First pick
Parc du Rôleur
Park or garden · 330 m outside the commune
7.4 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
2.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Havang(nl) · CC01.5%woodland
Outdoors in Marly · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Marly is within 800 m of a park or wood
1.5% of Marly is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Marly; the nearest, Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park, is 3.9 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 19 km across Marly (2.3 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park, 3.9 km
Woodland
1.5%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
19 km
2.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.1 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc du Rôleur
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 place
What kind of outdoors place is Marly?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyScarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park is 3.9 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland1.5% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Marly apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Marly 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.
Protected areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland1.5%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
9out of 100
Footpaths2.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
63out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
43out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Marly has the 16th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (11,698 to 12,301 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Talant (8 km per km²) to Saint-Gaudens (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Talant Côte-d'Or | 8 | 5.6% | 0% | 399 km |
| 2 | Seyssinet-Pariset Isère | 6.6 | 60% | 57% | 203 km |
| 3 | Valbonne Alpes-Maritimes | 6.4 | 53% | 0% | 8.4 km |
| 4 | La Queue-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.3 | 47% | 0% | 165 km |
| 5 | Saint-Cyprien Pyrénées-Orientales | 6.1 | 0.4% | 3% | On it |
| 6 | Ferney-Voltaire Ain | 5.2 | 20% | 0% | 296 km |
| 7 | Le Relecq-Kerhuon Finistère | 4.8 | 7.6% | 0% | On it |
| 8 | Ifs Calvados | 4.6 | 3.9% | 0% | 17 km |
| 9 | Riedisheim Haut-Rhin | 4.4 | 29% | 0% | 440 km |
| 10 | Roquebrune-Cap-Martin Alpes-Maritimes | 4.3 | 23% | 36% | On it |
| 11 | Harnes Pas-de-Calais | 4.2 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 km |
| 12 | Saint-Pierre-du-Perray Essonne | 4.2 | 25% | 0% | 178 km |
| 13 | Hœnheim Bas-Rhin | 3.7 | 0.5% | 0% | 448 km |
| 14 | Beausoleil Alpes-Maritimes | 3.6 | 11% | 2.9% | 0.7 km |
| 15 | Dugny Seine-Saint-Denis | 3.5 | 6.8% | 9.5% | 144 km |
| 16 | Bully-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 3.1% | 0% | 71 km |
| 17 | Arpajon Essonne | 3.3 | 2.4% | 0% | 167 km |
| 18 | Raismes Nord | 3.2 | 71% | 100% | 100 km |
| 19 | Triel-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.8 | 34% | 0% | 124 km |
| 20 | Cogolin Var | 2.7 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 21 | Craponne Rhône | 2.7 | 12% | 0% | 248 km |
| 22 | Septèmes-les-Vallons Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.5 | 49% | 20% | 5.5 km |
| 23 | Villepreux Yvelines | 2.5 | 8.4% | 0% | 137 km |
| 24 | Creutzwald Moselle | 2.4 | 57% | 0% | 348 km |
| 25 | Vedène Vaucluse | 2.4 | 4% | 0% | 58 km |
| 26 | Marly Nord | 2.3 | 1.5% | 0% | 107 km |
| 27 | Sarrebourg Moselle | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 403 km |
| 28 | Barentin Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 11% | 0% | 38 km |
| 29 | Pacé Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.2 | 3.6% | 0% | 41 km |
| 30 | La Motte-Servolex Savoie | 2.1 | 41% | 0% | 238 km |
| 31 | Onet-le-Château Aveyron | 1.7 | 2.3% | 1.4% | 137 km |
| 32 | Châteaubriant Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0% | 76 km |
| 33 | Dammartin-en-Goële Seine-et-Marne | 1.4 | 24% | 0% | 144 km |
| 34 | Somain Nord | 1.4 | 5.2% | 1.3% | 96 km |
| 35 | Cernay Haut-Rhin | 1.4 | 26% | 0.1% | 448 km |
| 36 | Bischwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 443 km |
| 37 | Florange Moselle | 0.9 | 24% | 0% | 309 km |
| 38 | Mios Gironde | 0.8 | 81% | 100% | 9.9 km |
| 39 | Castelnaudary Aude | 0.4 | 2% | 0% | 96 km |
| 40 | Baugé-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 31% | 0.5% | 151 km |
| 41 | Saint-Gaudens Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 9.3% | 3.9% | 186 km |
The map
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.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Marly
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Rôleur leads, at 7.4 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin Jacques Chirac
Park or garden · 330 m outside the commune
1.4 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
2 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin des Peintres
Park or garden · 400 m outside the commune
0.9 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
2.2 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 3.9 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park
3.9 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
19 km of footpaths cross Marly
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.
Footpaths
19 km
2.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.1 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
1.5%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MarlyNord medianFrance median
Footpaths2.3
Hiking routes0.3
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MarlyNord medianFrance median
Woodland1.5%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 63% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 91% 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 Marly is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Via Septemtriones Templi16 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Marly: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Valenciennes, 6.2 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 Marly →
Neighbors
Next to Marly
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Aulnoy-lez-ValenciennesValenciennesSaint-SaulveAnzinTrith-Saint-LégerLa SentinelleMarly
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marly | 0% | 1.5% | 2.3 |
| Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes 7,080 · 2.1 km | 0% | 0.5% | 1.7 |
| Valenciennes 43,468 · 2.4 km | 0.2% | 6.6% | 5.2 |
| Saint-Saulve 10,947 · 3 km | 0.3% | 8.2% | 1.1 |
| Anzin 13,183 · 4.2 km | 0.5% | 3.1% | 5.4 |
| Trith-Saint-Léger 6,019 · 4.2 km | 0% | 6.9% | 2.1 |
| La Sentinelle 3,103 · 4.5 km | 0.5% | 3.3% | 1.9 |
How to read these numbers
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 Marly
Is Marly in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park, 3.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Marly?
OpenStreetMap maps 19 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Marly is woodland?
1.5% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Marly near the sea?
No: the coast is 107 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Marly?
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 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.