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2%of the land protected

Outdoors in Cléon · protected areas, woods and footpaths

Almost every home in Cléon is within 800 m of a park or wood

7 km of footpaths cross Cléon (1.1 km per km²). 16% of Cléon is mapped woodland. 2% of Cléon’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.

2%protected 16%woodland 7km of footpaths

Protected areas

of the commune’s land

Compared town: 0.1%

Woodland

16%

of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap

Compared town: 13%

Footpaths

7.5 km

1.1 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

named, in or within 400 m of the commune

First: Forêt domaniale de la Londe-Rouvray

Throughout this page, the Seine-Maritime 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 Cléon 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 areas2%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site

59out of 100

Woodland16%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap

56out of 100

Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune

36out 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

Cléon has the 21st fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size

The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,755 to 4,834 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.

Cléon 1.1

Marolles-en-BrieSanilhac

03.57 km per km²

From Marolles-en-Brie (6.1 km per km²) to Sanilhac (0.1 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	Teyran Hérault	3.2	11%	10%	15 km
4	Dagneux Ain	2.5	18%	0%	266 km
5	Paron Yonne	2	26%	1.2%	249 km
6	Ingersheim Haut-Rhin	2	17%	1.3%	469 km
7	L'Horme Loire	2	3.4%	0%	217 km
8	Robion Vaucluse	1.8	24%	100%	48 km
9	La Haie-Fouassière Loire-Atlantique	1.7	12%	0%	47 km
10	La Grand-Combe Gard	1.7	71%	0%	73 km
11	Saint-Martin-des-Champs Finistère	1.7	17%	1.4%	On it
12	Charly Rhône	1.7	0.2%	0%	239 km
13	Locminé Morbihan	1.6	7.8%	0%	24 km
14	Rilhac-Rancon Haute-Vienne	1.6	33%	0%	170 km
15	Marvejols Lozère	1.6	19%	0.1%	125 km
16	Bourgbarré Ille-et-Vilaine	1.5	5.3%	0%	62 km
17	Sadirac Gironde	1.4	37%	3.6%	29 km
18	Saint-Romain-de-Colbosc Seine-Maritime	1.4	3.5%	0%	9.6 km
19	Verneuil-en-Halatte Oise	1.3	49%	58%	117 km
20	Le Coudray-Montceaux Essonne	1.2	19%	0%	182 km
21	Cléon Seine-Maritime	1.1	16%	2%	51 km
22	Cerizay Deux-Sèvres	1.1	3.5%	0%	67 km
23	Vittel Vosges	1.1	23%	0%	381 km
24	Desvres Pas-de-Calais	1	56%	100%	18 km
25	Milizac-Guipronvel Finistère	0.9	6.1%	0%	9.1 km
26	Tinchebray-Bocage Orne	0.8	4.9%	0%	48 km
27	Casteljaloux Lot-et-Garonne	0.7	49%	0.8%	94 km
28	La Plaine-sur-Mer Loire-Atlantique	0.7	6%	0.1%	On it
29	Maraussan Hérault	0.6	1.3%	0%	17 km
30	Les Monts d'Aunay Calvados	0.6	23%	25%	37 km
31	Venansault Vendée	0.5	6.2%	0%	27 km
32	Ruy-Montceau Isère	0.4	21%	12%	240 km
33	Saint-Germain-du-Puy Cher	0.4	7.4%	0%	290 km
34	Billom Puy-de-Dôme	0.4	7.1%	100%	247 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	Saverdun Ariège	0.2	13%	0.7%	123 km
39	Legé Loire-Atlantique	0.2	7.2%	0%	33 km
40	Salbris Loir-et-Cher	0.2	81%	100%	256 km
41	Sanilhac Dordogne	0.1	56%	0%	105 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 Cléon

Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale de la Londe-Rouvray leads, at 4,305 ha. Directions go to a point inside.

First pick

Forêt domaniale de la Londe-Rouvray

Wood or forest · 70 m outside the commune

4,305 ha209.9 km of path

46 h 40 minto walk all 209.9 km of path

6.4 km westfrom the center

Route du Fond de l'EssartAllée Saint-LouisChemin de la Roche Foulon+1 path

Directionsto a point inside

Le Bois Landry

Wood or forest · 150 m outside the commune

6 ha

1.2 km south-westfrom the center

Directionsto a point inside

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.

Protected areas

2% of Cléon lies in protected areas

The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.

Natura 2000 site

Iles et berges de la Seine en Seine-Maritime

2% of the commune1.7 km from the center

Share of the commune’s land

Any protected area2%

Natura 2000 site2%

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.

2% of Cléon’s land is protected, more than in 59% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Seine-Maritime has 0.1%.

Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.

Footpaths and woods

7 km of footpaths cross Cléon

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

7.5 km

1.1 km per km²

Hiking routes

0 km

waymarked: 0 km per km²

Woodland

16%

about 1.1 km² of mapped woods

Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap

CléonSeine-Maritime medianFrance median

Footpaths1.1

Hiking routes0

012 km per km²

Share of the land · mapped woods and forest

CléonSeine-Maritime medianFrance median

Woodland16%

0%50%100%

That is less than in 64% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 56% 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 Cléon is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.

A named hiking route within 2 km

GR (long-distance)

GR 29.1 km

GR 2 passes within 2 km of Cléon.

When to get out

The best walking months in Cléon: April to September

Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Rouen - Jardin, 13 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)	8.6	10.1	11.7	13.7	15.3	16.2	15.8	14.4	12.5	10.7	9.0	8.2
High (°C)	9	10	13	17	21	24	26	26	22	17	12	9
Rain (mm)	76	64	58	53	67	57	62	69	58	76	76	104

April is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 104 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 33 nights a year. The climate in Cléon →

Neighbors

Next to Cléon

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.

Saint-Aubin-lès-ElbeufCaudebec-lès-ElbeufElbeufSaint-Pierre-lès-ElbeufGrand-CouronneTourville-la-RivièreCléon

Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+

Town	Protected	Woodland	Paths (km/km²)	Coast
Cléon	2%	16%	1.1	51 km
Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf 8,443 · 1.3 km	0.5%	4.8%	1.4	50 km
Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf 10,476 · 3.2 km	0%	1.4%	2.1	51 km
Elbeuf 15,474 · 3.4 km	0%	75%	1	49 km
Saint-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf 8,306 · 4 km	1.3%	5.4%	1.5	53 km
Grand-Couronne 9,768 · 4.9 km	0.2%	42%	2.9	48 km
Tourville-la-Rivière 2,596 · 5.1 km	15%	15%	2	55 km

Tourville-la-Rivière has at least twice as much protected land. Elbeuf and Grand-Couronne 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 Cléon

Is Cléon in a national or regional nature park?

No, but 2% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.

Are there good walks in Cléon?

OpenStreetMap maps 7 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).

How much of Cléon is woodland?

16% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.

Is Cléon near the sea?

No: the coast is 51 km from the town center, as the crow flies.

When is the best time for walking in Cléon?

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.