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Photo: Scanné par Claude_villetaneuse · Public domainWaymarked hiking routes add up to 16 km in Béthisy-Saint-Pierre. 21% of Béthisy-Saint-Pierre’s land lies in protected areas. 14 km of footpaths cross Béthisy-Saint-Pierre (2.1 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Oise 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 Béthisy-Saint-Pierre apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
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 (3,085 to 3,137 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Étiolles (3.7 km per km²) to Bérat (0 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Étiolles Essonne | 3.7 | 72% | 0% | 175 km |
| 2 | Buhl Haut-Rhin | 3.7 | 74% | 100% | 461 km |
| 3 | Sérézin-du-Rhône Rhône | 3.5 | 20% | 0% | 237 km |
| 4 | Villers-Bocage Calvados | 3.1 | 7.7% | 0% | 29 km |
| 5 | Asnières-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 51% | 100% | 125 km |
| 6 | Tarascon-sur-Ariège Ariège | 3 | 48% | 1.5% | 118 km |
| 7 | La Tranche-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.8 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 8 | Morainvilliers Yvelines | 2.4 | 32% | 0% | 127 km |
| 9 | Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 10 | Beaumont Haute-Savoie | 2.2 | 40% | 48% | 280 km |
| 11 | Béthisy-Saint-Pierre Oise | 2.1 | 37% | 21% | 127 km |
| 12 | Custines Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2 | 38% | 0% | 355 km |
| 13 | Fumay Ardennes | 2 | 92% | 100% | 185 km |
| 14 | La Sentinelle Nord | 1.9 | 3.3% | 0.5% | 104 km |
| 15 | Le Touvet Isère | 1.9 | 48% | 58% | 212 km |
| 16 | Arbois Jura | 1.4 | 51% | 12% | 373 km |
| 17 | Plancoët Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 13% | 100% | 3.9 km |
| 18 | Besse-sur-Issole Var | 1.3 | 36% | 0.7% | 26 km |
| 19 | Moyenmoutier Vosges | 1.2 | 72% | 2.8% | 426 km |
| 20 | Saint-Genix-les-Villages Savoie | 1.2 | 33% | 4.4% | 247 km |
| 21 | Champcevinel Dordogne | 1.1 | 51% | 0% | 106 km |
| 22 | Le Plan-de-la-Tour Var | 1.1 | 40% | 0% | 7.3 km |
| 23 | Guichainville Eure | 1.1 | 15% | 0% | 78 km |
| 24 | Appoigny Yonne | 1 | 46% | 2.7% | 289 km |
| 25 | Vémars Val-d'Oise | 0.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 26 | Arleux Nord | 0.9 | 7.5% | 0% | 99 km |
| 27 | Boussois Nord | 0.9 | 5.1% | 100% | 131 km |
| 28 | Saint-Thibéry Hérault | 0.8 | 6.2% | 0.2% | 12 km |
| 29 | Anor Nord | 0.8 | 37% | 100% | 162 km |
| 30 | Thézan-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.8 | 0.9% | 0% | 22 km |
| 31 | Colayrac-Saint-Cirq Lot-et-Garonne | 0.7 | 14% | 3.8% | 126 km |
| 32 | Soulac-sur-Mer Gironde | 0.7 | 23% | 100% | On it |
| 33 | Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal Seine-Maritime | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 54 km |
| 34 | Le Molay-Littry Calvados | 0.5 | 10% | 0.1% | 14 km |
| 35 | Montfrin Gard | 0.5 | 3.1% | 14% | 47 km |
| 36 | Valensole Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.4 | 44% | 100% | 75 km |
| 37 | Saint-Hippolyte Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 0% | 68% | 6.1 km |
| 38 | Dissay Vienne | 0.2 | 34% | 24% | 127 km |
| 39 | Lailly-en-Val Loiret | 0.1 | 52% | 60% | 210 km |
| 40 | Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure Charente | 0.1 | 23% | 0% | 103 km |
| 41 | Bérat Haute-Garonne | 0 | 11% | 0% | 159 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 Compiègne leads, at 13,652 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.
21% of Béthisy-Saint-Pierre’s land is protected, more than in 79% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Oise has 0.1%.
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 59% 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 Béthisy-Saint-Pierre is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Béthisy-Saint-Pierre: GR 124A and GR 11B.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Margny-Les-Compiegne, 14 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) | 8.6 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 45 | 43 | 42 | 58 | 54 | 57 | 63 | 44 | 60 | 53 | 65 |
April is the driest month (42 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 65 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Béthisy-Saint-Pierre →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Béthisy-Saint-Pierre | 21% | 37% | 2.1 |
| Verberie 3,898 · 5.1 km | 8.1% | 20% | 1 |
| Lacroix-Saint-Ouen 5,415 · 6.2 km | 76% | 73% | 1.2 |
| Crépy-en-Valois 14,351 · 10 km | 0% | 16% | 2 |
| Pontpoint 3,275 · 11 km | 100% | 41% | 1.5 |
| Compiègne 40,761 · 12 km | 76% | 74% | 3.4 |
| Venette 2,758 · 13 km | 0% | 7.3% | 1.4 |
Lacroix-Saint-Ouen, Pontpoint and Compiègne have at least twice as much protected land. Lacroix-Saint-Ouen and Compiègne are more wooded.
No, but 21% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
OpenStreetMap maps 14 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 16 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
37% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 127 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 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.