First pick
Parc des Alliaires
Park or garden
2.6 ha
Centralin the middle of Vieux-Charmont
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Thomas Bresson · CC BY 3.015%woodland
Outdoors in Vieux-Charmont · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Vieux-Charmont is within 800 m of a park or wood
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 2 km in Vieux-Charmont. No protected area reaches Vieux-Charmont; the nearest, Basse Vallée de la Savoureuse nature reserve, is 0.9 km from the town center. 5 km of footpaths cross Vieux-Charmont (1.8 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.1%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Basse Vallée de la Savoureuse nature reserve, 0.9 km
Woodland
15%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
4.7 km
1.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.3 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc des Alliaires
Throughout this page, the Doubs 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 Vieux-Charmont 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 areas0.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
51out of 100
Woodland15%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
53out of 100
Footpaths1.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
54out of 100
Hiking routes0.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
80out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Vieux-Charmont has the 10th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,761 to 2,811 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Éleu-dit-Leauwette (5.5 km per km²) to Levroux (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Éleu-dit-Leauwette Pas-de-Calais | 5.5 | 16% | 0% | 76 km |
| 2 | Argelès-Gazost Hautes-Pyrénées | 4.3 | 17% | 100% | 130 km |
| 3 | Pabu Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 22% | 0% | 15 km |
| 4 | Pinsaguel Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 14% | 29% | 146 km |
| 5 | Cosnes-et-Romain Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.6 | 35% | 0% | 273 km |
| 6 | Saint-Lunaire Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.6 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Montfort-l'Amaury Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 100% | 129 km |
| 8 | Saint-Saturnin Sarthe | 1.9 | 8.9% | 0% | 129 km |
| 9 | Candé Maine-et-Loire | 1.9 | 16% | 0% | 91 km |
| 10 | Vieux-Charmont Doubs | 1.8 | 15% | 0.1% | 419 km |
| 11 | Peyruis Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 53% | 6.2% | 90 km |
| 12 | Ampuis Rhône | 1.7 | 36% | 95% | 222 km |
| 13 | Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel Var | 1.6 | 80% | 0% | 9.2 km |
| 14 | L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs Doubs | 1.4 | 50% | 0% | 413 km |
| 15 | Beaumont-le-Roger Eure | 1.2 | 79% | 2% | 50 km |
| 16 | Charolles Saône-et-Loire | 1.2 | 20% | 0% | 320 km |
| 17 | Mussidan Dordogne | 1.1 | 13% | 1.7% | 75 km |
| 18 | Saint-Aignan Loir-et-Cher | 1 | 31% | 0% | 218 km |
| 19 | La Fère Aisne | 0.9 | 12% | 11% | 134 km |
| 20 | Ducey-Les Chéris Manche | 0.9 | 13% | 7.8% | 5.3 km |
| 21 | Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 100% | 40 km |
| 22 | Amancy Haute-Savoie | 0.8 | 14% | 0% | 271 km |
| 23 | Connerré Sarthe | 0.7 | 23% | 0% | 144 km |
| 24 | Arcis-sur-Aube Aube | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 256 km |
| 25 | Meslay-du-Maine Mayenne | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 96 km |
| 26 | Marigny-Le-Lozon Manche | 0.7 | 0.2% | 46% | 21 km |
| 27 | Bourron-Marlotte Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 42% | 22% | 211 km |
| 28 | Dieuze Moselle | 0.6 | 21% | 24% | 380 km |
| 29 | Montignac-Lascaux Dordogne | 0.5 | 52% | 1.6% | 138 km |
| 30 | Longny les Villages Orne | 0.5 | 35% | 100% | 104 km |
| 31 | Baixas Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0% | 3.9% | 19 km |
| 32 | Wassy Haute-Marne | 0.5 | 61% | 0% | 302 km |
| 33 | Courville-sur-Eure Eure-et-Loir | 0.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 127 km |
| 34 | Grandvilliers Oise | 0.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 60 km |
| 35 | Rosières-aux-Salines Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.3 | 24% | 0% | 381 km |
| 36 | Thuré Vienne | 0.2 | 29% | 0% | 136 km |
| 37 | Rodilhan Gard | 0.2 | 0% | 24% | 40 km |
| 38 | Wignehies Nord | 0.1 | 0.5% | 100% | 156 km |
| 39 | Sérifontaine Oise | 0.1 | 21% | 0% | 80 km |
| 40 | Listrac-Médoc Gironde | 0 | 72% | 100% | 8.3 km |
| 41 | Levroux Indre | 0 | 8.7% | 0% | 222 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 Vieux-Charmont
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc des Alliaires leads, at 2.6 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Basse Vallée de la Savoureuse nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 0.9 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Basse Vallée de la Savoureuse nature reserve
0.9 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.1%
Nature reserve0.1%
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
5 km of footpaths cross Vieux-Charmont
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
4.7 km
1.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.3 km
waymarked: 0.9 km per km²
Woodland
15%
about 0.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Vieux-CharmontDoubs medianFrance median
Footpaths1.8
Hiking routes0.9
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Vieux-CharmontDoubs medianFrance median
Woodland15%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 54% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 53% 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 Vieux-Charmont is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)GR de PaysOther named walk
GR 5 Vosges, Ballon d'Alsace - Fesches-le-Châtel5.5 km
GRP BF16 km
La Boucle Châtenaise3.3 km
GR 5 Vosges, Ballon d'Alsace - Fesches-le-Châtel passes within 2 km of Vieux-Charmont.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Vieux-Charmont: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Joncherey, 12 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) | 8.8 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 15.9 | 15.6 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 83 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 102 | 93 | 84 | 98 | 83 | 101 | 98 | 109 |
February is the driest month (78 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 109 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 95 nights a year. The climate in Vieux-Charmont →
Neighbors
Next to Vieux-Charmont
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
SochauxGrand-CharmontÉtupesBethoncourtExincourtMontbéliardVieux-Charmont
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vieux-Charmont | 0.1% | 15% | 1.8 |
| Sochaux 3,721 · 1.1 km | 0% | 6.7% | 5.8 |
| Grand-Charmont 5,873 · 1.3 km | 0% | 39% | 5.8 |
| Étupes 3,689 · 2.8 km | 0% | 54% | 3.5 |
| Bethoncourt 5,308 · 3 km | 0% | 38% | 4.4 |
| Exincourt 3,277 · 3.1 km | 0% | 4% | 3.3 |
| Montbéliard 24,672 · 3.6 km | 0% | 22% | 4.9 |
Grand-Charmont, Étupes and Bethoncourt 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 Vieux-Charmont
Is Vieux-Charmont in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Basse Vallée de la Savoureuse nature reserve, 0.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Vieux-Charmont?
OpenStreetMap maps 5 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Vieux-Charmont is woodland?
15% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Vieux-Charmont near the sea?
No: the coast is 419 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Vieux-Charmont?
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 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.