First pick
Parc Pierre-Lagravère
Park or garden · 80 m outside the commune
29 ha9.2 km of path
2 hto walk all 9.2 km of path
1.4 km eastfrom the center
Chemin de Halage
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Yennceiri · CC BY-SA 4.01.9%woodland
Outdoors in Bezons · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Bezons is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 1.9% of Bezons. No protected area reaches Bezons; the nearest, Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis (Natura 2000), is 6.3 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 10 km across Bezons (2.4 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, 6.3 km
Woodland
1.9%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
10 km
2.4 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
11
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Pierre-Lagravère
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 Bezons?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbySites de Seine-Saint-Denis (Natura 2000) is 6.3 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland1.9% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Bezons apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Bezons 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
Woodland1.9%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
10out of 100
Footpaths2.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
65out 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
Bezons has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (34,632 to 38,423 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Martin-d'Hères (10.1 km per km²) to Sainte-Marie (0.7 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Martin-d'Hères Isère | 10.1 | 14% | 0% | 203 km |
| 2 | Échirolles Isère | 9.9 | 11% | 0% | 200 km |
| 3 | Schiltigheim Bas-Rhin | 9 | 7.7% | 0.2% | 449 km |
| 4 | Annemasse Haute-Savoie | 8.3 | 2.4% | 0% | 286 km |
| 5 | Châtenay-Malabry Hauts-de-Seine | 8.2 | 30% | 0% | 155 km |
| 6 | Franconville Val-d'Oise | 8.2 | 27% | 0% | 132 km |
| 7 | Lyon 4e Rhône | 7.8 | 6.8% | 0% | 253 km |
| 8 | Marseille 1er Bouches-du-Rhône | 7.5 | 0.1% | 0% | On it |
| 9 | Paris 8e Paris | 6.9 | 0% | 0% | 146 km |
| 10 | Villeneuve-Saint-Georges Val-de-Marne | 6.6 | 4.3% | 0% | 164 km |
| 11 | Romainville Seine-Saint-Denis | 6 | 11% | 0% | 151 km |
| 12 | Palaiseau Essonne | 5.9 | 18% | 0% | 158 km |
| 13 | Creil Oise | 5.8 | 25% | 41% | 117 km |
| 14 | Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Essonne | 5.6 | 9.5% | 0% | 169 km |
| 15 | Chartres Eure-et-Loir | 5.5 | 2.4% | 0% | 138 km |
| 16 | Marseille 7e Bouches-du-Rhône | 5.4 | 0.7% | 33% | On it |
| 17 | Vitrolles Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.9 | 8.9% | 33% | 9.7 km |
| 18 | Trappes Yvelines | 4.8 | 20% | 22% | 140 km |
| 19 | Les Mureaux Yvelines | 4.7 | 16% | 0% | 120 km |
| 20 | Athis-Mons Essonne | 4.6 | 4% | 0% | 165 km |
| 21 | Meyzieu Rhône | 4.2 | 13% | 26% | 256 km |
| 22 | Oullins-Pierre-Bénite Rhône | 4.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 246 km |
| 23 | Mâcon Saône-et-Loire | 4.2 | 17% | 0% | 311 km |
| 24 | Châtillon Hauts-de-Seine | 4.2 | 0.2% | 0% | 152 km |
| 25 | Six-Fours-les-Plages Var | 3.9 | 34% | 21% | On it |
| 26 | Saint-Raphaël Var | 3.8 | 60% | 61% | On it |
| 27 | Thonon-les-Bains Haute-Savoie | 3.8 | 17% | 8.5% | 299 km |
| 28 | Roanne Loire | 3.7 | 2.7% | 15% | 275 km |
| 29 | Le Perreux-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 3.4 | 1.2% | 0% | 157 km |
| 30 | Savigny-sur-Orge Essonne | 3.4 | 2.2% | 0% | 166 km |
| 31 | Conflans-Sainte-Honorine Yvelines | 3.2 | 3.8% | 0% | 126 km |
| 32 | Tremblay-en-France Seine-Saint-Denis | 3 | 3.9% | 0% | 151 km |
| 33 | Joué-lès-Tours Indre-et-Loire | 2.5 | 15% | 0% | 179 km |
| 34 | Bezons Val-d'Oise | 2.4 | 1.9% | 0% | 137 km |
| 35 | Saint-Chamond Loire | 2.1 | 26% | 33% | 215 km |
| 36 | Villefranche-sur-Saône Rhône | 1.9 | 0.7% | 0% | 274 km |
| 37 | Auxerre Yonne | 1.8 | 15% | 0% | 298 km |
| 38 | La Possession Réunion | 1.6 | 67% | 88% | On it |
| 39 | Haguenau Bas-Rhin | 1 | 81% | 76% | 436 km |
| 40 | Saint-Leu Réunion | 0.9 | 23% | 17% | On it |
| 41 | Sainte-Marie Réunion | 0.7 | 50% | 60% | On it |
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 Bezons
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Pierre-Lagravère leads, at 29 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc du Chemin de l'île
Park or garden · 40 m outside the commune
17 ha6.3 km of path
1 h 25 minto walk all 6.3 km of path
2.9 km south-westfrom the center
Chemin de Halage
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Albert Bettencourt
Park or garden
2 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Bezons
Directionsto a point inside
Carrières-Saint-Denis
Park or garden · 230 m outside the commune
1.6 ha0.3 km of path
2.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Sacco et Vanzetti
Park or garden
1.1 ha0.4 km of path
0.9 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Marais
Park or garden · 390 m outside the commune
0.9 ha0.4 km of path
1.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Mirabeau
Park or garden · 400 m outside the commune
0.7 ha0.4 km of path
1.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Espace Jemmapes
Park or garden · 400 m outside the commune
0.8 ha0.4 km of path
1.6 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
All 11 named parks, gardens and woods
Parc Pierre-LagravèrePark or garden · 29 ha · 9.2 km of path · just outside
DirectionsParc du Chemin de l'îlePark or garden · 17 ha · 6.3 km of path · just outside
DirectionsParc Albert BettencourtPark or garden · 2 ha · 1 km of path
DirectionsCarrières-Saint-DenisPark or garden · 1.6 ha · 0.3 km of path · just outside
DirectionsParc Sacco et VanzettiPark or garden · 1.1 ha · 0.4 km of path
DirectionsParc du MaraisPark or garden · 0.9 ha · 0.4 km of path · just outside
DirectionsParc MirabeauPark or garden · 0.7 ha · 0.4 km of path · just outside
DirectionsEspace JemmapesPark or garden · 0.8 ha · 0.4 km of path · just outside
DirectionsParc Nelson MandelaPark or garden · 0.7 ha · 0.3 km of path
DirectionsSquare de la RépubliquePark or garden · 0.3 ha
DirectionsSquare Du PrunetPark or garden · 0.3 ha · just outside
DirectionsSource: © 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, 6.3 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
6.3 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
10 km of footpaths cross Bezons
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
10 km
2.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
1.9%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BezonsVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Footpaths2.4
Hiking routes0
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BezonsVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Woodland1.9%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 65% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 90% 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 Bezons is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
PR (local walk)Other named walk
PR 17.3 km
PR 27.1 km
PR 34.7 km
PR 760.8 km
Promenade Historique de Nanterre2.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bezons: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bagatelle, 7.2 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 Bezons →
Neighbors
Next to Bezons
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
HouillesColombesArgenteuilSartrouvilleCarrières-sur-SeineLa Garenne-ColombesBezons
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bezons | 0% | 1.9% | 2.4 |
| Houilles 33,983 · 2 km | 0% | 0% | 1.7 |
| Colombes 91,053 · 2.7 km | 0% | 1.4% | 4.3 |
| Argenteuil 106,130 · 2.8 km | 0% | 5.5% | 3.2 |
| Sartrouville 52,763 · 2.9 km | 0% | 0.9% | 3 |
| Carrières-sur-Seine 14,791 · 3.2 km | 0% | 5% | 2.2 |
| La Garenne-Colombes 30,197 · 3.6 km | 0% | 0% | 2.2 |
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 Bezons
Is Bezons in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis, 6.3 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Bezons?
OpenStreetMap maps 10 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Bezons is woodland?
1.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bezons near the sea?
No: the coast is 137 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bezons?
April and June 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.