First pick
Parc des sports du Luat
Park or garden · 260 m outside the commune
6.3 ha1.8 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.8 km of path
0.8 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Clicsouris · CC BY-SA 2.50.9%woodland
Outdoors in Margency · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Margency has more footpaths per km² than 9 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 5 km across Margency (7.4 km per km²). 0.9% of Margency is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Margency; the nearest, Tourbière du Nid d’Aigle nature reserve, is 3.8 km from the town center. 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: Tourbière du Nid d’Aigle nature reserve, 3.8 km
Woodland
0.9%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
5.4 km
7.4 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
7
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc des sports du Luat
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 Margency?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths7.4 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyTourbière du Nid d’Aigle nature reserve is 3.8 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0.9% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Margency apart: its footpaths, then protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Margency 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
Woodland0.9%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
6out of 100
Footpaths7.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
97out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
24out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Margency has the 2nd most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,978 to 3,045 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lezennes (8.6 km per km²) to Rue (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lezennes Nord | 8.6 | 3.6% | 0% | 66 km |
| 2 | Margency Val-d'Oise | 7.4 | 0.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 3 | Montlignon Val-d'Oise | 5.5 | 50% | 0% | 133 km |
| 4 | Brax Haute-Garonne | 3.4 | 29% | 0% | 162 km |
| 5 | Feucherolles Yvelines | 3.2 | 33% | 0% | 133 km |
| 6 | La Turbie Alpes-Maritimes | 3.1 | 32% | 18% | 2 km |
| 7 | Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes Isère | 3 | 37% | 30% | 206 km |
| 8 | Emmerin Nord | 2.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 64 km |
| 9 | Pont-à-Marcq Nord | 2.6 | 1% | 0% | 75 km |
| 10 | Soues Hautes-Pyrénées | 2.4 | 7.2% | 5.9% | 134 km |
| 11 | Drumettaz-Clarafond Savoie | 2.1 | 42% | 5% | 243 km |
| 12 | Gandrange Moselle | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 313 km |
| 13 | Courcelles-Chaussy Moselle | 1.9 | 37% | 0% | 340 km |
| 14 | Paimbœuf Loire-Atlantique | 1.9 | 0.6% | 70% | 10 km |
| 15 | Aniane Hérault | 1.7 | 43% | 14% | 31 km |
| 16 | Agon-Coutainville Manche | 1.7 | 1.1% | 15% | On it |
| 17 | Belleville-sur-Meuse Meuse | 1.6 | 42% | 39% | 288 km |
| 18 | Quillan Aude | 1.4 | 49% | 100% | 70 km |
| 19 | Gruchet-le-Valasse Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 53% | 0% | 16 km |
| 20 | Retournac Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 55% | 85% | 184 km |
| 21 | Valmont Moselle | 1.2 | 28% | 0% | 357 km |
| 22 | Yenne Savoie | 1.2 | 35% | 19% | 252 km |
| 23 | Boën-sur-Lignon Loire | 1.2 | 12% | 4.3% | 243 km |
| 24 | Villeneuve-de-Berg Ardèche | 1.2 | 5.9% | 0% | 116 km |
| 25 | Zonza Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 40% | 75% | On it |
| 26 | Aubusson Creuse | 1 | 42% | 0% | 235 km |
| 27 | Saint-Ouen Loir-et-Cher | 0.9 | 14% | 0% | 186 km |
| 28 | Vimoutiers Orne | 0.9 | 2.2% | 0% | 46 km |
| 29 | Saint-Venant Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 2.5% | 0% | 48 km |
| 30 | Senonches Eure-et-Loir | 0.7 | 68% | 100% | 109 km |
| 31 | Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres Gard | 0.6 | 28% | 0% | 68 km |
| 32 | Ailly-sur-Somme Somme | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 46 km |
| 33 | Lapeyrouse-Fossat Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 146 km |
| 34 | Iteuil Vienne | 0.5 | 23% | 0% | 112 km |
| 35 | Murviel-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 36 | Boisseuil Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 166 km |
| 37 | Lorris Loiret | 0.4 | 54% | 31% | 234 km |
| 38 | Brienon-sur-Armançon Yonne | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | 281 km |
| 39 | Cintegabelle Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 1.4% | 128 km |
| 40 | Barjols Var | 0.2 | 69% | 18% | 49 km |
| 41 | Rue Somme | 0.2 | 7.7% | 100% | 5.7 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 Margency
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc des sports du Luat leads, at 6.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de la mairie
Park or garden
3.2 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
Centralin the middle of Margency
Ruelle du Petit Bury
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Renauderie
Park or garden
1.4 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Margency
Directionsto a point inside
Bassin des Moulinets
Park or garden
2 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Margency
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de Margency
Park or garden
1.3 ha0.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Margency
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Tuilerie
Park or garden
1 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Margency
Directionsto a point inside
Potager de la Chesnaie
Park or garden · 370 m outside the commune
1.1 ha
0.9 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Tourbière du Nid d’Aigle nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 3.8 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Tourbière du Nid d’Aigle nature reserve
3.8 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
Footpaths and woods in Margency
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
5.4 km
7.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.9%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MargencyVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Footpaths7.4
Hiking routes0
04.59 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MargencyVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Woodland0.9%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 97% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less 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 Margency is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR de PaysOther named walk
GRP de la Ceinture Verte, étape 12 : La Forêt de Montmorency1.9 km
Sentier des Lisières5.9 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Margency: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Bourget, 11 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 Margency →
Neighbors
Next to Margency
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
AndillyMontlignonEaubonneSoisy-sous-MontmorencySaint-PrixErmontMargency
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margency | 0% | 0.9% | 7.4 |
| Andilly 2,742 · 1 km | 0% | 53% | 7.1 |
| Montlignon 3,038 · 1 km | 0% | 50% | 5.5 |
| Eaubonne 26,211 · 1.3 km | 0% | 1.9% | 5 |
| Soisy-sous-Montmorency 18,008 · 1.5 km | 0% | 5% | 2.6 |
| Saint-Prix 7,612 · 2.1 km | 0.5% | 64% | 8.4 |
| Ermont 29,489 · 2.6 km | 0% | 0% | 6.9 |
Andilly, Montlignon and Saint-Prix 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 Margency
Is Margency in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Tourbière du Nid d’Aigle nature reserve, 3.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Margency?
OpenStreetMap maps 5 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 7.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Margency is woodland?
0.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Margency 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 Margency?
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 October 30, 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.