths1.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
40out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Green space nearby92%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
9out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Genlis has the 20th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,044 to 5,140 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Giberville (5.1 km per km²) to Laventie (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giberville Calvados | 5.1 | 3.2% | 0% | 11 km |
| 2 | Pulnoy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.7 | 25% | 0% | 368 km |
| 3 | Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 4.3 | 45% | 17% | 95 km |
| 4 | Billy-Berclau Pas-de-Calais | 4 | 15% | 0% | 67 km |
| 5 | Ornex Ain | 3.2 | 22% | 0% | 299 km |
| 6 | Sommières Gard | 2.8 | 21% | 1.3% | 25 km |
| 7 | Le Val d'Hazey Eure | 2.6 | 32% | 0.3% | 77 km |
| 8 | Châteaulin Finistère | 2.5 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 9 | Dives-sur-Mer Calvados | 2.5 | 8.8% | 0% | 1.2 km |
| 10 | Haillicourt Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 63 km |
| 11 | Saint-Georges-de-Didonne Charente-Maritime | 2.3 | 19% | 37% | On it |
| 12 | Saint-Chéron Essonne | 2.2 | 49% | 0% | 162 km |
| 13 | Bonnières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.1 | 45% | 20% | 99 km |
| 14 | Baden Morbihan | 1.8 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 15 | Cucq Pas-de-Calais | 1.5 | 2.7% | 8.6% | On it |
| 16 | Yffiniac Côtes-d'Armor | 1.5 | 4.4% | 0.1% | 1.8 km |
| 17 | La Ferté Macé Orne | 1.4 | 27% | 100% | 73 km |
| 18 | Chavanoz Isère | 1.3 | 12% | 0% | 258 km |
| 19 | Petite-Forêt Nord | 1.3 | 1.8% | 1.4% | 102 km |
| 20 | Genlis Côte-d'Or | 1.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 418 km |
| 21 | Villefranche-de-Lauragais Haute-Garonne | 1.2 | 0.5% | 0% | 117 km |
| 22 | Saint-Vit Doubs | 1.2 | 30% | 0% | 400 km |
| 23 | Muzillac Morbihan | 1 | 4.9% | 7.8% | On it |
| 24 | Villenoy Seine-et-Marne | 1 | 4.7% | 0% | 161 km |
| 25 | Maen Roch Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 3.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 26 | Le Cannet-des-Maures Var | 1 | 31% | 52% | 23 km |
| 27 | Faulquemont Moselle | 0.9 | 22% | 0% | 354 km |
| 28 | Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez Loire | 0.8 | 25% | 1.8% | 215 km |
| 29 | Luynes Indre-et-Loire | 0.8 | 39% | 3.5% | 176 km |
| 30 | Aÿ-Champagne Marne | 0.7 | 16% | 100% | 211 km |
| 31 | Blaye Gironde | 0.7 | 2.7% | 58% | On it |
| 32 | Habsheim Haut-Rhin | 0.7 | 49% | 50% | 438 km |
| 33 | Villeneuve-sur-Yonne Yonne | 0.6 | 34% | 0% | 260 km |
| 34 | Val-de-Moder Bas-Rhin | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0.1% | 424 km |
| 35 | Ferrière-la-Grande Nord | 0.4 | 8.1% | 100% | 133 km |
| 36 | Sully-sur-Loire Loiret | 0.4 | 25% | 40% | 238 km |
| 37 | Longuyon Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.4 | 39% | 0% | 274 km |
| 38 | Villeneuve-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.1% | 36% | 5.1 km |
| 39 | Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche Corrèze | 0.2 | 25% | 0.3% | 161 km |
| 40 | Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 7% | 0% | 62 km |
| 41 | Laventie Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.7% | 0% | 54 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 Genlis
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Place de l'Espoir leads, at 0.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Square du 11 Novembre 1918
Park or garden
0.2 ha
Centralin the middle of Genlis
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Genlis live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
92% within 800 m8.4% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
GenlisCôte-d'Or medianFrance median
Within 800 m92%
0%50%100%
About 400 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
Vallée de la Saône is the nearest protected area, 3.3 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
Vallée de la Saône
3.3 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 cross Genlis
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
1.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.4%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GenlisCôte-d'Or medianFrance median
Footpaths1.3
Hiking routes0
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GenlisCôte-d'Or medianFrance median
Woodland0.4%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 60% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 96% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Genlis: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Dijon-Longvic, 11 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) | 8.9 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 15.1 | 15.9 | 15.6 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.2 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 27 | 26 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 43 | 48 | 58 | 76 | 66 | 65 | 62 | 56 | 74 | 78 | 62 |
February is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 78 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 62 nights a year. The climate in Genlis →
Neighbors
Next to Genlis
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Neuilly-CrimoloisChevigny-Saint-SauveurArc-sur-TilleQuetignyLongvicAuxonneGenlis
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genlis | 0% | 0.4% | 1.3 |
| Neuilly-Crimolois 3,588 · 9.4 km | 0% | 17% | 1.3 |
| Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur 11,108 · 9.6 km | 0% | 27% | 4.2 |
| Arc-sur-Tille 2,584 · 12 km | 0% | 5.6% | 0.8 |
| Quetigny 8,971 · 12 km | 0% | 0.7% | 4 |
| Longvic 8,896 · 13 km | 0% | 3.4% | 3.1 |
| Auxonne 7,581 · 14 km | 8.8% | 42% | 0.7 |
Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur and Auxonne are more wooded.
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 Genlis
Is Genlis in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée de la Saône, 3.3 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Genlis?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Genlis is woodland?
0.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Genlis near the sea?
No: the coast is 418 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Genlis?
April and June 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.