Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0Footpaths add up to 52 km across Montgeron (4.6 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 11 km in Montgeron. No protected area reaches Montgeron; the nearest, Bassin de la Bièvre nature reserve, is 13 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 Montgeron apart: its woods, then its footpaths.
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 (22,718 to 25,551 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Torcy (11 km per km²) to Sainte-Suzanne (0.4 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Torcy Seine-et-Marne | 11 | 17% | 0% | 163 km |
| 2 | Vichy Allier | 8.8 | 1.3% | 12% | 290 km |
| 3 | Vélizy-Villacoublay Yvelines | 7.6 | 33% | 0% | 150 km |
| 4 | Hérouville-Saint-Clair Calvados | 7 | 4.9% | 0% | 11 km |
| 5 | Les Lilas Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.6 | 4.4% | 0% | 150 km |
| 6 | Fontenay-aux-Roses Hauts-de-Seine | 6.1 | 1.8% | 0% | 153 km |
| 7 | Rodez Aveyron | 5.9 | 5.5% | 0% | 136 km |
| 8 | Roissy-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 5.9 | 46% | 0% | 168 km |
| 9 | Le Kremlin-Bicêtre Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 154 km |
| 10 | Lanester Morbihan | 5.2 | 13% | 0.1% | On it |
| 11 | Saint-Jean-de-Braye Loiret | 5 | 16% | 4.3% | 207 km |
| 12 | Montbéliard Doubs | 4.9 | 22% | 0% | 418 km |
| 13 | Alençon Orne | 4.8 | 2.3% | 5.5% | 97 km |
| 14 | Marseille 2e Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.8 | 0% | 0% | On it |
| 15 | Deuil-la-Barre Val-d'Oise | 4.6 | 6.1% | 0% | 138 km |
| 16 | Montgeron Essonne | 4.6 | 46% | 0% | 168 km |
| 17 | Combs-la-Ville Seine-et-Marne | 4.4 | 14% | 0% | 176 km |
| 18 | Béthune Pas-de-Calais | 4 | 4% | 0% | 60 km |
| 19 | Orly Val-de-Marne | 3.9 | 5% | 0% | 162 km |
| 20 | Eysines Gironde | 3.9 | 7.6% | 3.1% | 15 km |
| 21 | Rochefort Charente-Maritime | 3.5 | 1.4% | 38% | On it |
| 22 | La Valette-du-Var Var | 3.4 | 23% | 32% | 3.7 km |
| 23 | Tassin-la-Demi-Lune Rhône | 3.2 | 18% | 0% | 250 km |
| 24 | Le Bouscat Gironde | 3 | 1.4% | 0% | 16 km |
| 25 | Saint-Louis Haut-Rhin | 2.9 | 8.5% | 18% | 423 km |
| 26 | Dammarie-les-Lys Seine-et-Marne | 2.7 | 35% | 26% | 192 km |
| 27 | Maisons-Laffitte Yvelines | 2.6 | 6.5% | 0% | 133 km |
| 28 | Olivet Loiret | 2.5 | 23% | 0% | 208 km |
| 29 | Vernon Eure | 2.5 | 56% | 3.5% | 90 km |
| 30 | Dole Jura | 2.5 | 36% | 37% | 400 km |
| 31 | Manosque Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 2.2 | 26% | 100% | 64 km |
| 32 | Saint-Dizier Haute-Marne | 2.1 | 47% | 0% | 293 km |
| 33 | Libourne Gironde | 2 | 2.5% | 14% | 30 km |
| 34 | Saintes Charente-Maritime | 1.9 | 12% | 9.3% | 26 km |
| 35 | Frontignan Hérault | 1.8 | 0.9% | 29% | On it |
| 36 | Couëron Loire-Atlantique | 1.3 | 6.6% | 33% | 28 km |
| 37 | Laon Aisne | 1.1 | 16% | 0% | 156 km |
| 38 | Challans Vendée | 0.9 | 10% | 0.9% | 15 km |
| 39 | Vierzon Cher | 0.8 | 44% | 0% | 265 km |
| 40 | Beaupréau-en-Mauges Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 5.1% | 0% | 78 km |
| 41 | Sainte-Suzanne Réunion | 0.4 | 31% | 49% | 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 domaniale de Sénart leads, at 2,377 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 89% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 89% 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 Montgeron is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 2 passes within 2 km of Montgeron.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Orly, 4.7 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 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 47 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 63 | 56 | 53 | 58 | 47 | 53 | 53 | 60 |
February is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 63 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 36 nights a year. The climate in Montgeron →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montgeron | 0% | 46% | 4.6 |
| Crosne 9,610 · 1.7 km | 0% | 12% | 5.8 |
| Vigneux-sur-Seine 31,466 · 2.2 km | 0% | 21% | 4.3 |
| Yerres 27,906 · 2.7 km | 0% | 36% | 6.6 |
| Brunoy 25,643 · 3.5 km | 0% | 18% | 5.2 |
| Ablon-sur-Seine 5,988 · 3.5 km | 0% | 6.2% | 5.8 |
| Draveil 30,098 · 3.9 km | 0% | 47% | 4.6 |
No. The nearest protected area is Bassin de la Bièvre nature reserve, 13 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 52 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 4.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 11 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
46% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 168 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.