First pick
parc François-Mitterrand
Park or garden
1.5 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
Centralin the middle of Dieppe
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Baidax · CC BY-SA 4.02.7%of the land protected
Outdoors in Dieppe · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Dieppe is on the coast
Footpaths add up to 39 km across Dieppe (3.3 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 10 km in Dieppe. Mapped woodland covers 2.9% of Dieppe. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
2.7%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
2.9%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
39 km
3.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
10 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
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 0.3 km from its center
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Dieppe?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 0.3 km from its center.A place of footpaths3.3 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.On waymarked routes10 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Little mapped woodland2.9% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Dieppe apart: the sea, then its footpaths. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Dieppe 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 areas2.7%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
61out of 100
Woodland2.9%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
15out of 100
Footpaths3.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
78out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
79out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Dieppe has the 14th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (27,090 to 29,942 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 4e (12.9 km per km²) to Bergerac (1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 4e Paris | 12.9 | 0% | 0% | 150 km |
| 2 | Lyon 1er Rhône | 11.3 | 1.1% | 0% | 253 km |
| 3 | Taverny Val-d'Oise | 10.5 | 33% | 0.4% | 129 km |
| 4 | Champs-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 9.6 | 36% | 0.1% | 160 km |
| 5 | Guyancourt Yvelines | 8.9 | 22% | 0% | 145 km |
| 6 | Le Plessis-Robinson Hauts-de-Seine | 8.6 | 13% | 0% | 153 km |
| 7 | Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 8.1 | 18% | 0% | 367 km |
| 8 | Saint-Cloud Hauts-de-Seine | 7.8 | 27% | 0% | 145 km |
| 9 | Clichy-sous-Bois Seine-Saint-Denis | 7.6 | 29% | 22% | 153 km |
| 10 | Vanves Hauts-de-Seine | 7.3 | 3.4% | 0% | 150 km |
| 11 | Cormeilles-en-Parisis Val-d'Oise | 7.2 | 14% | 0% | 133 km |
| 12 | Ermont Val-d'Oise | 6.9 | 0% | 0% | 133 km |
| 13 | Yerres Essonne | 6.6 | 36% | 0% | 169 km |
| 14 | Bussy-Saint-Georges Seine-et-Marne | 5.9 | 31% | 2.3% | 167 km |
| 15 | Charenton-le-Pont Val-de-Marne | 5.9 | 0.7% | 0% | 155 km |
| 16 | Fresnes Val-de-Marne | 5.7 | 3.6% | 0% | 158 km |
| 17 | Sucy-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 5.7 | 31% | 0% | 165 km |
| 18 | Blagnac Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 5.4% | 7.5% | 152 km |
| 19 | Limeil-Brévannes Val-de-Marne | 4.8 | 29% | 0% | 165 km |
| 20 | Lambersart Nord | 4.7 | 3.4% | 0% | 59 km |
| 21 | Bois-Colombes Hauts-de-Seine | 4.6 | 0% | 0% | 141 km |
| 22 | Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 4.5 | 9.9% | 23% | 41 km |
| 23 | Décines-Charpieu Rhône | 4.2 | 6.3% | 8.4% | 255 km |
| 24 | Orvault Loire-Atlantique | 3.9 | 17% | 0% | 37 km |
| 25 | Sotteville-lès-Rouen Seine-Maritime | 3.9 | 1.4% | 0% | 53 km |
| 26 | Illkirch-Graffenstaden Bas-Rhin | 3.9 | 30% | 26% | 454 km |
| 27 | Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray Seine-Maritime | 3.4 | 28% | 0.3% | 53 km |
| 28 | Dieppe Seine-Maritime | 3.3 | 2.9% | 2.7% | On it |
| 29 | Agde Hérault | 3.2 | 4.4% | 22% | On it |
| 30 | Périgueux Dordogne | 3.1 | 10% | 0% | 105 km |
| 31 | Sens Yonne | 3.1 | 4.6% | 0% | 249 km |
| 32 | Montfermeil Seine-Saint-Denis | 2.9 | 8.2% | 5.5% | 155 km |
| 33 | Soissons Aisne | 2.7 | 7.5% | 0% | 148 km |
| 34 | Rambouillet Yvelines | 2.6 | 48% | 74% | 139 km |
| 35 | Maubeuge Nord | 2.6 | 2.2% | 0.1% | 129 km |
| 36 | Gonesse Val-d'Oise | 2.1 | 4% | 0% | 141 km |
| 37 | Orange Vaucluse | 1.5 | 8% | 2.3% | 76 km |
| 38 | Vallauris Alpes-Maritimes | 1.5 | 16% | 0% | On it |
| 39 | Villemomble Seine-Saint-Denis | 1.4 | 0.7% | 0% | 154 km |
| 40 | La Teste-de-Buch Gironde | 1.1 | 56% | 46% | On it |
| 41 | Bergerac Dordogne | 1 | 14% | 1.9% | 86 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 Dieppe
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: parc François-Mitterrand leads, at 1.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Square Jules Pinsdez
Park or garden
0.8 ha0.1 km of path
1.1 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square du Canada
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.3 km of path
1.2 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
2.7% of Dieppe 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
Littoral Cauchois
2.7% of the commune1.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area2.7%
Natura 2000 site2.7%
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.
2.7% of Dieppe’s land is protected, more than in 61% 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
39 km of footpaths and 10 km of hiking routes cross Dieppe
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
39 km
3.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
10 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
2.9%
about 0.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
DieppeSeine-Maritime medianFrance median
Footpaths3.3
Hiking routes0.8
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
DieppeSeine-Maritime medianFrance median
Woodland2.9%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 78% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 85% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Dieppe’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Dieppe: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Dieppe, 1.4 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) | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.3 | 15.9 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 9.0 | 8.1 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 64 | 56 | 49 | 52 | 61 | 55 | 58 | 70 | 67 | 90 | 89 | 94 |
March is the driest month (49 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 21 °C). 94 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 24 nights a year. The climate in Dieppe →
Neighbors
Next to Dieppe
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
OffranvillePetit-CauxSaint-Nicolas-d'AliermontCriel-sur-MerVal-de-ScieLe TréportDieppe
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dieppe | 2.7% | 2.9% | 3.3 | On it |
| Offranville 3,242 · 6.3 km | 0% | 4.5% | 0.8 | 5.3 km |
| Petit-Caux 9,513 · 11 km | 1.1% | 4.6% | 0.3 | On it |
| Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont 3,665 · 11 km | 2.4% | 14% | 0.2 | 9.8 km |
| Criel-sur-Mer 2,527 · 21 km | 7% | 4.9% | 0.7 | On it |
| Val-de-Scie 2,530 · 23 km | 0% | 18% | 0.1 | 23 km |
| Le Tréport 4,378 · 26 km | 3.1% | 4.9% | 2.6 | On it |
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 Dieppe
Is Dieppe in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 2.7% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Dieppe?
OpenStreetMap maps 39 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 10 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Dieppe is woodland?
2.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Dieppe near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 0.3 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Dieppe?
May 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.