First pick
L'îlot de biodiversité de Marigny Le Lozon
Park or garden
5.2 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
1.3 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Cameron, Harry F. · Public domain46%of the land protected
Outdoors in Marigny-Le-Lozon · protected areas, woods and footpaths
46% of Marigny-Le-Lozon’s land is protected for nature
13 km of footpaths cross Marigny-Le-Lozon (0.7 km per km²). Marigny-Le-Lozon has almost no mapped woodland. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 4 km in Marigny-Le-Lozon. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
46%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
0.2%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
13 km
0.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.1 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
84%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
21 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Manche median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Marigny-Le-Lozon?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside46% of the land lies in protected areas.Little mapped woodland0.2% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Marigny-Le-Lozon apart: its protected countryside. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Marigny-Le-Lozon 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 areas46%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
86out of 100
Woodland0.2%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
2out of 100
Footpaths0.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
20out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
38out of 100
Green space nearby84%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
5out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Marigny-Le-Lozon has the 13th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,737 to 2,786 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Andilly (7.1 km per km²) to Sains-du-Nord (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andilly Val-d'Oise | 7.1 | 53% | 0% | 134 km |
| 2 | Argelès-Gazost Hautes-Pyrénées | 4.3 | 17% | 100% | 130 km |
| 3 | Quintin Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 4.7% | 0% | 19 km |
| 4 | Pabu Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 22% | 0% | 15 km |
| 5 | Collioure Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.4 | 6.3% | 4% | On it |
| 6 | Pinsaguel Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 14% | 29% | 146 km |
| 7 | Saint-Lunaire Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.6 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 8 | Balaruc-le-Vieux Hérault | 2.5 | 5.5% | 19% | 5.4 km |
| 9 | Montfort-l'Amaury Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 100% | 129 km |
| 10 | Malaucène Vaucluse | 2.1 | 57% | 100% | 83 km |
| 11 | Loire-sur-Rhône Rhône | 1.9 | 44% | 84% | 229 km |
| 12 | Saint-Saturnin Sarthe | 1.9 | 8.9% | 0% | 129 km |
| 13 | Ampuis Rhône | 1.7 | 36% | 95% | 222 km |
| 14 | Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel Var | 1.6 | 80% | 0% | 9.2 km |
| 15 | Venarey-les-Laumes Côte-d'Or | 1.5 | 18% | 2.2% | 357 km |
| 16 | Venette Oise | 1.4 | 7.3% | 0% | 117 km |
| 17 | L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs Doubs | 1.4 | 50% | 0% | 413 km |
| 18 | Trieux Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 31% | 0% | 299 km |
| 19 | Beaumont-le-Roger Eure | 1.2 | 79% | 2% | 50 km |
| 20 | Charolles Saône-et-Loire | 1.2 | 20% | 0% | 320 km |
| 21 | Mussidan Dordogne | 1.1 | 13% | 1.7% | 75 km |
| 22 | Ducey-Les Chéris Manche | 0.9 | 13% | 7.8% | 5.3 km |
| 23 | Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 100% | 40 km |
| 24 | Ronchamp Haute-Saône | 0.8 | 73% | 100% | 440 km |
| 25 | Saleux Somme | 0.7 | 22% | 0% | 53 km |
| 26 | Connerré Sarthe | 0.7 | 23% | 0% | 144 km |
| 27 | Arcis-sur-Aube Aube | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 256 km |
| 28 | Meslay-du-Maine Mayenne | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 96 km |
| 29 | Marigny-Le-Lozon Manche | 0.7 | 0.2% | 46% | 21 km |
| 30 | Bourron-Marlotte Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 42% | 22% | 211 km |
| 31 | Dieuze Moselle | 0.6 | 21% | 24% | 380 km |
| 32 | Warmeriville Marne | 0.5 | 11% | 0% | 205 km |
| 33 | Montignac-Lascaux Dordogne | 0.5 | 52% | 1.6% | 138 km |
| 34 | Baixas Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0% | 3.9% | 19 km |
| 35 | Wassy Haute-Marne | 0.5 | 61% | 0% | 302 km |
| 36 | Montrevel-en-Bresse Ain | 0.4 | 7.8% | 0% | 319 km |
| 37 | Grandvilliers Oise | 0.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 60 km |
| 38 | Thuré Vienne | 0.2 | 29% | 0% | 136 km |
| 39 | Ennezat Puy-de-Dôme | 0.1 | 0.1% | 0% | 268 km |
| 40 | Sérifontaine Oise | 0.1 | 21% | 0% | 80 km |
| 41 | Sains-du-Nord Nord | 0.1 | 34% | 100% | 149 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 Marigny-Le-Lozon
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: L'îlot de biodiversité de Marigny Le Lozon leads, at 5.2 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
8 in 10 residents of Marigny-Le-Lozon live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
84% within 800 m16% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
Marigny-Le-LozonManche medianFrance median
Within 800 m84%
0%50%100%
About 400 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Marigny-Le-Lozon
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin Regional Nature Park
46% of the commune2.1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin - Baie des Veys
3.1% of the commune5.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Basses Vallées du Cotentin et Baie des Veys
3.1% of the commune5.5 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area46%
Regional nature park46%
Natura 2000 site3.1%
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.
46% of Marigny-Le-Lozon’s land is protected, more than in 86% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Manche has 0.6%. 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.
Footpaths and woods
13 km of footpaths cross Marigny-Le-Lozon
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
13 km
0.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.1 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
0.2%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Marigny-Le-LozonManche medianFrance median
Footpaths0.7
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Marigny-Le-LozonManche medianFrance median
Woodland0.2%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 80% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 98% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Les maisons en terre5 km
Les chemins creux4.3 km
Sentier de Découverte3.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Marigny-Le-Lozon: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Coutances, 17 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) | 8.6 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 110 | 87 | 76 | 72 | 69 | 65 | 67 | 80 | 82 | 120 | 122 | 144 |
June is the driest month (65 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 23 °C). 144 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 27 nights a year. The climate in Marigny-Le-Lozon →
Neighbors
Next to Marigny-Le-Lozon
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
AgneauxBourgvalléesSaint-LôSaint-Sauveur-VillagesCoutancesCondé-sur-VireMarigny-Le-Lozon
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marigny-Le-Lozon | 46% | 0.2% | 0.7 | 21 km |
| Agneaux 4,286 · 9.4 km | 0% | 10% | 3.5 | 25 km |
| Bourgvallées 3,326 · 11 km | 0% | 4.5% | 0.5 | 28 km |
| Saint-Lô 19,471 · 12 km | 0% | 5% | 2.9 | 26 km |
| Saint-Sauveur-Villages 3,208 · 12 km | 35% | 2% | 0.8 | 13 km |
| Coutances 8,321 · 15 km | 0% | 5.6% | 2.4 | 5.7 km |
| Condé-sur-Vire 4,137 · 17 km | 0% | 3.4% | 0.9 | 33 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 Marigny-Le-Lozon
Is Marigny-Le-Lozon in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Marigny-Le-Lozon lies in Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin Regional Nature Park (46% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Marigny-Le-Lozon?
OpenStreetMap maps 13 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Marigny-Le-Lozon is woodland?
0.2% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Marigny-Le-Lozon near the sea?
No: the coast is 21 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Marigny-Le-Lozon?
May 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.