Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: AirScott · CC BY-SA 4.086 km of footpaths cross Ligny-en-Barrois (2.7 km per km²). No protected area reaches Ligny-en-Barrois; the nearest, Bois de Demange, Saint-Joire (Natura 2000), is 12 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 8 km in Ligny-en-Barrois. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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.
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 (3,648 to 3,706 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Étupes (3.5 km per km²) to Étrépagny (0.2 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Étupes Doubs | 3.5 | 54% | 0% | 417 km |
| 2 | Ligny-en-Barrois Meuse | 2.7 | 80% | 0% | 312 km |
| 3 | Dampmart Seine-et-Marne | 2.6 | 26% | 18% | 163 km |
| 4 | Saint-Erblon Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 58 km |
| 5 | Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey Alpes-Maritimes | 2.1 | 64% | 100% | 19 km |
| 6 | Templemars Nord | 2.1 | 0.6% | 0% | 68 km |
| 7 | Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 2 | 9.2% | 36% | 116 km |
| 8 | Fillinges Haute-Savoie | 2 | 45% | 3.2% | 280 km |
| 9 | Meurchin Pas-de-Calais | 1.9 | 7.8% | 0% | 70 km |
| 10 | Gallargues-le-Montueux Gard | 1.3 | 2% | 2% | 19 km |
| 11 | La Chapelle-Saint-Ursin Cher | 1.3 | 3.5% | 11% | 277 km |
| 12 | Breteil Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.3 | 1.4% | 0% | 39 km |
| 13 | La Rivière-de-Corps Aube | 1.3 | 4.3% | 0% | 271 km |
| 14 | Moncé-en-Belin Sarthe | 1.1 | 34% | 0% | 141 km |
| 15 | Châteauneuf-du-Faou Finistère | 1 | 9.4% | 8% | 20 km |
| 16 | Martillac Gironde | 1 | 18% | 0% | 32 km |
| 17 | Arcangues Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 32% | 7.3% | 5.2 km |
| 18 | Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerch Finistère | 1 | 27% | 100% | On it |
| 19 | Estrées-Saint-Denis Oise | 1 | 2% | 0% | 109 km |
| 20 | Belleu Aisne | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 150 km |
| 21 | Morschwiller-le-Bas Haut-Rhin | 0.9 | 9.4% | 13% | 439 km |
| 22 | Penta-di-Casinca Haute-Corse | 0.9 | 40% | 0.2% | On it |
| 23 | Salindres Gard | 0.8 | 4.3% | 0% | 68 km |
| 24 | Flassans-sur-Issole Var | 0.7 | 58% | 0.8% | 28 km |
| 25 | Pont-de-l'Isère Drôme | 0.7 | 2.2% | 0% | 173 km |
| 26 | Pleyben Finistère | 0.7 | 13% | 100% | 9.4 km |
| 27 | Créhange Moselle | 0.7 | 5.5% | 0% | 353 km |
| 28 | Saint-Philbert-de-Bouaine Vendée | 0.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 35 km |
| 29 | Champagné Sarthe | 0.7 | 40% | 3.5% | 142 km |
| 30 | Peyrehorade Landes | 0.6 | 36% | 0% | 29 km |
| 31 | Coulanges-lès-Nevers Nièvre | 0.6 | 7.8% | 5.1% | 338 km |
| 32 | Bonnétable Sarthe | 0.6 | 34% | 0% | 130 km |
| 33 | Vouillé Vienne | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 107 km |
| 34 | Quincieux Rhône | 0.5 | 4.2% | 0% | 267 km |
| 35 | Lectoure Gers | 0.4 | 10% | 0% | 154 km |
| 36 | Neuvic Dordogne | 0.3 | 36% | 10% | 84 km |
| 37 | Estrablin Isère | 0.3 | 8.8% | 0% | 228 km |
| 38 | Garchizy Nièvre | 0.3 | 9% | 12% | 333 km |
| 39 | Saint-Laurent-d'Aigouze Gard | 0.2 | 1.3% | 91% | 11 km |
| 40 | Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont Seine-Maritime | 0.2 | 14% | 2.4% | 9.8 km |
| 41 | Étrépagny Eure | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 78 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 de Ligny en Barrois leads, at 2,499 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.
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 69% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 99% 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 Ligny-en-Barrois is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 714 passes within 2 km of Ligny-en-Barrois.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Erneville aux Bois_Sapc, 9 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 | 15.2 | 16.1 | 15.8 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 5 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 109 | 88 | 79 | 61 | 77 | 67 | 77 | 72 | 81 | 92 | 97 | 122 |
April is the driest month (61 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 122 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 77 nights a year. The climate in Ligny-en-Barrois →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ligny-en-Barrois | 0% | 80% | 2.7 |
| Bar-le-Duc 14,607 · 15 km | 0% | 55% | 3.7 |
| Commercy 5,350 · 21 km | 5.6% | 64% | 1.3 |
| Ancerville 2,569 · 23 km | 0% | 51% | 2.2 |
| Saint-Dizier 22,858 · 27 km | 0% | 47% | 2.1 |
| Saint-Mihiel 3,772 · 28 km | 7.4% | 66% | 1.8 |
No. The nearest protected area is Bois de Demange, Saint-Joire, 12 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 86 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
80% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 312 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
May to September: 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.