First pick
Parc des Sports et des Loisirs
Park or garden · 340 m outside the commune
18 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
1.5 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Ndoduc · CC BY-SA 4.04.6%woodland
Outdoors in Arnouville · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Arnouville is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 4.6% of Arnouville. No protected area reaches Arnouville; the nearest, Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis (Natura 2000), is 3.4 km from the town center. 4 km of footpaths cross Arnouville (1.6 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis, 3.4 km
Woodland
4.6%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
4.4 km
1.6 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: Parc des Sports et des Loisirs
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.
Against French towns
How Arnouville 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 areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland4.6%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
21out of 100
Footpaths1.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
47out 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
Arnouville has the 9th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (14,568 to 15,478 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 1er (17.1 km per km²) to Saint-Gilles (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 1er Paris | 17.1 | 0% | 0% | 148 km |
| 2 | Lognes Seine-et-Marne | 9.3 | 14% | 0% | 164 km |
| 3 | Verrières-le-Buisson Essonne | 8.5 | 52% | 3.9% | 156 km |
| 4 | Villers-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 8.4 | 48% | 0% | 365 km |
| 5 | Laxou Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.9 | 74% | 0% | 364 km |
| 6 | Haubourdin Nord | 6.6 | 10% | 0% | 62 km |
| 7 | Ramonville-Saint-Agne Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 9.9% | 0% | 141 km |
| 8 | Castanet-Tolosan Haute-Garonne | 5.1 | 12% | 0% | 138 km |
| 9 | Avrillé Maine-et-Loire | 4.9 | 9.1% | 0% | 117 km |
| 10 | Montargis Loiret | 4.8 | 5.7% | 0% | 237 km |
| 11 | Dinan Côtes-d'Armor | 4.7 | 17% | 100% | 5.6 km |
| 12 | Montmagny Val-d'Oise | 4.4 | 25% | 0% | 139 km |
| 13 | Saint-Avertin Indre-et-Loire | 4.3 | 14% | 0% | 184 km |
| 14 | Bar-le-Duc Meuse | 3.7 | 55% | 0% | 297 km |
| 15 | Bouc-Bel-Air Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.5 | 29% | 0% | 12 km |
| 16 | Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt Val-d'Oise | 3.3 | 24% | 0% | 137 km |
| 17 | Saint-Orens-de-Gameville Haute-Garonne | 3.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 138 km |
| 18 | Vesoul Haute-Saône | 3.1 | 3.3% | 3.6% | 434 km |
| 19 | Woippy Moselle | 3.1 | 12% | 0% | 325 km |
| 20 | Ollioules Var | 2.9 | 23% | 14% | On it |
| 21 | Pontivy Morbihan | 2.8 | 14% | 0% | 36 km |
| 22 | Saint-Avold Moselle | 2.5 | 53% | 2.9% | 356 km |
| 23 | Saint-Jean-de-Luz Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.4 | 28% | 7.6% | On it |
| 24 | Roquebrune-sur-Argens Var | 2.4 | 40% | 25% | On it |
| 25 | Morlaix Finistère | 2.3 | 18% | 3.8% | On it |
| 26 | Carrières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.2 | 5% | 0% | 138 km |
| 27 | Fameck Moselle | 2.2 | 32% | 0% | 309 km |
| 28 | Senlis Oise | 2.1 | 48% | 100% | 126 km |
| 29 | Montivilliers Seine-Maritime | 2 | 6.9% | 0% | 6.8 km |
| 30 | Château-Thierry Aisne | 1.9 | 18% | 0% | 176 km |
| 31 | Illzach Haut-Rhin | 1.9 | 2.6% | 0% | 443 km |
| 32 | Rive-de-Gier Loire | 1.7 | 13% | 0.1% | 222 km |
| 33 | Arnouville Val-d'Oise | 1.6 | 4.6% | 0% | 141 km |
| 34 | Issoire Puy-de-Dôme | 1.4 | 8% | 3.4% | 229 km |
| 35 | La Flèche Sarthe | 1.3 | 34% | 11% | 140 km |
| 36 | Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 1 | 75% | 0% | 49 km |
| 37 | Tarascon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 16% | 13% | 41 km |
| 38 | Le Raincy Seine-Saint-Denis | 0.8 | 0% | 0.1% | 153 km |
| 39 | Romilly-sur-Seine Aube | 0.8 | 35% | 4.2% | 237 km |
| 40 | Bailleul Nord | 0.7 | 0.9% | 0% | 42 km |
| 41 | Saint-Gilles Gard | 0.4 | 2.5% | 18% | 25 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 Arnouville
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc des Sports et des Loisirs leads, at 18 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Prairie du Vignois
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
12 ha2 km of path
25 minto walk all 2 km of path
1.6 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square Charles Gounod
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
4.4 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
0.7 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Urbain Saint Blin
Park or garden · 300 m outside the commune
3.7 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
1 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis is the nearest protected area, 3.4 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis
3.4 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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.
Footpaths and woods
4 km of footpaths cross Arnouville
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
4.4 km
1.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
4.6%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ArnouvilleVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Footpaths1.6
Hiking routes0
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ArnouvilleVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Woodland4.6%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 53% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 79% 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 Arnouville is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Via Sancti Martini - Chemin d'Utrecht8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Arnouville: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Bourget, 2.4 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) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 47 | 41 | 44 | 43 | 61 | 54 | 56 | 53 | 45 | 57 | 54 | 63 |
February is the driest month (41 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 63 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 37 nights a year. The climate in Arnouville →
Neighbors
Next to Arnouville
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GonesseGarges-lès-GonesseVilliers-le-BelSarcellesDugnyLe ThillayArnouville
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arnouville | 0% | 4.6% | 1.6 |
| Gonesse 27,707 · 1.1 km | 0% | 4% | 2.1 |
| Garges-lès-Gonesse 41,791 · 2.3 km | 0% | 8.7% | 4 |
| Villiers-le-Bel 30,053 · 2.3 km | 0% | 5.1% | 7 |
| Sarcelles 59,173 · 3 km | 0% | 6.9% | 4.9 |
| Dugny 11,700 · 3.8 km | 9.5% | 6.8% | 3.5 |
| Le Thillay 4,560 · 4.3 km | 0% | 2.5% | 0.5 |
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 Arnouville
Is Arnouville in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis, 3.4 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Arnouville?
OpenStreetMap maps 4 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Arnouville is woodland?
4.6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Arnouville near the sea?
No: the coast is 141 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Arnouville?
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 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.