Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Neoronor · CC BY-SA 4.0Corbeil-Essonnes has 9 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 33 km across Corbeil-Essonnes (3 km per km²). No protected area reaches Corbeil-Essonnes; the nearest, Marais d’Itteville et de Fontenay-le-Vicomte (Natura 2000), is 4 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 Corbeil-Essonnes 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 (49,603 to 59,883 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 5e (12.9 km per km²) to Arles (0.4 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 5e Paris | 12.9 | 1% | 0% | 151 km |
| 2 | Maisons-Alfort Val-de-Marne | 10.3 | 2.1% | 0% | 158 km |
| 3 | Massy Essonne | 9.4 | 5.3% | 0% | 158 km |
| 4 | Sevran Seine-Saint-Denis | 9.1 | 10% | 7.9% | 150 km |
| 5 | Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine Seine-Saint-Denis | 8.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 144 km |
| 6 | Clamart Hauts-de-Seine | 8.4 | 26% | 0% | 151 km |
| 7 | Bobigny Seine-Saint-Denis | 7.3 | 0.3% | 0% | 149 km |
| 8 | Saint-Herblain Loire-Atlantique | 6.6 | 12% | 1.9% | 34 km |
| 9 | Fontenay-sous-Bois Val-de-Marne | 6.4 | 1.4% | 0% | 155 km |
| 10 | Épinay-sur-Seine Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.3 | 0.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 11 | Lyon 9e Rhône | 5.9 | 9.8% | 0% | 253 km |
| 12 | Bondy Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.1 | 1.6% | 0% | 151 km |
| 13 | Paris 9e Paris | 5.1 | 0% | 0% | 147 km |
| 14 | Meaux Seine-et-Marne | 5.1 | 7.8% | 5.5% | 162 km |
| 15 | Marseille 3e Bouches-du-Rhône | 5.1 | 0% | 0% | 1.1 km |
| 16 | Chelles Seine-et-Marne | 5 | 9.3% | 0.8% | 158 km |
| 17 | Sarcelles Val-d'Oise | 4.9 | 6.9% | 0% | 139 km |
| 18 | Lorient Morbihan | 4.6 | 1.8% | 0.6% | On it |
| 19 | Vannes Morbihan | 4.6 | 12% | 33% | On it |
| 20 | Neuilly-sur-Seine Hauts-de-Seine | 4.4 | 0.1% | 0% | 143 km |
| 21 | Vaulx-en-Velin Rhône | 3.9 | 16% | 35% | 255 km |
| 22 | Bayonne Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.9 | 23% | 17% | 5.5 km |
| 23 | Gennevilliers Hauts-de-Seine | 3.4 | 2.1% | 0% | 141 km |
| 24 | Marseille 11e Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.3 | 43% | 42% | 7.5 km |
| 25 | Beauvais Oise | 3.3 | 12% | 0.1% | 87 km |
| 26 | Saint-Quentin Aisne | 3.2 | 7.4% | 1.2% | 121 km |
| 27 | Fréjus Var | 3.1 | 48% | 33% | On it |
| 28 | Sartrouville Yvelines | 3 | 0.9% | 0% | 135 km |
| 29 | Corbeil-Essonnes Essonne | 3 | 5.5% | 0% | 178 km |
| 30 | Hyères Var | 3 | 25% | 83% | On it |
| 31 | Les Sables-d'Olonne Vendée | 2.8 | 16% | 26% | On it |
| 32 | La Roche-sur-Yon Vendée | 2.2 | 7.5% | 0% | 30 km |
| 33 | Niort Deux-Sèvres | 2 | 6.2% | 100% | 51 km |
| 34 | Grasse Alpes-Maritimes | 1.8 | 23% | 32% | 12 km |
| 35 | Cholet Maine-et-Loire | 1.7 | 4.1% | 0% | 84 km |
| 36 | Albi Tarn | 1.7 | 2.6% | 0% | 118 km |
| 37 | Cagnes-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes | 1.6 | 20% | 2.1% | On it |
| 38 | Narbonne Aude | 1.2 | 11% | 63% | On it |
| 39 | Saint-Louis Réunion | 0.8 | 48% | 66% | On it |
| 40 | Saint-André Réunion | 0.6 | 16% | 31% | On it |
| 41 | Arles Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.4 | 3.1% | 90% | On it |
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 Rougeau leads, at 1,146 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 74% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 75% 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 Corbeil-Essonnes is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Corbeil-Essonnes: GR 2 and GR 11C.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Seine-Port, 9.8 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) | 8.7 | 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 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 52 | 47 | 48 | 51 | 64 | 60 | 55 | 53 | 52 | 61 | 60 | 69 |
February is the driest month (47 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 69 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 65 nights a year. The climate in Corbeil-Essonnes →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corbeil-Essonnes | 0% | 5.5% | 3 |
| Saintry-sur-Seine 5,882 · 1.9 km | 0% | 21% | 3.1 |
| Villabé 5,830 · 1.9 km | 0% | 22% | 2.6 |
| Saint-Pierre-du-Perray 11,993 · 2.7 km | 0% | 25% | 4.2 |
| Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil 7,469 · 2.8 km | 0% | 28% | 4.8 |
| Ormoy 3,225 · 3.5 km | 0% | 25% | 2 |
| Lisses 7,373 · 3.6 km | 2.9% | 22% | 3.8 |
Saintry-sur-Seine, Villabé and Saint-Pierre-du-Perray are more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Marais d’Itteville et de Fontenay-le-Vicomte, 4 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 33 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
5.5% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 178 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 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.