First pick
Forêt de Beaumont
Wood or forest
450 ha3.8 km of path
50 minto walk all 3.8 km of path
3.5 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Thibault.taillandier · CC BY-SA 3.027%woodland
Outdoors in Montmirail · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Montmirail is within 800 m of a park or wood
19 km of footpaths cross Montmirail (0.4 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 27% of Montmirail. No protected area reaches Montmirail; the nearest, Le Petit Morin de Verdelot à Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin (Natura 2000), is 11 km from the town center. 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: Le Petit Morin de Verdelot à Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin, 11 km
Woodland
27%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
19 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
12 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt de Beaumont
Throughout this page, the Marne 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 Montmirail 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
Woodland27%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
73out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
10out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
42out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Montmirail has the 6th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,518 to 3,550 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bergues (12 km per km²) to Dun-sur-Auron (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bergues Nord | 12 | 18% | 0% | 8.9 km |
| 2 | Deauville Calvados | 5.5 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 3 | Danjoutin Territoire de Belfort | 3.3 | 33% | 0% | 429 km |
| 4 | Quissac Gard | 2.8 | 46% | 0% | 39 km |
| 5 | Mérignies Nord | 2.6 | 7.7% | 0% | 76 km |
| 6 | Bellignat Ain | 2.5 | 65% | 0% | 311 km |
| 7 | Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.4 | 82% | 1.8% | 32 km |
| 8 | Allennes-les-Marais Nord | 2.2 | 7.5% | 0% | 68 km |
| 9 | La Bernerie-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 2.1 | 2.2% | 0.8% | On it |
| 10 | Rubelles Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 19% | 0% | 190 km |
| 11 | Crémieu Isère | 1.9 | 36% | 24% | 254 km |
| 12 | Portiragnes Hérault | 1.9 | 5% | 80% | On it |
| 13 | Laragne-Montéglin Hautes-Alpes | 1.5 | 37% | 77% | 114 km |
| 14 | Lécousse Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 1.4% | 0% | 31 km |
| 15 | Fargues-Saint-Hilaire Gironde | 1.4 | 23% | 1.7% | 24 km |
| 16 | Cerny Essonne | 1.2 | 41% | 100% | 179 km |
| 17 | Châteauneuf-sur-Charente Charente | 1.1 | 12% | 21% | 58 km |
| 18 | Messimy Rhône | 1.1 | 13% | 0% | 242 km |
| 19 | Saint-Didier-en-Velay Haute-Loire | 1.1 | 35% | 0% | 194 km |
| 20 | Pleumeleuc Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.9 | 1.9% | 0% | 35 km |
| 21 | Vertaizon Puy-de-Dôme | 0.9 | 9% | 2.1% | 253 km |
| 22 | Saint-Georges-d'Espéranche Isère | 0.9 | 18% | 0% | 234 km |
| 23 | Béligneux Ain | 0.9 | 14% | 6.3% | 268 km |
| 24 | Échiré Deux-Sèvres | 0.8 | 2.6% | 0% | 56 km |
| 25 | Marssac-sur-Tarn Tarn | 0.8 | 4.6% | 0% | 124 km |
| 26 | Carcès Var | 0.7 | 51% | 25% | 39 km |
| 27 | Vrigne aux Bois Ardennes | 0.7 | 60% | 46% | 215 km |
| 28 | Varangéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.7 | 12% | 0% | 377 km |
| 29 | Saint-Soupplets Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 9.4% | 0% | 151 km |
| 30 | Le Breuil Saône-et-Loire | 0.6 | 17% | 0% | 362 km |
| 31 | Bellac Haute-Vienne | 0.6 | 20% | 0.4% | 158 km |
| 32 | Saint-Maur Indre | 0.5 | 33% | 2.1% | 220 km |
| 33 | Gallardon Eure-et-Loir | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 140 km |
| 34 | Clamecy Nièvre | 0.5 | 34% | 3% | 321 km |
| 35 | Puygouzon Tarn | 0.5 | 1.3% | 0% | 115 km |
| 36 | Montmirail Marne | 0.4 | 27% | 0% | 198 km |
| 37 | Espira-de-l'Agly Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.4 | 11% | 3.9% | 17 km |
| 38 | Nogent Haute-Marne | 0.4 | 38% | 36% | 359 km |
| 39 | Varennes-sur-Allier Allier | 0.3 | 6.2% | 39% | 311 km |
| 40 | Isigny-sur-Mer Calvados | 0.2 | 1.4% | 75% | 5 km |
| 41 | Dun-sur-Auron Cher | 0.1 | 5.4% | 17% | 291 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 Montmirail
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Beaumont leads, at 450 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Forêt de Rouges Fossés
Wood or forest
702 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
3.7 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois du Pechis
Wood or forest · 260 m outside the commune
38 ha
6 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois des Essarts
Wood or forest · 260 m outside the commune
25 ha
4.7 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Le Petit Morin de Verdelot à Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin is the nearest protected area, 11 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
Le Petit Morin de Verdelot à Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin
11 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
19 km of footpaths and 12 km of hiking routes cross Montmirail
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
19 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
12 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
27%
about 13.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MontmirailMarne medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MontmirailMarne medianFrance median
Woodland27%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 90% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 73% 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 Montmirail is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Haute Vallée du Petit Morin12 km
Tour de l'Omois12 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Montmirail: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Esternay, 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) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 59 | 55 | 49 | 47 | 70 | 54 | 59 | 52 | 51 | 69 | 61 | 75 |
April is the driest month (47 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 53 nights a year. The climate in Montmirail →
Neighbors
Next to Montmirail
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
La Ferté-GaucherSézanneEssômes-sur-MarneCharly-sur-MarneChâteau-ThierryDormansMontmirail
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montmirail | 0% | 27% | 0.4 |
| La Ferté-Gaucher 4,743 · 20 km | 0% | 7.6% | 0.4 |
| Sézanne 4,576 · 21 km | 1.7% | 22% | 0.4 |
| Essômes-sur-Marne 2,691 · 22 km | 0% | 31% | 0.2 |
| Charly-sur-Marne 2,594 · 22 km | 0% | 21% | 0.3 |
| Château-Thierry 15,097 · 23 km | 0% | 18% | 1.9 |
| Dormans 2,890 · 23 km | 0% | 24% | 0.4 |
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 Montmirail
Is Montmirail in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Le Petit Morin de Verdelot à Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin, 11 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Montmirail?
OpenStreetMap maps 19 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 12 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Montmirail is woodland?
27% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Montmirail near the sea?
No: the coast is 198 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Montmirail?
April and June 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.