Photo: X-Javier · CC BY-SA 4.0Almost every home in Breteuil is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 31% of Breteuil. Footpaths add up to 18 km across Breteuil (0.3 km per km²). No protected area reaches Breteuil; the nearest, Les étangs et mares des forêts de Breteuil et Conches (Natura 2000), is 0 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Eure median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of outdoors place is Breteuil?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Breteuil apart: its woods, then protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Breteuil 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Breteuil has the 2nd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,240 to 4,323 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Brives-Charensac (4.2 km per km²) to Terres-de-Caux (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brives-Charensac Haute-Loire | 4.2 | 17% | 0% | 166 km |
| 2 | Mimet Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.9 | 49% | 44% | 16 km |
| 3 | Leuville-sur-Orge Essonne | 3.8 | 15% | 0% | 166 km |
| 4 | Agneaux Manche | 3.5 | 10% | 0% | 25 km |
| 5 | Barbentane Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.1 | 36% | 8.1% | 50 km |
| 6 | Roquettes Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 4.1% | 4.3% | 147 km |
| 7 | Courseulles-sur-Mer Calvados | 2.7 | 1% | 0% | On it |
| 8 | Angoulins Charente-Maritime | 2.7 | 0.3% | 3.8% | On it |
| 9 | Pont-Péan Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.3 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 10 | Coignières Yvelines | 2.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 11 | La Norville Essonne | 2.2 | 4% | 0% | 168 km |
| 12 | Combrit Finistère | 2.2 | 20% | 3.3% | On it |
| 13 | Châtenois Bas-Rhin | 2 | 33% | 0% | 458 km |
| 14 | Lanvallay Côtes-d'Armor | 1.8 | 17% | 100% | 4.9 km |
| 15 | Is-sur-Tille Côte-d'Or | 1.6 | 41% | 0% | 388 km |
| 16 | Millery Rhône | 1.6 | 14% | 0% | 237 km |
| 17 | Désertines Allier | 1.5 | 20% | 0% | 281 km |
| 18 | Fleury Aude | 1.5 | 0.7% | 98% | On it |
| 19 | Tonnerre Yonne | 1.5 | 41% | 0% | 308 km |
| 20 | Ecquevilly Yvelines | 1.4 | 26% | 0% | 124 km |
| 21 | Vimy Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 16% | 0% | 80 km |
| 22 | Maîche Doubs | 1.3 | 31% | 100% | 389 km |
| 23 | Beauvallon Rhône | 1.3 | 18% | 0% | 231 km |
| 24 | Rognonas Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.2 | 0% | 13% | 50 km |
| 25 | Saint-Aubin-d'Aubigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 38 km |
| 26 | Chabanière Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 230 km |
| 27 | Rang-du-Fliers Pas-de-Calais | 0.6 | 23% | 13% | 4.7 km |
| 28 | Nozay Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.7% | 0% | 52 km |
| 29 | Cours Rhône | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 283 km |
| 30 | Bessières Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 9.9% | 2.4% | 145 km |
| 31 | Châteauneuf-sur-Isère Drôme | 0.6 | 6.5% | 2.1% | 173 km |
| 32 | Nanteuil-le-Haudouin Oise | 0.5 | 9.7% | 32% | 142 km |
| 33 | Friville-Escarbotin Somme | 0.5 | 2.1% | 100% | 7.2 km |
| 34 | Saint-Savin Isère | 0.5 | 17% | 15% | 244 km |
| 35 | Eyragues Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 43 km |
| 36 | Serémange-Erzange Moselle | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 307 km |
| 37 | Ussac Corrèze | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 167 km |
| 38 | Pontorson Manche | 0.4 | 0.4% | 6.2% | On it |
| 39 | Montélier Drôme | 0.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 165 km |
| 40 | Breteuil Eure | 0.3 | 31% | 0.2% | 78 km |
| 41 | Terres-de-Caux Seine-Maritime | 0.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 19 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Les étangs et mares des forêts de Breteuil et Conches is the nearest protected area, 0 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Les étangs et mares des forêts de Breteuil et Conches
Share of the commune’s land
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.
18 km of footpaths and 8 km of hiking routes cross Breteuil
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 93% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 77% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 97% of Breteuil’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR 224 passes within 2 km of Breteuil.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Breteuil: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Breteuil, 0.7 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 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 61 | 53 | 52 | 47 | 63 | 57 | 58 | 46 | 53 | 66 | 66 | 79 |
August is the driest month (46 mm) and the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 79 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 61 nights a year. The climate in Breteuil →
Next to Breteuil
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breteuil | 0.2% | 31% | 0.3 |
| Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton 7,193 · 9.2 km | 1.5% | 20% | 0.4 |
| Mesnils-sur-Iton 6,078 · 11 km | 0% | 13% | 0.2 |
| Conches-en-Ouche 4,838 · 15 km | 0% | 51% | 0.4 |
| L'Aigle 7,663 · 22 km | 0% | 8.4% | 1.1 |
| Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets 4,116 · 23 km | 0% | 19% | 0.7 |
| Saint-Sébastien-de-Morsent 5,524 · 24 km | 0% | 35% | 2.2 |
Conches-en-Ouche is more wooded.
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 Breteuil
Is Breteuil in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Les étangs et mares des forêts de Breteuil et Conches, 0 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Breteuil?
OpenStreetMap maps 18 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Breteuil is woodland?
31% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Breteuil near the sea?
No: the coast is 78 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Breteuil?
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.