Photo: Matthieu LAPADU-HARGUES · CC BY-SA 3.045% of Apprieu is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 47 km across Apprieu (3 km per km²). No protected area reaches Apprieu; the nearest, Marais du Val d’Ainan (Natura 2000), is 3.4 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Isère median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of outdoors place is Apprieu?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Apprieu apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
How Apprieu 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Apprieu has the 3rd most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,585 to 3,646 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Vaudreuil (3.9 km per km²) to Vald'Yerre (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Vaudreuil Eure | 3.9 | 43% | 6.2% | 64 km |
| 2 | Champhol Eure-et-Loir | 3.7 | 9.3% | 0% | 137 km |
| 3 | Apprieu Isère | 3 | 45% | 0% | 222 km |
| 4 | Jonzac Charente-Maritime | 2.7 | 11% | 8.4% | 24 km |
| 5 | Masevaux-Niederbruck Haut-Rhin | 2.6 | 78% | 100% | 445 km |
| 6 | Cournonsec Hérault | 2.5 | 0.2% | 49% | 13 km |
| 7 | Orcines Puy-de-Dôme | 2.5 | 59% | 100% | 259 km |
| 8 | Ézy-sur-Eure Eure | 2.3 | 42% | 8.3% | 100 km |
| 9 | Plestin-les-Grèves Côtes-d'Armor | 2.3 | 16% | 6% | On it |
| 10 | Saint-Léger-du-Bourg-Denis Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 39% | 4.6% | 55 km |
| 11 | Marines Val-d'Oise | 2.2 | 36% | 100% | 108 km |
| 12 | Saint-Germain-du-Corbéis Orne | 1.8 | 11% | 4.1% | 98 km |
| 13 | Saint-Jean-de-Moirans Isère | 1.8 | 5.5% | 0% | 217 km |
| 14 | Saint-Brès Hérault | 1.8 | 0.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 15 | Montrichard Val de Cher Loir-et-Cher | 1.7 | 60% | 0% | 211 km |
| 16 | Givry Saône-et-Loire | 1.7 | 46% | 2.2% | 361 km |
| 17 | Forges-les-Eaux Seine-Maritime | 1.7 | 24% | 4.9% | 47 km |
| 18 | Pradines Lot | 1.6 | 32% | 0% | 169 km |
| 19 | Boujan-sur-Libron Hérault | 1.6 | 9.8% | 0% | 14 km |
| 20 | Montussan Gironde | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 19 km |
| 21 | Villers-Semeuse Ardennes | 1.5 | 7.8% | 0% | 210 km |
| 22 | Viviers Ardèche | 1.3 | 49% | 2.6% | 113 km |
| 23 | Espaly-Saint-Marcel Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 11% | 1.5% | 166 km |
| 24 | Neuilly-Crimolois Côte-d'Or | 1.3 | 17% | 0% | 409 km |
| 25 | Gelos Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.3 | 37% | 7.4% | 96 km |
| 26 | Bourgueil Indre-et-Loire | 1.1 | 49% | 100% | 148 km |
| 27 | Rocheservière Vendée | 1.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 37 km |
| 28 | Canet Hérault | 0.8 | 2.7% | 2.8% | 27 km |
| 29 | Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom Calvados | 0.8 | 20% | 0% | 37 km |
| 30 | Saint-Clair-de-la-Tour Isère | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 240 km |
| 31 | Gouffern en Auge Orne | 0.6 | 25% | 33% | 59 km |
| 32 | Marzy Nièvre | 0.6 | 8.6% | 20% | 332 km |
| 33 | Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin Isère | 0.5 | 8.4% | 0% | 240 km |
| 34 | Rochechouart Haute-Vienne | 0.4 | 29% | 99% | 131 km |
| 35 | Lizy-sur-Ourcq Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 17% | 0% | 161 km |
| 36 | Saint-Jean-d'Hermine Vendée | 0.4 | 9.2% | 2.4% | 27 km |
| 37 | Rivery Somme | 0.4 | 6.1% | 9.4% | 56 km |
| 38 | Chauffailles Saône-et-Loire | 0.4 | 32% | 0% | 295 km |
| 39 | Montoire-sur-le-Loir Loir-et-Cher | 0.3 | 14% | 0.4% | 185 km |
| 40 | Derval Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 9.6% | 0% | 56 km |
| 41 | Vald'Yerre Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 | 6.5% | 0.1% | 159 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Marais du Val d’Ainan is the nearest protected area, 3.4 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Marais du Val d’Ainan
Share of the commune’s land
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.
47 km of footpaths cross Apprieu
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is more than in 74% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 88% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Apprieu’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Apprieu: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Grenoble-St Geoirs, 15 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) | 9.1 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 63 | 49 | 63 | 76 | 91 | 73 | 67 | 66 | 99 | 107 | 99 | 64 |
February is the driest month (49 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 107 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 66 nights a year. The climate in Apprieu →
Next to Apprieu
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apprieu | 0% | 45% | 3 |
| Chirens 2,546 · 5 km | 6% | 48% | 1.2 |
| Rives 6,549 · 5 km | 0% | 13% | 1.1 |
| Le Grand-Lemps 3,083 · 6 km | 10% | 24% | 0.4 |
| Renage 3,348 · 6.9 km | 0% | 31% | 3.1 |
| Voiron 21,847 · 7.8 km | 0% | 28% | 3.3 |
| Villages du Lac de Paladru 2,598 · 8.4 km | 0% | 21% | 0.8 |
Le Grand-Lemps has at least twice as much protected land.
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 Apprieu
Is Apprieu in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais du Val d’Ainan, 3.4 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Apprieu?
OpenStreetMap maps 47 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Apprieu is woodland?
45% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Apprieu near the sea?
No: the coast is 222 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Apprieu?
April and June to August: 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.