Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: CORLIN · CC BY-SA 3.0Footpaths add up to 54 km across Fontaine (8.1 km per km²). 39% of Fontaine’s land lies in protected areas. 37% of Fontaine is mapped woodland. 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 Fontaine 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 (21,268 to 22,718 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sèvres (8.9 km per km²) to Chemillé-en-Anjou (0.4 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sèvres Hauts-de-Seine | 8.9 | 24% | 0% | 147 km |
| 2 | Arcueil Val-de-Marne | 8.8 | 3.2% | 0% | 153 km |
| 3 | La Madeleine Nord | 8.6 | 0.6% | 0% | 61 km |
| 4 | Fontaine Isère | 8.1 | 37% | 39% | 204 km |
| 5 | Gif-sur-Yvette Essonne | 7.8 | 28% | 60% | 153 km |
| 6 | Montigny-lès-Cormeilles Val-d'Oise | 7 | 17% | 0% | 130 km |
| 7 | Saint-Cyr-l'École Yvelines | 6.3 | 7.8% | 0% | 143 km |
| 8 | Saint-Gratien Val-d'Oise | 6 | 0.7% | 0% | 137 km |
| 9 | Longjumeau Essonne | 5.9 | 4.2% | 0% | 163 km |
| 10 | Saint-Michel-sur-Orge Essonne | 5.3 | 6.7% | 0% | 168 km |
| 11 | Loos Nord | 5 | 4.6% | 0% | 63 km |
| 12 | Fleury-les-Aubrais Loiret | 4.9 | 16% | 0% | 203 km |
| 13 | Montigny-lès-Metz Moselle | 4.9 | 3.4% | 0% | 329 km |
| 14 | Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon Rhône | 4.8 | 10% | 0% | 249 km |
| 15 | Bruay-la-Buissière Pas-de-Calais | 4.5 | 22% | 0% | 61 km |
| 16 | Lagny-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 4 | 5.7% | 0% | 163 km |
| 17 | Montmorency Val-d'Oise | 3.8 | 20% | 0% | 136 km |
| 18 | Morsang-sur-Orge Essonne | 3.8 | 3.4% | 0% | 168 km |
| 19 | Gardanne Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.8 | 38% | 0% | 16 km |
| 20 | Achères Yvelines | 3.7 | 3.4% | 0% | 129 km |
| 21 | Neuilly-Plaisance Seine-Saint-Denis | 3.6 | 14% | 14% | 156 km |
| 22 | Allauch Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 28% | 65% | 9.7 km |
| 23 | Le Petit-Quevilly Seine-Maritime | 3.3 | 0% | 0% | 51 km |
| 24 | Nogent-sur-Oise Oise | 3.3 | 19% | 0% | 115 km |
| 25 | Voiron Isère | 3.3 | 28% | 0% | 220 km |
| 26 | Mandelieu-la-Napoule Alpes-Maritimes | 2.9 | 48% | 0.1% | On it |
| 27 | Dax Landes | 2.5 | 21% | 37% | 30 km |
| 28 | Mantes-la-Ville Yvelines | 2.5 | 7.2% | 0% | 111 km |
| 29 | Oyonnax Ain | 2.4 | 59% | 0% | 312 km |
| 30 | Les Pennes-Mirabeau Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 11% | 0% | 4.3 km |
| 31 | Manosque Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 2.2 | 26% | 100% | 64 km |
| 32 | Montereau-Fault-Yonne Seine-et-Marne | 2.2 | 4.3% | 8.8% | 217 km |
| 33 | Millau Aveyron | 2 | 35% | 100% | 91 km |
| 34 | Hazebrouck Nord | 1.7 | 0.7% | 0% | 37 km |
| 35 | Givors Rhône | 1.7 | 27% | 0.2% | 232 km |
| 36 | Épernay Marne | 1.7 | 44% | 7.2% | 208 km |
| 37 | Auch Gers | 1.6 | 18% | 0% | 161 km |
| 38 | Gujan-Mestras Gironde | 1.4 | 48% | 0.3% | On it |
| 39 | Abbeville Somme | 1.3 | 11% | 100% | 14 km |
| 40 | Villeneuve-sur-Lot Lot-et-Garonne | 0.5 | 11% | 0.9% | 123 km |
| 41 | Chemillé-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 4.3% | 0% | 98 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 communale de Fontaine leads, at 156 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.
39% of Fontaine’s land is protected, more than in 85% 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 98% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more 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 Fontaine is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 965 passes within 2 km of Fontaine.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Chatte_Sapc, 31 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) | 7 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 66 | 54 | 64 | 84 | 96 | 81 | 68 | 82 | 101 | 108 | 99 | 66 |
February is the driest month (54 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 108 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 67 nights a year. The climate in Fontaine →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fontaine | 39% | 37% | 8.1 |
| Seyssinet-Pariset 11,739 · 1.8 km | 57% | 60% | 6.6 |
| Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux 6,078 · 2.3 km | 71% | 52% | 5.7 |
| Sassenage 11,646 · 2.7 km | 50% | 48% | 4.6 |
| Grenoble 156,140 · 3.2 km | 0% | 4.6% | 11.6 |
| Seyssins 8,092 · 3.6 km | 45% | 44% | 7.1 |
| Saint-Égrève 17,986 · 4.4 km | 30% | 22% | 5.8 |
Seyssinet-Pariset is more wooded.
Yes: Fontaine lies in Vercors Regional Nature Park (39% of the commune).
OpenStreetMap maps 54 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 8.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 10 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
37% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 204 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 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.