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Photo: Jpve · CC BY-SA 3.0No protected area reaches Ollainville; the nearest, Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park, is 3.6 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 7 km in Ollainville. Footpaths add up to 20 km across Ollainville (1.7 km per km²). 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 Ollainville apart: its woods, 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 (5,399 to 5,508 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Heillecourt (6.1 km per km²) to Noyant-Villages (0.1 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heillecourt Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.1 | 1.5% | 0% | 369 km |
| 2 | Marsannay-la-Côte Côte-d'Or | 6 | 47% | 49% | 405 km |
| 3 | Marles-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.6 | 3.7% | 0% | 57 km |
| 4 | Crégy-lès-Meaux Seine-et-Marne | 3.5 | 10% | 0% | 159 km |
| 5 | Le Cendre Puy-de-Dôme | 3.4 | 3.3% | 1.8% | 249 km |
| 6 | Chevreuse Yvelines | 2.9 | 50% | 100% | 147 km |
| 7 | Saint-Genis-les-Ollières Rhône | 2.5 | 14% | 0% | 250 km |
| 8 | Penmarch Finistère | 2.5 | 0% | 18% | On it |
| 9 | Roques Haute-Garonne | 2.4 | 4.3% | 40% | 148 km |
| 10 | Peyrolles-en-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 63% | 69% | 38 km |
| 11 | La Roque-d'Anthéron Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.3 | 36% | 51% | 39 km |
| 12 | Le Boulou Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 19% | 7.4% | 18 km |
| 13 | Plouhinec Morbihan | 2 | 24% | 32% | On it |
| 14 | Guînes Pas-de-Calais | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 10 km |
| 15 | Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours Seine-et-Marne | 1.8 | 45% | 29% | 214 km |
| 16 | Wervicq-Sud Nord | 1.8 | 3% | 0% | 48 km |
| 17 | Ollainville Essonne | 1.7 | 37% | 0% | 165 km |
| 18 | Rosheim Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 57% | 0% | 443 km |
| 19 | Rousset Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 7.1% | 7.7% | 27 km |
| 20 | Arnage Sarthe | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 138 km |
| 21 | Flers-en-Escrebieux Nord | 1.5 | 12% | 1% | 85 km |
| 22 | Bordères-sur-l'Échez Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.4 | 22% | 0% | 128 km |
| 23 | Foulayronnes Lot-et-Garonne | 1.4 | 9.9% | 0% | 130 km |
| 24 | Lacroix-Saint-Ouen Oise | 1.2 | 73% | 76% | 121 km |
| 25 | Coulogne Pas-de-Calais | 1.2 | 1.1% | 0% | 4.7 km |
| 26 | Grans Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.2 | 13% | 43% | 22 km |
| 27 | Aiffres Deux-Sèvres | 1 | 3.4% | 14% | 54 km |
| 28 | Fenain Nord | 1 | 10% | 99% | 97 km |
| 29 | Drap Alpes-Maritimes | 0.8 | 33% | 0% | 4.8 km |
| 30 | Saint-Memmie Marne | 0.7 | 4.7% | 0% | 239 km |
| 31 | La Ferrière Vendée | 0.7 | 9.6% | 0% | 38 km |
| 32 | Boulay-Moselle Moselle | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 339 km |
| 33 | Mouguerre Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.5 | 40% | 7.9% | 11 km |
| 34 | Reichshoffen Bas-Rhin | 0.5 | 27% | 100% | 420 km |
| 35 | Étoile-sur-Rhône Drôme | 0.5 | 8.7% | 1.6% | 154 km |
| 36 | Ploumagoar Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 20% | 0% | 19 km |
| 37 | Châtillon-sur-Seine Côte-d'Or | 0.4 | 12% | 100% | 334 km |
| 38 | Ernée Mayenne | 0.3 | 1.4% | 0.1% | 48 km |
| 39 | Aubigny-sur-Nère Cher | 0.3 | 25% | 24% | 265 km |
| 40 | Nueil-les-Aubiers Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 83 km |
| 41 | Noyant-Villages Maine-et-Loire | 0.1 | 23% | 13% | 164 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 de la Roche Turpin leads, at 968 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 51% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 83% 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 Ollainville is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 655ET passes within 2 km of Ollainville.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Fontenay-Les-B., 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 | 15.7 | 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 Ollainville →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ollainville | 0% | 37% | 1.7 |
| Arpajon 11,698 · 1.7 km | 0% | 2.4% | 3.3 |
| Égly 7,166 · 1.8 km | 0% | 13% | 3.9 |
| Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon 11,623 · 2.6 km | 0% | 16% | 3 |
| La Norville 4,268 · 2.8 km | 0% | 4% | 2.2 |
| Bruyères-le-Châtel 3,788 · 2.8 km | 0.1% | 64% | 4.2 |
| Leuville-sur-Orge 4,271 · 3.6 km | 0% | 15% | 3.8 |
Bruyères-le-Châtel is more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park, 3.6 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 20 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
37% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 165 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.