Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Clicsouris · CC BY-SA 3.0No protected area reaches Bresles; the nearest, Massif forestier de Hez-Froidmont et Mont César (Natura 2000), is 1.8 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 17 km across Bresles (0.8 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 19% of Bresles. 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.
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 (4,006 to 4,056 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vaux-sur-Mer (5.3 km per km²) to Bâgé-Dommartin (0.1 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vaux-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 5.3 | 10% | 0.2% | On it |
| 2 | Montsoult Val-d'Oise | 4.5 | 42% | 0.9% | 129 km |
| 3 | Montmélian Savoie | 4.3 | 47% | 100% | 222 km |
| 4 | Saint-Vallier Drôme | 3.8 | 32% | 0% | 189 km |
| 5 | La Châtre Indre | 3.7 | 6.5% | 0% | 239 km |
| 6 | Port-Vendres Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.2 | 0.8% | 18% | On it |
| 7 | Presles Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 47% | 100% | 124 km |
| 8 | Neuville-Saint-Rémy Nord | 3 | 4% | 0% | 109 km |
| 9 | Le Coudray Eure-et-Loir | 3 | 2.6% | 0% | 140 km |
| 10 | Limonest Rhône | 3 | 30% | 0% | 258 km |
| 11 | Offemont Territoire de Belfort | 2.9 | 39% | 0% | 433 km |
| 12 | Vaulnaveys-le-Haut Isère | 2.2 | 67% | 0% | 195 km |
| 13 | Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne Alpes-Maritimes | 2.2 | 70% | 100% | 18 km |
| 14 | Erdeven Morbihan | 2.1 | 14% | 22% | On it |
| 15 | La Rochefoucauld-en-Angoumois Charente | 1.6 | 39% | 16% | 95 km |
| 16 | Pont-Scorff Morbihan | 1.5 | 23% | 3.8% | On it |
| 17 | Avesnes-sur-Helpe Nord | 1.4 | 1.7% | 100% | 142 km |
| 18 | Le Plessis-Belleville Oise | 1.4 | 1.5% | 0.1% | 143 km |
| 19 | Cinq-Mars-la-Pile Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 28% | 14% | 167 km |
| 20 | Le Cellier Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 29% | 12% | 57 km |
| 21 | Salernes Var | 1.2 | 68% | 26% | 42 km |
| 22 | Nogent-le-Roi Eure-et-Loir | 1.1 | 10% | 0.1% | 123 km |
| 23 | Cordemais Loire-Atlantique | 1 | 7.6% | 24% | 24 km |
| 24 | Bresles Oise | 0.8 | 19% | 0% | 95 km |
| 25 | Générac Gard | 0.8 | 4.5% | 19% | 27 km |
| 26 | Bourg-Achard Eure | 0.7 | 5.5% | 0% | 34 km |
| 27 | Savigné-l'Évêque Sarthe | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 137 km |
| 28 | Gravigny Eure | 0.7 | 47% | 0% | 73 km |
| 29 | La Haye Manche | 0.7 | 3.6% | 51% | On it |
| 30 | Hochfelden Bas-Rhin | 0.7 | 6.8% | 0% | 428 km |
| 31 | Fay-de-Bretagne Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 9.9% | 0% | 31 km |
| 32 | La Chapelle-de-Guinchay Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 5.5% | 5.6% | 300 km |
| 33 | Paulhan Hérault | 0.5 | 1% | 0% | 23 km |
| 34 | Les Villages Vovéens Eure-et-Loir | 0.4 | 7.4% | 5% | 159 km |
| 35 | Trouy Cher | 0.4 | 2.7% | 0.1% | 280 km |
| 36 | Bressols Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 3% | 0.6% | 173 km |
| 37 | Layrac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 21% | 0.9% | 139 km |
| 38 | Beauvoir-sur-Mer Vendée | 0.3 | 0.3% | 83% | On it |
| 39 | Hourtin Gironde | 0.3 | 66% | 100% | On it |
| 40 | Sévérac d'Aveyron Aveyron | 0.2 | 24% | 100% | 114 km |
| 41 | Bâgé-Dommartin Ain | 0.1 | 13% | 0% | 315 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 Hez Froidmont leads, at 3,535 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.
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 75% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 61% 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 Bresles is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 124 passes within 2 km of Bresles.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Beauvais-Tille, 9.8 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 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.9 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 45 | 46 | 45 | 61 | 53 | 54 | 58 | 49 | 58 | 58 | 76 |
April is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 76 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 53 nights a year. The climate in Bresles →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Noailles, Agnetz and Mouy are more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Massif forestier de Hez-Froidmont et Mont César, 1.8 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 17 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
19% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 95 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 October 30, 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.