First pick
Bois des Chênes
Wood or forest
19 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
2.3 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: CHABERT Louis · CC BY-SA 4.01.3%woodland
Outdoors in Mions · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Mions is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mions has 12 km of waymarked hiking routes. 1.3% of Mions is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Mions; the nearest, Pelouses, milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de l’île de Miribel-Jonage (Natura 2000), is 14 km from the town center. 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: Pelouses, milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de l’île de Miribel-Jonage, 14 km
Woodland
1.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
17 km
1.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
12 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: Bois des Chênes
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 Mions?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes12 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Little mapped woodland1.3% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Mions apart: its hiking routes. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Mions 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
Woodland1.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
8out of 100
Footpaths1.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
45out of 100
Hiking routes1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
83out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Mions has the 13th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (13,401 to 14,257 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lieusaint (8.8 km per km²) to Gien (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lieusaint Seine-et-Marne | 8.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 178 km |
| 2 | Vaires-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 7.7 | 21% | 11% | 161 km |
| 3 | Chenôve Côte-d'Or | 6.5 | 10% | 17% | 403 km |
| 4 | Avon Seine-et-Marne | 6.4 | 30% | 27% | 206 km |
| 5 | Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande Ille-et-Vilaine | 5.9 | 8.1% | 0% | 50 km |
| 6 | Audincourt Doubs | 5.3 | 36% | 0% | 414 km |
| 7 | Auray Morbihan | 5 | 8.3% | 100% | On it |
| 8 | Fleury-Mérogis Essonne | 4.2 | 35% | 0% | 170 km |
| 9 | Lys-lez-Lannoy Nord | 4.2 | 3.9% | 0% | 64 km |
| 10 | Juvignac Hérault | 4.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 14 km |
| 11 | Gex Ain | 4.2 | 63% | 72% | 306 km |
| 12 | Lons Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 4.2 | 7.7% | 9% | 92 km |
| 13 | Ostwald Bas-Rhin | 4 | 10% | 0% | 452 km |
| 14 | Andrésy Yvelines | 3.8 | 23% | 0% | 126 km |
| 15 | Fontenay-le-Fleury Yvelines | 3.3 | 8% | 0% | 141 km |
| 16 | Douarnenez Finistère | 3.3 | 16% | 3.8% | On it |
| 17 | Montataire Oise | 2.9 | 11% | 0.1% | 116 km |
| 18 | Caudry Nord | 2.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 123 km |
| 19 | Plougastel-Daoulas Finistère | 2.6 | 28% | 6.5% | On it |
| 20 | Carros Alpes-Maritimes | 2.3 | 25% | 64% | 11 km |
| 21 | Roncq Nord | 2.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 53 km |
| 22 | Bollène Vaucluse | 2.2 | 28% | 9.5% | 93 km |
| 23 | Plouzané Finistère | 2.2 | 8% | 0% | On it |
| 24 | Sainte-Maxime Var | 2.1 | 65% | 19% | On it |
| 25 | Morangis Essonne | 2.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 163 km |
| 26 | Pont-à-Mousson Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.8 | 31% | 0.4% | 341 km |
| 27 | Argentan Orne | 1.7 | 2.2% | 11% | 62 km |
| 28 | Hautmont Nord | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 130 km |
| 29 | Mions Rhône | 1.5 | 1.3% | 0% | 244 km |
| 30 | Berre-l'Étang Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 1.1% | 15% | 16 km |
| 31 | Genas Rhône | 1.3 | 2.3% | 0% | 252 km |
| 32 | Amilly Loiret | 1.2 | 33% | 0% | 240 km |
| 33 | Belleville-en-Beaujolais Rhône | 1.1 | 5.4% | 7.1% | 288 km |
| 34 | Fontenay-le-Comte Vendée | 1.1 | 2% | 100% | 31 km |
| 35 | Moissac Tarn-et-Garonne | 1 | 27% | 2.5% | 167 km |
| 36 | Tulle Corrèze | 1 | 34% | 0% | 187 km |
| 37 | Méru Oise | 0.8 | 16% | 0% | 106 km |
| 38 | Pierrelatte Drôme | 0.7 | 2.8% | 4.4% | 103 km |
| 39 | Saint-Martin-de-Crau Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.4 | 3.6% | 91% | 21 km |
| 40 | Thouars Deux-Sèvres | 0.3 | 12% | 0.4% | 102 km |
| 41 | Gien Loiret | 0.3 | 35% | 1.8% | 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 Mions
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois des Chênes leads, at 19 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Paul Mouyon
Park or garden
1.4 ha0.2 km of path
1.6 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Théodore Monod
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Mions
Directionsto a point inside
Les potagers Corbasiens
Park or garden · 340 m outside the commune
0.6 ha
2.9 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Pelouses, milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de l’île de Miribel-Jonage is the nearest protected area, 14 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, milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de l’île de Miribel-Jonage
14 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
17 km of footpaths and 12 km of hiking routes cross Mions
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
17 km
1.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
12 km
waymarked: 1 km per km²
Woodland
1.3%
about 0.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MionsRhône medianFrance median
Footpaths1.5
Hiking routes1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MionsRhône medianFrance median
Woodland1.3%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 55% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 92% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 97% of Mions’ residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Tour de Lyon, du Fort de Bron à Feyzin17 km
Sentier nature de la Route de Vienne2.8 km
Sentier-nature des Cervettes1.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Mions: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lyon-Bron, 6.1 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 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 50 | 42 | 49 | 69 | 81 | 74 | 67 | 66 | 83 | 100 | 87 | 54 |
February is the driest month (42 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 100 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Mions →
Neighbors
Next to Mions
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ToussieuSaint-PriestCorbasChaponnaySaint-Pierre-de-ChandieuSaint-Bonnet-de-MureMions
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mions | 0% | 1.3% | 1.5 |
| Toussieu 3,177 · 2.9 km | 0% | 6.8% | 1.5 |
| Saint-Priest 49,229 · 3.5 km | 0% | 4.1% | 4.4 |
| Corbas 11,315 · 4 km | 0% | 0.6% | 2.5 |
| Chaponnay 4,548 · 4.2 km | 0% | 17% | 1.4 |
| Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu 4,616 · 5.4 km | 0% | 14% | 1.2 |
| Saint-Bonnet-de-Mure 6,984 · 6.7 km | 0% | 4.8% | 0.7 |
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 Mions
Is Mions in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Pelouses, milieux alluviaux et aquatiques de l’île de Miribel-Jonage, 14 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Mions?
OpenStreetMap maps 17 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 12 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Mions is woodland?
1.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Mions near the sea?
No: the coast is 244 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Mions?
April and June 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.