Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: P.poschadel · CC BY-SA 3.081 km of footpaths cross L'Isle-Adam (5.2 km per km²). L'Isle-Adam has 12 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches L'Isle-Adam; the nearest, Vexin Français Regional Nature Park, is 0.9 km from the town center. 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 L'Isle-Adam apart: its woods, then its footpaths.
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 (12,199 to 12,731 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Villetaneuse (11 km per km²) to Mèze (0.5 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Villetaneuse Seine-Saint-Denis | 11 | 5.1% | 0% | 140 km |
| 2 | La Queue-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.3 | 47% | 0% | 165 km |
| 3 | Bayeux Calvados | 6.1 | 2.8% | 0% | 7.4 km |
| 4 | Marquette-lez-Lille Nord | 5.6 | 4.2% | 0% | 58 km |
| 5 | L'Union Haute-Garonne | 5.4 | 4.4% | 0% | 146 km |
| 6 | L'Isle-Adam Val-d'Oise | 5.2 | 60% | 0.2% | 121 km |
| 7 | Châlette-sur-Loing Loiret | 5.1 | 43% | 0% | 234 km |
| 8 | Riedisheim Haut-Rhin | 4.4 | 29% | 0% | 440 km |
| 9 | Harnes Pas-de-Calais | 4.2 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 km |
| 10 | Saint-Avé Morbihan | 3.7 | 24% | 97% | 4.5 km |
| 11 | Granville Manche | 3.6 | 1.3% | 7.2% | On it |
| 12 | Chambray-lès-Tours Indre-et-Loire | 3.5 | 24% | 0% | 181 km |
| 13 | Oissel-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 3.5 | 48% | 3.9% | 54 km |
| 14 | Raismes Nord | 3.2 | 71% | 100% | 100 km |
| 15 | Triel-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.8 | 34% | 0% | 124 km |
| 16 | Le Chambon-Feugerolles Loire | 2.8 | 43% | 0.1% | 205 km |
| 17 | Cogolin Var | 2.7 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 18 | Andernos-les-Bains Gironde | 2.6 | 46% | 3.4% | On it |
| 19 | Creutzwald Moselle | 2.4 | 57% | 0% | 348 km |
| 20 | Quimperlé Finistère | 2.4 | 24% | 3.9% | 9.2 km |
| 21 | Mende Lozère | 2.4 | 54% | 0% | 115 km |
| 22 | Aubergenville Yvelines | 2.4 | 9.1% | 0% | 121 km |
| 23 | Guidel Morbihan | 2.3 | 23% | 7.8% | On it |
| 24 | La Chapelle-Saint-Luc Aube | 2.3 | 12% | 0% | 270 km |
| 25 | Obernai Bas-Rhin | 2 | 16% | 1.9% | 447 km |
| 26 | Brignais Rhône | 2 | 14% | 0% | 241 km |
| 27 | Pont-Sainte-Maxence Oise | 1.8 | 47% | 99% | 118 km |
| 28 | Solliès-Pont Var | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 11 km |
| 29 | Aubenas Ardèche | 1.6 | 6.8% | 18% | 120 km |
| 30 | Vernouillet Eure-et-Loir | 1.5 | 9.6% | 0% | 107 km |
| 31 | Châteaubriant Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0% | 76 km |
| 32 | Pont-du-Château Puy-de-Dôme | 1.2 | 8.9% | 9.7% | 257 km |
| 33 | Bischwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 443 km |
| 34 | Louvres Val-d'Oise | 1.2 | 2.3% | 0% | 139 km |
| 35 | Sablé-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 1 | 12% | 0% | 116 km |
| 36 | Gisors Eure | 0.9 | 34% | 0% | 87 km |
| 37 | Comines Nord | 0.9 | 2.3% | 0% | 48 km |
| 38 | Saint-André-de-Cubzac Gironde | 0.8 | 5.4% | 5.2% | 12 km |
| 39 | Vidauban Var | 0.7 | 22% | 34% | 20 km |
| 40 | Rognac Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 22% | 10% | 16 km |
| 41 | Mèze Hérault | 0.5 | 5.2% | 27% | 6.3 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 de L'Isle-Adam leads, at 817 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.
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.
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 91% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more 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 L'Isle-Adam 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, 13 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) | 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 L'Isle-Adam →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| L'Isle-Adam | 0.2% | 60% | 5.2 |
| Parmain 5,655 · 1.2 km | 100% | 45% | 2.1 |
| Champagne-sur-Oise 5,036 · 3 km | 54% | 33% | 1.8 |
| Mériel 5,347 · 4.5 km | 9.5% | 41% | 6 |
| Presles 4,017 · 4.8 km | 100% | 47% | 3.1 |
| Persan 14,359 · 5.7 km | 0.1% | 0.3% | 2.5 |
| Beaumont-sur-Oise 10,232 · 5.8 km | 35% | 26% | 2.4 |
Parmain, Champagne-sur-Oise and Presles have at least twice as much protected land.
No. The nearest protected area is Vexin Français Regional Nature Park, 0.9 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 81 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 5.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 12 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
60% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 121 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.