Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: P.poschadel · CC BY-SA 2.0 fr100% of Presles’ land lies in protected areas. 47% of Presles is mapped woodland. 32 km of footpaths cross Presles (3.1 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.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Presles apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
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 (3,995 to 4,039 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vaux-sur-Mer (5.3 km per km²) to Sévérac d'Aveyron (0.2 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vaux-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 5.3 | 10% | 0.2% | On it |
| 2 | Montsoult Val-d'Oise | 4.5 | 42% | 0.9% | 129 km |
| 3 | Montmélian Savoie | 4.3 | 47% | 100% | 222 km |
| 4 | Saint-Vallier Drôme | 3.8 | 32% | 0% | 189 km |
| 5 | La Châtre Indre | 3.7 | 6.5% | 0% | 239 km |
| 6 | Port-Vendres Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.2 | 0.8% | 18% | On it |
| 7 | Presles Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 47% | 100% | 124 km |
| 8 | Neuville-Saint-Rémy Nord | 3 | 4% | 0% | 109 km |
| 9 | Le Coudray Eure-et-Loir | 3 | 2.6% | 0% | 140 km |
| 10 | Limonest Rhône | 3 | 30% | 0% | 258 km |
| 11 | Vaulnaveys-le-Haut Isère | 2.2 | 67% | 0% | 195 km |
| 12 | Erdeven Morbihan | 2.1 | 14% | 22% | On it |
| 13 | La Rochefoucauld-en-Angoumois Charente | 1.6 | 39% | 16% | 95 km |
| 14 | Pont-Scorff Morbihan | 1.5 | 23% | 3.8% | On it |
| 15 | Rives-en-Seine Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 42% | 100% | 28 km |
| 16 | Avesnes-sur-Helpe Nord | 1.4 | 1.7% | 100% | 142 km |
| 17 | Le Plessis-Belleville Oise | 1.4 | 1.5% | 0.1% | 143 km |
| 18 | Duclair Seine-Maritime | 1.3 | 8.1% | 100% | 37 km |
| 19 | Cinq-Mars-la-Pile Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 28% | 14% | 167 km |
| 20 | Salernes Var | 1.2 | 68% | 26% | 42 km |
| 21 | Nogent-le-Roi Eure-et-Loir | 1.1 | 10% | 0.1% | 123 km |
| 22 | Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu Loire-Atlantique | 1.1 | 30% | 19% | 29 km |
| 23 | Cordemais Loire-Atlantique | 1 | 7.6% | 24% | 24 km |
| 24 | Propriano Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 19% | 3.7% | On it |
| 25 | Masny Nord | 0.9 | 4% | 0% | 95 km |
| 26 | Bresles Oise | 0.8 | 19% | 0% | 95 km |
| 27 | Bourg-Achard Eure | 0.7 | 5.5% | 0% | 34 km |
| 28 | Savigné-l'Évêque Sarthe | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 137 km |
| 29 | Gravigny Eure | 0.7 | 47% | 0% | 73 km |
| 30 | Raimbeaucourt Nord | 0.7 | 16% | 99% | 83 km |
| 31 | La Haye Manche | 0.7 | 3.6% | 51% | On it |
| 32 | Hochfelden Bas-Rhin | 0.7 | 6.8% | 0% | 428 km |
| 33 | Fay-de-Bretagne Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 9.9% | 0% | 31 km |
| 34 | La Chapelle-de-Guinchay Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 5.5% | 5.6% | 300 km |
| 35 | Paulhan Hérault | 0.5 | 1% | 0% | 23 km |
| 36 | Les Villages Vovéens Eure-et-Loir | 0.4 | 7.4% | 5% | 159 km |
| 37 | Bressols Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 3% | 0.6% | 173 km |
| 38 | Layrac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 21% | 0.9% | 139 km |
| 39 | Grand Bourgtheroulde Eure | 0.3 | 4.2% | 0% | 40 km |
| 40 | Beauvoir-sur-Mer Vendée | 0.3 | 0.3% | 83% | On it |
| 41 | Sévérac d'Aveyron Aveyron | 0.2 | 24% | 100% | 114 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 Carnelle leads, at 1,452 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.
100% of Presles’ land is protected, more than in 94% 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.
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 75% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 90% 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 Presles is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 1A passes within 2 km of Presles.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pontoise -Ville, 17 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 Presles →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presles | 100% | 47% | 3.1 |
| Beaumont-sur-Oise 10,232 · 3.2 km | 35% | 26% | 2.4 |
| Saint-Martin-du-Tertre 2,689 · 4.2 km | 100% | 57% | 3.4 |
| Persan 14,359 · 4.4 km | 0.1% | 0.3% | 2.5 |
| Champagne-sur-Oise 5,036 · 4.7 km | 54% | 33% | 1.8 |
| L'Isle-Adam 12,493 · 4.8 km | 0.2% | 60% | 5.2 |
| Montsoult 4,023 · 5.2 km | 0.9% | 42% | 4.5 |
Yes: Presles lies in Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
OpenStreetMap maps 32 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); 5 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
47% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 124 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 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.