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Photo: Zmbmee · CC BY-SA 3.0Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon has 11 km of waymarked hiking routes. 28% of Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon; the nearest, Gâtinais Français Regional Nature Park, is 2.3 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 Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by.
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 (3,852 to 3,913 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Beaulieu-sur-Mer (4.2 km per km²) to Pipriac (0 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beaulieu-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes | 4.2 | 0.2% | 0.9% | On it |
| 2 | Réhon Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.8 | 42% | 0% | 277 km |
| 3 | La Bresse Vosges | 3.5 | 58% | 100% | 450 km |
| 4 | Fraisses Loire | 2.7 | 33% | 0% | 203 km |
| 5 | Pringy Seine-et-Marne | 2.6 | 24% | 100% | 189 km |
| 6 | Hussigny-Godbrange Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.5 | 62% | 0% | 282 km |
| 7 | Belz Morbihan | 2.4 | 25% | 13% | On it |
| 8 | Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans Doubs | 2.1 | 67% | 4.5% | 405 km |
| 9 | Richwiller Haut-Rhin | 1.7 | 25% | 0% | 444 km |
| 10 | Le Vigan Gard | 1.7 | 68% | 100% | 57 km |
| 11 | Nouvoitou Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 1.6% | 0% | 60 km |
| 12 | Saint-Cergues Haute-Savoie | 1.6 | 42% | 19% | 288 km |
| 13 | Châteaubernard Charente | 1.5 | 1.2% | 1.6% | 44 km |
| 14 | Lexy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.4 | 18% | 0% | 275 km |
| 15 | Fléac Charente | 1.4 | 12% | 3.7% | 71 km |
| 16 | Oudon Loire-Atlantique | 1.3 | 17% | 27% | 63 km |
| 17 | La Croix-Valmer Var | 1.3 | 40% | 95% | On it |
| 18 | Aix-Noulette Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 16% | 0% | 73 km |
| 19 | Touques Calvados | 1.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 2.8 km |
| 20 | Saint-Germain-sur-Morin Seine-et-Marne | 1.3 | 15% | 0% | 167 km |
| 21 | Ribécourt-Dreslincourt Oise | 1.2 | 37% | 1.5% | 116 km |
| 22 | Mortagne-au-Perche Orne | 1.2 | 6.1% | 100% | 98 km |
| 23 | Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon Essonne | 1.1 | 28% | 0% | 167 km |
| 24 | Wimille Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 5.1% | 100% | 1.8 km |
| 25 | Saint-Léger-de-Linières Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 27% | 0% | 109 km |
| 26 | Verberie Oise | 1 | 20% | 8.1% | 123 km |
| 27 | Tavaux Jura | 0.9 | 10% | 0% | 398 km |
| 28 | Le Val-d'Ajol Vosges | 0.8 | 53% | 100% | 431 km |
| 29 | Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny Manche | 0.7 | 2.5% | 0.6% | 21 km |
| 30 | Blainville-sur-l'Eau Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 388 km |
| 31 | Grosseto-Prugna Corse-du-Sud | 0.6 | 59% | 0.2% | On it |
| 32 | Lapalud Vaucluse | 0.6 | 5% | 6.7% | 96 km |
| 33 | Prunelli-di-Fiumorbo Haute-Corse | 0.5 | 36% | 100% | On it |
| 34 | Ablis Yvelines | 0.5 | 8.6% | 0% | 149 km |
| 35 | Lherm Haute-Garonne | 0.3 | 6.9% | 0% | 156 km |
| 36 | Mazères Ariège | 0.3 | 2% | 0.5% | 116 km |
| 37 | Jonquières-Saint-Vincent Gard | 0.3 | 0.1% | 29% | 41 km |
| 38 | Saint-Gildas-des-Bois Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 12% | 3.5% | 25 km |
| 39 | Terranjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 118 km |
| 40 | Bosroumois Eure | 0.2 | 1.5% | 0% | 44 km |
| 41 | Pipriac Ille-et-Vilaine | 0 | 3.5% | 0% | 48 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 régionale de Cheptainville leads, at 651 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.
A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
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 less than in 64% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more 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 Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 655ET passes within 2 km of Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Fontenay-Les-B., 7.2 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 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 49 | 50 | 48 | 69 | 58 | 61 | 63 | 51 | 61 | 61 | 71 |
April is the driest month (48 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 71 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 53 nights a year. The climate in Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon | 0% | 28% | 1.1 |
| Égly 7,166 · 3.1 km | 0% | 13% | 3.9 |
| Breuillet 9,157 · 3.2 km | 0% | 33% | 2.8 |
| Arpajon 11,698 · 4.4 km | 0% | 2.4% | 3.3 |
| Bruyères-le-Châtel 3,788 · 4.6 km | 0.1% | 64% | 4.2 |
| Ollainville 5,455 · 4.6 km | 0% | 37% | 1.7 |
| La Norville 4,268 · 4.8 km | 0% | 4% | 2.2 |
Bruyères-le-Châtel is more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Gâtinais Français Regional Nature Park, 2.3 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 9 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 11 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
28% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 167 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
April and June 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.