Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Remi Jouan · CC BY-SA 3.056 km of footpaths cross Argenteuil (3.2 km per km²). No protected area reaches Argenteuil; the nearest, Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis (Natura 2000), is 3.9 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 5.5% of Argenteuil. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Val-d'Oise 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 Argenteuil 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 (81,545 to 138,024 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 12e (16.7 km per km²) to Le Tampon (0.7 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 12e Paris | 16.7 | 30% | 0% | 153 km |
| 2 | Paris 10e Paris | 15.2 | 0.1% | 0% | 148 km |
| 3 | Créteil Val-de-Marne | 13.8 | 2% | 0% | 161 km |
| 4 | Paris 14e Paris | 10.6 | 0.4% | 0% | 151 km |
| 5 | Nanterre Hauts-de-Seine | 9.2 | 0.9% | 0% | 141 km |
| 6 | Courbevoie Hauts-de-Seine | 8.8 | 0.1% | 0% | 142 km |
| 7 | Versailles Yvelines | 8.1 | 28% | 0% | 146 km |
| 8 | Caen Calvados | 8.1 | 2.4% | 0% | 14 km |
| 9 | Rueil-Malmaison Hauts-de-Seine | 7.3 | 17% | 0% | 141 km |
| 10 | Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.9 | 2.7% | 0% | 366 km |
| 11 | Metz Moselle | 6.8 | 8% | 0% | 329 km |
| 12 | Marseille 8e Bouches-du-Rhône | 6.4 | 11% | 47% | On it |
| 13 | Orléans Loiret | 6.3 | 5.4% | 4.3% | 206 km |
| 14 | Boulogne-Billancourt Hauts-de-Seine | 6 | 2% | 0% | 147 km |
| 15 | Lyon 3e Rhône | 5.9 | 0.5% | 0% | 251 km |
| 16 | Aubervilliers Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.8 | 1.3% | 0% | 146 km |
| 17 | Mulhouse Haut-Rhin | 5.7 | 4.3% | 0% | 441 km |
| 18 | Besançon Doubs | 5.3 | 37% | 0.6% | 402 km |
| 19 | Montreuil Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.2 | 1.8% | 4.7% | 153 km |
| 20 | Rouen Seine-Maritime | 5.1 | 6.2% | 0% | 53 km |
| 21 | Roubaix Nord | 5 | 0.8% | 0% | 61 km |
| 22 | Dunkerque Nord | 4.8 | 1.8% | 1.5% | On it |
| 23 | Annecy Haute-Savoie | 4.6 | 29% | 0.2% | 260 km |
| 24 | Lyon 8e Rhône | 4.6 | 0.7% | 0% | 249 km |
| 25 | Vitry-sur-Seine Val-de-Marne | 4.5 | 1.7% | 0% | 157 km |
| 26 | Poitiers Vienne | 4.5 | 8.8% | 0% | 118 km |
| 27 | Lyon 7e Rhône | 4.5 | 0.1% | 0% | 250 km |
| 28 | Colombes Hauts-de-Seine | 4.3 | 1.4% | 0% | 139 km |
| 29 | Aulnay-sous-Bois Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.1 | 5.1% | 6.2% | 148 km |
| 30 | Tourcoing Nord | 3.9 | 1.1% | 0% | 57 km |
| 31 | Marseille 13e Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.8 | 3.3% | 32% | 5.5 km |
| 32 | Amiens Somme | 3.8 | 3% | 0.7% | 55 km |
| 33 | Asnières-sur-Seine Hauts-de-Seine | 3.7 | 0% | 0% | 141 km |
| 34 | Avignon Vaucluse | 3.3 | 2.9% | 27% | 54 km |
| 35 | Limoges Haute-Vienne | 3.3 | 15% | 0% | 163 km |
| 36 | Argenteuil Val-d'Oise | 3.2 | 5.5% | 0% | 136 km |
| 37 | Perpignan Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.2 | 0.2% | 0.3% | 12 km |
| 38 | Saint-Paul Réunion | 1.4 | 20% | 64% | On it |
| 39 | Béziers Hérault | 1.3 | 5.4% | 0% | 12 km |
| 40 | Saint-Pierre Réunion | 0.9 | 9.1% | 18% | On it |
| 41 | Le Tampon Réunion | 0.7 | 23% | 19% | 10 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 régionale de Cormeilles leads, at 274 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.
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 76% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 75% 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 Argenteuil is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 2 passes within 2 km of Argenteuil.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bagatelle, 8.9 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) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 45 | 46 | 45 | 70 | 53 | 51 | 55 | 46 | 55 | 58 | 64 |
February is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 70 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 36 nights a year. The climate in Argenteuil →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Argenteuil | 0% | 5.5% | 3.2 |
| Bezons 36,434 · 2.8 km | 0% | 1.9% | 2.4 |
| Sannois 26,924 · 2.9 km | 0% | 17% | 6 |
| Colombes 91,053 · 3 km | 0% | 1.4% | 4.3 |
| Saint-Gratien 21,336 · 3.8 km | 0% | 0.7% | 6 |
| Cormeilles-en-Parisis 27,292 · 3.8 km | 0% | 14% | 7.2 |
| Bois-Colombes 28,909 · 4.2 km | 0% | 0% | 4.6 |
No. The nearest protected area is Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis, 3.9 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 56 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
5.5% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 136 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
April and June 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 4, 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.