First pick
Vallée de la Flume
Park or garden
36 ha9.6 km of path
2 h 10 minto walk all 9.6 km of path
0.6 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: chisloup · CC BY 3.03.6%woodland
Outdoors in Pacé · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Pacé is within 800 m of a park or wood
3.6% of Pacé is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Pacé; the nearest, Complexe forestier Rennes-Liffré-Chevré, Étang et lande d’Ouée, forêt de Haute Sève (Natura 2000), is 12 km from the town center. 76 km of footpaths cross Pacé (2.2 km per km²). 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: Complexe forestier Rennes-Liffré-Chevré, Étang et lande d’Ouée, forêt de Haute Sève, 12 km
Woodland
3.6%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
76 km
2.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
18 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: Vallée de la Flume
The sea
41 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Ille-et-Vilaine 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 Pacé 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
Woodland3.6%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
17out of 100
Footpaths2.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
61out of 100
Hiking routes0.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
62out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Pacé has the 16th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (11,438 to 11,974 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Épinay-sous-Sénart (10.3 km per km²) to Baugé-en-Anjou (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Épinay-sous-Sénart Essonne | 10.3 | 54% | 0% | 171 km |
| 2 | Talant Côte-d'Or | 8 | 5.6% | 0% | 399 km |
| 3 | Seyssinet-Pariset Isère | 6.6 | 60% | 57% | 203 km |
| 4 | Villecresnes Val-de-Marne | 6.5 | 27% | 0% | 170 km |
| 5 | Valbonne Alpes-Maritimes | 6.4 | 53% | 0% | 8.4 km |
| 6 | Le Relecq-Kerhuon Finistère | 4.8 | 7.6% | 0% | On it |
| 7 | Ifs Calvados | 4.6 | 3.9% | 0% | 17 km |
| 8 | Sassenage Isère | 4.6 | 48% | 50% | 205 km |
| 9 | Hœnheim Bas-Rhin | 3.7 | 0.5% | 0% | 448 km |
| 10 | Beausoleil Alpes-Maritimes | 3.6 | 11% | 2.9% | 0.7 km |
| 11 | Dugny Seine-Saint-Denis | 3.5 | 6.8% | 9.5% | 144 km |
| 12 | Arpajon Essonne | 3.3 | 2.4% | 0% | 167 km |
| 13 | Maizières-lès-Metz Moselle | 3.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 319 km |
| 14 | Plan-de-Cuques Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 0.6% | 59% | 8.8 km |
| 15 | Yvetot Seine-Maritime | 3 | 3.5% | 100% | 28 km |
| 16 | Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon Essonne | 3 | 16% | 0% | 167 km |
| 17 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer Var | 2.9 | 30% | 25% | On it |
| 18 | Saint-Estève Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.8 | 2.8% | 0.5% | 16 km |
| 19 | Ploufragan Côtes-d'Armor | 2.5 | 13% | 0.2% | 5.7 km |
| 20 | Saverne Bas-Rhin | 2.5 | 65% | 0% | 418 km |
| 21 | Villepreux Yvelines | 2.5 | 8.4% | 0% | 137 km |
| 22 | Nœux-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 2.4 | 4.6% | 0% | 66 km |
| 23 | Vaux-le-Pénil Seine-et-Marne | 2.4 | 27% | 0% | 194 km |
| 24 | Ancenis-Saint-Géréon Loire-Atlantique | 2.4 | 10% | 27% | 71 km |
| 25 | Vedène Vaucluse | 2.4 | 4% | 0% | 58 km |
| 26 | Pacé Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.2 | 3.6% | 0% | 41 km |
| 27 | Bruay-sur-l'Escaut Nord | 2.1 | 14% | 98% | 102 km |
| 28 | Méricourt Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 4.3% | 0% | 79 km |
| 29 | Les Avirons Réunion | 1.7 | 47% | 78% | On it |
| 30 | Fourmies Nord | 1.6 | 48% | 100% | 157 km |
| 31 | Provins Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 6.6% | 0% | 215 km |
| 32 | Bolbec Seine-Maritime | 1.5 | 7.1% | 0% | 17 km |
| 33 | Dammartin-en-Goële Seine-et-Marne | 1.4 | 24% | 0% | 144 km |
| 34 | Somain Nord | 1.4 | 5.2% | 1.3% | 96 km |
| 35 | Chauny Aisne | 1.2 | 5.7% | 10% | 127 km |
| 36 | Thiers Puy-de-Dôme | 1 | 43% | 100% | 259 km |
| 37 | La Hague Manche | 1 | 5.5% | 14% | On it |
| 38 | Pontchâteau Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.4% | 24% | 16 km |
| 39 | Pia Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 10 km |
| 40 | Vauvert Gard | 0.4 | 3.1% | 71% | 20 km |
| 41 | Baugé-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 31% | 0.5% | 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 Pacé
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Vallée de la Flume leads, at 36 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Champagne
Wood or forest
12 ha3.9 km of path
50 minto walk all 3.9 km of path
0.9 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin public
Park or garden
5.2 ha1.3 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Pacé
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Rosais
Park or garden · 370 m outside the commune
1.9 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
3.6 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois de Champagné
Wood or forest · 260 m outside the commune
7.1 ha
4.4 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Complexe forestier Rennes-Liffré-Chevré, Étang et lande d’Ouée, forêt de Haute Sève is the nearest protected area, 12 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Complexe forestier Rennes-Liffré-Chevré, Étang et lande d’Ouée, forêt de Haute Sève
12 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
76 km of footpaths and 18 km of hiking routes cross Pacé
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
76 km
2.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
18 km
waymarked: 0.5 km per km²
Woodland
3.6%
about 1.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PacéIlle-et-Vilaine medianFrance median
Footpaths2.2
Hiking routes0.5
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PacéIlle-et-Vilaine medianFrance median
Woodland3.6%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 61% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 83% 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 Pacé is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
8 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit de La Foucherais13 km
Les 5 Rottes8.6 km
Cacé et Vaurouil5.3 km
Circuit de La Rivière5.2 km
Les 5 rottes variante5.1 km
Circuit de la Flume4.3 km
La cité jardin - variante3.7 km
Variante La Foucherais1.6 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Pacé: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Rennes-St Jacques, 9.6 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) | 8.8 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 67 | 52 | 49 | 51 | 58 | 51 | 44 | 44 | 57 | 73 | 73 | 73 |
August is the driest month (44 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 73 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 30 nights a year. The climate in Pacé →
Neighbors
Next to Pacé
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Vezin-le-CoquetMontgermontL'HermitageLa Chapelle-des-FougeretzSaint-GillesLe RheuPacé
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacé | 0% | 3.6% | 2.2 | 41 km |
| Vezin-le-Coquet 6,471 · 3.9 km | 0% | 3.6% | 3.9 | 45 km |
| Montgermont 3,827 · 4 km | 0% | 3.2% | 4.8 | 43 km |
| L'Hermitage 4,730 · 4.2 km | 0% | 4.9% | 2.8 | 43 km |
| La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz 4,738 · 4.3 km | 0% | 3% | 2.7 | 40 km |
| Saint-Gilles 5,576 · 4.9 km | 0% | 6.4% | 1.7 | 40 km |
| Le Rheu 9,839 · 6.1 km | 0% | 5.5% | 3.4 | 46 km |
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 Pacé
Is Pacé in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Complexe forestier Rennes-Liffré-Chevré, Étang et lande d’Ouée, forêt de Haute Sève, 12 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Pacé?
OpenStreetMap maps 76 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 18 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Pacé is woodland?
3.6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Pacé near the sea?
No: the coast is 41 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Pacé?
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 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.