First pick
Parc Japiot
Park or garden · 370 m outside the commune
3.7 ha2.3 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.3 km of path
1.4 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Yzergues · CC BY-SA 4.039%of the land protected
Outdoors in Belleville-sur-Meuse · protected areas, woods and footpaths
39% of Belleville-sur-Meuse’s land is protected for nature
42% of Belleville-sur-Meuse is mapped woodland. 17 km of footpaths cross Belleville-sur-Meuse (1.6 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
39%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
42%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
17 km
1.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Japiot
Throughout this page, the Meuse 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 Belleville-sur-Meuse?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside39% of the land lies in protected areas.A wooded commune42% mapped woodland, more than in 87% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Belleville-sur-Meuse apart: its protected countryside, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Belleville-sur-Meuse 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 areas39%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
85out of 100
Woodland42%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
87out of 100
Footpaths1.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
49out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Belleville-sur-Meuse has the 17th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,978 to 3,045 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lezennes (8.6 km per km²) to Rue (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lezennes Nord | 8.6 | 3.6% | 0% | 66 km |
| 2 | Margency Val-d'Oise | 7.4 | 0.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 3 | Montlignon Val-d'Oise | 5.5 | 50% | 0% | 133 km |
| 4 | Brax Haute-Garonne | 3.4 | 29% | 0% | 162 km |
| 5 | Feucherolles Yvelines | 3.2 | 33% | 0% | 133 km |
| 6 | La Turbie Alpes-Maritimes | 3.1 | 32% | 18% | 2 km |
| 7 | Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes Isère | 3 | 37% | 30% | 206 km |
| 8 | Emmerin Nord | 2.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 64 km |
| 9 | Pont-à-Marcq Nord | 2.6 | 1% | 0% | 75 km |
| 10 | Soues Hautes-Pyrénées | 2.4 | 7.2% | 5.9% | 134 km |
| 11 | Drumettaz-Clarafond Savoie | 2.1 | 42% | 5% | 243 km |
| 12 | Gandrange Moselle | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 313 km |
| 13 | Courcelles-Chaussy Moselle | 1.9 | 37% | 0% | 340 km |
| 14 | Paimbœuf Loire-Atlantique | 1.9 | 0.6% | 70% | 10 km |
| 15 | Aniane Hérault | 1.7 | 43% | 14% | 31 km |
| 16 | Agon-Coutainville Manche | 1.7 | 1.1% | 15% | On it |
| 17 | Belleville-sur-Meuse Meuse | 1.6 | 42% | 39% | 288 km |
| 18 | Quillan Aude | 1.4 | 49% | 100% | 70 km |
| 19 | Gruchet-le-Valasse Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 53% | 0% | 16 km |
| 20 | Retournac Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 55% | 85% | 184 km |
| 21 | Valmont Moselle | 1.2 | 28% | 0% | 357 km |
| 22 | Yenne Savoie | 1.2 | 35% | 19% | 252 km |
| 23 | Boën-sur-Lignon Loire | 1.2 | 12% | 4.3% | 243 km |
| 24 | Villeneuve-de-Berg Ardèche | 1.2 | 5.9% | 0% | 116 km |
| 25 | Zonza Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 40% | 75% | On it |
| 26 | Aubusson Creuse | 1 | 42% | 0% | 235 km |
| 27 | Saint-Ouen Loir-et-Cher | 0.9 | 14% | 0% | 186 km |
| 28 | Vimoutiers Orne | 0.9 | 2.2% | 0% | 46 km |
| 29 | Saint-Venant Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 2.5% | 0% | 48 km |
| 30 | Senonches Eure-et-Loir | 0.7 | 68% | 100% | 109 km |
| 31 | Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres Gard | 0.6 | 28% | 0% | 68 km |
| 32 | Ailly-sur-Somme Somme | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 46 km |
| 33 | Lapeyrouse-Fossat Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 146 km |
| 34 | Iteuil Vienne | 0.5 | 23% | 0% | 112 km |
| 35 | Murviel-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 36 | Boisseuil Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 166 km |
| 37 | Lorris Loiret | 0.4 | 54% | 31% | 234 km |
| 38 | Brienon-sur-Armançon Yonne | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | 281 km |
| 39 | Cintegabelle Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 1.4% | 128 km |
| 40 | Barjols Var | 0.2 | 69% | 18% | 49 km |
| 41 | Rue Somme | 0.2 | 7.7% | 100% | 5.7 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 Belleville-sur-Meuse
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Japiot leads, at 3.7 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Espace de la Galvaude
Park or garden · 70 m outside the commune
3.7 ha0.3 km of path
0.7 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Belleville-sur-Meuse
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Corridor de la Meuse
35% of the commune0.6 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de la Meuse
3.7% of the commune1.8 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area39%
Natura 2000 site39%
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 Belleville-sur-Meuse’s land is protected, more than in 85% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Meuse has 2.4%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
17 km of footpaths cross Belleville-sur-Meuse
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
17 km
1.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
42%
about 4.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Belleville-sur-MeuseMeuse medianFrance median
Footpaths1.6
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Belleville-sur-MeuseMeuse medianFrance median
Woodland42%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 51% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 87% 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 Belleville-sur-Meuse is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Belleville-sur-Meuse: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Septsarges, 20 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) | 5 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 14 | 8 | 5 |
| Rain (mm) | 94 | 78 | 74 | 56 | 79 | 67 | 71 | 79 | 68 | 81 | 84 | 112 |
April is the driest month (56 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 112 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 59 nights a year. The climate in Belleville-sur-Meuse →
Neighbors
Next to Belleville-sur-Meuse
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
VerdunThierville-sur-MeuseÉtainBelleville-sur-Meuse
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belleville-sur-Meuse | 39% | 42% | 1.6 |
| Verdun 16,890 · 2 km | 3.6% | 21% | 1.4 |
| Thierville-sur-Meuse 3,172 · 2.1 km | 2.4% | 6% | 0.2 |
| Étain 3,375 · 19 km | 0% | 16% | 0.8 |
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 Belleville-sur-Meuse
Is Belleville-sur-Meuse in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 39% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Belleville-sur-Meuse?
OpenStreetMap maps 17 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Belleville-sur-Meuse is woodland?
42% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Belleville-sur-Meuse near the sea?
No: the coast is 288 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Belleville-sur-Meuse?
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.