First pick
Bois de Chanteloup
Wood or forest
27 ha
3.4 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: François GOGLINS · CC BY-SA 4.039%of the land protected
Outdoors in Cannes-Écluse · protected areas, woods and footpaths
39% of Cannes-Écluse’s land is protected for nature
Footpaths add up to 5 km across Cannes-Écluse (0.6 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 6 km in Cannes-Écluse. 12% of Cannes-Écluse is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
39%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
12%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
4.9 km
0.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Chanteloup
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Cannes-Écluse?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside39% of the land lies in protected areas.A nature reserveLes Seiglats nature reserve covers 7.2% of the commune.Few mapped footpaths0.6 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Cannes-Écluse apart: its protected countryside, then its nature reserve. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Cannes-Écluse 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 areas39%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
85out of 100
Woodland12%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
47out of 100
Footpaths0.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
16out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
72out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Cannes-Écluse has the 12th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,714 to 2,771 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Andilly (7.1 km per km²) to Sains-du-Nord (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andilly Val-d'Oise | 7.1 | 53% | 0% | 134 km |
| 2 | Chaligny Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.1 | 72% | 0% | 364 km |
| 3 | Argelès-Gazost Hautes-Pyrénées | 4.3 | 17% | 100% | 130 km |
| 4 | Quintin Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 4.7% | 0% | 19 km |
| 5 | Pabu Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 22% | 0% | 15 km |
| 6 | Collioure Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.4 | 6.3% | 4% | On it |
| 7 | Saint-Lunaire Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.6 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 8 | Balaruc-le-Vieux Hérault | 2.5 | 5.5% | 19% | 5.4 km |
| 9 | Anet Eure-et-Loir | 2.4 | 48% | 0.1% | 102 km |
| 10 | Chailles Loir-et-Cher | 2.3 | 48% | 4.8% | 222 km |
| 11 | Malaucène Vaucluse | 2.1 | 57% | 100% | 83 km |
| 12 | Loire-sur-Rhône Rhône | 1.9 | 44% | 84% | 229 km |
| 13 | Ampuis Rhône | 1.7 | 36% | 95% | 222 km |
| 14 | Capinghem Nord | 1.7 | 1.8% | 0% | 57 km |
| 15 | Venarey-les-Laumes Côte-d'Or | 1.5 | 18% | 2.2% | 357 km |
| 16 | Venette Oise | 1.4 | 7.3% | 0% | 117 km |
| 17 | Trieux Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 31% | 0% | 299 km |
| 18 | Beaumont-le-Roger Eure | 1.2 | 79% | 2% | 50 km |
| 19 | Aouste-sur-Sye Drôme | 1.2 | 40% | 2.3% | 141 km |
| 20 | Saint-Witz Val-d'Oise | 1.2 | 8.3% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 21 | Vert-le-Petit Essonne | 1.1 | 17% | 11% | 177 km |
| 22 | Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 100% | 40 km |
| 23 | Magné Deux-Sèvres | 0.8 | 15% | 100% | 44 km |
| 24 | Ronchamp Haute-Saône | 0.8 | 73% | 100% | 440 km |
| 25 | Vulaines-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 24% | 0% | 205 km |
| 26 | Saleux Somme | 0.7 | 22% | 0% | 53 km |
| 27 | Marigny-Le-Lozon Manche | 0.7 | 0.2% | 46% | 21 km |
| 28 | Confolens Charente | 0.6 | 12% | 3.7% | 127 km |
| 29 | Dieuze Moselle | 0.6 | 21% | 24% | 380 km |
| 30 | Cannes-Écluse Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 12% | 39% | 221 km |
| 31 | Warmeriville Marne | 0.5 | 11% | 0% | 205 km |
| 32 | Montignac-Lascaux Dordogne | 0.5 | 52% | 1.6% | 138 km |
| 33 | Alixan Drôme | 0.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 170 km |
| 34 | Caux Hérault | 0.4 | 12% | 0% | 25 km |
| 35 | Montrevel-en-Bresse Ain | 0.4 | 7.8% | 0% | 319 km |
| 36 | Huttenheim Bas-Rhin | 0.3 | 32% | 35% | 460 km |
| 37 | Sarre-Union Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 21% | 1.7% | 389 km |
| 38 | Thuré Vienne | 0.2 | 29% | 0% | 136 km |
| 39 | Yerville Seine-Maritime | 0.2 | 3.2% | 0% | 24 km |
| 40 | Ennezat Puy-de-Dôme | 0.1 | 0.1% | 0% | 268 km |
| 41 | Sains-du-Nord Nord | 0.1 | 34% | 100% | 149 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 Cannes-Écluse
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Chanteloup leads, at 27 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de la Garenne
Park or garden
3.6 ha
Centralin the middle of Cannes-Écluse
Directionsto a point inside
parc mairie
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Cannes-Écluse
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Cannes-Écluse
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Les Seiglats nature reserve
7.2% of the commune1.1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Bassée et plaines adjacentes
39% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area39%
Nature reserve7.2%
Natura 2000 site39%
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.
39% of Cannes-Écluse’s land is protected, more than in 85% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Seine-et-Marne has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
5 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Cannes-Écluse
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
4.9 km
0.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
6 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
12%
about 1.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Cannes-ÉcluseSeine-et-Marne medianFrance median
Footpaths0.6
Hiking routes0.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Cannes-ÉcluseSeine-et-Marne medianFrance median
Woodland12%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 84% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 53% 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 Cannes-Écluse is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 215 km
GR11 E1.3 km
Grand Tour de Paris, Provins - Montereau6.8 km
Sentier des Croix3.4 km
Grand Tour de Paris, Montereau - Fontainebleau0.4 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Cannes-Écluse: GR 2 and GR11 E.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Cannes-Écluse: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at La Brosse-Mx, 3.3 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 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 48 | 48 | 52 | 60 | 53 | 52 | 52 | 51 | 63 | 60 | 63 |
March is the driest month (48 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 63 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Cannes-Écluse →
Neighbors
Next to Cannes-Écluse
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Varennes-sur-SeineMontereau-Fault-YonneSaint-Germain-LavalVilleneuve-la-GuyardLa Grande-ParoisseVernou-la-Celle-sur-SeineCannes-Écluse
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cannes-Écluse | 39% | 12% | 0.6 |
| Varennes-sur-Seine 3,748 · 3.5 km | 38% | 1.7% | 1.3 |
| Montereau-Fault-Yonne 22,279 · 3.7 km | 8.8% | 4.3% | 2.2 |
| Saint-Germain-Laval 2,888 · 4.4 km | 3.7% | 12% | 0.6 |
| Villeneuve-la-Guyard 3,455 · 6.4 km | 0.2% | 18% | 0.2 |
| La Grande-Paroisse 2,893 · 6.7 km | 18% | 37% | 0.3 |
| Vernou-la-Celle-sur-Seine 2,630 · 10 km | 0% | 56% | 0.4 |
La Grande-Paroisse and Vernou-la-Celle-sur-Seine are 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 Cannes-Écluse
Is Cannes-Écluse in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 39% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Cannes-Écluse?
OpenStreetMap maps 5 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Cannes-Écluse is woodland?
12% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Cannes-Écluse near the sea?
No: the coast is 221 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Cannes-Écluse?
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.