First pick
Parc François Mitterrand
Park or garden
24 ha2.9 km of path
40 minto walk all 2.9 km of path
1.2 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: GFreihalter · CC BY-SA 3.04.7%woodland
Outdoors in Brie-Comte-Robert · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Brie-Comte-Robert is within 800 m of a park or wood
4.7% of Brie-Comte-Robert is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Brie-Comte-Robert; the nearest, Gâtinais Français Regional Nature Park, is 14 km from the town center. 25 km of footpaths cross Brie-Comte-Robert (1.3 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: Gâtinais Français Regional Nature Park, 14 km
Woodland
4.7%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
25 km
1.3 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
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc François Mitterrand
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 Brie-Comte-Robert 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
Woodland4.7%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
22out of 100
Footpaths1.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
40out 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
Brie-Comte-Robert has the 6th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (18,262 to 19,787 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Meylan (9.2 km per km²) to Mauges-sur-Loire (0.5 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meylan Isère | 9.2 | 18% | 12% | 205 km |
| 2 | Villefontaine Isère | 9.1 | 21% | 1.7% | 241 km |
| 3 | Le Mée-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 7.9 | 34% | 0% | 190 km |
| 4 | Juvisy-sur-Orge Essonne | 6.4 | 1.3% | 0% | 166 km |
| 5 | Moulins Allier | 6.1 | 3.3% | 11% | 338 km |
| 6 | Bonneuil-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 3.6% | 0% | 163 km |
| 7 | Chennevières-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5.4 | 6.2% | 0% | 163 km |
| 8 | Floirac Gironde | 5.1 | 16% | 2.6% | 19 km |
| 9 | Bischheim Bas-Rhin | 5.1 | 3.6% | 0.6% | 449 km |
| 10 | Faches-Thumesnil Nord | 4.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 66 km |
| 11 | Éragny-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 4.1 | 15% | 0% | 124 km |
| 12 | Mougins Alpes-Maritimes | 4 | 28% | 0% | 5.1 km |
| 13 | Cesson-Sévigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.9 | 5.2% | 0% | 50 km |
| 14 | Moissy-Cramayel Seine-et-Marne | 3.9 | 4.7% | 0% | 180 km |
| 15 | Bruz Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.8 | 14% | 0% | 55 km |
| 16 | Ronchin Nord | 3.7 | 1.8% | 0% | 66 km |
| 17 | Bry-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 3.6 | 7% | 0% | 158 km |
| 18 | Cognac Charente | 3.5 | 13% | 17% | 43 km |
| 19 | Ploemeur Morbihan | 3.3 | 15% | 4.9% | On it |
| 20 | Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Vosges | 3.2 | 58% | 1.9% | 436 km |
| 21 | Hem Nord | 3 | 5.1% | 0% | 64 km |
| 22 | Le Puy-en-Velay Haute-Loire | 2.9 | 12% | 0% | 165 km |
| 23 | Saint-Lô Manche | 2.9 | 5% | 0% | 26 km |
| 24 | Le Pontet Vaucluse | 2.9 | 2.8% | 3.4% | 56 km |
| 25 | Royan Charente-Maritime | 2.8 | 8.7% | 12% | On it |
| 26 | Louviers Eure | 2.8 | 55% | 0.1% | 64 km |
| 27 | Lisieux Calvados | 2.4 | 1.9% | 0% | 26 km |
| 28 | La Crau Var | 2.3 | 23% | 1.8% | 6.1 km |
| 29 | Saint-Fons Rhône | 2.3 | 4.1% | 0% | 246 km |
| 30 | Sanary-sur-Mer Var | 2.2 | 16% | 0% | On it |
| 31 | Vitré Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 32 | Lunéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.1 | 9% | 0.1% | 389 km |
| 33 | Châteauneuf-les-Martigues Bouches-du-Rhône | 2 | 17% | 27% | 6 km |
| 34 | Sorgues Vaucluse | 1.7 | 9.7% | 22% | 62 km |
| 35 | Pertuis Vaucluse | 1.5 | 18% | 100% | 40 km |
| 36 | Brie-Comte-Robert Seine-et-Marne | 1.3 | 4.7% | 0% | 176 km |
| 37 | Riom Puy-de-Dôme | 1.1 | 2.4% | 1.3% | 269 km |
| 38 | Sélestat Bas-Rhin | 1 | 40% | 56% | 462 km |
| 39 | Pornic Loire-Atlantique | 1 | 4.4% | 0% | On it |
| 40 | Romorantin-Lanthenay Loir-et-Cher | 0.8 | 30% | 100% | 249 km |
| 41 | Mauges-sur-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 4.7% | 11% | 88 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 Brie-Comte-Robert
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc François Mitterrand leads, at 24 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Grand Val
Wood or forest
33 ha2.4 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.4 km of path
3.5 km south-westfrom the center
Chemin du Grand ValChemin rural de Combs-la-ville à VillemeneuxSente du Grand Val
Directionsto a point inside
Bois de Bouille Pot
Wood or forest · 110 m outside the commune
21 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
2.5 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin des Bienfaites
Park or garden
1.9 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
Centralin the middle of Brie-Comte-Robert
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Gâtinais Français Regional Nature Park 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.
Regional nature park
Gâtinais Français Regional Nature Park
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
25 km of footpaths cross Brie-Comte-Robert
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
25 km
1.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
4.7%
about 0.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Brie-Comte-RobertSeine-et-Marne medianFrance median
Footpaths1.3
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Brie-Comte-RobertSeine-et-Marne medianFrance median
Woodland4.7%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 60% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 78% 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 Brie-Comte-Robert 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).
When to get out
The best walking months in Brie-Comte-Robert: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Mandres, 5 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 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 51 | 50 | 51 | 67 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 52 | 58 | 62 | 71 |
March is the driest month (50 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 71 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 45 nights a year. The climate in Brie-Comte-Robert →
Neighbors
Next to Brie-Comte-Robert
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ServonÉvry-Grégy-sur-YerreGrisy-SuisnesPérignyCombs-la-VilleSantenyBrie-Comte-Robert
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brie-Comte-Robert | 0% | 4.7% | 1.3 |
| Servon 3,565 · 3.3 km | 0% | 12% | 2.2 |
| Évry-Grégy-sur-Yerre 3,321 · 4.2 km | 0% | 13% | 0.3 |
| Grisy-Suisnes 2,948 · 4.2 km | 0% | 17% | 0.5 |
| Périgny 2,724 · 4.5 km | 0% | 7.2% | 2.1 |
| Combs-la-Ville 23,350 · 4.7 km | 0% | 14% | 4.4 |
| Santeny 3,913 · 4.9 km | 0% | 51% | 3.2 |
Santeny 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 Brie-Comte-Robert
Is Brie-Comte-Robert in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Gâtinais Français Regional Nature Park, 14 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Brie-Comte-Robert?
OpenStreetMap maps 25 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).
How much of Brie-Comte-Robert is woodland?
4.7% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Brie-Comte-Robert near the sea?
No: the coast is 176 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Brie-Comte-Robert?
April and June 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.