First pick
Parc du Château d’Auvers-sur-Oise
Park or garden
8.4 ha2.5 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Auvers-sur-Oise
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: P.poschadel · CC BY-SA 2.0 fr100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Auvers-sur-Oise · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Auvers-sur-Oise lies inside Vexin Français Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Auvers-sur-Oise’s land. Auvers-sur-Oise has 17 km of waymarked hiking routes. Mapped woodland covers 19% of Auvers-sur-Oise. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
19%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
22 km
1.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc du Château d’Auvers-sur-Oise
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Auvers-sur-Oise?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Vexin Français Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.On waymarked routes17 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Auvers-sur-Oise apart: the regional nature park around it, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Auvers-sur-Oise 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
94out of 100
Woodland19%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
60out of 100
Footpaths1.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
51out of 100
Hiking routes1.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
90out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Auvers-sur-Oise has the 15th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,796 to 6,936 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Jacou (10.3 km per km²) to Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacou Hérault | 10.3 | 16% | 0% | 13 km |
| 2 | Noyelles-sous-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 5 | 10% | 0% | 77 km |
| 3 | Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes Seine-et-Marne | 4.3 | 11% | 0% | 164 km |
| 4 | Lésigny Seine-et-Marne | 4.2 | 42% | 0% | 171 km |
| 5 | Domène Isère | 3.8 | 24% | 0% | 202 km |
| 6 | Lutterbach Haut-Rhin | 3.7 | 43% | 12% | 442 km |
| 7 | Castries Hérault | 3.6 | 9.3% | 0.1% | 14 km |
| 8 | Carnoux-en-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 31% | 0% | 5 km |
| 9 | Loos-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 3.6% | 0% | 71 km |
| 10 | Montfort-sur-Meu Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.5 | 30% | 0% | 40 km |
| 11 | Nyons Drôme | 2.5 | 44% | 100% | 103 km |
| 12 | Escalquens Haute-Garonne | 2.5 | 1.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 13 | Beuvrages Nord | 1.9 | 4.2% | 99% | 102 km |
| 14 | Les Essarts-le-Roi Yvelines | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 137 km |
| 15 | Auvers-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1.7 | 19% | 100% | 122 km |
| 16 | Poussan Hérault | 1.5 | 2.1% | 38% | 8.5 km |
| 17 | Changé Sarthe | 1.5 | 33% | 0% | 142 km |
| 18 | Acigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.4 | 11% | 0% | 52 km |
| 19 | Le Coteau Loire | 1.4 | 0% | 0% | 274 km |
| 20 | Bourbourg Nord | 1.4 | 0.3% | 0% | 6.1 km |
| 21 | Laudun-l'Ardoise Gard | 1.3 | 19% | 2.1% | 73 km |
| 22 | Douvaine Haute-Savoie | 1.3 | 22% | 0.9% | 296 km |
| 23 | Saint-Maurice-l'Exil Isère | 1.2 | 11% | 5.4% | 211 km |
| 24 | Trans-en-Provence Var | 1.1 | 26% | 0% | 23 km |
| 25 | Plédran Côtes-d'Armor | 1.1 | 8.8% | 0% | 6.7 km |
| 26 | Quesnoy-sur-Deûle Nord | 1 | 0.8% | 0% | 52 km |
| 27 | Surgères Charente-Maritime | 0.9 | 5% | 0% | 24 km |
| 28 | Veigné Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 35% | 0% | 179 km |
| 29 | Les Abrets en Dauphiné Isère | 0.7 | 17% | 0% | 238 km |
| 30 | Sénas Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.6 | 2.8% | 100% | 36 km |
| 31 | Montluel Ain | 0.5 | 27% | 35% | 267 km |
| 32 | La Plaine-des-Palmistes Réunion | 0.5 | 64% | 100% | 14 km |
| 33 | Lucciana Haute-Corse | 0.4 | 4.8% | 3% | On it |
| 34 | Chabeuil Drôme | 0.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 162 km |
| 35 | Loudun Vienne | 0.3 | 6.4% | 0% | 122 km |
| 36 | Essarts-en-Bocage Vendée | 0.3 | 4.1% | 0% | 46 km |
| 37 | Beaufort-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 12% | 100% | 141 km |
| 38 | Cadaujac Gironde | 0.2 | 14% | 45% | 29 km |
| 39 | Caussade Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 172 km |
| 40 | Le Controis-en-Sologne Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 24% | 6.7% | 229 km |
| 41 | Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche Haute-Vienne | 0.1 | 24% | 0% | 151 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 Auvers-sur-Oise
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Château d’Auvers-sur-Oise leads, at 8.4 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Île de Vaux
Wood or forest · 10 m outside the commune
6.8 ha
0.9 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Van Gogh
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
0.9 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Auvers-sur-Oise
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Vexin Français Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
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.
100% of Auvers-sur-Oise’s land is protected, more than in 94% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Val-d'Oise has 0%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
22 km of footpaths and 17 km of hiking routes cross Auvers-sur-Oise
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
22 km
1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked: 1.4 km per km²
Woodland
19%
about 2.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Auvers-sur-OiseVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Footpaths1.7
Hiking routes1.4
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Auvers-sur-OiseVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Woodland19%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 51% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 60% 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 Auvers-sur-Oise is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin des peintres3.3 km
Chemin des Peintres vert2.9 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Auvers-sur-Oise: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pontoise -Ville, 6.3 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 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 52 | 49 | 45 | 62 | 54 | 49 | 53 | 46 | 64 | 59 | 75 |
April is the driest month (45 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 35 nights a year. The climate in Auvers-sur-Oise →
Neighbors
Next to Auvers-sur-Oise
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Méry-sur-OiseMérielFrépillonSaint-Ouen-l'AumôneBessancourtPontoiseAuvers-sur-Oise
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auvers-sur-Oise | 100% | 19% | 1.7 |
| Méry-sur-Oise 9,983 · 1.7 km | 0% | 35% | 3.6 |
| Mériel 5,347 · 3.4 km | 9.5% | 41% | 6 |
| Frépillon 3,317 · 3.8 km | 0.2% | 19% | 4.3 |
| Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône 25,578 · 4.6 km | 0% | 7.4% | 3.2 |
| Bessancourt 8,869 · 5.1 km | 0% | 29% | 4.6 |
| Pontoise 31,970 · 5.4 km | 0.5% | 11% | 6.2 |
Méry-sur-Oise, Mériel and Bessancourt are 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 Auvers-sur-Oise
Is Auvers-sur-Oise in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Auvers-sur-Oise lies in Vexin Français Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Auvers-sur-Oise?
OpenStreetMap maps 22 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 17 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Auvers-sur-Oise is woodland?
19% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Auvers-sur-Oise near the sea?
No: the coast is 122 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Auvers-sur-Oise?
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.