First pick
Parc du Gord
Park or garden
3 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
0.8 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: user:Trompes · CC BY-SA 3.02.6%woodland
Outdoors in Le Coudray · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Le Coudray is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 17 km across Le Coudray (3 km per km²). 2.6% of Le Coudray is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Le Coudray; the nearest, Vallée de l’Eure de Maintenon à Anet et vallons affluents (Natura 2000), is 0.8 km from the town center. 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: Vallée de l’Eure de Maintenon à Anet et vallons affluents, 0.8 km
Woodland
2.6%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
17 km
3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.3 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc du Gord
Throughout this page, the Eure-et-Loir 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 Le Coudray?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyVallée de l’Eure de Maintenon à Anet et vallons affluents (Natura 2000) is 0.8 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland2.6% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Le Coudray apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Le Coudray 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
Woodland2.6%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
13out of 100
Footpaths3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
73out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
55out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Le Coudray has the 11th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,012 to 4,060 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Croisic (6.7 km per km²) to Bâgé-Dommartin (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Croisic Loire-Atlantique | 6.7 | 3.3% | 3.3% | On it |
| 2 | Vaux-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 5.3 | 10% | 0.2% | On it |
| 3 | Montsoult Val-d'Oise | 4.5 | 42% | 0.9% | 129 km |
| 4 | Seignosse Landes | 4.4 | 70% | 9.7% | On it |
| 5 | Montmélian Savoie | 4.3 | 47% | 100% | 222 km |
| 6 | Saint-Vallier Drôme | 3.8 | 32% | 0% | 189 km |
| 7 | La Châtre Indre | 3.7 | 6.5% | 0% | 239 km |
| 8 | Port-Vendres Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.2 | 0.8% | 18% | On it |
| 9 | Presles Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 47% | 100% | 124 km |
| 10 | Neuville-Saint-Rémy Nord | 3 | 4% | 0% | 109 km |
| 11 | Le Coudray Eure-et-Loir | 3 | 2.6% | 0% | 140 km |
| 12 | Offemont Territoire de Belfort | 2.9 | 39% | 0% | 433 km |
| 13 | Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne Alpes-Maritimes | 2.2 | 70% | 100% | 18 km |
| 14 | Verson Calvados | 2 | 0.7% | 0% | 19 km |
| 15 | Issou Yvelines | 1.6 | 21% | 0% | 116 km |
| 16 | Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre Eure-et-Loir | 1.6 | 26% | 0.8% | 99 km |
| 17 | La Rochefoucauld-en-Angoumois Charente | 1.6 | 39% | 16% | 95 km |
| 18 | Pont-Scorff Morbihan | 1.5 | 23% | 3.8% | On it |
| 19 | Avesnes-sur-Helpe Nord | 1.4 | 1.7% | 100% | 142 km |
| 20 | Cinq-Mars-la-Pile Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 28% | 14% | 167 km |
| 21 | Le Cellier Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 29% | 12% | 57 km |
| 22 | Salernes Var | 1.2 | 68% | 26% | 42 km |
| 23 | Nogent-le-Roi Eure-et-Loir | 1.1 | 10% | 0.1% | 123 km |
| 24 | Cordemais Loire-Atlantique | 1 | 7.6% | 24% | 24 km |
| 25 | Bresles Oise | 0.8 | 19% | 0% | 95 km |
| 26 | Générac Gard | 0.8 | 4.5% | 19% | 27 km |
| 27 | Bourg-Achard Eure | 0.7 | 5.5% | 0% | 34 km |
| 28 | Savigné-l'Évêque Sarthe | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 137 km |
| 29 | Gravigny Eure | 0.7 | 47% | 0% | 73 km |
| 30 | La Haye Manche | 0.7 | 3.6% | 51% | On it |
| 31 | Hochfelden Bas-Rhin | 0.7 | 6.8% | 0% | 428 km |
| 32 | Fay-de-Bretagne Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 9.9% | 0% | 31 km |
| 33 | La Chapelle-de-Guinchay Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 5.5% | 5.6% | 300 km |
| 34 | Paulhan Hérault | 0.5 | 1% | 0% | 23 km |
| 35 | Trouy Cher | 0.4 | 2.7% | 0.1% | 280 km |
| 36 | Campbon Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 6.8% | 1.6% | 21 km |
| 37 | Bressols Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 3% | 0.6% | 173 km |
| 38 | Beauvoir-sur-Mer Vendée | 0.3 | 0.3% | 83% | On it |
| 39 | Hourtin Gironde | 0.3 | 66% | 100% | On it |
| 40 | Sévérac d'Aveyron Aveyron | 0.2 | 24% | 100% | 114 km |
| 41 | Bâgé-Dommartin Ain | 0.1 | 13% | 0% | 315 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 Le Coudray
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Gord leads, at 3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Bel-Air
Wood or forest
9.9 ha0.2 km of path
1.9 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des 4 saisons
Park or garden
0.7 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Le Coudray
Directionsto a point inside
Square Jean Fegereux
Park or garden · 150 m outside the commune
0.6 ha
0.7 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vallée de l’Eure de Maintenon à Anet et vallons affluents is the nearest protected area, 0.8 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de l’Eure de Maintenon à Anet et vallons affluents
0.8 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
17 km of footpaths cross Le Coudray
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
17 km
3 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.3 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
2.6%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Le CoudrayEure-et-Loir medianFrance median
Footpaths3
Hiking routes0.4
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Le CoudrayEure-et-Loir medianFrance median
Woodland2.6%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 73% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 87% 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 Le Coudray is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
De Maintenon à Fontenay9.8 km
Chemin de Trèves, Chartres - Châteaudun1.7 km
Via Turonensis, Rambouillet - Chartres1 km
Chemin de Trèves, Rambouillet - Chartres0.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Le Coudray: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Chartres, 3.9 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 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 50 | 42 | 44 | 45 | 55 | 52 | 51 | 48 | 46 | 58 | 56 | 61 |
February is the driest month (42 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 61 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 45 nights a year. The climate in Le Coudray →
Neighbors
Next to Le Coudray
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
LuisantChartresLucéMainvilliersChampholLèvesLe Coudray
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Lèves is 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 Le Coudray
Is Le Coudray in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée de l’Eure de Maintenon à Anet et vallons affluents, 0.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Le Coudray?
OpenStreetMap maps 17 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Le Coudray is woodland?
2.6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Coudray near the sea?
No: the coast is 140 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Le Coudray?
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 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.