First pick
Base de loisirs de Brionne
Park or garden
35 ha3 km of path
40 minto walk all 3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Brionne
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Samish de normandie · CC BY-SA 4.014%of the land protected
Outdoors in Brionne · protected areas, woods and footpaths
38% of Brionne is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 11 km across Brionne (0.6 km per km²). 14% of Brionne’s land lies in protected areas. Brionne has 11 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
14%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
38%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
11 km
0.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Base de loisirs de Brionne
The sea
38 km
from the town center to the coast
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 place
What kind of outdoors place is Brionne?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune38% mapped woodland, more than in 84% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Few mapped footpaths0.6 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Brionne apart: its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Brionne 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 areas14%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
75out of 100
Woodland38%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
84out of 100
Footpaths0.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
19out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
69out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Brionne has the 12th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,154 to 4,217 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Indre (4.7 km per km²) to Redessan (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indre Loire-Atlantique | 4.7 | 7.9% | 41% | 30 km |
| 2 | Le Pouliguen Loire-Atlantique | 4.4 | 1.6% | 5.1% | On it |
| 3 | Herserange Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.9 | 47% | 0% | 276 km |
| 4 | Corenc Isère | 3.8 | 50% | 45% | 206 km |
| 5 | Bray-Dunes Nord | 3.6 | 0% | 41% | On it |
| 6 | Thumeries Nord | 3.3 | 37% | 12% | 77 km |
| 7 | Le Plessis-Pâté Essonne | 3.2 | 4.8% | 0% | 170 km |
| 8 | Montarnaud Hérault | 3 | 47% | 17% | 22 km |
| 9 | Escautpont Nord | 2.6 | 41% | 99% | 100 km |
| 10 | Salouël Somme | 2.6 | 2% | 0% | 54 km |
| 11 | Le Neubourg Eure | 2.3 | 19% | 0% | 51 km |
| 12 | Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny Savoie | 2.2 | 50% | 100% | 225 km |
| 13 | Yvré-l'Évêque Sarthe | 2.2 | 26% | 0% | 138 km |
| 14 | Tourrettes-sur-Loup Alpes-Maritimes | 2.1 | 40% | 100% | 11 km |
| 15 | Marlenheim Bas-Rhin | 2 | 9.8% | 0% | 435 km |
| 16 | Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine Loire-Atlantique | 2 | 5.8% | 0% | 44 km |
| 17 | Carnac Morbihan | 1.7 | 25% | 2.5% | On it |
| 18 | Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 36% | 2.7% | 41 km |
| 19 | Pont-du-Casse Lot-et-Garonne | 1.7 | 8.3% | 0% | 132 km |
| 20 | Pomponne Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 48% | 4% | 161 km |
| 21 | Valgelon-La Rochette Savoie | 1.6 | 31% | 0.6% | 216 km |
| 22 | Wolfisheim Bas-Rhin | 1.6 | 7.5% | 0% | 446 km |
| 23 | Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse Drôme | 1.1 | 26% | 0% | 186 km |
| 24 | Bartenheim Haut-Rhin | 1.1 | 30% | 29% | 428 km |
| 25 | Grisolles Tarn-et-Garonne | 1 | 13% | 19% | 168 km |
| 26 | Hérin Nord | 0.9 | 1% | 99% | 103 km |
| 27 | Athis-Val de Rouvre Orne | 0.8 | 11% | 2.9% | 56 km |
| 28 | Noues de Sienne Calvados | 0.7 | 20% | 0% | 32 km |
| 29 | Gourdon Lot | 0.7 | 42% | 0% | 158 km |
| 30 | Brionne Eure | 0.6 | 38% | 14% | 38 km |
| 31 | Nailloux Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 5.1% | 0% | 123 km |
| 32 | Le Châtelet-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 18% | 0% | 200 km |
| 33 | Anneyron Drôme | 0.6 | 14% | 0% | 201 km |
| 34 | Selles-sur-Cher Loir-et-Cher | 0.6 | 20% | 7.9% | 232 km |
| 35 | Porte des Pierres Dorées Rhône | 0.6 | 9.4% | 0% | 271 km |
| 36 | Saint-Florentin Yonne | 0.6 | 10% | 0% | 284 km |
| 37 | Sées Orne | 0.3 | 5.5% | 100% | 79 km |
| 38 | Guignen Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.3 | 11% | 1.2% | 61 km |
| 39 | Bollwiller Haut-Rhin | 0.3 | 26% | 0% | 453 km |
| 40 | Courpière Puy-de-Dôme | 0.2 | 36% | 100% | 248 km |
| 41 | Redessan Gard | 0.2 | 0% | 66% | 41 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 Brionne
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Base de loisirs de Brionne leads, at 35 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
14% of Brionne lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Risle, Guiel, Charentonne
14% of the commune
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area14%
Natura 2000 site14%
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.
14% of Brionne’s land is protected, more than in 75% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Eure has 0.3%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
11 km of footpaths and 11 km of hiking routes cross Brionne
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
11 km
0.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
38%
about 6.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BrionneEure medianFrance median
Footpaths0.6
Hiking routes0.6
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BrionneEure medianFrance median
Woodland38%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 81% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 84% 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 Brionne is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 2249.2 km
GR 269.1 km
De Brionne à Pont-Audemer, variante rive droite7 km
De Brionne à Pont-Audemer6.1 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Brionne: GR 224 and GR 26.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Brionne: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Brionne, 0.5 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) | 8.6 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 72 | 60 | 58 | 54 | 62 | 55 | 60 | 63 | 61 | 75 | 79 | 95 |
April is the driest month (54 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 95 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 52 nights a year. The climate in Brionne →
Neighbors
Next to Brionne
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Beaumont-le-RogerLe NeubourgBernayGrand BourgtherouldeLe Thuit de l'OisonBosroumoisBrionne
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brionne | 14% | 38% | 0.6 | 38 km |
| Beaumont-le-Roger 2,769 · 13 km | 2% | 79% | 1.2 | 50 km |
| Le Neubourg 4,199 · 14 km | 0% | 19% | 2.3 | 51 km |
| Bernay 9,765 · 15 km | 4.7% | 15% | 0.9 | 42 km |
| Grand Bourgtheroulde 3,995 · 16 km | 0% | 4.2% | 0.3 | 40 km |
| Le Thuit de l'Oison 3,827 · 18 km | 0% | 11% | 1.5 | 46 km |
| Bosroumois 3,872 · 18 km | 0% | 1.5% | 0.2 | 44 km |
Beaumont-le-Roger 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 Brionne
Is Brionne in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 14% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Brionne?
OpenStreetMap maps 11 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 11 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Brionne is woodland?
38% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Brionne near the sea?
No: the coast is 38 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Brionne?
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.