Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.074% of Compiègne is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 182 km across Compiègne (3.4 km per km²). Compiègne has 35 km of waymarked hiking routes. 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 Compiègne apart: its protected countryside, 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 (38,168 to 43,597 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 6e (8.4 km per km²) to Saint-Benoît (0.4 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 6e Paris | 8.4 | 1.7% | 0% | 149 km |
| 2 | Bron Rhône | 7.1 | 6.1% | 0% | 251 km |
| 3 | Villepinte Seine-Saint-Denis | 7 | 15% | 16% | 149 km |
| 4 | Marseille 6e Bouches-du-Rhône | 6.8 | 1.2% | 0% | 1 km |
| 5 | Neuilly-sur-Marne Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.6 | 9.5% | 11% | 157 km |
| 6 | Rezé Loire-Atlantique | 6.6 | 7% | 3.6% | 37 km |
| 7 | Arras Pas-de-Calais | 6.5 | 3.4% | 0% | 78 km |
| 8 | Colomiers Haute-Garonne | 6.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 155 km |
| 9 | Stains Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.3 | 6.9% | 14% | 142 km |
| 10 | Boulogne-sur-Mer Pas-de-Calais | 5.8 | 1.3% | 0% | On it |
| 11 | Chartres Eure-et-Loir | 5.5 | 2.4% | 0% | 138 km |
| 12 | Bagnolet Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.5 | 1.4% | 3.6% | 151 km |
| 13 | Valenciennes Nord | 5.2 | 6.6% | 0.2% | 105 km |
| 14 | Caluire-et-Cuire Rhône | 5.1 | 9.1% | 0.1% | 255 km |
| 15 | Gagny Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.3 | 9.6% | 0.5% | 155 km |
| 16 | Oullins-Pierre-Bénite Rhône | 4.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 246 km |
| 17 | Pontault-Combault Seine-et-Marne | 4.1 | 27% | 0% | 166 km |
| 18 | Angoulême Charente | 4.1 | 14% | 3.6% | 75 km |
| 19 | Anglet Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 4 | 18% | 4.5% | On it |
| 20 | Garges-lès-Gonesse Val-d'Oise | 4 | 8.7% | 0% | 141 km |
| 21 | Mantes-la-Jolie Yvelines | 3.7 | 12% | 7.1% | 109 km |
| 22 | Bourg-en-Bresse Ain | 3.5 | 16% | 0% | 307 km |
| 23 | Douai Nord | 3.5 | 5.3% | 1.1% | 88 km |
| 24 | Marcq-en-Barœul Nord | 3.4 | 3.7% | 0% | 60 km |
| 25 | Compiègne Oise | 3.4 | 74% | 76% | 119 km |
| 26 | La Ciotat Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 20% | 27% | On it |
| 27 | Wattrelos Nord | 3.1 | 3.3% | 0% | 60 km |
| 28 | Tremblay-en-France Seine-Saint-Denis | 3 | 3.9% | 0% | 151 km |
| 29 | Poissy Yvelines | 3 | 12% | 0% | 131 km |
| 30 | Le Cannet Alpes-Maritimes | 2.8 | 9.9% | 0% | 2.4 km |
| 31 | Thionville Moselle | 2.7 | 33% | 0% | 307 km |
| 32 | Joué-lès-Tours Indre-et-Loire | 2.5 | 15% | 0% | 179 km |
| 33 | Villenave-d'Ornon Gironde | 2.4 | 7% | 14% | 26 km |
| 34 | Gap Hautes-Alpes | 2.3 | 28% | 33% | 133 km |
| 35 | Châteauroux Indre | 2.3 | 3.8% | 4.8% | 224 km |
| 36 | Châlons-en-Champagne Marne | 2.2 | 0.7% | 0% | 237 km |
| 37 | Montélimar Drôme | 1.8 | 8% | 0.9% | 123 km |
| 38 | Draguignan Var | 1.5 | 29% | 0% | 26 km |
| 39 | Castres Tarn | 1.1 | 9.7% | 1.2% | 90 km |
| 40 | Saint-Joseph Réunion | 0.6 | 50% | 85% | On it |
| 41 | Saint-Benoît Réunion | 0.4 | 59% | 78% | On it |
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.
76% of Compiègne’s land is protected, more than in 90% 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 79% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 99% 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 Compiègne is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Compiègne: GR 12A and GR 124A.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Margny-Les-Compiegne, 2.8 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) | 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 Compiègne →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compiègne | 76% | 74% | 3.4 |
| Venette 2,758 · 1.6 km | 0% | 7.3% | 1.4 |
| Margny-lès-Compiègne 8,677 · 2 km | 0% | 1.3% | 2.1 |
| Choisy-au-Bac 3,449 · 5.9 km | 56% | 62% | 2.5 |
| Lacroix-Saint-Ouen 5,415 · 6.1 km | 76% | 73% | 1.2 |
| Longueil-Annel 2,586 · 7.4 km | 0% | 21% | 1.5 |
| Thourotte 4,463 · 9.2 km | 0.8% | 8% | 2.8 |
No, but 76% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
OpenStreetMap maps 182 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 35 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
74% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 119 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.