Photo: fr:user:Jean-Louis Hens · CC BY-SA 3.0Feignies lies inside Avesnois Regional Nature Park
100% of Feignies’ land lies in protected areas. Footpaths add up to 10 km across Feignies (0.5 km per km²). 4.1% of Feignies is mapped woodland. 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.
What kind of outdoors place is Feignies?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Feignies apart: the regional nature park around it. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Feignies 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.
Feignies has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,623 to 6,775 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Grenay (6.3 km per km²) to Fronton (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grenay Pas-de-Calais | 6.3 | 6.7% | 0% | 71 km |
| 2 | Luxeuil-les-Bains Haute-Saône | 5.7 | 68% | 59% | 432 km |
| 3 | Châtelaillon-Plage Charente-Maritime | 4.6 | 0.5% | 22% | On it |
| 4 | Saulx-les-Chartreux Essonne | 4.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 162 km |
| 5 | Saint-Alban-Leysse Savoie | 4.2 | 44% | 75% | 233 km |
| 6 | La Bassée Nord | 3.8 | 1.1% | 0% | 64 km |
| 7 | Cassis Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 28% | 83% | On it |
| 8 | Puilboreau Charente-Maritime | 3.5 | 1.5% | 0% | 3.8 km |
| 9 | Gigean Hérault | 3.4 | 6.4% | 12% | 8.7 km |
| 10 | Honfleur Calvados | 3.2 | 9.2% | 4.7% | On it |
| 11 | Saint-Julien-les-Villas Aube | 2.9 | 7.6% | 0% | 275 km |
| 12 | Saint-Victoret Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.6 | 10% | 0% | 7.1 km |
| 13 | Inzinzac-Lochrist Morbihan | 2.5 | 40% | 0% | 2.3 km |
| 14 | Moëlan-sur-Mer Finistère | 2.5 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 15 | Thônes Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 67% | 29% | 252 km |
| 16 | Gaillon Eure | 2 | 19% | 13% | 77 km |
| 17 | Le Lavandou Var | 1.8 | 28% | 0.1% | On it |
| 18 | Laneuveville-devant-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.6 | 0.9% | 0% | 371 km |
| 19 | Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.5 | 12% | 26% | On it |
| 20 | Divion Pas-de-Calais | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 57 km |
| 21 | Plouguerneau Finistère | 1.4 | 2.5% | 10% | On it |
| 22 | Lentilly Rhône | 1.3 | 15% | 0% | 255 km |
| 23 | Meyreuil Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 45% | 0% | 20 km |
| 24 | Brindas Rhône | 1.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 245 km |
| 25 | Gignac Hérault | 1.2 | 26% | 4.8% | 29 km |
| 26 | Montech Tarn-et-Garonne | 1.1 | 33% | 3.3% | 180 km |
| 27 | Meung-sur-Loire Loiret | 1.1 | 7.2% | 6.4% | 204 km |
| 28 | Migennes Yonne | 0.9 | 8.7% | 0% | 280 km |
| 29 | Cambo-les-Bains Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.9 | 30% | 15% | 18 km |
| 30 | Chalonnes-sur-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.9 | 11% | 33% | 99 km |
| 31 | Othis Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 18% | 0.6% | 142 km |
| 32 | Vigneux-de-Bretagne Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 20% | 0% | 34 km |
| 33 | Neufchâteau Vosges | 0.8 | 33% | 0% | 356 km |
| 34 | Elven Morbihan | 0.7 | 30% | 100% | 13 km |
| 35 | Le Péage-de-Roussillon Isère | 0.6 | 13% | 28% | 209 km |
| 36 | Itteville Essonne | 0.6 | 33% | 7.1% | 177 km |
| 37 | Le Cateau-Cambrésis Nord | 0.6 | 1.4% | 0% | 130 km |
| 38 | Feignies Nord | 0.5 | 4.1% | 100% | 126 km |
| 39 | Merville Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 9.8% | 5.4% | 163 km |
| 40 | Vallons-de-l'Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 81 km |
| 41 | Fronton Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 12% | 0% | 162 km |
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.
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Feignies
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois Monseu leads, at 32 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de la Flamenne
Square du 11 Novembre
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
9 in 10 residents of Feignies 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 800 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 Feignies
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Avesnois Regional Nature Park
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.
100% of Feignies’ land is protected, more than in 93% 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.
10 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Feignies
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 85% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 81% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Feignies: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Valenciennes, 33 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 Feignies →
Next to Feignies
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
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 Feignies
Is Feignies in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Feignies lies in Avesnois Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Feignies?
OpenStreetMap maps 10 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Feignies is woodland?
4.1% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Feignies near the sea?
No: the coast is 126 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Feignies?
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 8, 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.