Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Lionel Allorge · CC BY-SA 3.031 km of footpaths cross Soisy-sur-Seine (3.6 km per km²). No protected area reaches Soisy-sur-Seine; the nearest, Marais d’Itteville et de Fontenay-le-Vicomte (Natura 2000), is 8 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 10 km in Soisy-sur-Seine. 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 Soisy-sur-Seine apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
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 (7,320 to 7,524 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Gières (7.2 km per km²) to Lanton (0.2 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gières Isère | 7.2 | 35% | 0% | 202 km |
| 2 | Gournay-sur-Marne Seine-Saint-Denis | 6 | 4.3% | 0% | 159 km |
| 3 | Huningue Haut-Rhin | 4.9 | 0.9% | 0% | 423 km |
| 4 | Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil Essonne | 4.8 | 28% | 0% | 177 km |
| 5 | Villemoisson-sur-Orge Essonne | 4.3 | 13% | 0% | 167 km |
| 6 | Lisses Essonne | 3.8 | 22% | 2.9% | 176 km |
| 7 | Soisy-sur-Seine Essonne | 3.6 | 64% | 0% | 173 km |
| 8 | Remiremont Vosges | 3.5 | 70% | 18% | 432 km |
| 9 | Cournonterral Hérault | 3.4 | 3.1% | 62% | 13 km |
| 10 | Saint-Benoît Vienne | 3.3 | 25% | 0% | 116 km |
| 11 | Clisson Loire-Atlantique | 3.1 | 9% | 0% | 54 km |
| 12 | Audun-le-Tiche Moselle | 3 | 42% | 0% | 288 km |
| 13 | Fabrègues Hérault | 2.9 | 7.6% | 8.4% | 9.4 km |
| 14 | Barlin Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 5.8% | 0% | 65 km |
| 15 | Perros-Guirec Côtes-d'Armor | 2.9 | 17% | 7% | On it |
| 16 | Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.7 | 20% | 0% | 256 km |
| 17 | Courtry Seine-et-Marne | 2.5 | 19% | 0% | 155 km |
| 18 | Crozon Finistère | 2.4 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 19 | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Savoie | 2.2 | 37% | 0% | 190 km |
| 20 | Pontcharra Isère | 2 | 39% | 0% | 217 km |
| 21 | Carhaix-Plouguer Finistère | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 40 km |
| 22 | Paimpol Côtes-d'Armor | 1.9 | 12% | 12% | On it |
| 23 | Saujon Charente-Maritime | 1.8 | 4% | 14% | 4.1 km |
| 24 | Villard-Bonnot Isère | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 203 km |
| 25 | Céret Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.7 | 61% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 26 | Toulouges Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.6 | 0.2% | 0% | 17 km |
| 27 | Fresnes-sur-Escaut Nord | 1.5 | 24% | 100% | 100 km |
| 28 | Saint-Berthevin Mayenne | 1.5 | 17% | 0% | 74 km |
| 29 | Langres Haute-Marne | 1.2 | 9.7% | 0.1% | 371 km |
| 30 | Pordic Côtes-d'Armor | 1.2 | 8.1% | 0% | On it |
| 31 | Yssingeaux Haute-Loire | 1.2 | 39% | 15% | 176 km |
| 32 | Lagnieu Ain | 1.1 | 35% | 0% | 274 km |
| 33 | Trélissac Dordogne | 0.9 | 43% | 0% | 109 km |
| 34 | Saint-Nicolas-de-Port Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.9 | 11% | 0% | 376 km |
| 35 | Ruelle-sur-Touvre Charente | 0.8 | 6.5% | 8% | 81 km |
| 36 | Digoin Saône-et-Loire | 0.8 | 12% | 6.1% | 325 km |
| 37 | Rosny-sur-Seine Yvelines | 0.7 | 60% | 62% | 104 km |
| 38 | Rethel Ardennes | 0.6 | 2.9% | 0% | 207 km |
| 39 | Chaumes-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 40 | Guipry-Messac Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.5 | 8.9% | 0% | 55 km |
| 41 | Lanton Gironde | 0.2 | 83% | 100% | 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 81% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 97% 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 Soisy-sur-Seine is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 2 passes within 2 km of Soisy-sur-Seine.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Orly, 8.8 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 | 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 Soisy-sur-Seine →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soisy-sur-Seine | 0% | 64% | 3.6 |
| Étiolles 3,105 · 1.8 km | 0% | 72% | 3.7 |
| Évry-Courcouronnes 66,919 · 2.7 km | 0% | 9.5% | 8.4 |
| Ris-Orangis 31,189 · 3.2 km | 0% | 7.7% | 4.6 |
| Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil 7,469 · 4 km | 0% | 28% | 4.8 |
| Tigery 4,333 · 4.4 km | 0% | 41% | 3.6 |
| Draveil 30,098 · 4.8 km | 0% | 47% | 4.6 |
No. The nearest protected area is Marais d’Itteville et de Fontenay-le-Vicomte, 8 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 31 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 10 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
64% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 173 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 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.