Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: JackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0Protected areas cover 100% of Marchiennes’ land. Mapped woodland covers 38% of Marchiennes. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 15 km in Marchiennes. 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 Marchiennes 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 (4,473 to 4,540 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Cap-d'Ail (10.8 km per km²) to Marans (0.2 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cap-d'Ail Alpes-Maritimes | 10.8 | 7.8% | 0.2% | On it |
| 2 | Jacob-Bellecombette Savoie | 7.4 | 26% | 45% | 232 km |
| 3 | Saint-Nicolas Pas-de-Calais | 4.8 | 2.8% | 0% | 79 km |
| 4 | Royat Puy-de-Dôme | 4.2 | 63% | 0.2% | 257 km |
| 5 | Bretteville-sur-Odon Calvados | 3.2 | 4.3% | 0% | 17 km |
| 6 | Montrabé Haute-Garonne | 3 | 6.6% | 0% | 142 km |
| 7 | Montigny-en-Ostrevent Nord | 2.8 | 13% | 0.4% | 92 km |
| 8 | Écrouves Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.6 | 23% | 100% | 346 km |
| 9 | Saint-Laurent-du-Pont Isère | 2.3 | 67% | 100% | 224 km |
| 10 | Notre-Dame-d'Oé Indre-et-Loire | 1.9 | 2.7% | 0% | 189 km |
| 11 | Saint-Marcel Eure | 1.8 | 24% | 0% | 88 km |
| 12 | Communay Rhône | 1.8 | 13% | 0% | 235 km |
| 13 | Noirmoutier-en-l'Île Vendée | 1.7 | 4% | 38% | On it |
| 14 | Maintenon Eure-et-Loir | 1.6 | 28% | 0.5% | 130 km |
| 15 | Guise Aisne | 1.5 | 4.9% | 0% | 143 km |
| 16 | Plougonvelin Finistère | 1.4 | 4.3% | 0.9% | On it |
| 17 | Marchiennes Nord | 1.4 | 38% | 100% | 91 km |
| 18 | Banyuls-sur-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.3 | 6.4% | 78% | On it |
| 19 | Plobsheim Bas-Rhin | 1.1 | 10% | 31% | 459 km |
| 20 | Saint-Aunès Hérault | 1 | 4.7% | 0% | 10 km |
| 21 | Saint-Pair-sur-Mer Manche | 0.9 | 2.5% | 4.5% | 0.9 km |
| 22 | Beaussais-sur-Mer Côtes-d'Armor | 0.9 | 12% | 100% | On it |
| 23 | Hergnies Nord | 0.9 | 8.5% | 100% | 94 km |
| 24 | Hesdin-la-Forêt Pas-de-Calais | 0.9 | 51% | 0% | 28 km |
| 25 | Castelmaurou Haute-Garonne | 0.8 | 20% | 0% | 143 km |
| 26 | Lamotte-Beuvron Loir-et-Cher | 0.7 | 52% | 100% | 239 km |
| 27 | Crespin Nord | 0.7 | 34% | 99% | 105 km |
| 28 | Saint-Martin-de-May Calvados | 0.7 | 2.9% | 0% | 21 km |
| 29 | Sainte-Marie-aux-Chênes Moselle | 0.6 | 2.2% | 0% | 314 km |
| 30 | Villeneuve-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.6 | 1.8% | 30% | 7.4 km |
| 31 | Mesnil-Roc'h Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 36% | 100% | 8.2 km |
| 32 | Montagnac Hérault | 0.6 | 11% | 14% | 17 km |
| 33 | Lunel-Viel Hérault | 0.6 | 4.6% | 0% | 13 km |
| 34 | La Réole Gironde | 0.5 | 7.2% | 6.5% | 64 km |
| 35 | Pineuilh Gironde | 0.5 | 8.5% | 2.2% | 67 km |
| 36 | Jarnac Charente | 0.5 | 6.2% | 23% | 53 km |
| 37 | Gonfaron Var | 0.4 | 42% | 23% | 21 km |
| 38 | Freneuse Yvelines | 0.4 | 34% | 51% | 100 km |
| 39 | Charmes Vosges | 0.4 | 60% | 8% | 391 km |
| 40 | Camaret-sur-Aigues Vaucluse | 0.3 | 2.4% | 0.8% | 79 km |
| 41 | Marans Charente-Maritime | 0.2 | 0.3% | 100% | 11 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 domaniale de Marchiennes leads, at 717 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.
100% of Marchiennes’ 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.
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 less than in 57% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 84% 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 Marchiennes is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Marchiennes: GR 121 and GR 121B.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cappelle-En-Pev, 11 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 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 60 | 50 | 53 | 41 | 57 | 66 | 70 | 72 | 58 | 63 | 73 | 75 |
April is the driest month (41 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Marchiennes →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marchiennes | 100% | 38% | 1.4 |
| Beuvry-la-Forêt 2,861 · 4.6 km | 100% | 25% | 1.7 |
| Fenain 5,441 · 5.7 km | 99% | 10% | 1 |
| Somain 11,766 · 5.8 km | 1.3% | 5.2% | 1.4 |
| Pecquencourt 6,092 · 6.1 km | 9.5% | 24% | 4 |
| Hornaing 3,496 · 6.5 km | 99% | 8.8% | 0.3 |
| Flines-lez-Raches 5,745 · 6.6 km | 100% | 21% | 0.6 |
Yes: Marchiennes lies in Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
OpenStreetMap maps 30 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 15 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
38% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 91 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
April to July and 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.