Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Clicsouris · CC BY-SA 2.5Footpaths add up to 13 km across Beauchamp (4.2 km per km²). No protected area reaches Beauchamp; the nearest, Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park, is 4.8 km from the town center. 12% of Beauchamp is mapped woodland. 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 Beauchamp 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 (9,679 to 10,024 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Max (5.1 km per km²) to Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire (0.3 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Max Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.1 | 4.9% | 0.3% | 366 km |
| 2 | Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 4.4 | 10% | 0.1% | 123 km |
| 3 | Beauchamp Val-d'Oise | 4.2 | 12% | 0% | 129 km |
| 4 | Saint-Grégoire Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.2 | 5% | 0% | 44 km |
| 5 | Montlhéry Essonne | 4.1 | 9.8% | 0% | 165 km |
| 6 | Aytré Charente-Maritime | 3.7 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 7 | Méry-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.6 | 35% | 0% | 124 km |
| 8 | Vernouillet Yvelines | 3.5 | 19% | 0% | 124 km |
| 9 | Le Rheu Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 46 km |
| 10 | Frouzins Haute-Garonne | 3.3 | 7.7% | 11% | 152 km |
| 11 | Voreppe Isère | 3.3 | 42% | 35% | 213 km |
| 12 | Montigny-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 7.7% | 0% | 78 km |
| 13 | Portet-sur-Garonne Haute-Garonne | 3 | 9.8% | 15% | 146 km |
| 14 | Grand-Couronne Seine-Maritime | 2.9 | 42% | 0.2% | 48 km |
| 15 | Basse-Goulaine Loire-Atlantique | 2.5 | 14% | 14% | 44 km |
| 16 | Neuville-en-Ferrain Nord | 2.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 54 km |
| 17 | Bondues Nord | 2.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 56 km |
| 18 | Ézanville Val-d'Oise | 2.2 | 0.7% | 0% | 134 km |
| 19 | Foix Ariège | 2.2 | 28% | 21% | 117 km |
| 20 | Figeac Lot | 2.1 | 27% | 0% | 182 km |
| 21 | Pont-Audemer Eure | 1.8 | 20% | 65% | 15 km |
| 22 | Roche-la-Molière Loire | 1.8 | 8.5% | 0% | 209 km |
| 23 | Léguevin Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 14% | 0% | 161 km |
| 24 | Saint-Lys Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 9.5% | 0% | 162 km |
| 25 | Aniche Nord | 1.4 | 6.8% | 0.1% | 98 km |
| 26 | Lambesc Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 32% | 65% | 33 km |
| 27 | Saint-Amand-Montrond Cher | 1.3 | 10% | 6.4% | 282 km |
| 28 | Chambly Oise | 1.2 | 5.4% | 0.1% | 117 km |
| 29 | Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.2 | 0.1% | 45% | 3.8 km |
| 30 | La Farlède Var | 1.1 | 8.7% | 15% | 7.4 km |
| 31 | Merville Nord | 1 | 2% | 0% | 48 km |
| 32 | Bourg-de-Péage Drôme | 0.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 176 km |
| 33 | Bernay Eure | 0.9 | 15% | 4.7% | 42 km |
| 34 | Lançon-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 2.7% | 80% | 23 km |
| 35 | Loudéac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.7 | 14% | 0% | 35 km |
| 36 | Revel Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 4.3% | 0% | 99 km |
| 37 | Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe Tarn | 0.6 | 6.1% | 1.1% | 138 km |
| 38 | Lorgues Var | 0.6 | 53% | 6.3% | 30 km |
| 39 | Mézidon Vallée d'Auge Calvados | 0.5 | 8.1% | 0% | 24 km |
| 40 | Carmaux Tarn | 0.4 | 3.3% | 0% | 127 km |
| 41 | Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire Nièvre | 0.3 | 24% | 3.8% | 295 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: Bois de Boissy leads, at 50 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 86% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 53% 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 Beauchamp is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pontoise -Ville, 8.7 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 | 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 Beauchamp →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beauchamp | 0% | 12% | 4.2 |
| Taverny 27,593 · 1.9 km | 0.4% | 33% | 10.5 |
| Montigny-lès-Cormeilles 22,457 · 2 km | 0% | 17% | 7 |
| Bessancourt 8,869 · 3 km | 0% | 29% | 4.6 |
| Pierrelaye 10,130 · 3 km | 0% | 20% | 2.4 |
| Le Plessis-Bouchard 8,518 · 3.5 km | 0% | 1.2% | 5.8 |
| Herblay-sur-Seine 31,779 · 3.5 km | 0% | 10% | 2.7 |
Taverny and Bessancourt are more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park, 4.8 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 13 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 4.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
12% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 129 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
April 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.