Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · CC BY 1.0Protected areas cover 100% of Raismes’ land. Mapped woodland covers 71% of Raismes. Footpaths add up to 107 km across Raismes (3.2 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 Raismes 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 (11,936 to 12,469 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Valbonne (6.4 km per km²) to Saint-Gaudens (0.4 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valbonne Alpes-Maritimes | 6.4 | 53% | 0% | 8.4 km |
| 2 | La Queue-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.3 | 47% | 0% | 165 km |
| 3 | Saint-Cyprien Pyrénées-Orientales | 6.1 | 0.4% | 3% | On it |
| 4 | Ferney-Voltaire Ain | 5.2 | 20% | 0% | 296 km |
| 5 | Ifs Calvados | 4.6 | 3.9% | 0% | 17 km |
| 6 | Riedisheim Haut-Rhin | 4.4 | 29% | 0% | 440 km |
| 7 | Roquebrune-Cap-Martin Alpes-Maritimes | 4.3 | 23% | 36% | On it |
| 8 | Harnes Pas-de-Calais | 4.2 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 km |
| 9 | Saint-Pierre-du-Perray Essonne | 4.2 | 25% | 0% | 178 km |
| 10 | Beausoleil Alpes-Maritimes | 3.6 | 11% | 2.9% | 0.7 km |
| 11 | Oissel-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 3.5 | 48% | 3.9% | 54 km |
| 12 | Bully-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 3.1% | 0% | 71 km |
| 13 | Raismes Nord | 3.2 | 71% | 100% | 100 km |
| 14 | Triel-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.8 | 34% | 0% | 124 km |
| 15 | Le Chambon-Feugerolles Loire | 2.8 | 43% | 0.1% | 205 km |
| 16 | Cogolin Var | 2.7 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 17 | Craponne Rhône | 2.7 | 12% | 0% | 248 km |
| 18 | Septèmes-les-Vallons Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.5 | 49% | 20% | 5.5 km |
| 19 | Creutzwald Moselle | 2.4 | 57% | 0% | 348 km |
| 20 | Quimperlé Finistère | 2.4 | 24% | 3.9% | 9.2 km |
| 21 | Vedène Vaucluse | 2.4 | 4% | 0% | 58 km |
| 22 | Mende Lozère | 2.4 | 54% | 0% | 115 km |
| 23 | Marly Nord | 2.3 | 1.5% | 0% | 107 km |
| 24 | Sarrebourg Moselle | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 403 km |
| 25 | Guidel Morbihan | 2.3 | 23% | 7.8% | On it |
| 26 | Barentin Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 11% | 0% | 38 km |
| 27 | La Motte-Servolex Savoie | 2.1 | 41% | 0% | 238 km |
| 28 | Pont-Sainte-Maxence Oise | 1.8 | 47% | 99% | 118 km |
| 29 | Onet-le-Château Aveyron | 1.7 | 2.3% | 1.4% | 137 km |
| 30 | Aubenas Ardèche | 1.6 | 6.8% | 18% | 120 km |
| 31 | Vernouillet Eure-et-Loir | 1.5 | 9.6% | 0% | 107 km |
| 32 | Châteaubriant Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0% | 76 km |
| 33 | Cernay Haut-Rhin | 1.4 | 26% | 0.1% | 448 km |
| 34 | Pont-du-Château Puy-de-Dôme | 1.2 | 8.9% | 9.7% | 257 km |
| 35 | Bischwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 443 km |
| 36 | Sablé-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 1 | 12% | 0% | 116 km |
| 37 | Gisors Eure | 0.9 | 34% | 0% | 87 km |
| 38 | Florange Moselle | 0.9 | 24% | 0% | 309 km |
| 39 | Mios Gironde | 0.8 | 81% | 100% | 9.9 km |
| 40 | Castelnaudary Aude | 0.4 | 2% | 0% | 96 km |
| 41 | Saint-Gaudens Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 9.3% | 3.9% | 186 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.
100% of Raismes’ 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 76% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 98% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Raismes’ residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
GR 121 passes within 2 km of Raismes.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Valenciennes, 7.4 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 Raismes →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raismes | 100% | 71% | 3.2 |
| Beuvrages 6,796 · 1.6 km | 99% | 4.2% | 1.9 |
| Anzin 13,183 · 2.4 km | 0.5% | 3.1% | 5.4 |
| Petite-Forêt 5,054 · 2.4 km | 1.4% | 1.8% | 1.3 |
| Bruay-sur-l'Escaut 11,644 · 3.6 km | 98% | 14% | 2.1 |
| Valenciennes 43,468 · 4.4 km | 0.2% | 6.6% | 5.2 |
| La Sentinelle 3,103 · 4.7 km | 0.5% | 3.3% | 1.9 |
Yes: Raismes lies in Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
OpenStreetMap maps 107 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 25 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
71% 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.