Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Antonov14 · CC BY-SA 3.0Footpaths add up to 14 km across Déville-lès-Rouen (4.3 km per km²). No protected area reaches Déville-lès-Rouen; the nearest, Boucles de la Seine Normande Regional Nature Park, is 0.8 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 2 km in Déville-lès-Rouen. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Déville-lès-Rouen apart: its footpaths, then protected land close by.
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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (10,621 to 10,977 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Voisins-le-Bretonneux (13.8 km per km²) to Lavaur (0.3 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Voisins-le-Bretonneux Yvelines | 13.8 | 8.8% | 5.4% | 144 km |
| 2 | Beaumont Puy-de-Dôme | 6 | 2.4% | 0.1% | 255 km |
| 3 | Igny Essonne | 5.5 | 20% | 0% | 156 km |
| 4 | Bondoufle Essonne | 5.3 | 7.9% | 0% | 173 km |
| 5 | Ormesson-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5 | 6.8% | 0% | 164 km |
| 6 | Dinard Ille-et-Vilaine | 5 | 7.9% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Vétraz-Monthoux Haute-Savoie | 4.8 | 18% | 0% | 284 km |
| 8 | Le Pradet Var | 4.6 | 11% | 43% | On it |
| 9 | Chanteloup-les-Vignes Yvelines | 4.4 | 21% | 0% | 126 km |
| 10 | Le Pont-de-Claix Isère | 4.3 | 15% | 2.9% | 198 km |
| 11 | Déville-lès-Rouen Seine-Maritime | 4.3 | 19% | 0.1% | 49 km |
| 12 | Épinay-sur-Orge Essonne | 4.3 | 10% | 0% | 165 km |
| 13 | Chantepie Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.5 | 4% | 0% | 53 km |
| 14 | Maromme Seine-Maritime | 3.4 | 39% | 0% | 48 km |
| 15 | Allonnes Sarthe | 3.2 | 15% | 0% | 134 km |
| 16 | Étaples Pas-de-Calais | 3.2 | 29% | 7% | On it |
| 17 | Stiring-Wendel Moselle | 2.8 | 3.4% | 0% | 360 km |
| 18 | Tinqueux Marne | 2.8 | 2.4% | 0% | 196 km |
| 19 | Héricourt Haute-Saône | 2.8 | 36% | 0% | 425 km |
| 20 | Annœullin Nord | 2.8 | 4.2% | 0% | 68 km |
| 21 | Passy Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 29% | 44% | 246 km |
| 22 | Amnéville Moselle | 2.3 | 12% | 0% | 315 km |
| 23 | Urrugne Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.3 | 23% | 28% | 3.1 km |
| 24 | Châteaugiron Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 62 km |
| 25 | Saint-Martin-Boulogne Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 8.3% | 0.1% | 2.1 km |
| 26 | Trets Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 18% | 34% | 28 km |
| 27 | Mainvilliers Eure-et-Loir | 1.4 | 9.3% | 0% | 136 km |
| 28 | Oloron-Sainte-Marie Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.3 | 52% | 4.8% | 83 km |
| 29 | Léognan Gironde | 1.2 | 39% | 0% | 30 km |
| 30 | Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone Hérault | 1.2 | 0.7% | 52% | On it |
| 31 | Wittelsheim Haut-Rhin | 1.2 | 34% | 6.2% | 447 km |
| 32 | Fondettes Indre-et-Loire | 1.1 | 15% | 5.3% | 180 km |
| 33 | Saint-Saulve Nord | 1.1 | 8.2% | 0.3% | 105 km |
| 34 | Tarare Rhône | 1.1 | 41% | 0% | 261 km |
| 35 | Erstein Bas-Rhin | 0.9 | 32% | 38% | 459 km |
| 36 | Orthez Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.9 | 21% | 25% | 57 km |
| 37 | Parempuyre Gironde | 0.9 | 6.7% | 8.1% | 6.3 km |
| 38 | Pont-Saint-Esprit Gard | 0.8 | 5.3% | 14% | 89 km |
| 39 | Boulazac Isle Manoire Dordogne | 0.7 | 48% | 0% | 108 km |
| 40 | Brissac Loire Aubance Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 13% | 39% | 124 km |
| 41 | Lavaur Tarn | 0.3 | 9.6% | 0.8% | 125 km |
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale de Roumare leads, at 712 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
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.
A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
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.
That is more than in 87% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 61% 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 Déville-lès-Rouen 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).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Rouen - Jardin, 5.3 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) | 8.6 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.9 | 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 Déville-lès-Rouen →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Déville-lès-Rouen | 0.1% | 19% | 4.3 | 49 km |
| Maromme 10,957 · 1.6 km | 0% | 39% | 3.4 | 48 km |
| Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville 7,071 · 2 km | 0% | 52% | 3.3 | 47 km |
| Mont-Saint-Aignan 20,165 · 2.1 km | 0% | 12% | 7.3 | 50 km |
| Canteleu 14,402 · 2.4 km | 100% | 64% | 3.7 | 49 km |
| Bois-Guillaume 14,539 · 4.4 km | 0% | 3.8% | 3 | 50 km |
| Rouen 117,662 · 4.5 km | 0% | 6.2% | 5.1 | 53 km |
Canteleu has at least twice as much protected land. Maromme, Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville and Canteleu are more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Boucles de la Seine Normande Regional Nature Park, 0.8 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 14 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 4.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
19% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 49 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
April to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
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.