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Photo: Cyrilb1881 · CC BY-SA 3.0Ballainvilliers has 6 km of waymarked hiking routes. 2.3% of Ballainvilliers is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Ballainvilliers; the nearest, Sites Géologiques du Département de l’Essonne nature reserve, is 3.2 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 Essonne 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 Ballainvilliers apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
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 (4,858 to 4,951 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Quiberon (6.6 km per km²) to Charny Orée de Puisaye (0.1 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quiberon Morbihan | 6.6 | 2.8% | 18% | On it |
| 2 | Grand-Fort-Philippe Nord | 4.5 | 0.1% | 0% | On it |
| 3 | Bogny-sur-Meuse Ardennes | 4.3 | 79% | 100% | 200 km |
| 4 | Ceyreste Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 42% | 49% | 2.9 km |
| 5 | Le Versoud Isère | 3.2 | 18% | 0% | 202 km |
| 6 | Pechbonnieu Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 15% | 0% | 150 km |
| 7 | Gratentour Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 153 km |
| 8 | L'Île-d'Yeu Vendée | 2.8 | 21% | 44% | On it |
| 9 | La Grand-Croix Loire | 2.5 | 15% | 0% | 219 km |
| 10 | Ballainvilliers Essonne | 2.4 | 2.3% | 0% | 164 km |
| 11 | Uchaud Gard | 2.1 | 32% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 12 | Volvic Puy-de-Dôme | 1.9 | 57% | 100% | 269 km |
| 13 | Lambres-lez-Douai Nord | 1.8 | 4.4% | 0% | 90 km |
| 14 | Laigneville Oise | 1.5 | 29% | 0% | 112 km |
| 15 | Le Quesnoy Nord | 1.4 | 2.1% | 100% | 120 km |
| 16 | Montbazon Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 29% | 0% | 178 km |
| 17 | Cluny Saône-et-Loire | 1.1 | 42% | 100% | 322 km |
| 18 | Blendecques Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 18% | 84% | 32 km |
| 19 | Claira Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.1 | 0% | 0% | 7 km |
| 20 | Bruyères-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1 | 3.1% | 0.2% | 122 km |
| 21 | Verneuil-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 1 | 23% | 0% | 154 km |
| 22 | Mourmelon-le-Grand Marne | 1 | 29% | 0.1% | 226 km |
| 23 | Créon Gironde | 0.9 | 24% | 0% | 32 km |
| 24 | Briare Loiret | 0.8 | 27% | 7.9% | 266 km |
| 25 | Sainte-Eulalie Gironde | 0.6 | 7.3% | 0% | 14 km |
| 26 | Decize Nièvre | 0.6 | 15% | 32% | 355 km |
| 27 | Bégard Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 11% | 0% | 13 km |
| 28 | Fagnières Marne | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 235 km |
| 29 | Nivillac Morbihan | 0.5 | 9.4% | 3.7% | 9.4 km |
| 30 | Écommoy Sarthe | 0.5 | 28% | 0.2% | 151 km |
| 31 | La Côte-Saint-André Isère | 0.5 | 10% | 0% | 218 km |
| 32 | Amplepuis Rhône | 0.4 | 29% | 0% | 269 km |
| 33 | Witry-lès-Reims Marne | 0.4 | 3.6% | 0% | 201 km |
| 34 | Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule Allier | 0.4 | 6.2% | 9.3% | 311 km |
| 35 | Lisle-sur-Tarn Tarn | 0.4 | 30% | 0% | 136 km |
| 36 | Saint-Père-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 5.6% | 5.7% | 8.1 km |
| 37 | Saint-Sulpice-et-Cameyrac Gironde | 0.3 | 6.2% | 7.7% | 20 km |
| 38 | Castelnau-de-Médoc Gironde | 0.2 | 82% | 100% | 10 km |
| 39 | Bonneval Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 | 9.3% | 30% | 159 km |
| 40 | Saint-Laurent-Médoc Gironde | 0.1 | 61% | 100% | 7.6 km |
| 41 | Charny Orée de Puisaye Yonne | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 266 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: Forêt départementale du Rocher de Saulx leads, at 174 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 65% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 88% 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 Ballainvilliers is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 655ET passes within 2 km of Ballainvilliers.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bretigny_Sapc, 8.4 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) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.1 | 15.8 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 48 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 61 | 56 | 53 | 58 | 49 | 53 | 55 | 63 |
April is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 63 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Ballainvilliers →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballainvilliers | 0% | 2.3% | 2.4 |
| Villiers-sur-Orge 4,545 · 1.7 km | 0% | 7.5% | 4.7 |
| La Ville-du-Bois 8,161 · 2.1 km | 0% | 28% | 4.4 |
| Longjumeau 21,996 · 2.2 km | 0% | 4.2% | 5.9 |
| Saulx-les-Chartreux 6,733 · 2.2 km | 0.1% | 29% | 4.3 |
| Épinay-sur-Orge 10,722 · 2.4 km | 0% | 10% | 4.3 |
| Longpont-sur-Orge 6,482 · 3.1 km | 0% | 15% | 3.2 |
La Ville-du-Bois and Saulx-les-Chartreux are more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Sites Géologiques du Département de l’Essonne nature reserve, 3.2 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 10 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
2.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 164 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.