Photo: Pierre Poschadel · CC BY-SA 4.0Marines lies inside Vexin Français Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Marines’ land. 36% of Marines is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 18 km across Marines (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.
What kind of outdoors place is Marines?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Marines apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
How Marines 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Marines has the 10th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,566 to 3,623 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Brice-Courcelles (3.7 km per km²) to Saint-Savin (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Brice-Courcelles Marne | 3.7 | 15% | 0% | 195 km |
| 2 | Bavans Doubs | 3.7 | 43% | 0% | 415 km |
| 3 | Orry-la-Ville Oise | 3.3 | 58% | 100% | 131 km |
| 4 | Apprieu Isère | 3 | 45% | 0% | 222 km |
| 5 | Jonzac Charente-Maritime | 2.7 | 11% | 8.4% | 24 km |
| 6 | Masevaux-Niederbruck Haut-Rhin | 2.6 | 78% | 100% | 445 km |
| 7 | Cournonsec Hérault | 2.5 | 0.2% | 49% | 13 km |
| 8 | Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold Moselle | 2.5 | 52% | 4.6% | 351 km |
| 9 | Orcines Puy-de-Dôme | 2.5 | 59% | 100% | 259 km |
| 10 | Marines Val-d'Oise | 2.2 | 36% | 100% | 108 km |
| 11 | Fontvieille Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.2 | 35% | 100% | 33 km |
| 12 | Montréal-la-Cluse Ain | 2.1 | 67% | 0% | 306 km |
| 13 | Saint-Jean-de-Moirans Isère | 1.8 | 5.5% | 0% | 217 km |
| 14 | Saint-Brès Hérault | 1.8 | 0.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 15 | Montrichard Val de Cher Loir-et-Cher | 1.7 | 60% | 0% | 211 km |
| 16 | Givry Saône-et-Loire | 1.7 | 46% | 2.2% | 361 km |
| 17 | Pradines Lot | 1.6 | 32% | 0% | 169 km |
| 18 | Boujan-sur-Libron Hérault | 1.6 | 9.8% | 0% | 14 km |
| 19 | Villers-Semeuse Ardennes | 1.5 | 7.8% | 0% | 210 km |
| 20 | Saint-Tropez Var | 1.5 | 16% | 0.1% | On it |
| 21 | Saint-Germain-des-Fossés Allier | 1.4 | 11% | 25% | 298 km |
| 22 | Lumbres Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 24% | 100% | 31 km |
| 23 | Espaly-Saint-Marcel Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 11% | 1.5% | 166 km |
| 24 | Neuilly-Crimolois Côte-d'Or | 1.3 | 17% | 0% | 409 km |
| 25 | La Roche-de-Glun Drôme | 1.1 | 0% | 0% | 173 km |
| 26 | Rocheservière Vendée | 1.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 37 km |
| 27 | Plan-d'Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 1 | 5.9% | 12% | 41 km |
| 28 | Pompignac Gironde | 1 | 25% | 0% | 21 km |
| 29 | Canet Hérault | 0.8 | 2.7% | 2.8% | 27 km |
| 30 | Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom Calvados | 0.8 | 20% | 0% | 37 km |
| 31 | Corps-Nuds Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 65 km |
| 32 | Marzy Nièvre | 0.6 | 8.6% | 20% | 332 km |
| 33 | Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin Isère | 0.5 | 8.4% | 0% | 240 km |
| 34 | Rochechouart Haute-Vienne | 0.4 | 29% | 99% | 131 km |
| 35 | Saint-Jean-d'Hermine Vendée | 0.4 | 9.2% | 2.4% | 27 km |
| 36 | Vic-Fezensac Gers | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 136 km |
| 37 | Baziège Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 1.6% | 0% | 127 km |
| 38 | Magalas Hérault | 0.2 | 2.8% | 0% | 24 km |
| 39 | Derval Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 9.6% | 0% | 56 km |
| 40 | Vald'Yerre Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 | 6.5% | 0.1% | 159 km |
| 41 | Saint-Savin Gironde | 0 | 24% | 4% | 16 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Protected land in and around Marines
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Vexin Français Regional Nature Park
Share of the commune’s land
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.
100% of Marines’ land is protected, more than in 99% 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.
18 km of footpaths cross Marines
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is more than in 61% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 82% 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 Marines is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR 1D passes within 2 km of Marines.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Marines: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pontoise - Aero, 7 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 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 46 | 47 | 44 | 60 | 50 | 52 | 55 | 47 | 58 | 55 | 68 |
April is the driest month (44 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 68 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. The climate in Marines →
Next to Marines
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
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 Marines
Is Marines in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Marines lies in Vexin Français Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Marines?
OpenStreetMap maps 18 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); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Marines is woodland?
36% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Marines near the sea?
No: the coast is 108 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Marines?
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.