First pick
Petit Parc
Park or garden · 350 m outside the commune
19 ha7.2 km of path
1 h 35 minto walk all 7.2 km of path
1.5 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: CVB · CC BY-SA 4.01.3%woodland
Outdoors in Margny-lès-Compiègne · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Margny-lès-Compiègne is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 1.3% of Margny-lès-Compiègne. No protected area reaches Margny-lès-Compiègne; the nearest, Massif forestier de Compiègne (Natura 2000), is 1.1 km from the town center. 14 km of footpaths cross Margny-lès-Compiègne (2.1 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Massif forestier de Compiègne, 1.1 km
Woodland
1.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
14 km
2.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.5 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
6
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Petit Parc
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Margny-lès-Compiègne?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyMassif forestier de Compiègne (Natura 2000) is 1.1 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland1.3% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Margny-lès-Compiègne apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Margny-lès-Compiègne compares with French towns
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.
Protected areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland1.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
8out of 100
Footpaths2.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
59out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
40out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Margny-lès-Compiègne has the 13th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,555 to 8,768 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From L'Île-Saint-Denis (6.6 km per km²) to Coutras (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L'Île-Saint-Denis Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.6 | 13% | 19% | 142 km |
| 2 | Beauzelle Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 9.2% | 25% | 154 km |
| 3 | Le Portel Pas-de-Calais | 5.5 | 3.3% | 6.7% | On it |
| 4 | Wingles Pas-de-Calais | 5.1 | 13% | 0% | 69 km |
| 5 | Crolles Isère | 4.6 | 26% | 19% | 207 km |
| 6 | Petit-Couronne Seine-Maritime | 4.2 | 40% | 0% | 49 km |
| 7 | Artigues-près-Bordeaux Gironde | 3.8 | 9.5% | 0% | 18 km |
| 8 | Essey-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.7 | 11% | 0% | 366 km |
| 9 | Thorigné-Fouillard Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.1 | 10% | 3.1% | 48 km |
| 10 | Saint-Renan Finistère | 2.9 | 5% | 0% | 8 km |
| 11 | Marcoussis Essonne | 2.7 | 34% | 0% | 163 km |
| 12 | Sautron Loire-Atlantique | 2.3 | 16% | 0% | 34 km |
| 13 | Margny-lès-Compiègne Oise | 2.1 | 1.3% | 0% | 117 km |
| 14 | Lempdes Puy-de-Dôme | 2.1 | 1.8% | 0% | 254 km |
| 15 | Le Teil Ardèche | 2 | 37% | 0% | 120 km |
| 16 | Puget-sur-Argens Var | 1.9 | 9.8% | 54% | 6.5 km |
| 17 | Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 15% | 14% | 243 km |
| 18 | Ergué-Gabéric Finistère | 1.8 | 21% | 0% | 6.3 km |
| 19 | Aulnoye-Aymeries Nord | 1.7 | 1.2% | 100% | 132 km |
| 20 | Soustons Landes | 1.7 | 65% | 9.6% | On it |
| 21 | Le Grau-du-Roi Gard | 1.6 | 3.9% | 89% | On it |
| 22 | La Chapelle-d'Armentières Nord | 1.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 52 km |
| 23 | Crest Drôme | 1.2 | 25% | 0% | 142 km |
| 24 | Isbergues Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 47 km |
| 25 | Sérignan Hérault | 1.1 | 0.2% | 34% | On it |
| 26 | Saint-Chamas Bouches-du-Rhône | 1 | 8.1% | 50% | 15 km |
| 27 | Saint-Jory Haute-Garonne | 0.9 | 6.1% | 6.4% | 159 km |
| 28 | La Ferté-Bernard Sarthe | 0.9 | 1.2% | 0% | 135 km |
| 29 | Plabennec Finistère | 0.7 | 2.3% | 0% | 7.8 km |
| 30 | Roussillon Isère | 0.6 | 12% | 0% | 209 km |
| 31 | Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.6 | 1.2% | 81% | On it |
| 32 | Souleuvre en Bocage Calvados | 0.6 | 10% | 21% | 45 km |
| 33 | Janzé Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 2.9% | 0% | 70 km |
| 34 | Domérat Allier | 0.5 | 8.5% | 0% | 275 km |
| 35 | Chantonnay Vendée | 0.5 | 12% | 0% | 42 km |
| 36 | Le Poiré-sur-Vie Vendée | 0.4 | 4.9% | 0% | 32 km |
| 37 | Aigues-Mortes Gard | 0.4 | 2.8% | 100% | 6 km |
| 38 | Mauléon Deux-Sèvres | 0.4 | 6.8% | 0% | 76 km |
| 39 | Les Hauts-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 4.5% | 4.1% | 121 km |
| 40 | Sarlat-la-Canéda Dordogne | 0.3 | 42% | 10% | 143 km |
| 41 | Coutras Gironde | 0.1 | 11% | 19% | 37 km |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Margny-lès-Compiègne
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Petit Parc leads, at 19 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Songeons
Park or garden · 60 m outside the commune
1.6 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
0.9 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Mairie
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Margny-lès-Compiègne
Directionsto a point inside
Square de l'Église Saint-Germain
Park or garden · 220 m outside the commune
0.3 ha0.3 km of path
1.4 km southfrom the center
Square de l'Église Saint-Germain
Directionsto a point inside
Le jardin du Silence - Parc du Château
Park or garden · 300 m outside the commune
0.3 ha0.1 km of path
1.4 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Foyer Edith Piaf
Park or garden
0.2 ha
Centralin the middle of Margny-lès-Compiègne
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Massif forestier de Compiègne is the nearest protected area, 1.1 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Massif forestier de Compiègne
1.1 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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.
Footpaths and woods
14 km of footpaths cross Margny-lès-Compiègne
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.
Footpaths
14 km
2.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.5 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
1.3%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Margny-lès-CompiègneOise medianFrance median
Footpaths2.1
Hiking routes0.2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Margny-lès-CompiègneOise medianFrance median
Woodland1.3%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 59% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 92% 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 Margny-lès-Compiègne is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 2254.5 km
de Saint-Quentin à Orrouy (selon GR 655)4.2 km
Les Coteaux de Margny1.5 km
GR 225 passes within 2 km of Margny-lès-Compiègne.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Margny-lès-Compiègne: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Margny-Les-Compiegne, 1.3 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 Margny-lès-Compiègne →
Neighbors
Next to Margny-lès-Compiègne
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
VenetteCompiègneChoisy-au-BacLongueil-AnnelThourotteLacroix-Saint-OuenMargny-lès-Compiègne
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margny-lès-Compiègne | 0% | 1.3% | 2.1 |
| Venette 2,758 · 1.6 km | 0% | 7.3% | 1.4 |
| Compiègne 40,761 · 2 km | 76% | 74% | 3.4 |
| Choisy-au-Bac 3,449 · 4.7 km | 56% | 62% | 2.5 |
| Longueil-Annel 2,586 · 5.5 km | 0% | 21% | 1.5 |
| Thourotte 4,463 · 7.4 km | 0.8% | 8% | 2.8 |
| Lacroix-Saint-Ouen 5,415 · 8.1 km | 76% | 73% | 1.2 |
Compiègne, Choisy-au-Bac and Lacroix-Saint-Ouen have at least twice as much protected land. Compiègne, Choisy-au-Bac and Longueil-Annel are more wooded.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Margny-lès-Compiègne
Is Margny-lès-Compiègne in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Massif forestier de Compiègne, 1.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Margny-lès-Compiègne?
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); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Margny-lès-Compiègne is woodland?
1.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Margny-lès-Compiègne near the sea?
No: the coast is 117 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Margny-lès-Compiègne?
April to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
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.