Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Christophe.Finot · CC BY-SA 2.540 km of footpaths cross Talant (8 km per km²). Talant has 15 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Talant; the nearest, Arrière côte de Dijon et de Beaune (Natura 2000), is 4.2 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Talant apart: its footpaths, then its hiking routes.
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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (11,630 to 12,170 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Talant (8 km per km²) to Saint-Gaudens (0.4 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Talant Côte-d'Or | 8 | 5.6% | 0% | 399 km |
| 2 | Seyssinet-Pariset Isère | 6.6 | 60% | 57% | 203 km |
| 3 | Villecresnes Val-de-Marne | 6.5 | 27% | 0% | 170 km |
| 4 | Valbonne Alpes-Maritimes | 6.4 | 53% | 0% | 8.4 km |
| 5 | Saint-Cyprien Pyrénées-Orientales | 6.1 | 0.4% | 3% | On it |
| 6 | Ferney-Voltaire Ain | 5.2 | 20% | 0% | 296 km |
| 7 | Le Relecq-Kerhuon Finistère | 4.8 | 7.6% | 0% | On it |
| 8 | Ifs Calvados | 4.6 | 3.9% | 0% | 17 km |
| 9 | Sassenage Isère | 4.6 | 48% | 50% | 205 km |
| 10 | Roquebrune-Cap-Martin Alpes-Maritimes | 4.3 | 23% | 36% | On it |
| 11 | Saint-Pierre-du-Perray Essonne | 4.2 | 25% | 0% | 178 km |
| 12 | Hœnheim Bas-Rhin | 3.7 | 0.5% | 0% | 448 km |
| 13 | Beausoleil Alpes-Maritimes | 3.6 | 11% | 2.9% | 0.7 km |
| 14 | Dugny Seine-Saint-Denis | 3.5 | 6.8% | 9.5% | 144 km |
| 15 | Bully-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 3.1% | 0% | 71 km |
| 16 | Arpajon Essonne | 3.3 | 2.4% | 0% | 167 km |
| 17 | Plan-de-Cuques Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 0.6% | 59% | 8.8 km |
| 18 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer Var | 2.9 | 30% | 25% | On it |
| 19 | Saint-Estève Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.8 | 2.8% | 0.5% | 16 km |
| 20 | Craponne Rhône | 2.7 | 12% | 0% | 248 km |
| 21 | Septèmes-les-Vallons Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.5 | 49% | 20% | 5.5 km |
| 22 | Villepreux Yvelines | 2.5 | 8.4% | 0% | 137 km |
| 23 | Vedène Vaucluse | 2.4 | 4% | 0% | 58 km |
| 24 | Marly Nord | 2.3 | 1.5% | 0% | 107 km |
| 25 | Sarrebourg Moselle | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 403 km |
| 26 | Barentin Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 11% | 0% | 38 km |
| 27 | Pacé Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.2 | 3.6% | 0% | 41 km |
| 28 | La Motte-Servolex Savoie | 2.1 | 41% | 0% | 238 km |
| 29 | Bruay-sur-l'Escaut Nord | 2.1 | 14% | 98% | 102 km |
| 30 | Onet-le-Château Aveyron | 1.7 | 2.3% | 1.4% | 137 km |
| 31 | Provins Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 6.6% | 0% | 215 km |
| 32 | Dammartin-en-Goële Seine-et-Marne | 1.4 | 24% | 0% | 144 km |
| 33 | Somain Nord | 1.4 | 5.2% | 1.3% | 96 km |
| 34 | Cernay Haut-Rhin | 1.4 | 26% | 0.1% | 448 km |
| 35 | Thiers Puy-de-Dôme | 1 | 43% | 100% | 259 km |
| 36 | Florange Moselle | 0.9 | 24% | 0% | 309 km |
| 37 | Mios Gironde | 0.8 | 81% | 100% | 9.9 km |
| 38 | Castelnaudary Aude | 0.4 | 2% | 0% | 96 km |
| 39 | Vauvert Gard | 0.4 | 3.1% | 71% | 20 km |
| 40 | Baugé-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 31% | 0.5% | 151 km |
| 41 | Saint-Gaudens Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 9.3% | 3.9% | 186 km |
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Fontaine aux Fées leads, at 30 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
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.
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.
That is more than in 97% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 74% 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 Talant is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 2 passes within 2 km of Talant.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Marsannay la Cote, 8 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 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 15.9 | 15.6 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.2 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 67 | 54 | 56 | 60 | 75 | 71 | 65 | 61 | 61 | 75 | 84 | 74 |
February is the driest month (54 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 84 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 61 nights a year. The climate in Talant →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talant | 0% | 5.6% | 8 |
| Fontaine-lès-Dijon 9,252 · 2 km | 0% | 2.6% | 3.4 |
| Dijon 161,830 · 3.2 km | 0% | 6.5% | 6 |
| Chenôve 14,244 · 4.8 km | 17% | 10% | 6.5 |
| Saint-Apollinaire 7,544 · 6.3 km | 0% | 0.4% | 3.3 |
| Marsannay-la-Côte 5,433 · 6.8 km | 49% | 47% | 6 |
| Longvic 8,896 · 7 km | 0% | 3.4% | 3.1 |
Chenôve and Marsannay-la-Côte have at least twice as much protected land. Marsannay-la-Côte is more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Arrière côte de Dijon et de Beaune, 4.2 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 40 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 15 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
5.6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 399 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
April to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
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.