Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainAlmost every home in Montdidier is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 5.3% of Montdidier. No protected area reaches Montdidier; the nearest, Tourbières et marais de l’Avre (Natura 2000), is 12 km from the town center. 11 km of footpaths cross Montdidier (0.8 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Somme median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
How Montdidier 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Montdidier has the 11th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,872 to 6,000 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Ablon-sur-Seine (5.8 km per km²) to Lesparre-Médoc (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ablon-sur-Seine Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 6.2% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Grand-Charmont Doubs | 5.8 | 39% | 0% | 420 km |
| 3 | La Verrière Yvelines | 5.3 | 14% | 1.3% | 139 km |
| 4 | Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer Var | 3.9 | 35% | 0% | On it |
| 5 | Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines Yvelines | 3.7 | 50% | 0.1% | 150 km |
| 6 | Villennes-sur-Seine Yvelines | 3.7 | 17% | 0% | 128 km |
| 7 | Fleury-sur-Orne Calvados | 3.6 | 3.3% | 0% | 17 km |
| 8 | Noyelles-Godault Pas-de-Calais | 3.5 | 6.9% | 0.2% | 81 km |
| 9 | Saintry-sur-Seine Essonne | 3.1 | 21% | 0% | 180 km |
| 10 | Tain-l'Hermitage Drôme | 3.1 | 0.9% | 0% | 179 km |
| 11 | Roost-Warendin Nord | 2.9 | 22% | 7.5% | 85 km |
| 12 | Saint-Zacharie Var | 2.7 | 42% | 100% | 22 km |
| 13 | Quiévrechain Nord | 2.5 | 13% | 97% | 107 km |
| 14 | Raon-l'Étape Vosges | 2.4 | 69% | 2% | 421 km |
| 15 | Lavelanet Ariège | 2 | 40% | 0% | 97 km |
| 16 | Marnaz Haute-Savoie | 2 | 51% | 9.8% | 265 km |
| 17 | Saint-Pierre-d'Irube Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2 | 27% | 13% | 8.6 km |
| 18 | Benfeld Bas-Rhin | 2 | 24% | 20% | 460 km |
| 19 | Eschau Bas-Rhin | 2 | 11% | 19% | 457 km |
| 20 | Hombourg-Haut Moselle | 1.9 | 48% | 0% | 357 km |
| 21 | Ciboure Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.8 | 30% | 16% | On it |
| 22 | Sains-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 1.5% | 0% | 70 km |
| 23 | Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 26% | 5.4% | 34 km |
| 24 | Saint-André-de-la-Roche Alpes-Maritimes | 1.6 | 28% | 0% | 4.4 km |
| 25 | Fontenilles Haute-Garonne | 1.4 | 13% | 0% | 163 km |
| 26 | Loon-Plage Nord | 1.3 | 2.6% | 0.2% | On it |
| 27 | Vias Hérault | 1.3 | 5.5% | 44% | On it |
| 28 | Naintré Vienne | 1.1 | 33% | 0% | 134 km |
| 29 | Aixe-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 1 | 12% | 0% | 153 km |
| 30 | Grand-Champ Morbihan | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 11 km |
| 31 | Montdidier Somme | 0.8 | 5.3% | 0% | 87 km |
| 32 | Blanzy Saône-et-Loire | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 349 km |
| 33 | Condé-en-Normandie Calvados | 0.7 | 8.1% | 18% | 52 km |
| 34 | Corbie Somme | 0.6 | 16% | 4.5% | 66 km |
| 35 | Fontenay-Trésigny Seine-et-Marne | 0.5 | 25% | 0% | 185 km |
| 36 | Aubignan Vaucluse | 0.5 | 3.8% | 42% | 73 km |
| 37 | Bellevigne-en-Layon Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 14% | 0.1% | 113 km |
| 38 | Bricquebec-en-Cotentin Manche | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 13 km |
| 39 | Nègrepelisse Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 13% | 1% | 167 km |
| 40 | Saint-Denis-de-Pile Gironde | 0.2 | 11% | 14% | 31 km |
| 41 | Lesparre-Médoc Gironde | 0.1 | 58% | 100% | 11 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Tourbières et marais de l’Avre is the nearest protected area, 12 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Tourbières et marais de l’Avre
Share of the commune’s land
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.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
11 km of footpaths cross Montdidier
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 73% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 76% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 97% of Montdidier’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).
The best walking months in Montdidier: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Godenvillers, 7.1 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 | 16.3 | 15.9 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 9.0 | 8.1 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 26 | 22 | 16 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 59 | 50 | 49 | 46 | 61 | 60 | 61 | 64 | 50 | 63 | 60 | 79 |
April is the driest month (46 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 79 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 55 nights a year. The climate in Montdidier →
Next to Montdidier
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montdidier | 0% | 5.3% | 0.8 |
| Moreuil 3,936 · 16 km | 1.9% | 21% | 0.3 |
| Roye 5,833 · 16 km | 0% | 3.5% | 0.8 |
| Saint-Just-en-Chaussée 5,810 · 19 km | 0% | 7.8% | 0.8 |
| Ailly-sur-Noye 2,648 · 19 km | 0% | 22% | 0.2 |
| Breteuil 4,222 · 20 km | 0% | 15% | 0.4 |
| Rosières-en-Santerre 2,894 · 21 km | 0% | 0.2% | 0.3 |
Moreuil and Ailly-sur-Noye are more wooded.
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 Montdidier
Is Montdidier in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Tourbières et marais de l’Avre, 12 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Montdidier?
OpenStreetMap maps 11 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Montdidier is woodland?
5.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Montdidier near the sea?
No: the coast is 87 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Montdidier?
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.