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Outdoors in Avion · protected areas, woods and footpaths

Almost every home in Avion is within 800 m of a park or wood

45 km of footpaths cross Avion (3.4 km per km²). No protected area reaches Avion; the nearest, Pelouses métallicoles de la plaine de la Scarpe (Natura 2000), is 13 km from the town center. Avion has 4 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.

13%woodland 45km of footpaths

Protected areas

of the commune’s land

Nearest: Pelouses métallicoles de la plaine de la Scarpe, 13 km

Woodland

13%

of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap

Compared town: 13%

Footpaths

45 km

3.4 km per km²

Compared town: 1.7 km per km²

Hiking routes

3.9 km

waymarked, GR and others

Compared town: 0.3 km per km²

Parks & woods

named, in or within 400 m of the commune

First: Parc de la Glissoire

Throughout this page, the Pas-de-Calais 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 Avion 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

Woodland13%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap

48out of 100

Footpaths3.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune

79out of 100

Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune

46out of 100

Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.

Towns its size

Avion has the 15th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size

The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (16,804 to 18,067 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.

Avion 3.4

Jouy-le-MoutierMarmande

05.511 km per km²

From Jouy-le-Moutier (10.3 km per km²) to Marmande (0.3 km per km²).

Every town in the comparison

	Town	Paths (km/km²)	Woodland	Protected	Coast
1	Jouy-le-Moutier Val-d'Oise	10.3	23%	0%	123 km
2	Viroflay Yvelines	9.5	42%	0%	148 km
3	Les Clayes-sous-Bois Yvelines	6.3	35%	0%	137 km
4	Saint-Égrève Isère	5.8	22%	30%	208 km
5	Le Pré-Saint-Gervais Seine-Saint-Denis	5.8	0%	0%	149 km
6	L'Isle-d'Abeau Isère	5.2	9.8%	0%	242 km
7	Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire Indre-et-Loire	5	9.4%	1.9%	184 km
8	Villeneuve-Loubet Alpes-Maritimes	5	30%	16%	On it
9	Boissy-Saint-Léger Val-de-Marne	4.4	50%	0%	166 km
10	Balma Haute-Garonne	4.2	6.4%	0%	142 km
11	Chamalières Puy-de-Dôme	4.1	3.4%	0.1%	258 km
12	Saran Loiret	3.9	24%	0%	200 km
13	Écully Rhône	3.8	14%	0%	253 km
14	Garches Hauts-de-Seine	3.7	2.5%	0%	144 km
15	Avion Pas-de-Calais	3.4	13%	0%	77 km
16	Osny Val-d'Oise	3.2	14%	0.1%	119 km
17	Firminy Loire	3	25%	0%	204 km
18	Cluses Haute-Savoie	2.8	33%	0%	264 km
19	Yutz Moselle	2.6	18%	0%	310 km
20	Soisy-sous-Montmorency Val-d'Oise	2.6	5%	0%	135 km
21	Carvin Pas-de-Calais	2.5	5.3%	0%	73 km
22	Digne-les-Bains Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	2.5	50%	4%	85 km
23	Pontarlier Doubs	2.4	48%	0%	359 km
24	Annonay Ardèche	2.3	30%	0.2%	193 km
25	Fécamp Seine-Maritime	2.2	25%	2.9%	On it
26	Lattes Hérault	2.2	0.8%	22%	5.5 km
27	Limay Yvelines	2.1	16%	6.1%	112 km
28	Sallanches Haute-Savoie	2	32%	35%	250 km
29	Montceau-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire	1.8	6.6%	0%	347 km
30	La Baule-Escoublac Loire-Atlantique	1.7	9.6%	37%	0.8 km
31	Blanquefort Gironde	1.7	15%	7.6%	11 km
32	Guérande Loire-Atlantique	1.5	7.1%	76%	On it
33	Verdun Meuse	1.4	21%	3.6%	290 km
34	Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume Var	1	41%	34%	33 km
35	Brignoles Var	0.9	48%	17%	34 km
36	Lamballe-Armor Côtes-d'Armor	0.8	5%	2%	On it
37	Vire Normandie Calvados	0.6	3.9%	0%	41 km
38	Orée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire	0.5	11%	12%	66 km
39	Segré-en-Anjou Bleu Maine-et-Loire	0.5	4.6%	0%	108 km
40	Ambarès-et-Lagrave Gironde	0.4	4.8%	35%	11 km
41	Marmande Lot-et-Garonne	0.3	11%	4%	82 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 Avion

Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Glissoire leads, at 58 ha. Directions go to a point inside.

First pick

Parc de la Glissoire

Park or garden

58 ha9.3 km of path

2 h 5 minto walk all 9.3 km of path

1.3 km northfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

Le Val de Souchez

Park or garden

51 ha12.3 km of path

2 h 45 minto walk all 12.3 km of path

1.8 km north-westfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

Terril des Pinchonvalles (T075)

Wood or forest

60 ha3.6 km of path

50 minto walk all 3.6 km of path

2.4 km westfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

Terril 80

Park or garden · 180 m outside the commune

15 ha3.9 km of path

50 minto walk all 3.9 km of path

2.5 km westfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

Bois de Givenchy

Wood or forest

42 ha2.3 km of path

30 minto walk all 2.3 km of path

3.2 km westfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

Terril 103

Park or garden

9.5 ha0.9 km of path

10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path

1.7 km north-eastfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

Place Philipe Lebas

Park or garden

1.1 ha0.6 km of path

10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path

1 km southfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

Square Henri Nogueres

Park or garden

1.3 ha0.4 km of path

Centralin the middle of Avion

Directionsto a point inside

All 12 named parks, gardens and woods

Parc de la GlissoirePark or garden · 58 ha · 9.3 km of path

Directions

Le Val de SouchezPark or garden · 51 ha · 12.3 km of path

Directions

Terril des Pinchonvalles (T075)Wood or forest · 60 ha · 3.6 km of path

Directions

Terril 80Park or garden · 15 ha · 3.9 km of path · just outside

Directions

Bois de GivenchyWood or forest · 42 ha · 2.3 km of path

Directions

Terril 103Park or garden · 9.5 ha · 0.9 km of path

Directions

Place Philipe LebasPark or garden · 1.1 ha · 0.6 km of path

Directions

Square Henri NogueresPark or garden · 1.3 ha · 0.4 km of path

Directions

Place de la PerchePark or garden · 0.7 ha · 0.2 km of path

Directions

Piste de BMXPark or garden · 0.7 ha · just outside

Directions

Tir à l'arcPark or garden · 0.5 ha · just outside

Directions

Bois jardiné de la RépubliquePark or garden · 0.4 ha

Directions

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.

Protected areas

Pelouses métallicoles de la plaine de la Scarpe is the nearest protected area, 13 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

Pelouses métallicoles de la plaine de la Scarpe

13 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

45 km of footpaths cross Avion

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

45 km

3.4 km per km²

Hiking routes

3.9 km

waymarked: 0.3 km per km²

Woodland

13%

about 1.6 km² of mapped woods

Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap

AvionPas-de-Calais medianFrance median

Footpaths3.4

Hiking routes0.3

024 km per km²

Share of the land · mapped woods and forest

AvionPas-de-Calais medianFrance median

Woodland13%

0%50%100%

That is more than in 79% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 52% 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 Avion is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.

6 named hiking routes within 2 km

Other named walk

Terril 81A - Libercourt6.1 km

Terril du Téléphérique - Terril 81A5.8 km

Terril 81A - Terril des Pinchonvalles4.2 km

Terril des Pinchonvalles - Monument aux morts3.2 km

Bully-Les-Mines - Terril 81A2.5 km

Terril des Pinchonvalles - Mont de Justice2.2 km

When to get out

The best walking months in Avion: April to September

Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Douai, 17 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)	8.5	10.0	11.7	13.7	15.4	16.4	16.0	14.5	12.5	10.6	8.9	8.0
High (°C)	6	7	11	15	19	22	24	24	20	15	10	7
Rain (mm)	58	51	53	42	57	63	68	68	61	64	71	73

April is the driest month (42 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 73 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. The climate in Avion →

Neighbors

Next to Avion

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.

Éleu-dit-LeauwetteSallauminesMéricourtLensNoyelles-sous-LensVimyAvion

Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+

Town	Protected	Woodland	Paths (km/km²)
Avion	0%	13%	3.4
Éleu-dit-Leauwette 2,805 · 2 km	0%	16%	5.5
Sallaumines 9,414 · 2.7 km	0%	8.1%	2.4
Méricourt 11,619 · 3.1 km	0%	4.3%	2
Lens 32,920 · 3.2 km	0%	6.4%	4.6
Noyelles-sous-Lens 6,854 · 4 km	0%	10%	5
Vimy 4,270 · 4.1 km	0%	16%	1.3

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 Avion

Is Avion in a national or regional nature park?

No. The nearest protected area is Pelouses métallicoles de la plaine de la Scarpe, 13 km from the town center.

Are there good walks in Avion?

OpenStreetMap maps 45 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); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.

How much of Avion is woodland?

13% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.

Is Avion near the sea?

No: the coast is 77 km from the town center, as the crow flies.

When is the best time for walking in Avion?

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 9, 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.