First pick
Forêt domaniale de Moyeuvre
Wood or forest
7,820 ha146.2 km of path
32 h 30 minto walk all 146.2 km of path
5.9 km westfrom the center
Voie VerteSentier BotaniqueChemin de la Voess+3 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Aragondange · CC BY-SA 3.063%woodland
Outdoors in Vitry-sur-Orne · protected areas, woods and footpaths
63% of Vitry-sur-Orne is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 8 km in Vitry-sur-Orne. No protected area reaches Vitry-sur-Orne; the nearest, Pelouses du pays Messin (Natura 2000), is 14 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 17 km across Vitry-sur-Orne (2.2 km per km²). 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: Pelouses du pays Messin, 14 km
Woodland
63%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
17 km
2.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.2 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt domaniale de Moyeuvre
Throughout this page, the Moselle 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 Vitry-sur-Orne?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune63% mapped woodland, more than in 96% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes8 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Vitry-sur-Orne apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Vitry-sur-Orne 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
Woodland63%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
96out of 100
Footpaths2.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
60out of 100
Hiking routes1.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
85out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Vitry-sur-Orne has the 8th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,858 to 2,911 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Batz-sur-Mer (6.4 km per km²) to Précigné (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Batz-sur-Mer Loire-Atlantique | 6.4 | 1.4% | 52% | On it |
| 2 | Giromagny Territoire de Belfort | 3 | 42% | 100% | 443 km |
| 3 | Sainte-Anne-d'Auray Morbihan | 2.9 | 12% | 100% | 2.5 km |
| 4 | Le Pouzin Ardèche | 2.5 | 4.6% | 28% | 142 km |
| 5 | Blaye-les-Mines Tarn | 2.5 | 10% | 0% | 127 km |
| 6 | Fresnoy-le-Grand Aisne | 2.2 | 2.4% | 0% | 127 km |
| 7 | Pérignat-lès-Sarliève Puy-de-Dôme | 2.2 | 3.7% | 4.6% | 251 km |
| 8 | Vitry-sur-Orne Moselle | 2.2 | 63% | 0% | 313 km |
| 9 | Montbazin Hérault | 2 | 1.9% | 58% | 11 km |
| 10 | Bar-sur-Seine Aube | 1.7 | 40% | 0% | 302 km |
| 11 | Saint-Jean-en-Royans Drôme | 1.7 | 60% | 100% | 177 km |
| 12 | Charquemont Doubs | 1.5 | 39% | 100% | 385 km |
| 13 | Argentat-sur-Dordogne Corrèze | 1.4 | 59% | 2.2% | 199 km |
| 14 | Orcet Puy-de-Dôme | 1.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 248 km |
| 15 | Megève Haute-Savoie | 1.3 | 40% | 0% | 241 km |
| 16 | Tresserve Savoie | 1.3 | 6.1% | 66% | 245 km |
| 17 | Trélivan Côtes-d'Armor | 1.1 | 18% | 100% | 9.5 km |
| 18 | Cany-Barville Seine-Maritime | 1.1 | 20% | 0% | 7.9 km |
| 19 | Rozay-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 1.1% | 0.3% | 191 km |
| 20 | Toulenne Gironde | 1.1 | 8.9% | 7.5% | 56 km |
| 21 | L'Étrat Loire | 1 | 19% | 0% | 215 km |
| 22 | Colombier-Saugnieu Rhône | 1 | 2.7% | 0% | 252 km |
| 23 | Chavanay Loire | 0.8 | 21% | 99% | 213 km |
| 24 | Noailles Oise | 0.8 | 46% | 0% | 101 km |
| 25 | Bourg-Argental Loire | 0.8 | 42% | 100% | 197 km |
| 26 | Saint-Priest-Taurion Haute-Vienne | 0.6 | 45% | 0% | 175 km |
| 27 | Aoste Isère | 0.6 | 13% | 4.6% | 245 km |
| 28 | Balbigny Loire | 0.6 | 12% | 5.8% | 251 km |
| 29 | Argentré Mayenne | 0.5 | 3.1% | 0% | 80 km |
| 30 | Labouheyre Landes | 0.5 | 74% | 100% | 30 km |
| 31 | Dormans Marne | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 188 km |
| 32 | Neuville-sur-Escaut Nord | 0.4 | 0.8% | 0% | 105 km |
| 33 | Pennautier Aude | 0.3 | 7.6% | 0% | 65 km |
| 34 | Sennecey-le-Grand Saône-et-Loire | 0.3 | 33% | 0% | 348 km |
| 35 | Rosières-en-Santerre Somme | 0.3 | 0.2% | 0% | 84 km |
| 36 | Yvrac Gironde | 0.3 | 7.7% | 0% | 17 km |
| 37 | Lafrançaise Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 19% | 0.8% | 175 km |
| 38 | Thiviers Dordogne | 0.2 | 27% | 0.1% | 127 km |
| 39 | Auneuil Oise | 0.2 | 17% | 4.7% | 88 km |
| 40 | Avord Cher | 0.1 | 3.2% | 0% | 300 km |
| 41 | Précigné Sarthe | 0.1 | 23% | 0% | 123 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 Vitry-sur-Orne
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale de Moyeuvre leads, at 7,820 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Pelouses du pays Messin is the nearest protected area, 14 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
Pelouses du pays Messin
14 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
17 km of footpaths and 8 km of hiking routes cross Vitry-sur-Orne
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
2.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.2 km
waymarked: 1.1 km per km²
Woodland
63%
about 4.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Vitry-sur-OrneMoselle medianFrance median
Footpaths2.2
Hiking routes1.1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Vitry-sur-OrneMoselle medianFrance median
Woodland63%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 60% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 96% 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 Vitry-sur-Orne is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 50115 km
Circuit de Rombas1.3 km
GR 501 passes within 2 km of Vitry-sur-Orne.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Vitry-sur-Orne: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Malancourt, 6.9 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) | 8.6 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 4 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 19 | 14 | 8 | 5 |
| Rain (mm) | 86 | 70 | 68 | 53 | 68 | 68 | 71 | 70 | 70 | 80 | 82 | 100 |
April is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 100 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 63 nights a year. The climate in Vitry-sur-Orne →
Neighbors
Next to Vitry-sur-Orne
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ClouangeGandrangeAmnévilleRombasMondelangeFameckVitry-sur-Orne
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Vitry-sur-Orne
Is Vitry-sur-Orne in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Pelouses du pays Messin, 14 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Vitry-sur-Orne?
OpenStreetMap maps 17 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Vitry-sur-Orne is woodland?
63% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Vitry-sur-Orne near the sea?
No: the coast is 313 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Vitry-sur-Orne?
April 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.