Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Serge Ottaviani · CC BY-SA 4.0Protected areas cover 99% of Escautpont’s land. Mapped woodland covers 41% of Escautpont. Footpaths add up to 15 km across Escautpont (2.6 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 Escautpont apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
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 (4,169 to 4,235 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (5 km per km²) to Redessan (0.2 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Touquet-Paris-Plage Pas-de-Calais | 5 | 23% | 9.8% | On it |
| 2 | Le Pouliguen Loire-Atlantique | 4.4 | 1.6% | 5.1% | On it |
| 3 | Herserange Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.9 | 47% | 0% | 276 km |
| 4 | Corenc Isère | 3.8 | 50% | 45% | 206 km |
| 5 | Bray-Dunes Nord | 3.6 | 0% | 41% | On it |
| 6 | Thumeries Nord | 3.3 | 37% | 12% | 77 km |
| 7 | Montarnaud Hérault | 3 | 47% | 17% | 22 km |
| 8 | Escautpont Nord | 2.6 | 41% | 99% | 100 km |
| 9 | Salouël Somme | 2.6 | 2% | 0% | 54 km |
| 10 | Le Neubourg Eure | 2.3 | 19% | 0% | 51 km |
| 11 | Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny Savoie | 2.2 | 50% | 100% | 225 km |
| 12 | Yvré-l'Évêque Sarthe | 2.2 | 26% | 0% | 138 km |
| 13 | Marlenheim Bas-Rhin | 2 | 9.8% | 0% | 435 km |
| 14 | Carnac Morbihan | 1.7 | 25% | 2.5% | On it |
| 15 | Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 36% | 2.7% | 41 km |
| 16 | Pont-du-Casse Lot-et-Garonne | 1.7 | 8.3% | 0% | 132 km |
| 17 | Pomponne Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 48% | 4% | 161 km |
| 18 | Valgelon-La Rochette Savoie | 1.6 | 31% | 0.6% | 216 km |
| 19 | Wolfisheim Bas-Rhin | 1.6 | 7.5% | 0% | 446 km |
| 20 | Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse Drôme | 1.1 | 26% | 0% | 186 km |
| 21 | Pluguffan Finistère | 1.1 | 14% | 0% | 4.3 km |
| 22 | Bartenheim Haut-Rhin | 1.1 | 30% | 29% | 428 km |
| 23 | Grisolles Tarn-et-Garonne | 1 | 13% | 19% | 168 km |
| 24 | Rians Var | 0.9 | 70% | 70% | 45 km |
| 25 | Hérin Nord | 0.9 | 1% | 99% | 103 km |
| 26 | Athis-Val de Rouvre Orne | 0.8 | 11% | 2.9% | 56 km |
| 27 | Noues de Sienne Calvados | 0.7 | 20% | 0% | 32 km |
| 28 | Gourdon Lot | 0.7 | 42% | 0% | 158 km |
| 29 | Brionne Eure | 0.6 | 38% | 14% | 38 km |
| 30 | Nailloux Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 5.1% | 0% | 123 km |
| 31 | Le Châtelet-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 18% | 0% | 200 km |
| 32 | Anneyron Drôme | 0.6 | 14% | 0% | 201 km |
| 33 | Selles-sur-Cher Loir-et-Cher | 0.6 | 20% | 7.9% | 232 km |
| 34 | Porte des Pierres Dorées Rhône | 0.6 | 9.4% | 0% | 271 km |
| 35 | Sanvignes-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 12% | 0% | 345 km |
| 36 | Breteuil Oise | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 75 km |
| 37 | Jouarre Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 175 km |
| 38 | Guignen Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.3 | 11% | 1.2% | 61 km |
| 39 | Bollwiller Haut-Rhin | 0.3 | 26% | 0% | 453 km |
| 40 | Betschdorf Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 41% | 49% | 436 km |
| 41 | Redessan Gard | 0.2 | 0% | 66% | 41 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 Escautpont’s land is protected, more than in 92% 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 68% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 86% 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 Escautpont is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 121 passes within 2 km of Escautpont.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Valenciennes, 12 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 Escautpont →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Escautpont | 99% | 41% | 2.6 |
| Fresnes-sur-Escaut 7,354 · 2 km | 100% | 24% | 1.5 |
| Bruay-sur-l'Escaut 11,644 · 2.6 km | 98% | 14% | 2.1 |
| Onnaing 8,479 · 4.3 km | 1.1% | 16% | 0.5 |
| Condé-sur-l'Escaut 9,253 · 5.2 km | 99% | 44% | 3.5 |
| Beuvrages 6,796 · 5.2 km | 99% | 4.2% | 1.9 |
| Saint-Saulve 10,947 · 5.4 km | 0.3% | 8.2% | 1.1 |
Yes: Escautpont lies in Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park (99% of the commune).
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 3 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
41% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 100 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.