First pick
Salvador Allende
Park or garden
11 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
1 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Pierre Poschadel · CC BY-SA 4.057%of the land protected
Outdoors in Fosses · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Fosses lies inside Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park
57% of Fosses’ land lies in protected areas. 11 km of footpaths cross Fosses (3.1 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 5.1% of Fosses. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
57%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
5.1%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
11 km
3.1 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
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Salvador Allende
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.
Against French towns
How Fosses 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 areas57%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
88out of 100
Woodland5.1%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
23out of 100
Footpaths3.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
75out 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
Fosses has the 15th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (10,425 to 10,710 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Voisins-le-Bretonneux (13.8 km per km²) to Seysses (0.5 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Voisins-le-Bretonneux Yvelines | 13.8 | 8.8% | 5.4% | 144 km |
| 2 | Eybens Isère | 7.6 | 17% | 0% | 201 km |
| 3 | Chantilly Oise | 6.8 | 70% | 100% | 124 km |
| 4 | Aubière Puy-de-Dôme | 5.2 | 0.4% | 0% | 254 km |
| 5 | La Riche Indre-et-Loire | 4.2 | 4.5% | 16% | 182 km |
| 6 | Cabestany Pyrénées-Orientales | 4 | 1.8% | 0% | 7.9 km |
| 7 | Biot Alpes-Maritimes | 3.8 | 34% | 11% | 3.7 km |
| 8 | Valentigney Doubs | 3.8 | 36% | 0% | 412 km |
| 9 | Longuenesse Pas-de-Calais | 3.7 | 8.8% | 100% | 29 km |
| 10 | Clermont Oise | 3.6 | 30% | 0% | 103 km |
| 11 | Chantepie Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.5 | 4% | 0% | 53 km |
| 12 | Saint-Gély-du-Fesc Hérault | 3.4 | 39% | 0% | 21 km |
| 13 | Thorigny-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 3.4 | 15% | 12% | 162 km |
| 14 | Étaples Pas-de-Calais | 3.2 | 29% | 7% | On it |
| 15 | Fosses Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 5.1% | 57% | 134 km |
| 16 | Héricourt Haute-Saône | 2.8 | 36% | 0% | 425 km |
| 17 | Portes-lès-Valence Drôme | 2.7 | 5.9% | 0% | 158 km |
| 18 | Charvieu-Chavagneux Isère | 2.7 | 10% | 0% | 255 km |
| 19 | Urrugne Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.3 | 23% | 28% | 3.1 km |
| 20 | Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 2.1 | 1.4% | 0% | 51 km |
| 21 | Divonne-les-Bains Ain | 2.1 | 52% | 57% | 306 km |
| 22 | Treillières Loire-Atlantique | 2.1 | 15% | 0% | 41 km |
| 23 | Fouesnant Finistère | 2 | 3.5% | 9.8% | On it |
| 24 | Argelès-sur-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 30% | 39% | On it |
| 25 | Villers-Cotterêts Aisne | 1.8 | 73% | 0% | 145 km |
| 26 | La Londe-les-Maures Var | 1.8 | 27% | 49% | On it |
| 27 | La Trinité Alpes-Maritimes | 1.8 | 59% | 25% | 3.6 km |
| 28 | Vieux-Condé Nord | 1.7 | 7.4% | 100% | 96 km |
| 29 | Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 1.6 | 11% | 23% | 17 km |
| 30 | Andrézieux-Bouthéon Loire | 1.4 | 3.5% | 7.1% | 219 km |
| 31 | Mainvilliers Eure-et-Loir | 1.4 | 9.3% | 0% | 136 km |
| 32 | Oloron-Sainte-Marie Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.3 | 52% | 4.8% | 83 km |
| 33 | Léognan Gironde | 1.2 | 39% | 0% | 30 km |
| 34 | Wittelsheim Haut-Rhin | 1.2 | 34% | 6.2% | 447 km |
| 35 | Marck Pas-de-Calais | 0.9 | 3.4% | 0% | On it |
| 36 | Parempuyre Gironde | 0.9 | 6.7% | 8.1% | 6.3 km |
| 37 | Brumath Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 32% | 0% | 437 km |
| 38 | Limoux Aude | 0.8 | 26% | 0.1% | 68 km |
| 39 | Pernes-les-Fontaines Vaucluse | 0.7 | 8.6% | 44% | 62 km |
| 40 | Auterive Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 4.6% | 1.2% | 134 km |
| 41 | Seysses Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 2.6% | 0% | 153 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 Fosses
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Salvador Allende leads, at 11 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc des Trois Collines
Park or garden
1.8 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Fosses
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 Fosses
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
57% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area57%
Regional nature park57%
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.
57% of Fosses’ land is protected, more than in 88% 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
11 km of footpaths cross Fosses
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
11 km
3.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
5.1%
about 0.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
FossesVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Footpaths3.1
Hiking routes0
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
FossesVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Woodland5.1%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 75% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 77% 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 Fosses is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Via Sancti Martini - Chemin d'Utrecht5.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Fosses: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Roissy, 9.5 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) | 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 Fosses →
Neighbors
Next to Fosses
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Marly-la-VilleSurvilliersLa Chapelle-en-ServalOrry-la-VillePuiseux-en-FranceSaint-WitzFosses
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fosses | 57% | 5.1% | 3.1 |
| Marly-la-Ville 6,022 · 1.3 km | 0% | 5.5% | 0.9 |
| Survilliers 4,091 · 2.4 km | 71% | 23% | 1.1 |
| La Chapelle-en-Serval 3,084 · 3.2 km | 100% | 45% | 2.9 |
| Orry-la-Ville 3,583 · 3.7 km | 100% | 58% | 3.3 |
| Puiseux-en-France 3,765 · 4.4 km | 0% | 2.2% | 0.4 |
| Saint-Witz 2,724 · 4.4 km | 0.1% | 8.3% | 1.2 |
Survilliers, La Chapelle-en-Serval and Orry-la-Ville 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 Fosses
Is Fosses in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Fosses lies in Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park (57% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Fosses?
OpenStreetMap maps 11 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Fosses is woodland?
5.1% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Fosses near the sea?
No: the coast is 134 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Fosses?
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.