First pick
Bois de la Croix Blanche
Wood or forest · 60 m outside the commune
81 ha
2.5 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Tristan Nitot · CC BY-SA 3.034%woodland
Outdoors in Gisors · protected areas, woods and footpaths
34% of Gisors is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
No protected area reaches Gisors; the nearest, Vexin Français Regional Nature Park, is 6.2 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 16 km across Gisors (0.9 km per km²). Gisors has 4 km of waymarked hiking routes. 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: Vexin Français Regional Nature Park, 6.2 km
Woodland
34%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
16 km
0.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.6 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de la Croix Blanche
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 Gisors?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune34% mapped woodland, more than in 80% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyVexin Français Regional Nature Park is 6.2 km from the town center.
What sets Gisors apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Gisors 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
Woodland34%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
80out of 100
Footpaths0.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
30out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
39out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Gisors has the 7th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (12,139 to 12,677 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Villetaneuse (11 km per km²) to Saint-Gaudens (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Villetaneuse Seine-Saint-Denis | 11 | 5.1% | 0% | 140 km |
| 2 | La Queue-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.3 | 47% | 0% | 165 km |
| 3 | Bayeux Calvados | 6.1 | 2.8% | 0% | 7.4 km |
| 4 | Marquette-lez-Lille Nord | 5.6 | 4.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 5 | L'Union Haute-Garonne | 5.4 | 4.4% | 0% | 146 km |
| 6 | L'Isle-Adam Val-d'Oise | 5.2 | 60% | 0.2% | 121 km |
| 7 | Châlette-sur-Loing Loiret | 5.1 | 43% | 0% | 234 km |
| 8 | Riedisheim Haut-Rhin | 4.4 | 29% | 0% | 440 km |
| 9 | Harnes Pas-de-Calais | 4.2 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 km |
| 10 | Saint-Avé Morbihan | 3.7 | 24% | 97% | 4.5 km |
| 11 | Granville Manche | 3.6 | 1.3% | 7.2% | On it |
| 12 | Oissel-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 3.5 | 48% | 3.9% | 54 km |
| 13 | Bully-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 3.1% | 0% | 71 km |
| 14 | Raismes Nord | 3.2 | 71% | 100% | 100 km |
| 15 | Triel-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.8 | 34% | 0% | 124 km |
| 16 | Le Chambon-Feugerolles Loire | 2.8 | 43% | 0.1% | 205 km |
| 17 | Cogolin Var | 2.7 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 18 | Creutzwald Moselle | 2.4 | 57% | 0% | 348 km |
| 19 | Quimperlé Finistère | 2.4 | 24% | 3.9% | 9.2 km |
| 20 | Mende Lozère | 2.4 | 54% | 0% | 115 km |
| 21 | Sarrebourg Moselle | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 403 km |
| 22 | Guidel Morbihan | 2.3 | 23% | 7.8% | On it |
| 23 | La Chapelle-Saint-Luc Aube | 2.3 | 12% | 0% | 270 km |
| 24 | Obernai Bas-Rhin | 2 | 16% | 1.9% | 447 km |
| 25 | Brignais Rhône | 2 | 14% | 0% | 241 km |
| 26 | Pont-Sainte-Maxence Oise | 1.8 | 47% | 99% | 118 km |
| 27 | Solliès-Pont Var | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 11 km |
| 28 | Aubenas Ardèche | 1.6 | 6.8% | 18% | 120 km |
| 29 | Vernouillet Eure-et-Loir | 1.5 | 9.6% | 0% | 107 km |
| 30 | Châteaubriant Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0% | 76 km |
| 31 | Pont-du-Château Puy-de-Dôme | 1.2 | 8.9% | 9.7% | 257 km |
| 32 | Bischwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 443 km |
| 33 | Louvres Val-d'Oise | 1.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 139 km |
| 34 | Sablé-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 1 | 12% | 0% | 116 km |
| 35 | Gisors Eure | 0.9 | 34% | 0% | 87 km |
| 36 | Saint-André-de-Cubzac Gironde | 0.8 | 5.4% | 5.2% | 12 km |
| 37 | Vidauban Var | 0.7 | 22% | 34% | 20 km |
| 38 | Rognac Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 22% | 10% | 16 km |
| 39 | Mèze Hérault | 0.5 | 5.2% | 27% | 6.3 km |
| 40 | Castelnaudary Aude | 0.4 | 2% | 0% | 96 km |
| 41 | Saint-Gaudens Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 9.3% | 3.9% | 186 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 Gisors
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de la Croix Blanche leads, at 81 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Environnemental Frédéric Passy
Park or garden
7.7 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Gisors
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vexin Français Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 6.2 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Vexin Français Regional Nature Park
6.2 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
16 km of footpaths cross Gisors
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
16 km
0.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.6 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
34%
about 5.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GisorsEure medianFrance median
Footpaths0.9
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GisorsEure medianFrance median
Woodland34%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 70% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 80% 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 Gisors 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)
GR 22516 km
GR 12516 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Gisors: GR 225 and GR 125.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Gisors: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Jamericourt, 8.1 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) | 8.6 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 61 | 50 | 51 | 49 | 59 | 54 | 61 | 56 | 48 | 63 | 64 | 79 |
September is the driest month (48 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 79 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 51 nights a year. The climate in Gisors →
Neighbors
Next to Gisors
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Chaumont-en-VexinSérifontaineÉtrépagnyMagny-en-VexinVexin-sur-EpteAuneuilGisors
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gisors | 0% | 34% | 0.9 |
| Chaumont-en-Vexin 3,338 · 8.1 km | 0% | 18% | 0.5 |
| Sérifontaine 2,784 · 8.2 km | 0% | 21% | 0.1 |
| Étrépagny 3,670 · 12 km | 0% | 12% | 0.2 |
| Magny-en-Vexin 5,779 · 14 km | 100% | 13% | 1.3 |
| Vexin-sur-Epte 6,015 · 18 km | 2.2% | 16% | 0.3 |
| Auneuil 2,898 · 19 km | 4.7% | 17% | 0.2 |
Magny-en-Vexin has at least twice as much protected land.
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 Gisors
Is Gisors in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vexin Français Regional Nature Park, 6.2 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Gisors?
OpenStreetMap maps 16 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Gisors is woodland?
34% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Gisors near the sea?
No: the coast is 87 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Gisors?
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.