Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Gadmer Frédéric · CC BY-SA 4.0No protected area reaches Vimy; the nearest, Pelouses métallicoles de la plaine de la Scarpe (Natura 2000), is 15 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 15 km across Vimy (1.3 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 16% of Vimy. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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.
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 (4,231 to 4,306 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Brives-Charensac (4.2 km per km²) to Terres-de-Caux (0.1 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brives-Charensac Haute-Loire | 4.2 | 17% | 0% | 166 km |
| 2 | Mimet Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.9 | 49% | 44% | 16 km |
| 3 | Leuville-sur-Orge Essonne | 3.8 | 15% | 0% | 166 km |
| 4 | Agneaux Manche | 3.5 | 10% | 0% | 25 km |
| 5 | Barbentane Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.1 | 36% | 8.1% | 50 km |
| 6 | Roquettes Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 4.1% | 4.3% | 147 km |
| 7 | Courseulles-sur-Mer Calvados | 2.7 | 1% | 0% | On it |
| 8 | Angoulins Charente-Maritime | 2.7 | 0.3% | 3.8% | On it |
| 9 | Pont-Péan Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.3 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 10 | La Norville Essonne | 2.2 | 4% | 0% | 168 km |
| 11 | Combrit Finistère | 2.2 | 20% | 3.3% | On it |
| 12 | Plomelin Finistère | 2.1 | 19% | 0% | On it |
| 13 | Châtenois Bas-Rhin | 2 | 33% | 0% | 458 km |
| 14 | Rouffach Haut-Rhin | 1.8 | 37% | 10% | 464 km |
| 15 | Lanvallay Côtes-d'Armor | 1.8 | 17% | 100% | 4.9 km |
| 16 | Is-sur-Tille Côte-d'Or | 1.6 | 41% | 0% | 388 km |
| 17 | Millery Rhône | 1.6 | 14% | 0% | 237 km |
| 18 | Désertines Allier | 1.5 | 20% | 0% | 281 km |
| 19 | Fleury Aude | 1.5 | 0.7% | 98% | On it |
| 20 | Tonnerre Yonne | 1.5 | 41% | 0% | 308 km |
| 21 | Ecquevilly Yvelines | 1.4 | 26% | 0% | 124 km |
| 22 | Vimy Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 16% | 0% | 80 km |
| 23 | Saint-Just-Malmont Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 47% | 0.3% | 199 km |
| 24 | Maîche Doubs | 1.3 | 31% | 100% | 389 km |
| 25 | Beauvallon Rhône | 1.3 | 18% | 0% | 231 km |
| 26 | Rognonas Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.2 | 0% | 13% | 50 km |
| 27 | Saint-Aubin-d'Aubigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 38 km |
| 28 | Saint-Laurent-Nouan Loir-et-Cher | 0.6 | 42% | 26% | 213 km |
| 29 | Rang-du-Fliers Pas-de-Calais | 0.6 | 23% | 13% | 4.7 km |
| 30 | Nozay Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.7% | 0% | 52 km |
| 31 | Cours Rhône | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 283 km |
| 32 | Châteauneuf-sur-Isère Drôme | 0.6 | 6.5% | 2.1% | 173 km |
| 33 | Nanteuil-le-Haudouin Oise | 0.5 | 9.7% | 32% | 142 km |
| 34 | Friville-Escarbotin Somme | 0.5 | 2.1% | 100% | 7.2 km |
| 35 | Sanvignes-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 12% | 0% | 345 km |
| 36 | Eyragues Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 43 km |
| 37 | Serémange-Erzange Moselle | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 307 km |
| 38 | Pontorson Manche | 0.4 | 0.4% | 6.2% | On it |
| 39 | Breteuil Eure | 0.3 | 31% | 0.2% | 78 km |
| 40 | Betschdorf Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 41% | 49% | 436 km |
| 41 | Terres-de-Caux Seine-Maritime | 0.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 19 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: Parc commémoratif du Canada à Vimy leads, at 123 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.
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 less than in 59% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 56% 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 Vimy is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Arras, 14 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 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 49 | 50 | 43 | 61 | 61 | 65 | 63 | 58 | 65 | 64 | 76 |
April is the driest month (43 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 76 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Vimy →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
No. The nearest protected area is Pelouses métallicoles de la plaine de la Scarpe, 15 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
16% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 80 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
May 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.