First pick
Le Bois de Saint-Eutrope
Wood or forest
122 ha7.3 km of path
1 h 40 minto walk all 7.3 km of path
1.3 km eastfrom the center
La ronde de Bruno
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Thomon · CC BY-SA 4.035%woodland
Outdoors in Fleury-Mérogis · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Fleury-Mérogis has more footpaths per km² than 8 in 10 French towns
27 km of footpaths cross Fleury-Mérogis (4.2 km per km²). 35% of Fleury-Mérogis is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Fleury-Mérogis; the nearest, Marais d’Itteville et de Fontenay-le-Vicomte (Natura 2000), is 8.3 km from the town center. 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: Marais d’Itteville et de Fontenay-le-Vicomte, 8.3 km
Woodland
35%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
27 km
4.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
7
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Le Bois de Saint-Eutrope
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Fleury-Mérogis?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths4.2 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.A wooded commune35% mapped woodland, more than in 81% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyMarais d’Itteville et de Fontenay-le-Vicomte (Natura 2000) is 8.3 km from the town center.
What sets Fleury-Mérogis apart: its footpaths, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Fleury-Mérogis 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
Woodland35%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
81out of 100
Footpaths4.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
86out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Fleury-Mérogis has the 6th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (13,316 to 14,129 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lieusaint (8.8 km per km²) to Gien (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lieusaint Seine-et-Marne | 8.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 178 km |
| 2 | Vaires-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 7.7 | 21% | 11% | 161 km |
| 3 | Avon Seine-et-Marne | 6.4 | 30% | 27% | 206 km |
| 4 | Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande Ille-et-Vilaine | 5.9 | 8.1% | 0% | 50 km |
| 5 | Audincourt Doubs | 5.3 | 36% | 0% | 414 km |
| 6 | Fleury-Mérogis Essonne | 4.2 | 35% | 0% | 170 km |
| 7 | Lys-lez-Lannoy Nord | 4.2 | 3.9% | 0% | 64 km |
| 8 | Juvignac Hérault | 4.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 14 km |
| 9 | Gex Ain | 4.2 | 63% | 72% | 306 km |
| 10 | Lons Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 4.2 | 7.7% | 9% | 92 km |
| 11 | Ostwald Bas-Rhin | 4 | 10% | 0% | 452 km |
| 12 | Andrésy Yvelines | 3.8 | 23% | 0% | 126 km |
| 13 | Saint-Jean-de-Védas Hérault | 3.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 9 km |
| 14 | Fontenay-le-Fleury Yvelines | 3.3 | 8% | 0% | 141 km |
| 15 | Douarnenez Finistère | 3.3 | 16% | 3.8% | On it |
| 16 | Mouvaux Nord | 3 | 3.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 17 | Caudry Nord | 2.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 123 km |
| 18 | Kingersheim Haut-Rhin | 2.7 | 13% | 0% | 445 km |
| 19 | Plougastel-Daoulas Finistère | 2.6 | 28% | 6.5% | On it |
| 20 | Carros Alpes-Maritimes | 2.3 | 25% | 64% | 11 km |
| 21 | Claye-Souilly Seine-et-Marne | 2.3 | 30% | 0% | 155 km |
| 22 | Roncq Nord | 2.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 53 km |
| 23 | Bollène Vaucluse | 2.2 | 28% | 9.5% | 93 km |
| 24 | Plouzané Finistère | 2.2 | 8% | 0% | On it |
| 25 | Sainte-Maxime Var | 2.1 | 65% | 19% | On it |
| 26 | Morangis Essonne | 2.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 163 km |
| 27 | Bonneville Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 47% | 5.2% | 269 km |
| 28 | Argentan Orne | 1.7 | 2.2% | 11% | 62 km |
| 29 | Mions Rhône | 1.5 | 1.3% | 0% | 244 km |
| 30 | Berre-l'Étang Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 1.1% | 15% | 16 km |
| 31 | Genas Rhône | 1.3 | 2.3% | 0% | 252 km |
| 32 | Amilly Loiret | 1.2 | 33% | 0% | 240 km |
| 33 | Belleville-en-Beaujolais Rhône | 1.1 | 5.4% | 7.1% | 288 km |
| 34 | Fontenay-le-Comte Vendée | 1.1 | 2% | 100% | 31 km |
| 35 | Moissac Tarn-et-Garonne | 1 | 27% | 2.5% | 167 km |
| 36 | Tulle Corrèze | 1 | 34% | 0% | 187 km |
| 37 | Cusset Allier | 0.9 | 18% | 1.4% | 290 km |
| 38 | Méru Oise | 0.8 | 16% | 0% | 106 km |
| 39 | Pierrelatte Drôme | 0.7 | 2.8% | 4.4% | 103 km |
| 40 | Thouars Deux-Sèvres | 0.3 | 12% | 0.4% | 102 km |
| 41 | Gien Loiret | 0.3 | 35% | 1.8% | 256 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 Fleury-Mérogis
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Le Bois de Saint-Eutrope leads, at 122 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Le Bois des Trous
Wood or forest
84 ha7.8 km of path
1 h 45 minto walk all 7.8 km of path
0.9 km south-westfrom the center
Voie du Port
Directionsto a point inside
Forêt domaniale de Saint-Eutrope
Wood or forest
90 ha6.5 km of path
1 h 25 minto walk all 6.5 km of path
1.3 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Greffière
Park or garden
6.8 ha1.3 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.3 km of path
0.8 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Le Grand Parc
Park or garden · 390 m outside the commune
3.5 ha1.7 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.7 km of path
2.9 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Coulée Verte
Park or garden
1.8 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Fleury-Mérogis
Directionsto a point inside
Le verger de Bondoufle
Park or garden · 390 m outside the commune
0.6 ha0.3 km of path
2.7 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Marais d’Itteville et de Fontenay-le-Vicomte is the nearest protected area, 8.3 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
Marais d’Itteville et de Fontenay-le-Vicomte
8.3 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
Footpaths and woods in Fleury-Mérogis
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
27 km
4.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
35%
about 2.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Fleury-MérogisEssonne medianFrance median
Footpaths4.2
Hiking routes0
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Fleury-MérogisEssonne medianFrance median
Woodland35%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 86% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 81% 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 Fleury-Mérogis is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Fleury-Mérogis: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bretigny_Sapc, 5 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 | 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 Fleury-Mérogis →
Neighbors
Next to Fleury-Mérogis
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Sainte-Geneviève-des-BoisMorsang-sur-OrgeGrignyBondoufleVillemoisson-sur-OrgeSaint-Michel-sur-OrgeFleury-Mérogis
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fleury-Mérogis | 0% | 35% | 4.2 |
| Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois 35,438 · 2.1 km | 0% | 9.5% | 5.6 |
| Morsang-sur-Orge 21,667 · 2.2 km | 0% | 3.4% | 3.8 |
| Grigny 26,842 · 2.4 km | 0% | 7.2% | 8.7 |
| Bondoufle 10,767 · 3.1 km | 0% | 7.9% | 5.3 |
| Villemoisson-sur-Orge 7,332 · 3.3 km | 0% | 13% | 4.3 |
| Saint-Michel-sur-Orge 21,776 · 3.4 km | 0% | 6.7% | 5.3 |
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 Fleury-Mérogis
Is Fleury-Mérogis in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais d’Itteville et de Fontenay-le-Vicomte, 8.3 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Fleury-Mérogis?
OpenStreetMap maps 27 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 4.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Fleury-Mérogis is woodland?
35% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Fleury-Mérogis near the sea?
No: the coast is 170 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Fleury-Mérogis?
April 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 8, 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.