Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot · CC BY-SA 4.0100% of Gouvieux’s land lies in protected areas. 43% of Gouvieux is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 81 km across Gouvieux (3.5 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 Gouvieux 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 (8,705 to 9,019 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Beauzelle (5.6 km per km²) to Sarlat-la-Canéda (0.3 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beauzelle Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 9.2% | 25% | 154 km |
| 2 | Le Portel Pas-de-Calais | 5.5 | 3.3% | 6.7% | On it |
| 3 | Wingles Pas-de-Calais | 5.1 | 13% | 0% | 69 km |
| 4 | Les Angles Gard | 5.1 | 27% | 13% | 56 km |
| 5 | Bessancourt Val-d'Oise | 4.6 | 29% | 0% | 127 km |
| 6 | Epagny Metz-Tessy Haute-Savoie | 4.4 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 7 | Périgny Charente-Maritime | 4.1 | 3.4% | 0% | 4.1 km |
| 8 | Chartres-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.1 | 5.2% | 0% | 55 km |
| 9 | Quetigny Côte-d'Or | 4 | 0.7% | 0% | 406 km |
| 10 | Meulan-en-Yvelines Yvelines | 3.8 | 11% | 0.4% | 118 km |
| 11 | Gouvieux Oise | 3.5 | 43% | 100% | 122 km |
| 12 | Velaux Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 29% | 25% | 19 km |
| 13 | Longvic Côte-d'Or | 3.1 | 3.4% | 0% | 406 km |
| 14 | Pibrac Haute-Garonne | 3 | 27% | 0% | 159 km |
| 15 | Gretz-Armainvilliers Seine-et-Marne | 3 | 57% | 0% | 176 km |
| 16 | Quéven Morbihan | 2.9 | 26% | 5.9% | On it |
| 17 | Bellerive-sur-Allier Allier | 2.7 | 23% | 2.2% | 289 km |
| 18 | Cébazat Puy-de-Dôme | 2.6 | 5.6% | 0% | 263 km |
| 19 | Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Drôme | 2.3 | 19% | 0% | 100 km |
| 20 | Boucau Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.2 | 26% | 5.8% | 3.1 km |
| 21 | Saint-Jean-de-Monts Vendée | 2.2 | 13% | 73% | On it |
| 22 | Golbey Vosges | 2.2 | 26% | 0% | 411 km |
| 23 | Morières-lès-Avignon Vaucluse | 2.1 | 4.7% | 0% | 54 km |
| 24 | Lempdes Puy-de-Dôme | 2.1 | 1.8% | 0% | 254 km |
| 25 | Roquevaire Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.1 | 11% | 66% | 15 km |
| 26 | Le Teil Ardèche | 2 | 37% | 0% | 120 km |
| 27 | Cornebarrieu Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 13% | 0% | 158 km |
| 28 | Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 15% | 14% | 243 km |
| 29 | Pithiviers Loiret | 1.5 | 2.2% | 0% | 198 km |
| 30 | Monistrol-sur-Loire Haute-Loire | 1.4 | 34% | 16% | 192 km |
| 31 | La Chapelle-d'Armentières Nord | 1.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 52 km |
| 32 | Joigny Yonne | 0.9 | 70% | 0% | 274 km |
| 33 | Gonfreville-l'Orcher Seine-Maritime | 0.9 | 5.2% | 6.1% | On it |
| 34 | La Ferté-Bernard Sarthe | 0.9 | 1.2% | 0% | 135 km |
| 35 | Veauche Loire | 0.9 | 1.5% | 3.3% | 223 km |
| 36 | Le Thor Vaucluse | 0.7 | 0.9% | 7.2% | 54 km |
| 37 | Ombrée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 94 km |
| 38 | Nangis Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 10% | 0% | 205 km |
| 39 | Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue Vaucluse | 0.5 | 2% | 11% | 61 km |
| 40 | Les Hauts-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 4.5% | 4.1% | 121 km |
| 41 | Sarlat-la-Canéda Dordogne | 0.3 | 42% | 10% | 143 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 Gouvieux’s land is protected, more than in 96% 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 80% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 88% 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 Gouvieux is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 1A passes within 2 km of Gouvieux.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Creil, 10 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 Gouvieux →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gouvieux | 100% | 43% | 3.5 |
| Chantilly 10,591 · 3 km | 100% | 70% | 6.8 |
| Lamorlaye 9,082 · 3 km | 100% | 42% | 2.5 |
| Saint-Leu-d'Esserent 4,638 · 3.4 km | 0.3% | 22% | 1.8 |
| Précy-sur-Oise 3,332 · 4.2 km | 100% | 14% | 1 |
| Saint-Maximin 3,335 · 4.4 km | 88% | 54% | 3 |
| Coye-la-Forêt 3,915 · 6.2 km | 100% | 60% | 6.4 |
Chantilly is more wooded.
Yes: Gouvieux lies in Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
OpenStreetMap maps 81 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
43% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 122 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.