Photo: Yhpmi · CC BY-SA 4.046% of Imphy’s land is protected for nature
Mapped woodland covers 32% of Imphy. 10 km of footpaths cross Imphy (0.6 km per km²). Imphy has 6 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Nièvre median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of outdoors place is Imphy?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Imphy apart: its protected countryside, then its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Imphy 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Imphy has the 12th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,167 to 3,199 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Michel (3.4 km per km²) to Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Michel Aisne | 3.4 | 55% | 62% | 170 km |
| 2 | Gagnac-sur-Garonne Haute-Garonne | 3 | 15% | 38% | 156 km |
| 3 | Voujeaucourt Doubs | 2.5 | 44% | 0% | 414 km |
| 4 | Saint-Michel Charente | 2.3 | 12% | 3.2% | 71 km |
| 5 | Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt Loir-et-Cher | 2.2 | 63% | 0% | 220 km |
| 6 | Lissieu Rhône | 2 | 19% | 0% | 260 km |
| 7 | Dolus-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.9 | 31% | 40% | On it |
| 8 | Le Thillot Vosges | 1.6 | 49% | 100% | 451 km |
| 9 | Salomé Nord | 1.6 | 3% | 0% | 65 km |
| 10 | Lozanne Rhône | 1.6 | 17% | 0% | 259 km |
| 11 | Châteaugay Puy-de-Dôme | 1.6 | 4.7% | 5.2% | 265 km |
| 12 | Nay Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.6 | 14% | 8.5% | 109 km |
| 13 | Fontoy Moselle | 1.5 | 48% | 0% | 300 km |
| 14 | Toussieu Rhône | 1.5 | 6.8% | 0% | 243 km |
| 15 | La Machine Nièvre | 1.5 | 65% | 58% | 357 km |
| 16 | Saint-Georges-des-Groseillers Orne | 1.4 | 1.8% | 0% | 59 km |
| 17 | Marsac-sur-l'Isle Dordogne | 1.2 | 33% | 0% | 99 km |
| 18 | Saône Doubs | 1.1 | 43% | 28% | 397 km |
| 19 | Escaudœuvres Nord | 1.1 | 6.3% | 0% | 112 km |
| 20 | Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie Gard | 1.1 | 44% | 0% | 61 km |
| 21 | Druelle Balsac Aveyron | 1.1 | 22% | 0% | 140 km |
| 22 | Breuil-le-Vert Oise | 1 | 31% | 0% | 105 km |
| 23 | Sallèles-d'Aude Aude | 1 | 7.8% | 1.7% | 21 km |
| 24 | La Loupe Eure-et-Loir | 1 | 9.5% | 100% | 118 km |
| 25 | Souillac Lot | 1 | 67% | 6.9% | 163 km |
| 26 | Ploemel Morbihan | 0.9 | 18% | 0% | 3.3 km |
| 27 | Camblanes-et-Meynac Gironde | 0.9 | 12% | 2.8% | 28 km |
| 28 | Baraqueville Aveyron | 0.8 | 13% | 0% | 134 km |
| 29 | Meschers-sur-Gironde Charente-Maritime | 0.6 | 7.4% | 60% | On it |
| 30 | Imphy Nièvre | 0.6 | 32% | 46% | 343 km |
| 31 | Crêches-sur-Saône Saône-et-Loire | 0.6 | 5.5% | 16% | 303 km |
| 32 | Mayet Sarthe | 0.5 | 38% | 40% | 155 km |
| 33 | Cossé-le-Vivien Mayenne | 0.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 83 km |
| 34 | Saint-Siméon-de-Bressieux Isère | 0.3 | 15% | 0% | 211 km |
| 35 | Montsûrs Mayenne | 0.3 | 15% | 19% | 80 km |
| 36 | Sainte-Bazeille Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 12% | 5.5% | 76 km |
| 37 | Saint-Seurin-sur-l'Isle Gironde | 0.2 | 14% | 16% | 46 km |
| 38 | Thierville-sur-Meuse Meuse | 0.2 | 6% | 2.4% | 288 km |
| 39 | Mirepoix Ariège | 0.2 | 34% | 5.4% | 97 km |
| 40 | Tartas Landes | 0.2 | 11% | 3.1% | 47 km |
| 41 | Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde Gironde | 0.1 | 0.8% | 55% | On it |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
9 in 10 residents of Imphy 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).
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
About 200 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 land in and around Imphy
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Bocage, forêts et milieux humides des Amognes et du bassin de la Machine
Bocages, forêts et milieux humides des Amognes et du bassin de la Machine
Val de Loire nivernais
Val de Loire nivernais
Vallées de la Loire et de l’Allier entre Cher et Nièvre
Vallées de la Loire et de l’Allier entre Cher et Nièvre
Share of the commune’s land
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 Imphy’s land is protected, more than in 86% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Nièvre has 11%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
10 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Imphy
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 82% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 78% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Imphy: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Nevers-Marzy, 14 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) | 8.9 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 15.9 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 63 | 55 | 53 | 69 | 73 | 62 | 58 | 62 | 64 | 74 | 75 | 76 |
March is the driest month (53 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 76 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 67 nights a year. The climate in Imphy →
Next to Imphy
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imphy | 46% | 32% | 0.6 |
| Nevers 33,085 · 11 km | 11% | 1.2% | 3.3 |
| Coulanges-lès-Nevers 3,688 · 11 km | 5.1% | 7.8% | 0.6 |
| Varennes-Vauzelles 9,146 · 14 km | 0% | 20% | 0.9 |
| Marzy 3,623 · 15 km | 20% | 8.6% | 0.6 |
| La Machine 3,192 · 15 km | 58% | 65% | 1.5 |
| Fourchambault 3,992 · 17 km | 11% | 16% | 1.1 |
La Machine is more wooded.
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 Imphy
Is Imphy in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 46% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Imphy?
OpenStreetMap maps 10 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Imphy is woodland?
32% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Imphy near the sea?
No: the coast is 343 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Imphy?
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 4, 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.