Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: P.poschadel · CC BY-SA 3.0Mapped woodland covers 0.7% of Ézanville. No protected area reaches Ézanville; the nearest, Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park, is 3.7 km from the town center. 11 km of footpaths cross Ézanville (2.2 km per km²). 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 Ézanville apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
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 (9,699 to 10,027 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 Saint-Loubès (0.2 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 | Neuville-en-Ferrain Nord | 2.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 54 km |
| 16 | Bondues Nord | 2.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 56 km |
| 17 | Ézanville Val-d'Oise | 2.2 | 0.7% | 0% | 134 km |
| 18 | Foix Ariège | 2.2 | 28% | 21% | 117 km |
| 19 | Figeac Lot | 2.1 | 27% | 0% | 182 km |
| 20 | Pont-Audemer Eure | 1.8 | 20% | 65% | 15 km |
| 21 | Roche-la-Molière Loire | 1.8 | 8.5% | 0% | 209 km |
| 22 | Léguevin Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 14% | 0% | 161 km |
| 23 | Saint-Lys Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 9.5% | 0% | 162 km |
| 24 | Aniche Nord | 1.4 | 6.8% | 0.1% | 98 km |
| 25 | Lambesc Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 32% | 65% | 33 km |
| 26 | Saint-Amand-Montrond Cher | 1.3 | 10% | 6.4% | 282 km |
| 27 | Chambly Oise | 1.2 | 5.4% | 0.1% | 117 km |
| 28 | Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.2 | 0.1% | 45% | 3.8 km |
| 29 | La Farlède Var | 1.1 | 8.7% | 15% | 7.4 km |
| 30 | Merville Nord | 1 | 2% | 0% | 48 km |
| 31 | Bourg-de-Péage Drôme | 0.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 176 km |
| 32 | Bernay Eure | 0.9 | 15% | 4.7% | 42 km |
| 33 | Lançon-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 2.7% | 80% | 23 km |
| 34 | Loudéac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.7 | 14% | 0% | 35 km |
| 35 | Revel Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 4.3% | 0% | 99 km |
| 36 | Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe Tarn | 0.6 | 6.1% | 1.1% | 138 km |
| 37 | Lorgues Var | 0.6 | 53% | 6.3% | 30 km |
| 38 | Mézidon Vallée d'Auge Calvados | 0.5 | 8.1% | 0% | 24 km |
| 39 | Carmaux Tarn | 0.4 | 3.3% | 0% | 127 km |
| 40 | Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire Nièvre | 0.3 | 24% | 3.8% | 295 km |
| 41 | Saint-Loubès Gironde | 0.2 | 4% | 28% | 16 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: Forêt d'Écouen leads, at 139 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 61% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 95% 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 Ézanville 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 Le Bourget, 8.9 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 Ézanville →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ézanville | 0% | 0.7% | 2.2 |
| Écouen 7,202 · 1.7 km | 0% | 16% | 4 |
| Domont 16,065 · 2 km | 0% | 28% | 4.5 |
| Bouffémont 6,593 · 3.6 km | 0.9% | 54% | 9.6 |
| Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt 15,063 · 3.8 km | 0% | 24% | 3.3 |
| Villiers-le-Bel 30,053 · 4.4 km | 0% | 5.1% | 7 |
| Groslay 8,453 · 5.1 km | 0% | 15% | 4.3 |
Domont, Bouffémont and Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt are more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park, 3.7 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 11 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
0.7% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 134 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 9, 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.