Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Tango7174 · CC BY-SA 4.0100% of Chantilly’s land lies in protected areas. Mapped woodland covers 70% of Chantilly. 109 km of footpaths cross Chantilly (6.8 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 Chantilly 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 (10,456 to 10,739 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Voisins-le-Bretonneux (13.8 km per km²) to Seysses (0.5 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Voisins-le-Bretonneux Yvelines | 13.8 | 8.8% | 5.4% | 144 km |
| 2 | Eybens Isère | 7.6 | 17% | 0% | 201 km |
| 3 | Chantilly Oise | 6.8 | 70% | 100% | 124 km |
| 4 | Beaumont Puy-de-Dôme | 6 | 2.4% | 0.1% | 255 km |
| 5 | Aubière Puy-de-Dôme | 5.2 | 0.4% | 0% | 254 km |
| 6 | Épinay-sur-Orge Essonne | 4.3 | 10% | 0% | 165 km |
| 7 | La Riche Indre-et-Loire | 4.2 | 4.5% | 16% | 182 km |
| 8 | Cabestany Pyrénées-Orientales | 4 | 1.8% | 0% | 7.9 km |
| 9 | Biot Alpes-Maritimes | 3.8 | 34% | 11% | 3.7 km |
| 10 | Valentigney Doubs | 3.8 | 36% | 0% | 412 km |
| 11 | Longuenesse Pas-de-Calais | 3.7 | 8.8% | 100% | 29 km |
| 12 | Clermont Oise | 3.6 | 30% | 0% | 103 km |
| 13 | Chantepie Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.5 | 4% | 0% | 53 km |
| 14 | Saint-Gély-du-Fesc Hérault | 3.4 | 39% | 0% | 21 km |
| 15 | Allonnes Sarthe | 3.2 | 15% | 0% | 134 km |
| 16 | Étaples Pas-de-Calais | 3.2 | 29% | 7% | On it |
| 17 | Fosses Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 5.1% | 57% | 134 km |
| 18 | Héricourt Haute-Saône | 2.8 | 36% | 0% | 425 km |
| 19 | Portes-lès-Valence Drôme | 2.7 | 5.9% | 0% | 158 km |
| 20 | Charvieu-Chavagneux Isère | 2.7 | 10% | 0% | 255 km |
| 21 | Urrugne Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.3 | 23% | 28% | 3.1 km |
| 22 | Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 2.1 | 1.4% | 0% | 51 km |
| 23 | Divonne-les-Bains Ain | 2.1 | 52% | 57% | 306 km |
| 24 | Treillières Loire-Atlantique | 2.1 | 15% | 0% | 41 km |
| 25 | Argelès-sur-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 30% | 39% | On it |
| 26 | Villers-Cotterêts Aisne | 1.8 | 73% | 0% | 145 km |
| 27 | La Londe-les-Maures Var | 1.8 | 27% | 49% | On it |
| 28 | La Trinité Alpes-Maritimes | 1.8 | 59% | 25% | 3.6 km |
| 29 | Vieux-Condé Nord | 1.7 | 7.4% | 100% | 96 km |
| 30 | Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 1.6 | 11% | 23% | 17 km |
| 31 | Mainvilliers Eure-et-Loir | 1.4 | 9.3% | 0% | 136 km |
| 32 | Oloron-Sainte-Marie Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.3 | 52% | 4.8% | 83 km |
| 33 | Léognan Gironde | 1.2 | 39% | 0% | 30 km |
| 34 | Wittelsheim Haut-Rhin | 1.2 | 34% | 6.2% | 447 km |
| 35 | Marck Pas-de-Calais | 0.9 | 3.4% | 0% | On it |
| 36 | Parempuyre Gironde | 0.9 | 6.7% | 8.1% | 6.3 km |
| 37 | Brumath Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 32% | 0% | 437 km |
| 38 | Limoux Aude | 0.8 | 26% | 0.1% | 68 km |
| 39 | Pernes-les-Fontaines Vaucluse | 0.7 | 8.6% | 44% | 62 km |
| 40 | Auterive Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 4.6% | 1.2% | 134 km |
| 41 | Seysses Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 2.6% | 0% | 153 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 d'Halatte leads, at 7,101 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 Chantilly’s land is protected, more than in 99% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Oise has 0.1%. 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 96% 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. Every home in Chantilly is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Creil, 8.2 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) | 8.6 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 56 | 47 | 48 | 45 | 60 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 45 | 61 | 59 | 71 |
September is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 71 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 51 nights a year. The climate in Chantilly →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chantilly | 100% | 70% | 6.8 |
| Gouvieux 8,867 · 3 km | 100% | 43% | 3.5 |
| Saint-Maximin 3,335 · 3.9 km | 88% | 54% | 3 |
| Lamorlaye 9,082 · 4.1 km | 100% | 42% | 2.5 |
| Saint-Leu-d'Esserent 4,638 · 4.7 km | 0.3% | 22% | 1.8 |
| Coye-la-Forêt 3,915 · 5.4 km | 100% | 60% | 6.4 |
| Précy-sur-Oise 3,332 · 6.8 km | 100% | 14% | 1 |
Yes: Chantilly lies in Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
OpenStreetMap maps 109 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 6.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
70% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 124 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.