Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Maxime Cambreling · CC BY-SA 4.0Protected areas cover 99% of Beuvrages’ land. Mapped woodland covers 4.2% of Beuvrages. Footpaths add up to 6 km across Beuvrages (1.9 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Nord median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Beuvrages apart: the regional nature park around it. It is shorter on woodland.
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 (6,730 to 6,863 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Noyelles-sous-Lens (5 km per km²) to Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche (0.1 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noyelles-sous-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 5 | 10% | 0% | 77 km |
| 2 | Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes Seine-et-Marne | 4.3 | 11% | 0% | 164 km |
| 3 | Saulx-les-Chartreux Essonne | 4.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 162 km |
| 4 | Saint-Alban-Leysse Savoie | 4.2 | 44% | 75% | 233 km |
| 5 | Domène Isère | 3.8 | 24% | 0% | 202 km |
| 6 | Lutterbach Haut-Rhin | 3.7 | 43% | 12% | 442 km |
| 7 | Puilboreau Charente-Maritime | 3.5 | 1.5% | 0% | 3.8 km |
| 8 | Liancourt Oise | 3.4 | 26% | 0% | 110 km |
| 9 | Loos-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 3.6% | 0% | 71 km |
| 10 | Saint-Julien-les-Villas Aube | 2.9 | 7.6% | 0% | 275 km |
| 11 | Saint-Victoret Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.6 | 10% | 0% | 7.1 km |
| 12 | Montfort-sur-Meu Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.5 | 30% | 0% | 40 km |
| 13 | Nyons Drôme | 2.5 | 44% | 100% | 103 km |
| 14 | Moëlan-sur-Mer Finistère | 2.5 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 15 | Gaillon Eure | 2 | 19% | 13% | 77 km |
| 16 | Beuvrages Nord | 1.9 | 4.2% | 99% | 102 km |
| 17 | Les Essarts-le-Roi Yvelines | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 137 km |
| 18 | Auvers-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1.7 | 19% | 100% | 122 km |
| 19 | Poussan Hérault | 1.5 | 2.1% | 38% | 8.5 km |
| 20 | Divion Pas-de-Calais | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 57 km |
| 21 | Le Coteau Loire | 1.4 | 0% | 0% | 274 km |
| 22 | Plouguerneau Finistère | 1.4 | 2.5% | 10% | On it |
| 23 | Laudun-l'Ardoise Gard | 1.3 | 19% | 2.1% | 73 km |
| 24 | Douvaine Haute-Savoie | 1.3 | 22% | 0.9% | 296 km |
| 25 | Meyreuil Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 45% | 0% | 20 km |
| 26 | Brindas Rhône | 1.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 245 km |
| 27 | Ploeren Morbihan | 1.1 | 13% | 96% | 3.1 km |
| 28 | Saint-Jean-d'Angély Charente-Maritime | 1 | 8% | 0% | 35 km |
| 29 | Quesnoy-sur-Deûle Nord | 1 | 0.8% | 0% | 52 km |
| 30 | Cambo-les-Bains Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.9 | 30% | 15% | 18 km |
| 31 | Neufchâteau Vosges | 0.8 | 33% | 0% | 356 km |
| 32 | Les Abrets en Dauphiné Isère | 0.7 | 17% | 0% | 238 km |
| 33 | Itteville Essonne | 0.6 | 33% | 7.1% | 177 km |
| 34 | Le Cateau-Cambrésis Nord | 0.6 | 1.4% | 0% | 130 km |
| 35 | Merville Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 9.8% | 5.4% | 163 km |
| 36 | Chabeuil Drôme | 0.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 162 km |
| 37 | Loudun Vienne | 0.3 | 6.4% | 0% | 122 km |
| 38 | Essarts-en-Bocage Vendée | 0.3 | 4.1% | 0% | 46 km |
| 39 | Caussade Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 172 km |
| 40 | Le Controis-en-Sologne Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 24% | 6.7% | 229 km |
| 41 | Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche Haute-Vienne | 0.1 | 24% | 0% | 151 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 de Raismes-Saint-Amand-Wallers leads, at 4,667 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.
99% of Beuvrages’ land is protected, more than in 91% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Nord has 0%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
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 55% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 80% 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 Beuvrages 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).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Valenciennes, 7.1 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) | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 47 | 51 | 42 | 58 | 63 | 66 | 68 | 52 | 60 | 64 | 69 |
April is the driest month (42 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 69 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. The climate in Beuvrages →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beuvrages | 99% | 4.2% | 1.9 |
| Anzin 13,183 · 1.2 km | 0.5% | 3.1% | 5.4 |
| Raismes 12,199 · 1.6 km | 100% | 71% | 3.2 |
| Petite-Forêt 5,054 · 2.5 km | 1.4% | 1.8% | 1.3 |
| Bruay-sur-l'Escaut 11,644 · 2.8 km | 98% | 14% | 2.1 |
| Valenciennes 43,468 · 3.2 km | 0.2% | 6.6% | 5.2 |
| Saint-Saulve 10,947 · 3.8 km | 0.3% | 8.2% | 1.1 |
Raismes is more wooded.
Yes: Beuvrages lies in Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park (99% of the commune).
OpenStreetMap maps 6 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
4.2% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 102 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
April 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.