First pick
Domaine de la Saussaie
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
13 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
1.8 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Poudou99 · CC BY-SA 4.011%of the land protected
Outdoors in Vert-le-Petit · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Vert-le-Petit is within 800 m of a park or wood
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 7 km in Vert-le-Petit. Footpaths add up to 8 km across Vert-le-Petit (1.1 km per km²). 11% of Vert-le-Petit’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
11%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
17%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
7.7 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.4 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Domaine de la Saussaie
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.
Against French towns
How Vert-le-Petit 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 areas11%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
73out of 100
Woodland17%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
58out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
36out of 100
Hiking routes1.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
85out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Vert-le-Petit has the 17th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,680 to 2,748 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Andilly (7.1 km per km²) to Richebourg (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andilly Val-d'Oise | 7.1 | 53% | 0% | 134 km |
| 2 | Chaligny Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.1 | 72% | 0% | 364 km |
| 3 | Quintin Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 4.7% | 0% | 19 km |
| 4 | Gassin Var | 3.5 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 5 | Bagnoles de l'Orne Normandie Orne | 3.3 | 39% | 100% | 69 km |
| 6 | Balaruc-le-Vieux Hérault | 2.5 | 5.5% | 19% | 5.4 km |
| 7 | Anet Eure-et-Loir | 2.4 | 48% | 0.1% | 102 km |
| 8 | Chailles Loir-et-Cher | 2.3 | 48% | 4.8% | 222 km |
| 9 | Loire-sur-Rhône Rhône | 1.9 | 44% | 84% | 229 km |
| 10 | Capinghem Nord | 1.7 | 1.8% | 0% | 57 km |
| 11 | Piriac-sur-Mer Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0.8% | On it |
| 12 | Venarey-les-Laumes Côte-d'Or | 1.5 | 18% | 2.2% | 357 km |
| 13 | Marmoutier Bas-Rhin | 1.3 | 28% | 0% | 423 km |
| 14 | Aouste-sur-Sye Drôme | 1.2 | 40% | 2.3% | 141 km |
| 15 | Saint-Witz Val-d'Oise | 1.2 | 8.3% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 16 | Verlinghem Nord | 1.1 | 6.3% | 0% | 55 km |
| 17 | Vert-le-Petit Essonne | 1.1 | 17% | 11% | 177 km |
| 18 | Masnières Nord | 1 | 4% | 0% | 109 km |
| 19 | Bessines-sur-Gartempe Haute-Vienne | 0.9 | 36% | 0.4% | 181 km |
| 20 | Fourques Gard | 0.9 | 1.7% | 4.6% | 28 km |
| 21 | Magné Deux-Sèvres | 0.8 | 15% | 100% | 44 km |
| 22 | Ronchamp Haute-Saône | 0.8 | 73% | 100% | 440 km |
| 23 | Vulaines-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 24% | 0% | 205 km |
| 24 | Saleux Somme | 0.7 | 22% | 0% | 53 km |
| 25 | Calenzana Haute-Corse | 0.7 | 12% | 100% | On it |
| 26 | Confolens Charente | 0.6 | 12% | 3.7% | 127 km |
| 27 | Carignan Ardennes | 0.6 | 4% | 27% | 237 km |
| 28 | Alixan Drôme | 0.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 170 km |
| 29 | Caux Hérault | 0.4 | 12% | 0% | 25 km |
| 30 | Cubzac-les-Ponts Gironde | 0.4 | 5.8% | 10% | 12 km |
| 31 | Montrevel-en-Bresse Ain | 0.4 | 7.8% | 0% | 319 km |
| 32 | Magescq Landes | 0.3 | 77% | 2.4% | 16 km |
| 33 | Huttenheim Bas-Rhin | 0.3 | 32% | 35% | 460 km |
| 34 | Chanas Isère | 0.3 | 19% | 0% | 204 km |
| 35 | Montholon Yonne | 0.2 | 36% | 0% | 279 km |
| 36 | Sarre-Union Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 21% | 1.7% | 389 km |
| 37 | Yerville Seine-Maritime | 0.2 | 3.2% | 0% | 24 km |
| 38 | Essômes-sur-Marne Aisne | 0.2 | 31% | 0% | 176 km |
| 39 | Ouveillan Aude | 0.2 | 1.4% | 0% | 22 km |
| 40 | Ennezat Puy-de-Dôme | 0.1 | 0.1% | 0% | 268 km |
| 41 | Richebourg Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.9% | 0% | 57 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 Vert-le-Petit
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Domaine de la Saussaie leads, at 13 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
11% of Vert-le-Petit lies in protected areas
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
11% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Marais des basses vallées de la Juine et de l’Essonne
8.4% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area11%
Natura 2000 site11%
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.
11% of Vert-le-Petit’s land is protected, more than in 73% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Essonne has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
8 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Vert-le-Petit
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
7.7 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.4 km
waymarked: 1.1 km per km²
Woodland
17%
about 1.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Vert-le-PetitEssonne medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes1.1
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Vert-le-PetitEssonne medianFrance median
Woodland17%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 64% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 58% 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 Vert-le-Petit is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 11C11 km
Chemin des Marais21 km
Du Val d'Yerres à l'Étampois10 km
Entre Essonne et Juine10 km
Balade entre Brie de Gâtinais3.7 km
GR 11C passes within 2 km of Vert-le-Petit.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Vert-le-Petit: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bretigny_Sapc, 6.2 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 Vert-le-Petit →
Neighbors
Next to Vert-le-Petit
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Ballancourt-sur-EssonneSaint-VrainIttevilleMennecyMarolles-en-HurepoixBondoufleVert-le-Petit
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vert-le-Petit | 11% | 17% | 1.1 |
| Ballancourt-sur-Essonne 8,191 · 3.1 km | 0.1% | 28% | 2.9 |
| Saint-Vrain 3,089 · 3.6 km | 0.6% | 31% | 0.9 |
| Itteville 6,746 · 3.7 km | 7.1% | 33% | 0.6 |
| Mennecy 16,433 · 5 km | 8.2% | 19% | 3.3 |
| Marolles-en-Hurepoix 5,708 · 5 km | 0% | 14% | 1.2 |
| Bondoufle 10,767 · 6.7 km | 0% | 7.9% | 5.3 |
Ballancourt-sur-Essonne, Saint-Vrain and Itteville are more wooded.
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 Vert-le-Petit
Is Vert-le-Petit in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 11% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Vert-le-Petit?
OpenStreetMap maps 8 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Vert-le-Petit is woodland?
17% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Vert-le-Petit near the sea?
No: the coast is 177 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Vert-le-Petit?
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 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.