First pick
Parc Urbain Georges Brassens
Park or garden · 270 m outside the commune
42 ha6.2 km of path
1 h 25 minto walk all 6.2 km of path
3 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Like tears in rain · CC BY-SA 4.05.8%woodland
Outdoors in Wissous · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Wissous is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Wissous; the nearest, Bassin de la Bièvre nature reserve, is 3.1 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 5.8% of Wissous. Footpaths add up to 19 km across Wissous (2.1 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: Bassin de la Bièvre nature reserve, 3.1 km
Woodland
5.8%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
19 km
2.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
12
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Urbain Georges Brassens
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 Wissous 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
Woodland5.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
26out of 100
Footpaths2.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
59out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Wissous has the 14th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,052 to 7,252 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Guingamp (6.8 km per km²) to Herbignac (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guingamp Côtes-d'Armor | 6.8 | 16% | 0% | 16 km |
| 2 | Colombelles Calvados | 4.9 | 3.1% | 0% | 9.7 km |
| 3 | Saint-Ismier Isère | 4.5 | 40% | 31% | 206 km |
| 4 | Labenne Landes | 4 | 54% | 20% | 2.8 km |
| 5 | Écouen Val-d'Oise | 4 | 16% | 0% | 135 km |
| 6 | Égly Essonne | 3.9 | 13% | 0% | 167 km |
| 7 | Barr Bas-Rhin | 3.8 | 77% | 0% | 450 km |
| 8 | Balaruc-les-Bains Hérault | 3.5 | 0.7% | 33% | 3.8 km |
| 9 | Leforest Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 18% | 0% | 81 km |
| 10 | Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville Seine-Maritime | 3.3 | 52% | 0% | 47 km |
| 11 | Eckbolsheim Bas-Rhin | 3.1 | 7.3% | 0% | 448 km |
| 12 | Auby Nord | 2.8 | 16% | 1.7% | 84 km |
| 13 | Ugine Savoie | 2.2 | 58% | 2.4% | 236 km |
| 14 | Wissous Essonne | 2.1 | 5.8% | 0% | 159 km |
| 15 | Chauray Deux-Sèvres | 2 | 2.4% | 0% | 58 km |
| 16 | Montauroux Var | 1.8 | 61% | 9.8% | 16 km |
| 17 | Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes Nord | 1.7 | 0.5% | 0% | 108 km |
| 18 | Bagnères-de-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.6 | 30% | 42% | 144 km |
| 19 | Kervignac Morbihan | 1.5 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 20 | La Talaudière Loire | 1.5 | 6.6% | 0% | 215 km |
| 21 | Templeuve-en-Pévèle Nord | 1.4 | 11% | 0% | 76 km |
| 22 | Eyguières Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.4 | 13% | 100% | 30 km |
| 23 | Pont-Saint-Martin Loire-Atlantique | 1.3 | 17% | 1.7% | 33 km |
| 24 | Caudan Morbihan | 1.2 | 16% | 3.4% | On it |
| 25 | Mably Loire | 1.2 | 6.8% | 4.4% | 279 km |
| 26 | Pleurtuit Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.2 | 9.8% | 100% | On it |
| 27 | Divatte-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 7.5% | 5.6% | 56 km |
| 28 | Orgeval Yvelines | 1.1 | 27% | 0% | 129 km |
| 29 | Brech Morbihan | 1.1 | 18% | 0% | On it |
| 30 | Les Trois-Bassins Réunion | 1 | 20% | 82% | On it |
| 31 | Villemandeur Loiret | 1 | 13% | 0% | 236 km |
| 32 | Lodève Hérault | 1 | 51% | 100% | 47 km |
| 33 | Péronne Somme | 1 | 6.5% | 12% | 94 km |
| 34 | Trégunc Finistère | 0.9 | 9.6% | 6.1% | On it |
| 35 | Grandchamp-des-Fontaines Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 8.7% | 0% | 43 km |
| 36 | Aubigny-Les Clouzeaux Vendée | 0.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 24 km |
| 37 | Sainte-Pazanne Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 4.9% | 0% | 15 km |
| 38 | Viriat Ain | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 311 km |
| 39 | Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton Eure | 0.4 | 20% | 1.5% | 87 km |
| 40 | Saint-Pierre-en-Auge Calvados | 0.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 32 km |
| 41 | Herbignac Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 14% | 100% | 7.8 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 Wissous
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Urbain Georges Brassens leads, at 42 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Domaine de Montjean
Park or garden
29 ha3.5 km of path
45 minto walk all 3.5 km of path
0.8 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Domaine Les Étangs - Espace Arthur Clark
Park or garden
8.4 ha1.8 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.8 km of path
0.6 km south-eastfrom the center
Allée Alan ReedAllée Thomas WilkinsAllée James Campbell
Directionsto a point inside
Colline Cacao
Park or garden · 10 m outside the commune
4.2 ha1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
1.7 km eastfrom the center
Allée des Moulins
Directionsto a point inside
Espace Marcel Dassault
Park or garden
5.4 ha0.4 km of path
2.1 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Aulnes
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
2.9 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
1.3 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Saint-Michel
Park or garden · 30 m outside the commune
3.3 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
3.5 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc André Villette
Park or garden · 40 m outside the commune
2.1 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
1.6 km northfrom the center
Promenade du Sophora
Directionsto a point inside
All 12 named parks, gardens and woods
Parc Urbain Georges BrassensPark or garden · 42 ha · 6.2 km of path · just outside
DirectionsDomaine de MontjeanPark or garden · 29 ha · 3.5 km of path
DirectionsDomaine Les Étangs - Espace Arthur ClarkPark or garden · 8.4 ha · 1.8 km of path
DirectionsColline CacaoPark or garden · 4.2 ha · 1.9 km of path · just outside
DirectionsEspace Marcel DassaultPark or garden · 5.4 ha · 0.4 km of path
DirectionsParc des AulnesPark or garden · 2.9 ha · 1.1 km of path · just outside
DirectionsParc Saint-MichelPark or garden · 3.3 ha · 0.7 km of path · just outside
DirectionsParc André VillettePark or garden · 2.1 ha · 1.2 km of path · just outside
DirectionsParc du château GaillardPark or garden · 2.2 ha · 0.4 km of path
DirectionsBois de MontjeanWood or forest · 8.2 ha
DirectionsBois de l'AuroreWood or forest · 2.5 ha · 0.8 km of path · just outside
DirectionsSquare de la FraternitéPark or garden · 0.3 ha · 0.3 km of path · just outside
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Bassin de la Bièvre nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 3.1 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Bassin de la Bièvre nature reserve
3.1 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
19 km of footpaths cross Wissous
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
19 km
2.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
5.8%
about 0.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
WissousEssonne medianFrance median
Footpaths2.1
Hiking routes0
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
WissousEssonne medianFrance median
Woodland5.8%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 59% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 74% 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 Wissous is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)PR (local walk)Other named walk
GR 115.3 km
PR 72.8 km
Boucle de 27,7 km depuis la gare RER Sceaux4.3 km
GR 11 passes within 2 km of Wissous.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Wissous: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Orly, 5.8 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 | 15.8 | 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 Wissous →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Wissous
Named gardens in the commune.
Domaine Les Étangs - Espace Arthur-ClarkIn Wissous
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Wissous
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
RungisFresnesAntonyMassyParay-Vieille-PosteMorangisWissous
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Wissous
Is Wissous in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Bassin de la Bièvre nature reserve, 3.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Wissous?
OpenStreetMap maps 19 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Wissous is woodland?
5.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Wissous near the sea?
No: the coast is 159 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Wissous?
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.