First pick
Forêt de Pacy
Wood or forest
871 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
2.5 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: AuréliePasquier · CC BY-SA 4.03.1%of the land protected
Outdoors in Pacy-sur-Eure · protected areas, woods and footpaths
45% of Pacy-sur-Eure is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
13 km of footpaths cross Pacy-sur-Eure (0.6 km per km²). Protected areas cover 3.1% of Pacy-sur-Eure’s land. Pacy-sur-Eure has 10 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
3.1%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
45%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
13 km
0.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
9.8 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: Forêt de Pacy
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 Pacy-sur-Eure?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune45% mapped woodland, more than in 89% 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 Pacy-sur-Eure apart: its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Pacy-sur-Eure 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 areas3.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
62out of 100
Woodland45%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
89out of 100
Footpaths0.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
18out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
58out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Pacy-sur-Eure has the 9th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,973 to 5,082 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Giberville (5.1 km per km²) to Laventie (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giberville Calvados | 5.1 | 3.2% | 0% | 11 km |
| 2 | Villefranche-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes | 4.2 | 19% | 26% | On it |
| 3 | Bezannes Marne | 3.4 | 1.8% | 0.1% | 198 km |
| 4 | Ornex Ain | 3.2 | 22% | 0% | 299 km |
| 5 | Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Pas-de-Calais | 2.8 | 35% | 100% | On it |
| 6 | Sommières Gard | 2.8 | 21% | 1.3% | 25 km |
| 7 | Luzarches Val-d'Oise | 2.6 | 47% | 100% | 130 km |
| 8 | Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers Hérault | 2.6 | 48% | 66% | 26 km |
| 9 | Gruissan Aude | 2.5 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 10 | Haillicourt Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 63 km |
| 11 | Decazeville Aveyron | 2.2 | 40% | 0% | 168 km |
| 12 | Montchanin Saône-et-Loire | 2.1 | 20% | 0% | 355 km |
| 13 | La Mézière Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.1 | 7.5% | 0% | 36 km |
| 14 | Bonnières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.1 | 45% | 20% | 99 km |
| 15 | Hauts de Bienne Jura | 1.9 | 77% | 100% | 326 km |
| 16 | Champagne-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1.8 | 33% | 54% | 119 km |
| 17 | Lorette Loire | 1.8 | 13% | 0.2% | 220 km |
| 18 | Bousbecque Nord | 1.5 | 1.4% | 0% | 49 km |
| 19 | Yffiniac Côtes-d'Armor | 1.5 | 4.4% | 0.1% | 1.8 km |
| 20 | Mamers Sarthe | 1.4 | 0.9% | 0.1% | 110 km |
| 21 | La Ferté Macé Orne | 1.4 | 27% | 100% | 73 km |
| 22 | Petite-Forêt Nord | 1.3 | 1.8% | 1.4% | 102 km |
| 23 | Villefranche-de-Lauragais Haute-Garonne | 1.2 | 0.5% | 0% | 117 km |
| 24 | Crécy-la-Chapelle Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 21% | 0% | 172 km |
| 25 | Plouigneau Finistère | 1.1 | 19% | 12% | 9 km |
| 26 | Cilaos Réunion | 1.1 | 43% | 100% | 18 km |
| 27 | La Souterraine Creuse | 1.1 | 18% | 0% | 193 km |
| 28 | Le Fenouiller Vendée | 1 | 4.1% | 9.9% | 3.5 km |
| 29 | Luynes Indre-et-Loire | 0.8 | 39% | 3.5% | 176 km |
| 30 | Blaye Gironde | 0.7 | 2.7% | 58% | On it |
| 31 | Habsheim Haut-Rhin | 0.7 | 49% | 50% | 438 km |
| 32 | Saint-Sever Landes | 0.6 | 17% | 4.2% | 67 km |
| 33 | Pacy-sur-Eure Eure | 0.6 | 45% | 3.1% | 88 km |
| 34 | Lestrem Pas-de-Calais | 0.5 | 1% | 0% | 52 km |
| 35 | Neuville-aux-Bois Loiret | 0.5 | 19% | 0% | 196 km |
| 36 | Morcenx-la-Nouvelle Landes | 0.4 | 64% | 12% | 34 km |
| 37 | Val d'Erdre-Auxence Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 11% | 0% | 97 km |
| 38 | Beaurepaire Isère | 0.3 | 4.5% | 0% | 210 km |
| 39 | Rambervillers Vosges | 0.2 | 38% | 0% | 414 km |
| 40 | Saint-James Manche | 0.2 | 6.3% | 0% | 12 km |
| 41 | Laventie Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.7% | 0% | 54 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 Pacy-sur-Eure
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Pacy leads, at 871 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Île des Moulins
Park or garden
0.7 ha0.1 km of path
0.6 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
3.1% of Pacy-sur-Eure 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
3.1% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area3.1%
Natura 2000 site3.1%
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.
3.1% of Pacy-sur-Eure’s land is protected, more than in 62% 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
13 km of footpaths and 10 km of hiking routes cross Pacy-sur-Eure
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
13 km
0.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
9.8 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
45%
about 9.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Pacy-sur-EureEure medianFrance median
Footpaths0.6
Hiking routes0.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Pacy-sur-EureEure medianFrance median
Woodland45%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 82% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 89% 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 Pacy-sur-Eure is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 2614 km
De Pacy-sur-Eure à Louviers (rive gauche)7.3 km
Entre rivière et vieilles pierres5.6 km
De Louviers à Pacy-sur-Eure (rive droite)5.4 km
De Pacy-sur-Eure à Anet4.8 km
GR 26 passes within 2 km of Pacy-sur-Eure.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Pacy-sur-Eure: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Evreux-Huest, 12 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 Pacy-sur-Eure →
Neighbors
Next to Pacy-sur-Eure
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-MarcelLa Chapelle-LonguevilleVernonBonnières-sur-SeineSaint-André-de-l'EureGuichainvillePacy-sur-Eure
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacy-sur-Eure | 3.1% | 45% | 0.6 |
| Saint-Marcel 4,512 · 10 km | 0% | 24% | 1.8 |
| La Chapelle-Longueville 3,282 · 11 km | 0% | 31% | 1.3 |
| Vernon 25,290 · 11 km | 3.5% | 56% | 2.5 |
| Bonnières-sur-Seine 5,064 · 14 km | 20% | 45% | 2.1 |
| Saint-André-de-l'Eure 3,829 · 15 km | 0% | 11% | 0.3 |
| Guichainville 3,087 · 15 km | 0% | 15% | 1.1 |
Bonnières-sur-Seine 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 Pacy-sur-Eure
Is Pacy-sur-Eure in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 3.1% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Pacy-sur-Eure?
OpenStreetMap maps 13 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); 10 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Pacy-sur-Eure is woodland?
45% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Pacy-sur-Eure near the sea?
No: the coast is 88 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Pacy-sur-Eure?
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.