First pick
Bois du Boulay
Wood or forest
185 ha1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
1.8 km north-eastfrom the center
Chemin de Jouy
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Armand Guillaumin · Public domain49%woodland
Outdoors in Saint-Chéron · protected areas, woods and footpaths
49% of Saint-Chéron is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 11 km in Saint-Chéron. No protected area reaches Saint-Chéron; the nearest, Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park, is 4 km from the town center. 26 km of footpaths cross Saint-Chéron (2.2 km per km²). 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: Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park, 4 km
Woodland
49%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
26 km
2.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois du Boulay
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 Saint-Chéron?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune49% mapped woodland, more than in 91% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes11 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyHaute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park is 4 km from the town center.
What sets Saint-Chéron apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Saint-Chéron 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
Woodland49%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
91out of 100
Footpaths2.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
62out of 100
Hiking routes1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
82out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Chéron has the 14th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,085 to 5,178 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From L'Étang-la-Ville (8.8 km per km²) to Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L'Étang-la-Ville Yvelines | 8.8 | 62% | 0% | 137 km |
| 2 | Bassens Savoie | 6.2 | 18% | 0.1% | 234 km |
| 3 | Coubron Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.9 | 49% | 41% | 154 km |
| 4 | Pulnoy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.7 | 25% | 0% | 368 km |
| 5 | Valdoie Territoire de Belfort | 4.6 | 52% | 0% | 435 km |
| 6 | Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 4.3 | 45% | 17% | 95 km |
| 7 | Billy-Berclau Pas-de-Calais | 4 | 15% | 0% | 67 km |
| 8 | Le Val d'Hazey Eure | 2.6 | 32% | 0.3% | 77 km |
| 9 | Châteaulin Finistère | 2.5 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 10 | Dives-sur-Mer Calvados | 2.5 | 8.8% | 0% | 1.2 km |
| 11 | Loison-sous-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 2.3 | 3.6% | 0% | 75 km |
| 12 | Douvres-la-Délivrande Calvados | 2.3 | 4.4% | 0% | 3.4 km |
| 13 | Saint-Georges-de-Didonne Charente-Maritime | 2.3 | 19% | 37% | On it |
| 14 | Saint-Chéron Essonne | 2.2 | 49% | 0% | 162 km |
| 15 | Baume-les-Dames Doubs | 2.1 | 61% | 19% | 406 km |
| 16 | Seichamps Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.8 | 0.7% | 0% | 367 km |
| 17 | Baden Morbihan | 1.8 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 18 | Villerest Loire | 1.7 | 4.2% | 25% | 271 km |
| 19 | Trilport Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 47% | 0% | 164 km |
| 20 | Cucq Pas-de-Calais | 1.5 | 2.7% | 8.6% | On it |
| 21 | Pont-l'Évêque Calvados | 1.4 | 3.4% | 0% | 12 km |
| 22 | Chavanoz Isère | 1.3 | 12% | 0% | 258 km |
| 23 | Genlis Côte-d'Or | 1.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 418 km |
| 24 | Saint-Vit Doubs | 1.2 | 30% | 0% | 400 km |
| 25 | Scaër Finistère | 1 | 8.9% | 0% | 19 km |
| 26 | Muzillac Morbihan | 1 | 4.9% | 7.8% | On it |
| 27 | Villenoy Seine-et-Marne | 1 | 4.7% | 0% | 161 km |
| 28 | Maen Roch Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 3.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 29 | Le Cannet-des-Maures Var | 1 | 31% | 52% | 23 km |
| 30 | Faulquemont Moselle | 0.9 | 22% | 0% | 354 km |
| 31 | Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez Loire | 0.8 | 25% | 1.8% | 215 km |
| 32 | Aÿ-Champagne Marne | 0.7 | 16% | 100% | 211 km |
| 33 | Villars-les-Dombes Ain | 0.7 | 12% | 67% | 281 km |
| 34 | Villeneuve-sur-Yonne Yonne | 0.6 | 34% | 0% | 260 km |
| 35 | Val-de-Moder Bas-Rhin | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0.1% | 424 km |
| 36 | Ferrière-la-Grande Nord | 0.4 | 8.1% | 100% | 133 km |
| 37 | Sully-sur-Loire Loiret | 0.4 | 25% | 40% | 238 km |
| 38 | Longuyon Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.4 | 39% | 0% | 274 km |
| 39 | Villeneuve-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.1% | 36% | 5.1 km |
| 40 | Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche Corrèze | 0.2 | 25% | 0.3% | 161 km |
| 41 | Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 7% | 0% | 62 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 Saint-Chéron
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois du Boulay leads, at 185 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc des Closeaux
Park or garden
1.4 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Saint-Chéron
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 4 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park
4 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
26 km of footpaths and 11 km of hiking routes cross Saint-Chéron
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
26 km
2.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked: 1 km per km²
Woodland
49%
about 5.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-ChéronEssonne medianFrance median
Footpaths2.2
Hiking routes1
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-ChéronEssonne medianFrance median
Woodland49%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 62% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 91% 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 Saint-Chéron is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
8 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 655ET1 km
Grand Tour de Paris, Franchard - Villiers-Saint-Frédéric13 km
Sur les traces de la Renarde11 km
Autour de Saint-Sulpice-de-Favières4.1 km
Du Val d'Yerres à l'Étampois3.9 km
Randonnue Heliomonde - Renarde2.5 km
Parcours Santé0.9 km
Hespérides à Héliomonde0.5 km
GR 655ET passes within 2 km of Saint-Chéron.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saint-Chéron: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Fontenay-Les-B., 7.4 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 Saint-Chéron →
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Chéron
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BreuilletBruyères-le-ChâtelBoissy-sous-Saint-YonÉtréchyBriis-sous-ForgesÉglySaint-Chéron
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Chéron | 0% | 49% | 2.2 |
| Breuillet 9,157 · 4.6 km | 0% | 33% | 2.8 |
| Bruyères-le-Châtel 3,788 · 6.6 km | 0.1% | 64% | 4.2 |
| Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon 3,882 · 6.6 km | 0% | 28% | 1.1 |
| Étréchy 6,986 · 8.2 km | 0% | 29% | 2.8 |
| Briis-sous-Forges 3,342 · 8.3 km | 0.1% | 22% | 3.5 |
| Égly 7,166 · 8.5 km | 0% | 13% | 3.9 |
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 Saint-Chéron
Is Saint-Chéron in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park, 4 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Saint-Chéron?
OpenStreetMap maps 26 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 11 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saint-Chéron is woodland?
49% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Chéron near the sea?
No: the coast is 162 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saint-Chéron?
April and June 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 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.