First pick
Bois de Brillehaut
Wood or forest · 300 m outside the commune
266 ha11.8 km of path
2 h 35 minto walk all 11.8 km of path
2.9 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Totorvdr59 · CC BY-SA 4.013%of the land protected
Outdoors in Gaillon · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Gaillon is within 800 m of a park or wood
Protected areas cover 13% of Gaillon’s land. 19% of Gaillon is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 21 km across Gaillon (2 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
13%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
19%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
21 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
6
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Brillehaut
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 Gaillon 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 areas13%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
74out of 100
Woodland19%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
60out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
58out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Gaillon has the 14th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,663 to 6,831 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Luxeuil-les-Bains (5.7 km per km²) to Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luxeuil-les-Bains Haute-Saône | 5.7 | 68% | 59% | 432 km |
| 2 | Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes Seine-et-Marne | 4.3 | 11% | 0% | 164 km |
| 3 | Saulx-les-Chartreux Essonne | 4.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 162 km |
| 4 | Saint-Alban-Leysse Savoie | 4.2 | 44% | 75% | 233 km |
| 5 | Puilboreau Charente-Maritime | 3.5 | 1.5% | 0% | 3.8 km |
| 6 | Liancourt Oise | 3.4 | 26% | 0% | 110 km |
| 7 | Loos-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 3.6% | 0% | 71 km |
| 8 | Saint-Julien-les-Villas Aube | 2.9 | 7.6% | 0% | 275 km |
| 9 | Saint-Victoret Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.6 | 10% | 0% | 7.1 km |
| 10 | Montfort-sur-Meu Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.5 | 30% | 0% | 40 km |
| 11 | Inzinzac-Lochrist Morbihan | 2.5 | 40% | 0% | 2.3 km |
| 12 | Nyons Drôme | 2.5 | 44% | 100% | 103 km |
| 13 | Moëlan-sur-Mer Finistère | 2.5 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 14 | Gaillon Eure | 2 | 19% | 13% | 77 km |
| 15 | Beuvrages Nord | 1.9 | 4.2% | 99% | 102 km |
| 16 | Les Essarts-le-Roi Yvelines | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 137 km |
| 17 | Poussan Hérault | 1.5 | 2.1% | 38% | 8.5 km |
| 18 | Divion Pas-de-Calais | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 57 km |
| 19 | Plouguerneau Finistère | 1.4 | 2.5% | 10% | On it |
| 20 | Douvaine Haute-Savoie | 1.3 | 22% | 0.9% | 296 km |
| 21 | Meyreuil Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 45% | 0% | 20 km |
| 22 | Brindas Rhône | 1.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 245 km |
| 23 | Montech Tarn-et-Garonne | 1.1 | 33% | 3.3% | 180 km |
| 24 | Ploeren Morbihan | 1.1 | 13% | 96% | 3.1 km |
| 25 | Meung-sur-Loire Loiret | 1.1 | 7.2% | 6.4% | 204 km |
| 26 | Saint-Jean-d'Angély Charente-Maritime | 1 | 8% | 0% | 35 km |
| 27 | Quesnoy-sur-Deûle Nord | 1 | 0.8% | 0% | 52 km |
| 28 | Migennes Yonne | 0.9 | 8.7% | 0% | 280 km |
| 29 | Cambo-les-Bains Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.9 | 30% | 15% | 18 km |
| 30 | Othis Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 18% | 0.6% | 142 km |
| 31 | Vigneux-de-Bretagne Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 20% | 0% | 34 km |
| 32 | Neufchâteau Vosges | 0.8 | 33% | 0% | 356 km |
| 33 | Le Péage-de-Roussillon Isère | 0.6 | 13% | 28% | 209 km |
| 34 | Itteville Essonne | 0.6 | 33% | 7.1% | 177 km |
| 35 | Le Cateau-Cambrésis Nord | 0.6 | 1.4% | 0% | 130 km |
| 36 | Feignies Nord | 0.5 | 4.1% | 100% | 126 km |
| 37 | Merville Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 9.8% | 5.4% | 163 km |
| 38 | Vallons-de-l'Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 81 km |
| 39 | Fronton Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 12% | 0% | 162 km |
| 40 | Caussade Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 172 km |
| 41 | Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche Haute-Vienne | 0.1 | 24% | 0% | 151 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 Gaillon
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Brillehaut leads, at 266 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Tournebut
Wood or forest
150 ha11.7 km of path
2 h 35 minto walk all 11.7 km of path
3.5 km northfrom the center
Chemin de la Côte RobertChemin de BethléemChemin de la Vieille+2 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Verte-Bonne
Park or garden
2.7 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Gaillon
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Acacias
Park or garden · 130 m outside the commune
1.1 ha0.3 km of path
2.3 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Mairie
Park or garden
0.6 ha0.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Gaillon
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
13% of Gaillon 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
Terrasses alluviales de la Seine
13% of the commune1.1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Boucles de la Seine Amont d’Amfreville à Gaillon
5.1% of the commune2.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area13%
Natura 2000 site13%
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.
13% of Gaillon’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
21 km of footpaths cross Gaillon
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 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
19%
about 1.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GaillonEure medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GaillonEure medianFrance median
Woodland19%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 58% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 60% 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 Gaillon is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 26.3 km
Au fil de la Seine, variante Saint-Pierre-du-Vauvray2.4 km
GR 2 passes within 2 km of Gaillon.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Gaillon: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Evreux-Huest, 17 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 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 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 Gaillon →
Neighbors
Next to Gaillon
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Le Val d'HazeyLa Chapelle-LonguevilleSaint-MarcelLes AndelysVernonLouviersGaillon
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gaillon | 13% | 19% | 2 |
| Le Val d'Hazey 5,111 · 1.6 km | 0.3% | 32% | 2.6 |
| La Chapelle-Longueville 3,282 · 8.9 km | 0% | 31% | 1.3 |
| Saint-Marcel 4,512 · 11 km | 0% | 24% | 1.8 |
| Les Andelys 7,706 · 12 km | 6.1% | 22% | 1.1 |
| Vernon 25,290 · 13 km | 3.5% | 56% | 2.5 |
| Louviers 18,705 · 14 km | 0.1% | 55% | 2.8 |
Le Val d'Hazey, La Chapelle-Longueville and Vernon 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 Gaillon
Is Gaillon in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 13% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Gaillon?
OpenStreetMap maps 21 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Gaillon is woodland?
19% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Gaillon near the sea?
No: the coast is 77 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Gaillon?
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.