Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Patafisik · CC BY-SA 4.050% of Corenc is mapped woodland. Corenc has 12 km of waymarked hiking routes. 23 km of footpaths cross Corenc (3.8 km per km²). 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.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Corenc apart: its protected countryside, then its woods.
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 (4,185 to 4,246 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (5 km per km²) to Terres-de-Caux (0.1 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Touquet-Paris-Plage Pas-de-Calais | 5 | 23% | 9.8% | On it |
| 2 | Brives-Charensac Haute-Loire | 4.2 | 17% | 0% | 166 km |
| 3 | Mimet Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.9 | 49% | 44% | 16 km |
| 4 | Corenc Isère | 3.8 | 50% | 45% | 206 km |
| 5 | Bray-Dunes Nord | 3.6 | 0% | 41% | On it |
| 6 | Montarnaud Hérault | 3 | 47% | 17% | 22 km |
| 7 | Angoulins Charente-Maritime | 2.7 | 0.3% | 3.8% | On it |
| 8 | Escautpont Nord | 2.6 | 41% | 99% | 100 km |
| 9 | Pont-Péan Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.3 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 10 | Le Neubourg Eure | 2.3 | 19% | 0% | 51 km |
| 11 | Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny Savoie | 2.2 | 50% | 100% | 225 km |
| 12 | Plomelin Finistère | 2.1 | 19% | 0% | On it |
| 13 | Marlenheim Bas-Rhin | 2 | 9.8% | 0% | 435 km |
| 14 | Rouffach Haut-Rhin | 1.8 | 37% | 10% | 464 km |
| 15 | Carnac Morbihan | 1.7 | 25% | 2.5% | On it |
| 16 | Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 36% | 2.7% | 41 km |
| 17 | Pont-du-Casse Lot-et-Garonne | 1.7 | 8.3% | 0% | 132 km |
| 18 | Pomponne Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 48% | 4% | 161 km |
| 19 | Valgelon-La Rochette Savoie | 1.6 | 31% | 0.6% | 216 km |
| 20 | Wolfisheim Bas-Rhin | 1.6 | 7.5% | 0% | 446 km |
| 21 | Fleury Aude | 1.5 | 0.7% | 98% | On it |
| 22 | Saint-Just-Malmont Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 47% | 0.3% | 199 km |
| 23 | Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse Drôme | 1.1 | 26% | 0% | 186 km |
| 24 | Pluguffan Finistère | 1.1 | 14% | 0% | 4.3 km |
| 25 | Bartenheim Haut-Rhin | 1.1 | 30% | 29% | 428 km |
| 26 | Grisolles Tarn-et-Garonne | 1 | 13% | 19% | 168 km |
| 27 | Rians Var | 0.9 | 70% | 70% | 45 km |
| 28 | Athis-Val de Rouvre Orne | 0.8 | 11% | 2.9% | 56 km |
| 29 | Noues de Sienne Calvados | 0.7 | 20% | 0% | 32 km |
| 30 | Gourdon Lot | 0.7 | 42% | 0% | 158 km |
| 31 | Brionne Eure | 0.6 | 38% | 14% | 38 km |
| 32 | Saint-Laurent-Nouan Loir-et-Cher | 0.6 | 42% | 26% | 213 km |
| 33 | Nailloux Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 5.1% | 0% | 123 km |
| 34 | Le Châtelet-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 18% | 0% | 200 km |
| 35 | Porte des Pierres Dorées Rhône | 0.6 | 9.4% | 0% | 271 km |
| 36 | Sanvignes-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 12% | 0% | 345 km |
| 37 | Breteuil Oise | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 75 km |
| 38 | Jouarre Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 175 km |
| 39 | Betschdorf Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 41% | 49% | 436 km |
| 40 | Redessan Gard | 0.2 | 0% | 66% | 41 km |
| 41 | Terres-de-Caux Seine-Maritime | 0.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 19 km |
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: Forêt domaniale du Saint-Eynard leads, at 64 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.
45% of Corenc’s land is protected, more than in 86% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Isère has 0%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
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 83% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 92% 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 Corenc is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 965 passes within 2 km of Corenc.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Grenoble-St Geoirs, 39 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 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.4 | 8.8 |
| 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 Corenc →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corenc | 45% | 50% | 3.8 |
| Meylan 18,770 · 1.4 km | 12% | 18% | 9.2 |
| La Tronche 6,424 · 1.7 km | 43% | 46% | 9 |
| Montbonnot-Saint-Martin 5,698 · 3.9 km | 0% | 9.5% | 4.6 |
| Gières 7,376 · 4.3 km | 0% | 35% | 7.2 |
| Saint-Martin-d'Hères 37,695 · 4.4 km | 0% | 14% | 10.1 |
| Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux 6,078 · 4.6 km | 71% | 52% | 5.7 |
Yes: Corenc lies in Chartreuse Regional Nature Park (45% of the commune).
OpenStreetMap maps 23 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 12 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
50% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 206 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
April and June to August: 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 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.