Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Celette · CC BY-SA 4.035 km of footpaths cross Suresnes (9.2 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 15 km in Suresnes. 5.9% of Suresnes is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Hauts-de-Seine median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Suresnes apart: its footpaths, then its hiking routes.
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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (45,510 to 52,763 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).
| 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 | Lyon 5e Rhône | 5.9 | 8.8% | 0% | 251 km |
| 15 | La Courneuve Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.8 | 15% | 23% | 145 km |
| 16 | Alfortville Val-de-Marne | 5.7 | 0.1% | 0% | 157 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 | Charleville-Mézières Ardennes | 5 | 32% | 0.5% | 207 km |
| 22 | Melun Seine-et-Marne | 4.6 | 6.4% | 0% | 191 km |
| 23 | Noisy-le-Sec Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 151 km |
| 24 | Laval Mayenne | 4.5 | 8.6% | 0% | 76 km |
| 25 | Saint-Priest Rhône | 4.4 | 4.1% | 0% | 247 km |
| 26 | Blois Loir-et-Cher | 4.3 | 30% | 5.8% | 216 km |
| 27 | Évreux Eure | 3.6 | 26% | 12% | 74 km |
| 28 | Saint-Malo Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.5 | 3.8% | 33% | On it |
| 29 | Gennevilliers Hauts-de-Seine | 3.4 | 2.1% | 0% | 141 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 |
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Boulogne leads, at 806 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
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.
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.
That is more than in 99% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 74% 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 Suresnes is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
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Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bagatelle, 1.7 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 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 45 | 46 | 45 | 70 | 53 | 51 | 55 | 46 | 55 | 58 | 64 |
February is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 70 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 36 nights a year. The climate in Suresnes →
Named gardens in the commune.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suresnes | 0% | 5.9% | 9.2 |
| Puteaux 44,002 · 1.7 km | 0% | 1.5% | 18.9 |
| Nanterre 97,783 · 2.5 km | 0% | 0.9% | 9.2 |
| Saint-Cloud 29,855 · 2.6 km | 0% | 27% | 7.8 |
| Rueil-Malmaison 82,874 · 2.9 km | 0% | 17% | 7.3 |
| Neuilly-sur-Seine 59,538 · 3.6 km | 0% | 0.1% | 4.4 |
| Garches 17,743 · 3.8 km | 0% | 2.5% | 3.7 |
Saint-Cloud is more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis, 10 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 35 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 9.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 15 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
5.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 143 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
April and June to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
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 9, 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.