First pick
Bois des Moilles
Wood or forest · 360 m outside the commune
8 ha
5.7 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Gachepi · CC BY-SA 3.014%woodland
Outdoors in Anneyron · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Anneyron is within 800 m of a park or wood
23 km of footpaths cross Anneyron (0.6 km per km²). No protected area reaches Anneyron; the nearest, Île de la Platière (Natura 2000), is 6.2 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 4 km in Anneyron. 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: Île de la Platière, 6.2 km
Woodland
14%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
23 km
0.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4 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: Bois des Moilles
Throughout this page, the Drôme 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 Anneyron?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyÎle de la Platière (Natura 2000) is 6.2 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.6 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Anneyron apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Anneyron 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
Woodland14%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
52out of 100
Footpaths0.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
19out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
31out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Anneyron has the 10th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,133 to 4,203 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Montferrier-sur-Lez (5.3 km per km²) to Vieillevigne (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montferrier-sur-Lez Hérault | 5.3 | 33% | 8.3% | 16 km |
| 2 | Indre Loire-Atlantique | 4.7 | 7.9% | 41% | 30 km |
| 3 | Le Pouliguen Loire-Atlantique | 4.4 | 1.6% | 5.1% | On it |
| 4 | Herserange Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.9 | 47% | 0% | 276 km |
| 5 | Mareil-Marly Yvelines | 3.8 | 24% | 0% | 136 km |
| 6 | Bray-Dunes Nord | 3.6 | 0% | 41% | On it |
| 7 | Thumeries Nord | 3.3 | 37% | 12% | 77 km |
| 8 | Le Plessis-Pâté Essonne | 3.2 | 4.8% | 0% | 170 km |
| 9 | Fouras Charente-Maritime | 2.8 | 2.8% | 43% | On it |
| 10 | Turckheim Haut-Rhin | 2.7 | 56% | 7.9% | 469 km |
| 11 | Escautpont Nord | 2.6 | 41% | 99% | 100 km |
| 12 | Salouël Somme | 2.6 | 2% | 0% | 54 km |
| 13 | Le Neubourg Eure | 2.3 | 19% | 0% | 51 km |
| 14 | Yvré-l'Évêque Sarthe | 2.2 | 26% | 0% | 138 km |
| 15 | Aulnat Puy-de-Dôme | 2.1 | 0.1% | 0% | 258 km |
| 16 | Tourrettes-sur-Loup Alpes-Maritimes | 2.1 | 40% | 100% | 11 km |
| 17 | Marlenheim Bas-Rhin | 2 | 9.8% | 0% | 435 km |
| 18 | Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine Loire-Atlantique | 2 | 5.8% | 0% | 44 km |
| 19 | Carnac Morbihan | 1.7 | 25% | 2.5% | On it |
| 20 | Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 36% | 2.7% | 41 km |
| 21 | Pont-du-Casse Lot-et-Garonne | 1.7 | 8.3% | 0% | 132 km |
| 22 | Veigy-Foncenex Haute-Savoie | 1.5 | 38% | 0.3% | 293 km |
| 23 | Saint-Romain-le-Puy Loire | 1.4 | 16% | 17% | 222 km |
| 24 | Gondecourt Nord | 1.2 | 4.8% | 0% | 68 km |
| 25 | Sainte-Menehould Marne | 1.2 | 70% | 35% | 263 km |
| 26 | Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse Drôme | 1.1 | 26% | 0% | 186 km |
| 27 | La Destrousse Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 11% | 6.2% | 19 km |
| 28 | Condé-sur-Vire Manche | 0.9 | 3.4% | 0% | 33 km |
| 29 | Hérin Nord | 0.9 | 1% | 99% | 103 km |
| 30 | Athis-Val de Rouvre Orne | 0.8 | 11% | 2.9% | 56 km |
| 31 | Brionne Eure | 0.6 | 38% | 14% | 38 km |
| 32 | Anneyron Drôme | 0.6 | 14% | 0% | 201 km |
| 33 | Selles-sur-Cher Loir-et-Cher | 0.6 | 20% | 7.9% | 232 km |
| 34 | Porte des Pierres Dorées Rhône | 0.6 | 9.4% | 0% | 271 km |
| 35 | Saint-Florentin Yonne | 0.6 | 10% | 0% | 284 km |
| 36 | Sées Orne | 0.3 | 5.5% | 100% | 79 km |
| 37 | Guignen Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.3 | 11% | 1.2% | 61 km |
| 38 | Bollwiller Haut-Rhin | 0.3 | 26% | 0% | 453 km |
| 39 | Solesmes Nord | 0.3 | 0.7% | 0% | 121 km |
| 40 | Courpière Puy-de-Dôme | 0.2 | 36% | 100% | 248 km |
| 41 | Vieillevigne Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 4% | 0% | 42 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 Anneyron
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois des Moilles leads, at 8 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Île de la Platière is the nearest protected area, 6.2 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
Île de la Platière
6.2 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
23 km of footpaths cross Anneyron
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
23 km
0.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
4 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
14%
about 5.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AnneyronDrôme medianFrance median
Footpaths0.6
Hiking routes0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AnneyronDrôme medianFrance median
Woodland14%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 81% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 52% 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 Anneyron is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 4220.5 km
GR 422 passes within 2 km of Anneyron.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Anneyron: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St-Sorlin-En-Va, 3.4 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 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 14 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 29 | 28 | 24 | 18 | 12 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 56 | 41 | 49 | 69 | 80 | 66 | 63 | 60 | 92 | 115 | 108 | 56 |
February is the driest month (41 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 115 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Anneyron →
Neighbors
Next to Anneyron
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Rambert-d'AlbonChanasSalaise-sur-SanneSaint-VallierRoussillonLe Péage-de-RoussillonAnneyron
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anneyron | 0% | 14% | 0.6 |
| Saint-Rambert-d'Albon 7,001 · 5.2 km | 1.6% | 6.2% | 1.8 |
| Chanas 2,706 · 6.9 km | 0% | 19% | 0.3 |
| Salaise-sur-Sanne 4,606 · 10 km | 9.2% | 13% | 0.9 |
| Saint-Vallier 4,027 · 12 km | 0% | 32% | 3.8 |
| Roussillon 8,595 · 12 km | 0% | 12% | 0.6 |
| Le Péage-de-Roussillon 6,718 · 13 km | 28% | 13% | 0.6 |
Le Péage-de-Roussillon has at least twice as much protected land. Saint-Vallier is 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 Anneyron
Is Anneyron in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Île de la Platière, 6.2 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Anneyron?
OpenStreetMap maps 23 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Anneyron is woodland?
14% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Anneyron near the sea?
No: the coast is 201 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Anneyron?
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 4, 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.