First pick
Forêt domaniale de Montmorency
Wood or forest
373 ha24.5 km of path
5 h 25 minto walk all 24.5 km of path
2.3 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: elisabeth · CC BY-SA 4.020%woodland
Outdoors in Montmorency · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Montmorency has more footpaths per km² than 8 in 10 French towns
20 km of footpaths cross Montmorency (3.8 km per km²). No protected area reaches Montmorency; the nearest, Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis (Natura 2000), is 4.5 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 10 km in Montmorency. 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: Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis, 4.5 km
Woodland
20%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
20 km
3.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
10 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
11
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt domaniale de Montmorency
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 Montmorency?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths3.8 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.On waymarked routes10 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbySites de Seine-Saint-Denis (Natura 2000) is 4.5 km from the town center.
What sets Montmorency apart: its footpaths, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Montmorency 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
Woodland20%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
63out of 100
Footpaths3.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
83out of 100
Hiking routes1.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
96out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Montmorency has the 16th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (21,105 to 22,457 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sèvres (8.9 km per km²) to Chemillé-en-Anjou (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sèvres Hauts-de-Seine | 8.9 | 24% | 0% | 147 km |
| 2 | Arcueil Val-de-Marne | 8.8 | 3.2% | 0% | 153 km |
| 3 | La Madeleine Nord | 8.6 | 0.6% | 0% | 61 km |
| 4 | Fontaine Isère | 8.1 | 37% | 39% | 204 km |
| 5 | Mons-en-Barœul Nord | 7.5 | 2% | 0% | 63 km |
| 6 | Montigny-lès-Cormeilles Val-d'Oise | 7 | 17% | 0% | 130 km |
| 7 | Saint-Cyr-l'École Yvelines | 6.3 | 7.8% | 0% | 143 km |
| 8 | Saint-Gratien Val-d'Oise | 6 | 0.7% | 0% | 137 km |
| 9 | Longjumeau Essonne | 5.9 | 4.2% | 0% | 163 km |
| 10 | Saint-Michel-sur-Orge Essonne | 5.3 | 6.7% | 0% | 168 km |
| 11 | Fleury-les-Aubrais Loiret | 4.9 | 16% | 0% | 203 km |
| 12 | Montigny-lès-Metz Moselle | 4.9 | 3.4% | 0% | 329 km |
| 13 | Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon Rhône | 4.8 | 10% | 0% | 249 km |
| 14 | Bruay-la-Buissière Pas-de-Calais | 4.5 | 22% | 0% | 61 km |
| 15 | Lagny-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 4 | 5.7% | 0% | 163 km |
| 16 | Montmorency Val-d'Oise | 3.8 | 20% | 0% | 136 km |
| 17 | Morsang-sur-Orge Essonne | 3.8 | 3.4% | 0% | 168 km |
| 18 | Gardanne Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.8 | 38% | 0% | 16 km |
| 19 | Achères Yvelines | 3.7 | 3.4% | 0% | 129 km |
| 20 | Ozoir-la-Ferrière Seine-et-Marne | 3.6 | 44% | 0% | 172 km |
| 21 | Neuilly-Plaisance Seine-Saint-Denis | 3.6 | 14% | 14% | 156 km |
| 22 | Le Plessis-Trévise Val-de-Marne | 3.4 | 9.3% | 0% | 163 km |
| 23 | Allauch Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 28% | 65% | 9.7 km |
| 24 | Le Petit-Quevilly Seine-Maritime | 3.3 | 0% | 0% | 51 km |
| 25 | Nogent-sur-Oise Oise | 3.3 | 19% | 0% | 115 km |
| 26 | Voiron Isère | 3.3 | 28% | 0% | 220 km |
| 27 | Mandelieu-la-Napoule Alpes-Maritimes | 2.9 | 48% | 0.1% | On it |
| 28 | Saint-Genis-Laval Rhône | 2.6 | 6% | 0% | 244 km |
| 29 | Dax Landes | 2.5 | 21% | 37% | 30 km |
| 30 | Mantes-la-Ville Yvelines | 2.5 | 7.2% | 0% | 111 km |
| 31 | Montereau-Fault-Yonne Seine-et-Marne | 2.2 | 4.3% | 8.8% | 217 km |
| 32 | Millau Aveyron | 2 | 35% | 100% | 91 km |
| 33 | Hazebrouck Nord | 1.7 | 0.7% | 0% | 37 km |
| 34 | Givors Rhône | 1.7 | 27% | 0.2% | 232 km |
| 35 | Épernay Marne | 1.7 | 44% | 7.2% | 208 km |
| 36 | Auch Gers | 1.6 | 18% | 0% | 161 km |
| 37 | Gujan-Mestras Gironde | 1.4 | 48% | 0.3% | On it |
| 38 | Abbeville Somme | 1.3 | 11% | 100% | 14 km |
| 39 | Montaigu-Vendée Vendée | 1.2 | 7.4% | 0% | 51 km |
| 40 | Villeneuve-sur-Lot Lot-et-Garonne | 0.5 | 11% | 0.9% | 123 km |
| 41 | Chemillé-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 4.3% | 0% | 98 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 Montmorency
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale de Montmorency leads, at 373 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de la Serve
Park or garden
11 ha2.1 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.1 km of path
2.2 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Château de Dino
Park or garden
3.7 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
1 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Mairie
Park or garden
2.2 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
Centralin the middle of Montmorency
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de Villemessant
Park or garden · 370 m outside the commune
1.3 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
2.4 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Winston Churchill
Park or garden · 370 m outside the commune
1.1 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
1.6 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Les Sources de Montmorency
Park or garden
0.8 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
0.9 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
La Châtaigneraie
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.3 km of path
0.9 km north-eastfrom the center
Sentier de la Châtaigneraie
Directionsto a point inside
All 11 named parks, gardens and woods
Forêt domaniale de MontmorencyWood or forest · 373 ha · 24.5 km of path
DirectionsParc de la ServePark or garden · 11 ha · 2.1 km of path
DirectionsParc du Château de DinoPark or garden · 3.7 ha · 1.1 km of path
DirectionsParc de la MairiePark or garden · 2.2 ha · 0.9 km of path
DirectionsParc de VillemessantPark or garden · 1.3 ha · 1 km of path · just outside
DirectionsParc Winston ChurchillPark or garden · 1.1 ha · 0.6 km of path · just outside
DirectionsLes Sources de MontmorencyPark or garden · 0.8 ha · 0.5 km of path
DirectionsLa ChâtaigneraiePark or garden · 1.2 ha · 0.3 km of path
DirectionsSquare Jean MermozPark or garden · 0.6 ha · 0.6 km of path · just outside
DirectionsParc de la ChevrettePark or garden · 0.9 ha · 0.3 km of path · just outside
DirectionsJardin Lucie AubracPark or garden · 0.2 ha · 0.1 km of path
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis is the nearest protected area, 4.5 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis
4.5 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 Montmorency
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
20 km
3.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
10 km
waymarked: 1.9 km per km²
Woodland
20%
about 1.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MontmorencyVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Footpaths3.8
Hiking routes1.9
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MontmorencyVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Woodland20%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 83% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 63% 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 Montmorency is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR de PaysPR (local walk)Other named walk
GRP de la Ceinture Verte, étape 12 : La Forêt de Montmorency9.6 km
PR 11.2 km
PR 60.4 km
Sentier des Lisières12 km
Les Parcs (Circuit Sud)1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Montmorency: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Bourget, 8.3 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 Montmorency →
Neighbors
Next to Montmorency
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Soisy-sous-MontmorencyAndillyDeuil-la-BarreGroslayEnghien-les-BainsMargencyMontmorency
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montmorency | 0% | 20% | 3.8 |
| Soisy-sous-Montmorency 18,008 · 1.6 km | 0% | 5% | 2.6 |
| Andilly 2,742 · 2 km | 0% | 53% | 7.1 |
| Deuil-la-Barre 23,099 · 2.2 km | 0% | 6.1% | 4.6 |
| Groslay 8,453 · 2.3 km | 0% | 15% | 4.3 |
| Enghien-les-Bains 11,432 · 2.5 km | 0% | 0% | 5.4 |
| Margency 3,012 · 2.6 km | 0% | 0.9% | 7.4 |
Andilly is 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 Montmorency
Is Montmorency in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis, 4.5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Montmorency?
OpenStreetMap maps 20 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 10 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Montmorency is woodland?
20% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Montmorency near the sea?
No: the coast is 136 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Montmorency?
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 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.