First pick
Parc du boulard
Wood or forest · 320 m outside the commune
45 ha5.4 km of path
1 h 10 minto walk all 5.4 km of path
3.1 km northfrom the center
Chemin de la Merdarie
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Myrabella · CC BY-SA 4.014%woodland
Outdoors in Brignais · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Brignais is within 800 m of a park or wood
Brignais has 7 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Brignais; the nearest, Pilat Regional Nature Park, is 11 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 20 km across Brignais (2 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: Pilat Regional Nature Park, 11 km
Woodland
14%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
20 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc du boulard
Throughout this page, the Rhône 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 Brignais 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
Woodland14%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
52out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
57out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
71out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Brignais has the 16th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (12,206 to 12,806 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Villetaneuse (11 km per km²) to Mèze (0.5 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Villetaneuse Seine-Saint-Denis | 11 | 5.1% | 0% | 140 km |
| 2 | La Queue-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.3 | 47% | 0% | 165 km |
| 3 | Bayeux Calvados | 6.1 | 2.8% | 0% | 7.4 km |
| 4 | Marquette-lez-Lille Nord | 5.6 | 4.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 5 | L'Union Haute-Garonne | 5.4 | 4.4% | 0% | 146 km |
| 6 | L'Isle-Adam Val-d'Oise | 5.2 | 60% | 0.2% | 121 km |
| 7 | Châlette-sur-Loing Loiret | 5.1 | 43% | 0% | 234 km |
| 8 | Harnes Pas-de-Calais | 4.2 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 km |
| 9 | Saint-Avé Morbihan | 3.7 | 24% | 97% | 4.5 km |
| 10 | Granville Manche | 3.6 | 1.3% | 7.2% | On it |
| 11 | Chambray-lès-Tours Indre-et-Loire | 3.5 | 24% | 0% | 181 km |
| 12 | Oissel-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 3.5 | 48% | 3.9% | 54 km |
| 13 | Pornichet Loire-Atlantique | 3.3 | 12% | 0.1% | On it |
| 14 | Triel-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.8 | 34% | 0% | 124 km |
| 15 | Le Chambon-Feugerolles Loire | 2.8 | 43% | 0.1% | 205 km |
| 16 | Cogolin Var | 2.7 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 17 | Andernos-les-Bains Gironde | 2.6 | 46% | 3.4% | On it |
| 18 | Saint-André-les-Vergers Aube | 2.5 | 4.4% | 0% | 273 km |
| 19 | Creutzwald Moselle | 2.4 | 57% | 0% | 348 km |
| 20 | Quimperlé Finistère | 2.4 | 24% | 3.9% | 9.2 km |
| 21 | Mende Lozère | 2.4 | 54% | 0% | 115 km |
| 22 | Aubergenville Yvelines | 2.4 | 9.1% | 0% | 121 km |
| 23 | Guidel Morbihan | 2.3 | 23% | 7.8% | On it |
| 24 | La Chapelle-Saint-Luc Aube | 2.3 | 12% | 0% | 270 km |
| 25 | Obernai Bas-Rhin | 2 | 16% | 1.9% | 447 km |
| 26 | Brignais Rhône | 2 | 14% | 0% | 241 km |
| 27 | Pont-Sainte-Maxence Oise | 1.8 | 47% | 99% | 118 km |
| 28 | Solliès-Pont Var | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 11 km |
| 29 | Aubenas Ardèche | 1.6 | 6.8% | 18% | 120 km |
| 30 | Vernouillet Eure-et-Loir | 1.5 | 9.6% | 0% | 107 km |
| 31 | Châteaubriant Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0% | 76 km |
| 32 | Pont-du-Château Puy-de-Dôme | 1.2 | 8.9% | 9.7% | 257 km |
| 33 | Bischwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 443 km |
| 34 | Louvres Val-d'Oise | 1.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 139 km |
| 35 | Sablé-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 1 | 12% | 0% | 116 km |
| 36 | Gisors Eure | 0.9 | 34% | 0% | 87 km |
| 37 | Comines Nord | 0.9 | 2.3% | 0% | 48 km |
| 38 | Saint-André-de-Cubzac Gironde | 0.8 | 5.4% | 5.2% | 12 km |
| 39 | Vidauban Var | 0.7 | 22% | 34% | 20 km |
| 40 | Rognac Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 22% | 10% | 16 km |
| 41 | Mèze Hérault | 0.5 | 5.2% | 27% | 6.3 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 Brignais
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du boulard leads, at 45 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc des Cartières
Park or garden · 320 m outside the commune
15 ha2 km of path
25 minto walk all 2 km of path
2.3 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Mairie
Park or garden
1.9 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Brignais
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Pilat Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 11 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Pilat Regional Nature Park
11 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
20 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Brignais
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
20 km
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
7 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
14%
about 1.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BrignaisRhône medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes0.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BrignaisRhône medianFrance median
Woodland14%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 57% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more 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 Brignais is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Tour de Lyon, d'Yvours au Fort de Bruissin20 km
Via Lugdunum, Lyon to Le Puy-en-Velay7.1 km
De Champonost à Mornant5.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Brignais: April to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St-Genis-Laval, 2.9 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) | 9.1 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.4 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 17 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 48 | 37 | 47 | 68 | 75 | 68 | 65 | 63 | 80 | 95 | 90 | 49 |
February is the driest month (37 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 95 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Brignais →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Brignais
Named gardens in the commune.
Le Jardin de KoduIn Brignais
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Brignais
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
VourlesOrliénasSaint-Genis-LavalCharlyChaponostSoucieu-en-JarrestBrignais
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brignais | 0% | 14% | 2 |
| Vourles 3,332 · 2.2 km | 0% | 6.6% | 1.8 |
| Orliénas 2,675 · 3.1 km | 0% | 22% | 1.1 |
| Saint-Genis-Laval 21,212 · 3.5 km | 0% | 6% | 2.6 |
| Charly 4,811 · 4 km | 0% | 0.2% | 1.7 |
| Chaponost 9,382 · 4 km | 0% | 12% | 1.5 |
| Soucieu-en-Jarrest 4,660 · 4.6 km | 0% | 15% | 1 |
Orliénas is 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 Brignais
Is Brignais in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Pilat Regional Nature Park, 11 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Brignais?
OpenStreetMap maps 20 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Brignais is woodland?
14% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Brignais near the sea?
No: the coast is 241 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Brignais?
April to August: 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.