First pick
Le Bois de Sénécat
Wood or forest
107 ha
3.9 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Claude Villetaneuse · CC BY-SA 3.01.9%of the land protected
Outdoors in Moreuil · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Moreuil is within 800 m of a park or wood
7 km of footpaths cross Moreuil (0.3 km per km²). 21% of Moreuil is mapped woodland. Protected areas cover 1.9% of Moreuil’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
1.9%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
21%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
7 km
0.3 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
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Le Bois de Sénécat
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.
Against French towns
How Moreuil 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 areas1.9%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
59out of 100
Woodland21%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
65out of 100
Footpaths0.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
6out 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
Moreuil has the 5th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,905 to 3,968 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Coye-la-Forêt (6.4 km per km²) to Saint-Chély-d'Apcher (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coye-la-Forêt Oise | 6.4 | 60% | 100% | 129 km |
| 2 | La Rochette Seine-et-Marne | 3.6 | 67% | 56% | 193 km |
| 3 | Pagny-sur-Moselle Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.4 | 41% | 100% | 333 km |
| 4 | Ferrières-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 3.3 | 45% | 0% | 168 km |
| 5 | Jarrie Isère | 3.2 | 33% | 0.8% | 196 km |
| 6 | Santeny Val-de-Marne | 3.2 | 51% | 0% | 171 km |
| 7 | Hussigny-Godbrange Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.5 | 62% | 0% | 282 km |
| 8 | Saint-Nabord Vosges | 2.1 | 62% | 3.6% | 429 km |
| 9 | Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans Doubs | 2.1 | 67% | 4.5% | 405 km |
| 10 | Condrieu Rhône | 2 | 20% | 100% | 219 km |
| 11 | Montry Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 20% | 0% | 166 km |
| 12 | Mozac Puy-de-Dôme | 2 | 1.7% | 0% | 270 km |
| 13 | Mézières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 1.9 | 28% | 5.5% | 117 km |
| 14 | Toufflers Nord | 1.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 65 km |
| 15 | Lauris Vaucluse | 1.8 | 41% | 100% | 43 km |
| 16 | Richwiller Haut-Rhin | 1.7 | 25% | 0% | 444 km |
| 17 | Nouvoitou Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 1.6% | 0% | 60 km |
| 18 | Hondschoote Nord | 1.6 | 0% | 0% | 12 km |
| 19 | Argences Calvados | 1.5 | 16% | 0% | 18 km |
| 20 | Touques Calvados | 1.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 2.8 km |
| 21 | Quévert Côtes-d'Armor | 1.3 | 12% | 100% | 6.9 km |
| 22 | Folschviller Moselle | 1.2 | 22% | 0% | 357 km |
| 23 | Allaire Morbihan | 1.2 | 17% | 6.3% | 22 km |
| 24 | Boissise-le-Roi Seine-et-Marne | 1.2 | 10% | 100% | 190 km |
| 25 | Pierrevert Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.1 | 36% | 100% | 61 km |
| 26 | Tinténiac Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 3.9% | 2.2% | 22 km |
| 27 | Plouvien Finistère | 1 | 9.4% | 0.6% | 3.9 km |
| 28 | Saint-Chef Isère | 1 | 24% | 12% | 246 km |
| 29 | Saint-Martin-en-Haut Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 236 km |
| 30 | Fay-aux-Loges Loiret | 0.8 | 36% | 12% | 213 km |
| 31 | Maing Nord | 0.7 | 4.2% | 0% | 108 km |
| 32 | Gourin Morbihan | 0.6 | 12% | 1.7% | 34 km |
| 33 | Ablis Yvelines | 0.5 | 8.6% | 0% | 149 km |
| 34 | Verfeil Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 7.7% | 0% | 133 km |
| 35 | Salses-le-Château Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 4.1% | 34% | 10 km |
| 36 | Replonges Ain | 0.3 | 9.3% | 19% | 311 km |
| 37 | Moreuil Somme | 0.3 | 21% | 1.9% | 73 km |
| 38 | Val d'Anast Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 52 km |
| 39 | Suippes Marne | 0.2 | 24% | 0% | 237 km |
| 40 | Arvert Charente-Maritime | 0.2 | 5.8% | 31% | On it |
| 41 | Saint-Chély-d'Apcher Lozère | 0.2 | 21% | 0% | 150 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 Moreuil
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Le Bois de Sénécat leads, at 107 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
1.9% of Moreuil 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
Tourbières et marais de l’Avre
1.9% of the commune2.6 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area1.9%
Natura 2000 site1.9%
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.
1.9% of Moreuil’s land is protected, more than in 59% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Somme has 0.4%.
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 Moreuil
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 km
0.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
21%
about 5.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MoreuilSomme medianFrance median
Footpaths0.3
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MoreuilSomme medianFrance median
Woodland21%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 94% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 65% 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 Moreuil 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 1239.4 km
GR 123 passes within 2 km of Moreuil.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Moreuil: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Amiens-Glisy, 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 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.3 | 15.9 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 9.0 | 8.1 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 49 | 45 | 45 | 39 | 56 | 55 | 59 | 60 | 48 | 58 | 60 | 72 |
April is the driest month (39 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 72 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 45 nights a year. The climate in Moreuil →
Neighbors
Next to Moreuil
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Ailly-sur-NoyeBovesVillers-BretonneuxLongueauCorbieMontdidierMoreuil
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moreuil | 1.9% | 21% | 0.3 |
| Ailly-sur-Noye 2,648 · 8.7 km | 0% | 22% | 0.2 |
| Boves 3,234 · 10 km | 8.8% | 24% | 0.8 |
| Villers-Bretonneux 4,647 · 11 km | 0% | 8.8% | 0.3 |
| Longueau 5,680 · 14 km | 4% | 0.4% | 2.6 |
| Corbie 5,982 · 15 km | 4.5% | 16% | 0.6 |
| Montdidier 5,935 · 16 km | 0% | 5.3% | 0.8 |
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 Moreuil
Is Moreuil in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 1.9% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Moreuil?
OpenStreetMap maps 7 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Moreuil is woodland?
21% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Moreuil near the sea?
No: the coast is 73 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Moreuil?
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 8, 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.