First pick
Le petit parc
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Fécamp
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Draceane · CC BY-SA 4.02.9%of the land protected
Outdoors in Fécamp · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Fécamp is on the coast
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 18 km in Fécamp. Mapped woodland covers 25% of Fécamp. 33 km of footpaths cross Fécamp (2.2 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
2.9%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
25%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
33 km
2.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
18 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Le petit parc
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 1.5 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 Fécamp?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 1.5 km from its center.On waymarked routes18 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Fécamp apart: the sea, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Fécamp 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 areas2.9%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
61out of 100
Woodland25%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
70out of 100
Footpaths2.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
61out of 100
Hiking routes1.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
88out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Fécamp has the 19th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (16,712 to 17,954 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Jouy-le-Moutier (10.3 km per km²) to Marmande (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jouy-le-Moutier Val-d'Oise | 10.3 | 23% | 0% | 123 km |
| 2 | Viroflay Yvelines | 9.5 | 42% | 0% | 148 km |
| 3 | Marly-le-Roi Yvelines | 7.6 | 37% | 0% | 138 km |
| 4 | Les Clayes-sous-Bois Yvelines | 6.3 | 35% | 0% | 137 km |
| 5 | Le Pré-Saint-Gervais Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.8 | 0% | 0% | 149 km |
| 6 | L'Isle-d'Abeau Isère | 5.2 | 9.8% | 0% | 242 km |
| 7 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire Indre-et-Loire | 5 | 9.4% | 1.9% | 184 km |
| 8 | Villeneuve-Loubet Alpes-Maritimes | 5 | 30% | 16% | On it |
| 9 | Boissy-Saint-Léger Val-de-Marne | 4.4 | 50% | 0% | 166 km |
| 10 | Balma Haute-Garonne | 4.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 142 km |
| 11 | Chamalières Puy-de-Dôme | 4.1 | 3.4% | 0.1% | 258 km |
| 12 | Saran Loiret | 3.9 | 24% | 0% | 200 km |
| 13 | Écully Rhône | 3.8 | 14% | 0% | 253 km |
| 14 | Garches Hauts-de-Seine | 3.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 144 km |
| 15 | Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle Loiret | 3.5 | 4.9% | 3% | 203 km |
| 16 | Avion Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 13% | 0% | 77 km |
| 17 | Osny Val-d'Oise | 3.2 | 14% | 0.1% | 119 km |
| 18 | Firminy Loire | 3 | 25% | 0% | 204 km |
| 19 | Cluses Haute-Savoie | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 264 km |
| 20 | Yutz Moselle | 2.6 | 18% | 0% | 310 km |
| 21 | Carvin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 73 km |
| 22 | Annonay Ardèche | 2.3 | 30% | 0.2% | 193 km |
| 23 | Fécamp Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 25% | 2.9% | On it |
| 24 | Lattes Hérault | 2.2 | 0.8% | 22% | 5.5 km |
| 25 | Limay Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 6.1% | 112 km |
| 26 | Sallanches Haute-Savoie | 2 | 32% | 35% | 250 km |
| 27 | Montceau-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire | 1.8 | 6.6% | 0% | 347 km |
| 28 | La Baule-Escoublac Loire-Atlantique | 1.7 | 9.6% | 37% | 0.8 km |
| 29 | Valserhône Ain | 1.7 | 59% | 19% | 292 km |
| 30 | Blanquefort Gironde | 1.7 | 15% | 7.6% | 11 km |
| 31 | Guérande Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 7.1% | 76% | On it |
| 32 | Verdun Meuse | 1.4 | 21% | 3.6% | 290 km |
| 33 | Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume Var | 1 | 41% | 34% | 33 km |
| 34 | Brignoles Var | 0.9 | 48% | 17% | 34 km |
| 35 | Lamballe-Armor Côtes-d'Armor | 0.8 | 5% | 2% | On it |
| 36 | Vire Normandie Calvados | 0.6 | 3.9% | 0% | 41 km |
| 37 | Orée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 11% | 12% | 66 km |
| 38 | Segré-en-Anjou Bleu Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 4.6% | 0% | 108 km |
| 39 | Loire-Authion Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 10% | 100% | 130 km |
| 40 | Ambarès-et-Lagrave Gironde | 0.4 | 4.8% | 35% | 11 km |
| 41 | Marmande Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 11% | 4% | 82 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 Fécamp
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Le petit parc leads, at 0.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
2.9% of Fécamp 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 seino-marin
2.9% of the commune1.4 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Littoral Cauchois
1.2% of the commune1.5 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area2.9%
Natura 2000 site2.9%
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.
2.9% of Fécamp’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
33 km of footpaths and 18 km of hiking routes cross Fécamp
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
33 km
2.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
18 km
waymarked: 1.2 km per km²
Woodland
25%
about 3.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
FécampSeine-Maritime medianFrance median
Footpaths2.2
Hiking routes1.2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
FécampSeine-Maritime medianFrance median
Woodland25%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 61% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 70% 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 Fécamp is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 211B12 km
Au cœur des deux vallées11 km
GR 211B passes within 2 km of Fécamp.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Fécamp: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Octeville, 32 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 | 15.4 | 16.3 | 15.9 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 9.0 | 8.1 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 68 | 60 | 53 | 43 | 59 | 57 | 50 | 68 | 66 | 85 | 87 | 96 |
April is the driest month (43 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 21 °C). 96 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 21 nights a year. The climate in Fécamp →
Neighbors
Next to Fécamp
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GodervilleCriquetot-l'EsnevalCany-BarvilleTerres-de-CauxBolbecGruchet-le-ValasseFécamp
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fécamp | 2.9% | 25% | 2.2 | On it |
| Goderville 2,818 · 12 km | 0% | 2.1% | 0.5 | 11 km |
| Criquetot-l'Esneval 2,668 · 15 km | 0% | 1.2% | 0.3 | 8.3 km |
| Cany-Barville 2,909 · 19 km | 0% | 20% | 1.1 | 7.9 km |
| Terres-de-Caux 4,245 · 19 km | 0% | 0.8% | 0.1 | 19 km |
| Bolbec 11,590 · 21 km | 0% | 7.1% | 1.5 | 17 km |
| Gruchet-le-Valasse 3,008 · 23 km | 0% | 53% | 1.4 | 16 km |
Gruchet-le-Valasse 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 Fécamp
Is Fécamp in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 2.9% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Fécamp?
OpenStreetMap maps 33 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 18 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Fécamp is woodland?
25% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Fécamp near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 1.5 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Fécamp?
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.