First pick
Bois de Lèves
Wood or forest
71 ha3.3 km of path
45 minto walk all 3.3 km of path
0.6 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Ville de Lèves France · CC BY-SA 4.024%woodland
Outdoors in Lèves · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Lèves is within 800 m of a park or wood
21 km of footpaths cross Lèves (2.7 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 24% of Lèves. No protected area reaches Lèves; the nearest, Vallée de l’Eure de Maintenon à Anet et vallons affluents (Natura 2000), is 4.6 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, 4.6 km
Woodland
24%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
21 km
2.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Lèves
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.
Against French towns
How Lèves 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
Woodland24%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
69out of 100
Footpaths2.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
70out of 100
Hiking routes0.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
63out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Lèves has the 8th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,652 to 5,723 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Montbonnot-Saint-Martin (4.6 km per km²) to Missillac (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montbonnot-Saint-Martin Isère | 4.6 | 9.5% | 0% | 205 km |
| 2 | Carry-le-Rouet Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.3 | 19% | 59% | On it |
| 3 | Cancale Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.8 | 10% | 22% | On it |
| 4 | Mourenx Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.6 | 20% | 9.2% | 73 km |
| 5 | L'Isle-d'Espagnac Charente | 3.4 | 13% | 0% | 78 km |
| 6 | Revin Ardennes | 3.3 | 88% | 100% | 188 km |
| 7 | Santes Nord | 3 | 11% | 0% | 62 km |
| 8 | Lèves Eure-et-Loir | 2.7 | 24% | 0% | 135 km |
| 9 | Saint-Georges-d'Orques Hérault | 2.7 | 0.3% | 0% | 14 km |
| 10 | Longueau Somme | 2.6 | 0.4% | 4% | 60 km |
| 11 | Épernon Eure-et-Loir | 2.4 | 16% | 0% | 133 km |
| 12 | Saleilles Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.3 | 1.4% | 0% | 7.1 km |
| 13 | Parmain Val-d'Oise | 2.1 | 45% | 100% | 120 km |
| 14 | La Roquette-sur-Siagne Alpes-Maritimes | 2.1 | 22% | 0% | 4.6 km |
| 15 | Dainville Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 4.1% | 0% | 75 km |
| 16 | Rocbaron Var | 1.8 | 53% | 0% | 24 km |
| 17 | Altkirch Haut-Rhin | 1.6 | 23% | 0% | 427 km |
| 18 | Saint-Privat-des-Vieux Gard | 1.4 | 24% | 0% | 65 km |
| 19 | Caumont-sur-Durance Vaucluse | 1.4 | 16% | 18% | 50 km |
| 20 | Piolenc Vaucluse | 1.4 | 20% | 1.9% | 81 km |
| 21 | Montrond-les-Bains Loire | 1.2 | 3.1% | 17% | 231 km |
| 22 | Mondelange Moselle | 1.2 | 2% | 0% | 316 km |
| 23 | Lannilis Finistère | 1.2 | 5.5% | 14% | On it |
| 24 | Marcheprime Gironde | 1.2 | 83% | 100% | 14 km |
| 25 | Marolles-en-Hurepoix Essonne | 1.2 | 14% | 0% | 172 km |
| 26 | Pouzauges Vendée | 1.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 57 km |
| 27 | Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef Loire-Atlantique | 1.1 | 5.6% | 0.1% | On it |
| 28 | Cugand-la-Bernardière Vendée | 1 | 7.5% | 0% | 55 km |
| 29 | Sausheim Haut-Rhin | 1 | 30% | 25% | 445 km |
| 30 | Sigean Aude | 0.9 | 6.3% | 98% | 7.1 km |
| 31 | Saint-Xandre Charente-Maritime | 0.9 | 1.2% | 7.3% | 5.2 km |
| 32 | Gournay-en-Bray Seine-Maritime | 0.8 | 2.6% | 4.7% | 66 km |
| 33 | Aimargues Gard | 0.7 | 1.6% | 19% | 17 km |
| 34 | La Crèche Deux-Sèvres | 0.6 | 3.7% | 0% | 63 km |
| 35 | Gan Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.5 | 38% | 4.7% | 97 km |
| 36 | Tournus Saône-et-Loire | 0.4 | 9.6% | 6.5% | 340 km |
| 37 | Bédarrides Vaucluse | 0.3 | 5.1% | 6.2% | 65 km |
| 38 | Valdahon Doubs | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 385 km |
| 39 | Valdallière Calvados | 0.2 | 2% | 12% | 52 km |
| 40 | Saint-Martin-la-Pallu Vienne | 0.2 | 8.6% | 11% | 117 km |
| 41 | Missillac Loire-Atlantique | 0 | 19% | 100% | 16 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 Lèves
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Lèves leads, at 71 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de l'ancienne abbaye de Josaphat
Park or garden
4.4 ha0.5 km of path
0.9 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Roseraie
Park or garden · 20 m outside the commune
2 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
1.3 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin d'Horticulture Eugène-Hurtault
Park or garden · 370 m outside the commune
2 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
1.9 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square du Colonel Griffith
Park or garden
0.5 ha
Centralin the middle of Lèves
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, 4.6 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
4.6 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
21 km of footpaths cross Lèves
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
21 km
2.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4 km
waymarked: 0.5 km per km²
Woodland
24%
about 1.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LèvesEure-et-Loir medianFrance median
Footpaths2.7
Hiking routes0.5
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LèvesEure-et-Loir medianFrance median
Woodland24%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 70% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 69% 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 Lèves 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 Fontenay7.9 km
Via Turonensis, Rambouillet - Chartres7.4 km
Chemin de Trèves, Rambouillet - Chartres4.5 km
Chemin de Trèves, Chartres - Châteaudun0.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Lèves: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Chartres, 2.5 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 | 15.7 | 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 Lèves →
Neighbors
Next to Lèves
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ChampholMainvilliersChartresLucéLuisantLe CoudrayLèves
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lèves | 0% | 24% | 2.7 |
| Champhol 3,643 · 2.4 km | 0% | 9.3% | 3.7 |
| Mainvilliers 10,629 · 2.4 km | 0% | 9.3% | 1.4 |
| Chartres 38,324 · 3.4 km | 0% | 2.4% | 5.5 |
| Lucé 15,921 · 4.1 km | 0% | 2.6% | 3 |
| Luisant 6,945 · 5.3 km | 6.4% | 11% | 3.4 |
| Le Coudray 4,038 · 5.5 km | 0% | 2.6% | 3 |
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 Lèves
Is Lèves in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée de l’Eure de Maintenon à Anet et vallons affluents, 4.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Lèves?
OpenStreetMap maps 21 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Lèves is woodland?
24% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lèves near the sea?
No: the coast is 135 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Lèves?
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.