First pick
Square de l'Église Saint-Germain
Park or garden · 220 m outside the commune
0.3 ha0.3 km of path
1.2 km eastfrom the center
Square de l'Église Saint-Germain
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: P.poschadel · CC BY-SA 3.07.3%woodland
Outdoors in Venette · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Venette is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Venette; the nearest, Massif forestier de Compiègne (Natura 2000), is 2.1 km from the town center. Venette has 2 km of waymarked hiking routes. Mapped woodland covers 7.3% of Venette. 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, 2.1 km
Woodland
7.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
12 km
1.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.6 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Square de l'Église Saint-Germain
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.
Against French towns
How Venette 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
Woodland7.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
31out of 100
Footpaths1.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
44out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
36out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Venette has the 15th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,733 to 2,785 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Andilly (7.1 km per km²) to Sains-du-Nord (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andilly Val-d'Oise | 7.1 | 53% | 0% | 134 km |
| 2 | Argelès-Gazost Hautes-Pyrénées | 4.3 | 17% | 100% | 130 km |
| 3 | Quintin Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 4.7% | 0% | 19 km |
| 4 | Pabu Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 22% | 0% | 15 km |
| 5 | Collioure Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.4 | 6.3% | 4% | On it |
| 6 | Saint-Lunaire Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.6 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Balaruc-le-Vieux Hérault | 2.5 | 5.5% | 19% | 5.4 km |
| 8 | Montfort-l'Amaury Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 100% | 129 km |
| 9 | Malaucène Vaucluse | 2.1 | 57% | 100% | 83 km |
| 10 | Loire-sur-Rhône Rhône | 1.9 | 44% | 84% | 229 km |
| 11 | Saint-Saturnin Sarthe | 1.9 | 8.9% | 0% | 129 km |
| 12 | Ampuis Rhône | 1.7 | 36% | 95% | 222 km |
| 13 | Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel Var | 1.6 | 80% | 0% | 9.2 km |
| 14 | Venarey-les-Laumes Côte-d'Or | 1.5 | 18% | 2.2% | 357 km |
| 15 | Venette Oise | 1.4 | 7.3% | 0% | 117 km |
| 16 | L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs Doubs | 1.4 | 50% | 0% | 413 km |
| 17 | Trieux Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 31% | 0% | 299 km |
| 18 | Beaumont-le-Roger Eure | 1.2 | 79% | 2% | 50 km |
| 19 | Charolles Saône-et-Loire | 1.2 | 20% | 0% | 320 km |
| 20 | Aouste-sur-Sye Drôme | 1.2 | 40% | 2.3% | 141 km |
| 21 | Mussidan Dordogne | 1.1 | 13% | 1.7% | 75 km |
| 22 | Ducey-Les Chéris Manche | 0.9 | 13% | 7.8% | 5.3 km |
| 23 | Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 100% | 40 km |
| 24 | Ronchamp Haute-Saône | 0.8 | 73% | 100% | 440 km |
| 25 | Saleux Somme | 0.7 | 22% | 0% | 53 km |
| 26 | Connerré Sarthe | 0.7 | 23% | 0% | 144 km |
| 27 | Arcis-sur-Aube Aube | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 256 km |
| 28 | Meslay-du-Maine Mayenne | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 96 km |
| 29 | Marigny-Le-Lozon Manche | 0.7 | 0.2% | 46% | 21 km |
| 30 | Bourron-Marlotte Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 42% | 22% | 211 km |
| 31 | Dieuze Moselle | 0.6 | 21% | 24% | 380 km |
| 32 | Warmeriville Marne | 0.5 | 11% | 0% | 205 km |
| 33 | Montignac-Lascaux Dordogne | 0.5 | 52% | 1.6% | 138 km |
| 34 | Baixas Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0% | 3.9% | 19 km |
| 35 | Wassy Haute-Marne | 0.5 | 61% | 0% | 302 km |
| 36 | Montrevel-en-Bresse Ain | 0.4 | 7.8% | 0% | 319 km |
| 37 | Huttenheim Bas-Rhin | 0.3 | 32% | 35% | 460 km |
| 38 | Thuré Vienne | 0.2 | 29% | 0% | 136 km |
| 39 | Ennezat Puy-de-Dôme | 0.1 | 0.1% | 0% | 268 km |
| 40 | Sérifontaine Oise | 0.1 | 21% | 0% | 80 km |
| 41 | Sains-du-Nord Nord | 0.1 | 34% | 100% | 149 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 Venette
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Square de l'Église Saint-Germain leads, at 0.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Le jardin du Silence - Parc du Château
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Venette
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, 2.1 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
2.1 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
12 km of footpaths cross Venette
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
12 km
1.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.6 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
7.3%
about 0.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
VenetteOise medianFrance median
Footpaths1.4
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
VenetteOise medianFrance median
Woodland7.3%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 56% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 69% 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 Venette 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 2259.7 km
de Saint-Quentin à Orrouy (selon GR 655)2.9 km
Les Coteaux de Margny1.5 km
GR 225 passes within 2 km of Venette.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Venette: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Margny-Les-Compiegne, 1.6 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 Venette →
Neighbors
Next to Venette
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
CompiègneMargny-lès-CompiègneChoisy-au-BacLacroix-Saint-OuenLongueil-AnnelThourotteVenette
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venette | 0% | 7.3% | 1.4 |
| Compiègne 40,761 · 1.6 km | 76% | 74% | 3.4 |
| Margny-lès-Compiègne 8,677 · 1.6 km | 0% | 1.3% | 2.1 |
| Choisy-au-Bac 3,449 · 6.3 km | 56% | 62% | 2.5 |
| Lacroix-Saint-Ouen 5,415 · 6.8 km | 76% | 73% | 1.2 |
| Longueil-Annel 2,586 · 7.1 km | 0% | 21% | 1.5 |
| Thourotte 4,463 · 8.9 km | 0.8% | 8% | 2.8 |
Compiègne, Choisy-au-Bac and Lacroix-Saint-Ouen have at least twice as much protected land. Compiègne, Choisy-au-Bac and Lacroix-Saint-Ouen 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 Venette
Is Venette in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Massif forestier de Compiègne, 2.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Venette?
OpenStreetMap maps 12 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Venette is woodland?
7.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Venette 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 Venette?
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 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.