First pick
Parc François Mitterrand
Park or garden
2.9 ha2 km of path
25 minto walk all 2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Évreux
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Vieeistant79 · CC012%of the land protected
Outdoors in Évreux · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Évreux has more footpaths per km² than 8 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 96 km across Évreux (3.6 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 26% of Évreux. Évreux has 17 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
12%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
26%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
96 km
3.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
9
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc François Mitterrand
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.
Against French towns
How Évreux 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 areas12%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
74out of 100
Woodland26%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
71out of 100
Footpaths3.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
81out 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
Évreux has the 16th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (45,702 to 53,069 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lyon 6e (12.3 km per km²) to Arles (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lyon 6e Rhône | 12.3 | 7% | 0% | 253 km |
| 2 | Massy Essonne | 9.4 | 5.3% | 0% | 158 km |
| 3 | Meudon Hauts-de-Seine | 9.3 | 44% | 0% | 150 km |
| 4 | Suresnes Hauts-de-Seine | 9.2 | 5.9% | 0% | 143 km |
| 5 | Sevran Seine-Saint-Denis | 9.1 | 10% | 7.9% | 150 km |
| 6 | Marseille 5e Bouches-du-Rhône | 8.9 | 0% | 0% | 1.9 km |
| 7 | Talence Gironde | 7.8 | 5.2% | 0% | 22 km |
| 8 | Belfort Territoire de Belfort | 7.5 | 34% | 0.4% | 431 km |
| 9 | Paris 7e Paris | 6.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 148 km |
| 10 | Saint-Germain-en-Laye Yvelines | 6.8 | 68% | 0% | 135 km |
| 11 | Saint-Herblain Loire-Atlantique | 6.6 | 12% | 1.9% | 34 km |
| 12 | Choisy-le-Roi Val-de-Marne | 6.4 | 2.7% | 0% | 161 km |
| 13 | Marseille 4e Bouches-du-Rhône | 6.4 | 0.8% | 0% | 2.5 km |
| 14 | Épinay-sur-Seine Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.3 | 0.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 15 | Lyon 5e Rhône | 5.9 | 8.8% | 0% | 251 km |
| 16 | La Courneuve Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.8 | 15% | 23% | 145 km |
| 17 | Montrouge Hauts-de-Seine | 5.5 | 0.1% | 0% | 152 km |
| 18 | Vincennes Val-de-Marne | 5.5 | 0.1% | 0% | 154 km |
| 19 | Bondy Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.1 | 1.6% | 0% | 151 km |
| 20 | Rosny-sous-Bois Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.1 | 3.2% | 2.7% | 154 km |
| 21 | Melun Seine-et-Marne | 4.6 | 6.4% | 0% | 191 km |
| 22 | Laval Mayenne | 4.5 | 8.6% | 0% | 76 km |
| 23 | Saint-Priest Rhône | 4.4 | 4.1% | 0% | 247 km |
| 24 | Blois Loir-et-Cher | 4.3 | 30% | 5.8% | 216 km |
| 25 | Vaulx-en-Velin Rhône | 3.9 | 16% | 35% | 255 km |
| 26 | Évreux Eure | 3.6 | 26% | 12% | 74 km |
| 27 | Saint-Malo Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.5 | 3.8% | 33% | On it |
| 28 | Gennevilliers Hauts-de-Seine | 3.4 | 2.1% | 0% | 141 km |
| 29 | Saint-Quentin Aisne | 3.2 | 7.4% | 1.2% | 121 km |
| 30 | Livry-Gargan Seine-Saint-Denis | 3.1 | 10% | 0.7% | 152 km |
| 31 | Sartrouville Yvelines | 3 | 0.9% | 0% | 135 km |
| 32 | Martigues Bouches-du-Rhône | 3 | 13% | 0.2% | On it |
| 33 | Les Sables-d'Olonne Vendée | 2.8 | 16% | 26% | On it |
| 34 | Bastia Haute-Corse | 2.8 | 0.3% | 0% | On it |
| 35 | Alès Gard | 2.2 | 8% | 0% | 63 km |
| 36 | Grasse Alpes-Maritimes | 1.8 | 23% | 32% | 12 km |
| 37 | Aubagne Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.8 | 30% | 13% | 8.9 km |
| 38 | Albi Tarn | 1.7 | 2.6% | 0% | 118 km |
| 39 | Carcassonne Aude | 1.4 | 8.4% | 0% | 62 km |
| 40 | Brive-la-Gaillarde Corrèze | 1.2 | 27% | 0% | 167 km |
| 41 | Arles Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.4 | 3.1% | 90% | On it |
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 Évreux
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc François Mitterrand leads, at 2.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Saint-Louis
Park or garden
1.3 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
0.7 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square Georges Brassens
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Évreux
Directionsto a point inside
Square Delaunay
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Évreux
Directionsto a point inside
Square Kennedy
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.2 km of path
1.5 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
All 9 named parks, gardens and woods
Parc François MitterrandPark or garden · 2.9 ha · 2 km of path
DirectionsInstitut Saint-JeanPark or garden · 5.3 ha
DirectionsParc Saint-LouisPark or garden · 1.3 ha · 0.7 km of path
DirectionsPré du Bel-ÉbatPark or garden · 2.5 ha
DirectionsLa RouvraieWood or forest · 4 ha
DirectionsSquare Georges BrassensPark or garden · 0.4 ha · 0.3 km of path
DirectionsSquare DelaunayPark or garden · 0.4 ha · 0.2 km of path
DirectionsSquare KennedyPark or garden · 0.4 ha · 0.2 km of path
DirectionsFriche de la poteriePark or garden · 0.4 ha
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
12% of Évreux 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
Vallée de l’Eure
12% of the commune1.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area12%
Natura 2000 site12%
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.
12% of Évreux’s land is protected, more than in 74% 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
Footpaths and woods in Évreux
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
96 km
3.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
26%
about 6.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ÉvreuxEure medianFrance median
Footpaths3.6
Hiking routes0.6
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ÉvreuxEure medianFrance median
Woodland26%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 81% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 71% 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 Évreux is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 2616 km
Evreux - Poses7.3 km
De Verneuil-sur-Avre à Evreux5.7 km
GR 26 passes within 2 km of Évreux.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Évreux: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Evreux-Huest, 5.1 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 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 49 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 54 | 51 | 49 | 45 | 45 | 58 | 54 | 65 |
February is the driest month (44 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 65 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 45 nights a year. The climate in Évreux →
Neighbors
Next to Évreux
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GravignySaint-Sébastien-de-MorsentGuichainvilleSaint-André-de-l'EurePacy-sur-EureConches-en-OucheÉvreux
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Évreux | 12% | 26% | 3.6 |
| Gravigny 4,012 · 3 km | 0% | 47% | 0.7 |
| Saint-Sébastien-de-Morsent 5,524 · 4.8 km | 0% | 35% | 2.2 |
| Guichainville 3,087 · 4.9 km | 0% | 15% | 1.1 |
| Saint-André-de-l'Eure 3,829 · 16 km | 0% | 11% | 0.3 |
| Pacy-sur-Eure 5,027 · 17 km | 3.1% | 45% | 0.6 |
| Conches-en-Ouche 4,838 · 17 km | 0% | 51% | 0.4 |
Gravigny, Pacy-sur-Eure and Conches-en-Ouche are 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 Évreux
Is Évreux in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 12% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Évreux?
OpenStreetMap maps 96 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 17 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Évreux is woodland?
26% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Évreux near the sea?
No: the coast is 74 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Évreux?
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.