First pick
Forêt domaniale de Montmorency
Wood or forest
1,619 ha186.8 km of path
41 h 30 minto walk all 186.8 km of path
3.3 km westfrom the center
Route Forestière du FaîteRoute Forestière des FondsFoutue Route+5 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Passet Stéphane · CC054%woodland
Outdoors in Bouffémont · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Bouffémont has more footpaths per km² than 9 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 44 km across Bouffémont (9.6 km per km²). 54% of Bouffémont is mapped woodland. Bouffémont has 8 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.9%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park, 2 km
Woodland
54%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
44 km
9.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.3 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: Forêt domaniale de Montmorency
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 Bouffémont?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths9.6 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.A wooded commune54% mapped woodland, more than in 94% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes8 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyOise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park is 2 km from the town center.
What sets Bouffémont apart: its footpaths, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Bouffémont 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 areas0.9%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
56out of 100
Woodland54%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
94out of 100
Footpaths9.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
99out of 100
Hiking routes1.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
95out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Bouffémont has the most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,534 to 6,651 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bouffémont (9.6 km per km²) to Longué-Jumelles (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bouffémont Val-d'Oise | 9.6 | 54% | 0.9% | 131 km |
| 2 | Grenay Pas-de-Calais | 6.3 | 6.7% | 0% | 71 km |
| 3 | Champigneulles Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.7 | 77% | 0% | 361 km |
| 4 | Ceyrat Puy-de-Dôme | 4.6 | 48% | 100% | 254 km |
| 5 | Gémenos Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.1 | 22% | 92% | 11 km |
| 6 | La Bassée Nord | 3.8 | 1.1% | 0% | 64 km |
| 7 | Gigean Hérault | 3.4 | 6.4% | 12% | 8.7 km |
| 8 | Marange-Silvange Moselle | 3.4 | 52% | 0% | 317 km |
| 9 | Honfleur Calvados | 3.2 | 9.2% | 4.7% | On it |
| 10 | Saint-Alban Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 0% | 0% | 152 km |
| 11 | Cormontreuil Marne | 2.9 | 6.1% | 1.5% | 202 km |
| 12 | La Penne-sur-Huveaune Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.8 | 41% | 37% | 7.3 km |
| 13 | L'Arbresle Rhône | 2.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 256 km |
| 14 | Canohès Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 16 km |
| 15 | Thoiry Ain | 2.4 | 44% | 63% | 298 km |
| 16 | La Bouilladisse Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 40% | 0% | 21 km |
| 17 | Bouchemaine Maine-et-Loire | 2.2 | 14% | 11% | 113 km |
| 18 | Chasse-sur-Rhône Isère | 2.2 | 12% | 0% | 232 km |
| 19 | Eaunes Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 15% | 0% | 146 km |
| 20 | Furiani Haute-Corse | 1.9 | 0.6% | 6.3% | On it |
| 21 | Saint-Juéry Tarn | 1.8 | 11% | 0% | 116 km |
| 22 | Le Lavandou Var | 1.8 | 28% | 0.1% | On it |
| 23 | Laneuveville-devant-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.6 | 0.9% | 0% | 371 km |
| 24 | Labarthe-sur-Lèze Haute-Garonne | 1.6 | 5.1% | 2% | 144 km |
| 25 | Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.5 | 12% | 26% | On it |
| 26 | Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds Loire | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 212 km |
| 27 | Labruguière Tarn | 1.4 | 44% | 100% | 84 km |
| 28 | Lentilly Rhône | 1.3 | 15% | 0% | 255 km |
| 29 | Gignac Hérault | 1.2 | 26% | 4.8% | 29 km |
| 30 | Rives Isère | 1.1 | 13% | 0% | 217 km |
| 31 | Montauban-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 13% | 0% | 32 km |
| 32 | Longuenée-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 6.8% | 2.3% | 114 km |
| 33 | La Chevrolière Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 16% | 11% | 29 km |
| 34 | Elven Morbihan | 0.7 | 30% | 100% | 13 km |
| 35 | Loriol-sur-Drôme Drôme | 0.7 | 12% | 4.7% | 144 km |
| 36 | Sainte-Rose Réunion | 0.5 | 48% | 100% | On it |
| 37 | Sury-le-Comtal Loire | 0.5 | 2.4% | 0.6% | 220 km |
| 38 | Héric Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 42 km |
| 39 | Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 2.4% | 0.2% | 115 km |
| 40 | Le Mené Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 25 km |
| 41 | Longué-Jumelles Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 21% | 100% | 143 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 Bouffémont
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale de Montmorency leads, at 1,619 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Terrain d'Aventures
Park or garden
3.2 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
Centralin the middle of Bouffémont
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Maenza
Park or garden
1 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Bouffémont
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du 18 juin 1940
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.1 km of path
0.9 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 2 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park
2 km from the town center
Nature reserve
Tourbière du Nid d’Aigle nature reserve
0.7% of the commune2.6 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.9%
Regional nature park0.3%
Nature reserve0.7%
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.
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
Footpaths and woods in Bouffémont
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
44 km
9.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.3 km
waymarked: 1.8 km per km²
Woodland
54%
about 2.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BouffémontVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Footpaths9.6
Hiking routes1.8
0612 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BouffémontVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Woodland54%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 99% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 94% 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 Bouffémont is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR de PaysOther named walk
GRP de la Ceinture Verte, étape 12 : La Forêt de Montmorency6.9 km
Sentier des Lisières8.7 km
PR391.9 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bouffémont: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Roissy, 17 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) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 48 | 50 | 48 | 67 | 62 | 60 | 58 | 50 | 60 | 60 | 75 |
April is the driest month (48 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 33 nights a year. The climate in Bouffémont →
Neighbors
Next to Bouffémont
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
DomontMontsoultÉzanvilleMontlignonAndillyMargencyBouffémont
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Bouffémont
Is Bouffémont in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park, 2 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Bouffémont?
OpenStreetMap maps 44 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 9.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Bouffémont is woodland?
54% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bouffémont near the sea?
No: the coast is 131 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bouffémont?
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.