First pick
Domaine de Melchior
Park or garden
7.4 ha1.4 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Charly
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Sebleouf · CC BY-SA 4.00.2%woodland
Outdoors in Charly · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Charly is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Charly; the nearest, Pilat Regional Nature Park, is 8.5 km from the town center. Charly has almost no mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 9 km across Charly (1.7 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, 8.5 km
Woodland
0.2%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
8.7 km
1.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 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: Domaine de Melchior
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Charly?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyPilat Regional Nature Park is 8.5 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0.2% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Charly apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Charly 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
Woodland0.2%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
2out of 100
Footpaths1.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
50out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Charly has the 13th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,775 to 4,847 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Marolles-en-Brie (6.1 km per km²) to Salbris (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marolles-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.1 | 42% | 0% | 169 km |
| 2 | Pompey Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.3 | 68% | 0% | 356 km |
| 3 | Rosières-près-Troyes Aube | 4 | 9.4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 4 | Phalempin Nord | 4 | 32% | 0% | 72 km |
| 5 | Teyran Hérault | 3.2 | 11% | 10% | 15 km |
| 6 | Dagneux Ain | 2.5 | 18% | 0% | 266 km |
| 7 | Die Drôme | 2.4 | 60% | 100% | 150 km |
| 8 | Paron Yonne | 2 | 26% | 1.2% | 249 km |
| 9 | L'Horme Loire | 2 | 3.4% | 0% | 217 km |
| 10 | Robion Vaucluse | 1.8 | 24% | 100% | 48 km |
| 11 | La Haie-Fouassière Loire-Atlantique | 1.7 | 12% | 0% | 47 km |
| 12 | La Grand-Combe Gard | 1.7 | 71% | 0% | 73 km |
| 13 | Charly Rhône | 1.7 | 0.2% | 0% | 239 km |
| 14 | Rilhac-Rancon Haute-Vienne | 1.6 | 33% | 0% | 170 km |
| 15 | Bourgbarré Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 62 km |
| 16 | Saint-Romain-de-Colbosc Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 3.5% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 17 | Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues Gard | 1.3 | 49% | 0% | 67 km |
| 18 | Verneuil-en-Halatte Oise | 1.3 | 49% | 58% | 117 km |
| 19 | Le Coudray-Montceaux Essonne | 1.2 | 19% | 0% | 182 km |
| 20 | Cléon Seine-Maritime | 1.1 | 16% | 2% | 51 km |
| 21 | Cerizay Deux-Sèvres | 1.1 | 3.5% | 0% | 67 km |
| 22 | Vittel Vosges | 1.1 | 23% | 0% | 381 km |
| 23 | Pignans Var | 1 | 50% | 43% | 20 km |
| 24 | Desvres Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 56% | 100% | 18 km |
| 25 | Milizac-Guipronvel Finistère | 0.9 | 6.1% | 0% | 9.1 km |
| 26 | Cysoing Nord | 0.8 | 26% | 0% | 74 km |
| 27 | Tinchebray-Bocage Orne | 0.8 | 4.9% | 0% | 48 km |
| 28 | Maraussan Hérault | 0.6 | 1.3% | 0% | 17 km |
| 29 | Les Monts d'Aunay Calvados | 0.6 | 23% | 25% | 37 km |
| 30 | Ruy-Montceau Isère | 0.4 | 21% | 12% | 240 km |
| 31 | Saint-Germain-du-Puy Cher | 0.4 | 7.4% | 0% | 290 km |
| 32 | Conches-en-Ouche Eure | 0.4 | 51% | 0% | 68 km |
| 33 | Billom Puy-de-Dôme | 0.4 | 7.1% | 100% | 247 km |
| 34 | Saint-Jean-de-Bournay Isère | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 229 km |
| 35 | Argenton-sur-Creuse Indre | 0.3 | 25% | 3.9% | 205 km |
| 36 | Monnaie Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 197 km |
| 37 | Bornel Oise | 0.3 | 33% | 0.1% | 112 km |
| 38 | Vic-en-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 0.3 | 20% | 2.2% | 125 km |
| 39 | Saverdun Ariège | 0.2 | 13% | 0.7% | 123 km |
| 40 | Legé Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 33 km |
| 41 | Salbris Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 81% | 100% | 256 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 Charly
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Domaine de Melchior leads, at 7.4 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin du 8 mai
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Charly
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, 8.5 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
8.5 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
9 km of footpaths cross Charly
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
8.7 km
1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.2%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CharlyRhône medianFrance median
Footpaths1.7
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CharlyRhône medianFrance median
Woodland0.2%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 50% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 98% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 96% of Charly’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Tour de Lyon, d'Yvours au Fort de Bruissin6.5 km
Sentier de l'Homme et du Fleuve2.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Charly: April to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St-Genis-Laval, 5.1 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 Charly →
Neighbors
Next to Charly
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
VernaisonVourlesMillerySérézin-du-RhôneIrignyBrignaisCharly
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Charly
Is Charly in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Pilat Regional Nature Park, 8.5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Charly?
OpenStreetMap maps 9 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Charly is woodland?
0.2% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Charly near the sea?
No: the coast is 239 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Charly?
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 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.