First pick
Bois Louis
Wood or forest
275 ha10 km of path
2 h 15 minto walk all 10 km of path
2.1 km north-westfrom the center
Single VTTLa Trace des ChasseursDescente à la cabane des Chasseurs+5 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Claude Gardères · CC BY-SA 3.020%woodland
Outdoors in Boissy-le-Châtel · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Boissy-le-Châtel is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Boissy-le-Châtel; the nearest, Rivière du Vannetin (Natura 2000), is 4.5 km from the town center. Boissy-le-Châtel has 6 km of waymarked hiking routes. Mapped woodland covers 20% of Boissy-le-Châtel. 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: Rivière du Vannetin, 4.5 km
Woodland
20%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
11 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.7 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: Bois Louis
Throughout this page, the Seine-et-Marne 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 Boissy-le-Châtel 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
Woodland20%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
62out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
34out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
66out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Boissy-le-Châtel has the 19th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,313 to 3,375 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Collégien (5.9 km per km²) to La Ville-Dieu-du-Temple (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Collégien Seine-et-Marne | 5.9 | 29% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Frépillon Val-d'Oise | 4.3 | 19% | 0.2% | 126 km |
| 3 | Champ-sur-Drac Isère | 3.9 | 51% | 24% | 193 km |
| 4 | Bernin Isère | 3.7 | 28% | 14% | 207 km |
| 5 | Briis-sous-Forges Essonne | 3.5 | 22% | 0.1% | 157 km |
| 6 | Renage Isère | 3.1 | 31% | 0% | 215 km |
| 7 | Saint-Maximin Oise | 3 | 54% | 88% | 120 km |
| 8 | Roscoff Finistère | 3 | 0% | 0.4% | On it |
| 9 | Seilh Haute-Garonne | 3 | 15% | 12% | 156 km |
| 10 | Houplin-Ancoisne Nord | 3 | 4.4% | 0% | 66 km |
| 11 | Buchelay Yvelines | 2.8 | 7.5% | 0% | 108 km |
| 12 | Cocheren Moselle | 2.6 | 36% | 0% | 360 km |
| 13 | Ceyzériat Ain | 2 | 41% | 0.6% | 305 km |
| 14 | Doubs Doubs | 2 | 37% | 0% | 361 km |
| 15 | Le Folgoët Finistère | 1.9 | 3.7% | 0% | 8.1 km |
| 16 | Vourles Rhône | 1.8 | 6.6% | 0% | 240 km |
| 17 | Salles-d'Aude Aude | 1.7 | 12% | 19% | 9 km |
| 18 | Saint-Cast-le-Guildo Côtes-d'Armor | 1.7 | 12% | 100% | On it |
| 19 | Merlimont Pas-de-Calais | 1.6 | 28% | 63% | On it |
| 20 | Aigues-Vives Gard | 1.3 | 4.2% | 13% | 21 km |
| 21 | Hulluch Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 7.9% | 0% | 69 km |
| 22 | Mareuil-lès-Meaux Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 18% | 0.6% | 163 km |
| 23 | Boissy-le-Châtel Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 20% | 0% | 184 km |
| 24 | Bonifacio Corse-du-Sud | 1.1 | 11% | 18% | On it |
| 25 | Précy-sur-Oise Oise | 1 | 14% | 100% | 119 km |
| 26 | Villelongue-de-la-Salanque Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.8 | 0.1% | 0% | 4.5 km |
| 27 | Étain Meuse | 0.8 | 16% | 0% | 295 km |
| 28 | Wizernes Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 6.8% | 100% | 32 km |
| 29 | Louvigné-du-Désert Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 4.2% | 0% | 24 km |
| 30 | Veuzain-sur-Loire Loir-et-Cher | 0.5 | 24% | 6.2% | 220 km |
| 31 | Saint-Andiol Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 43 km |
| 32 | Chaumont-en-Vexin Oise | 0.5 | 18% | 0% | 93 km |
| 33 | Saint-André-de-Corcy Ain | 0.3 | 20% | 49% | 272 km |
| 34 | Évry-Grégy-sur-Yerre Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 180 km |
| 35 | Palau-del-Vidre Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.2 | 1% | 2.8% | 7.1 km |
| 36 | Descartes Indre-et-Loire | 0.2 | 15% | 0% | 158 km |
| 37 | Val-au-Perche Orne | 0.2 | 21% | 100% | 128 km |
| 38 | Cérans-Foulletourte Sarthe | 0.2 | 34% | 0% | 139 km |
| 39 | Castillon-la-Bataille Gironde | 0.1 | 12% | 1.5% | 47 km |
| 40 | Ambès Gironde | 0.1 | 5.4% | 58% | 4.6 km |
| 41 | La Ville-Dieu-du-Temple Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.1 | 9% | 0% | 180 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 Boissy-le-Châtel
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois Louis leads, at 275 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Forêt Domaniale de la Bretonière
Wood or forest
76 ha3.5 km of path
45 minto walk all 3.5 km of path
1.7 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Rivière du Vannetin is the nearest protected area, 4.5 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
Rivière du Vannetin
4.5 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
11 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Boissy-le-Châtel
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
11 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.7 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
20%
about 2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Boissy-le-ChâtelSeine-et-Marne medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0.6
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Boissy-le-ChâtelSeine-et-Marne medianFrance median
Woodland20%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 66% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 62% 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 Boissy-le-Châtel is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
MDM Boucle 3 - La Brie Fromagère17 km
La Bretonnière10 km
MDM Boucle 1 - Entre Marne et Grand-Morin9.4 km
Grand Tour de Paris, La Ferté-sous-Jouarre - Coulommiers9 km
Grand Tour de Paris, Coulommiers - Provins6.6 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Boissy-le-Châtel: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Mouroux_Sapc, 6.4 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) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.1 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 56 | 53 | 45 | 62 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 51 | 66 | 65 | 80 |
April is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 80 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Boissy-le-Châtel →
Neighbors
Next to Boissy-le-Châtel
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
CoulommiersMourouxPommeuseFaremoutiersJouarreLa Ferté-GaucherBoissy-le-Châtel
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boissy-le-Châtel | 0% | 20% | 1.1 |
| Coulommiers 16,374 · 3.8 km | 0% | 16% | 2 |
| Mouroux 5,810 · 6.8 km | 0% | 21% | 0.6 |
| Pommeuse 3,049 · 10 km | 0% | 19% | 0.6 |
| Faremoutiers 3,057 · 11 km | 0% | 51% | 1.4 |
| Jouarre 4,221 · 11 km | 0% | 28% | 0.3 |
| La Ferté-Gaucher 4,743 · 13 km | 0% | 7.6% | 0.4 |
Faremoutiers 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 Boissy-le-Châtel
Is Boissy-le-Châtel in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Rivière du Vannetin, 4.5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Boissy-le-Châtel?
OpenStreetMap maps 11 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Boissy-le-Châtel is woodland?
20% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Boissy-le-Châtel near the sea?
No: the coast is 184 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Boissy-le-Châtel?
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.