Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Chabe01 · CC BY-SA 4.0Footpaths add up to 66 km across Yerres (6.6 km per km²). Yerres has 13 km of waymarked hiking routes. Mapped woodland covers 36% of Yerres. 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 Yerres apart: its footpaths, 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 (26,476 to 29,354 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 4e (12.9 km per km²) to Bergerac (1 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 4e Paris | 12.9 | 0% | 0% | 150 km |
| 2 | Lyon 1er Rhône | 11.3 | 1.1% | 0% | 253 km |
| 3 | Taverny Val-d'Oise | 10.5 | 33% | 0.4% | 129 km |
| 4 | Champs-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 9.6 | 36% | 0.1% | 160 km |
| 5 | Grigny Essonne | 8.7 | 7.2% | 0% | 170 km |
| 6 | Le Plessis-Robinson Hauts-de-Seine | 8.6 | 13% | 0% | 153 km |
| 7 | Clichy-sous-Bois Seine-Saint-Denis | 7.6 | 29% | 22% | 153 km |
| 8 | Vanves Hauts-de-Seine | 7.3 | 3.4% | 0% | 150 km |
| 9 | Cormeilles-en-Parisis Val-d'Oise | 7.2 | 14% | 0% | 133 km |
| 10 | Gradignan Gironde | 6.8 | 17% | 0% | 26 km |
| 11 | Yerres Essonne | 6.6 | 36% | 0% | 169 km |
| 12 | Sannois Val-d'Oise | 6 | 17% | 0% | 135 km |
| 13 | Bussy-Saint-Georges Seine-et-Marne | 5.9 | 31% | 2.3% | 167 km |
| 14 | Charenton-le-Pont Val-de-Marne | 5.9 | 0.7% | 0% | 155 km |
| 15 | Armentières Nord | 5.9 | 3.8% | 0% | 50 km |
| 16 | Sucy-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 5.7 | 31% | 0% | 165 km |
| 17 | Blagnac Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 5.4% | 7.5% | 152 km |
| 18 | Cenon Gironde | 5.4 | 8.9% | 0% | 18 km |
| 19 | Limeil-Brévannes Val-de-Marne | 4.8 | 29% | 0% | 165 km |
| 20 | Lambersart Nord | 4.7 | 3.4% | 0% | 59 km |
| 21 | Bois-Colombes Hauts-de-Seine | 4.6 | 0% | 0% | 141 km |
| 22 | Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 4.5 | 9.9% | 23% | 41 km |
| 23 | Orvault Loire-Atlantique | 3.9 | 17% | 0% | 37 km |
| 24 | Sotteville-lès-Rouen Seine-Maritime | 3.9 | 1.4% | 0% | 53 km |
| 25 | Illkirch-Graffenstaden Bas-Rhin | 3.9 | 30% | 26% | 454 km |
| 26 | La Garde Var | 3.8 | 7.6% | 25% | On it |
| 27 | Dieppe Seine-Maritime | 3.3 | 2.9% | 2.7% | On it |
| 28 | Périgueux Dordogne | 3.1 | 10% | 0% | 105 km |
| 29 | Sens Yonne | 3.1 | 4.6% | 0% | 249 km |
| 30 | Brétigny-sur-Orge Essonne | 3 | 9.5% | 0% | 169 km |
| 31 | Montfermeil Seine-Saint-Denis | 2.9 | 8.2% | 5.5% | 155 km |
| 32 | Soissons Aisne | 2.7 | 7.5% | 0% | 148 km |
| 33 | Rambouillet Yvelines | 2.6 | 48% | 74% | 139 km |
| 34 | Maubeuge Nord | 2.6 | 2.2% | 0.1% | 129 km |
| 35 | Lunel Hérault | 2.2 | 0.4% | 0.6% | 14 km |
| 36 | Gonesse Val-d'Oise | 2.1 | 4% | 0% | 141 km |
| 37 | Villeparisis Seine-et-Marne | 1.9 | 13% | 0% | 153 km |
| 38 | Vallauris Alpes-Maritimes | 1.5 | 16% | 0% | On it |
| 39 | La Teste-de-Buch Gironde | 1.1 | 56% | 46% | On it |
| 40 | Étampes Essonne | 1 | 12% | 0% | 172 km |
| 41 | Bergerac Dordogne | 1 | 14% | 1.9% | 86 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 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 96% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 82% 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 Yerres is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Limeil, 4.5 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) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 27 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 50 | 46 | 46 | 48 | 67 | 56 | 55 | 60 | 49 | 56 | 57 | 66 |
February is the driest month (46 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 67 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Yerres →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yerres | 0% | 36% | 6.6 |
| Brunoy 25,643 · 1.6 km | 0% | 18% | 5.2 |
| Crosne 9,610 · 2.2 km | 0% | 12% | 5.8 |
| Montgeron 24,022 · 2.7 km | 0% | 46% | 4.6 |
| Épinay-sous-Sénart 11,611 · 2.8 km | 0% | 54% | 10.3 |
| Villecresnes 11,647 · 3.1 km | 0% | 27% | 6.5 |
| Mandres-les-Roses 4,922 · 3.8 km | 0% | 8.4% | 1.9 |
Épinay-sous-Sénart is more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Marais d’Itteville et de Fontenay-le-Vicomte, 15 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 66 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 6.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 13 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
36% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 169 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 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.