First pick
La réserve écologique
Park or garden · 330 m outside the commune
1.3 ha0.4 km of path
1.2 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Clicsouris · CC BY-SA 3.00.7%woodland
Outdoors in Saint-Gratien · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Saint-Gratien has more footpaths per km² than 9 in 10 French towns
16 km of footpaths cross Saint-Gratien (6 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 0.7% of Saint-Gratien. No protected area reaches Saint-Gratien; the nearest, Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis (Natura 2000), is 1.8 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: Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis, 1.8 km
Woodland
0.7%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
16 km
6 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
6
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: La réserve écologique
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 Saint-Gratien?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths6 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Protected land nearbySites de Seine-Saint-Denis (Natura 2000) is 1.8 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0.7% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Saint-Gratien apart: its footpaths, then protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Saint-Gratien 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
Woodland0.7%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
5out of 100
Footpaths6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
94out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Gratien has the 6th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (20,690 to 22,020 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sceaux (11.7 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 | Sceaux Hauts-de-Seine | 11.7 | 17% | 0% | 154 km |
| 2 | La Madeleine Nord | 8.6 | 0.6% | 0% | 61 km |
| 3 | Fontaine Isère | 8.1 | 37% | 39% | 204 km |
| 4 | Mons-en-Barœul Nord | 7.5 | 2% | 0% | 63 km |
| 5 | Saint-Cyr-l'École Yvelines | 6.3 | 7.8% | 0% | 143 km |
| 6 | Saint-Gratien Val-d'Oise | 6 | 0.7% | 0% | 137 km |
| 7 | Longjumeau Essonne | 5.9 | 4.2% | 0% | 163 km |
| 8 | Carrières-sous-Poissy Yvelines | 5.3 | 5.6% | 0% | 129 km |
| 9 | Saint-Michel-sur-Orge Essonne | 5.3 | 6.7% | 0% | 168 km |
| 10 | Coudekerque-Branche Nord | 5.1 | 14% | 0% | 2.2 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 | La Chapelle-sur-Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 3.8 | 20% | 1.9% | 43 km |
| 19 | Gardanne Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.8 | 38% | 0% | 16 km |
| 20 | Lingolsheim Bas-Rhin | 3.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 450 km |
| 21 | Ozoir-la-Ferrière Seine-et-Marne | 3.6 | 44% | 0% | 172 km |
| 22 | Neuilly-Plaisance Seine-Saint-Denis | 3.6 | 14% | 14% | 156 km |
| 23 | Le Plessis-Trévise Val-de-Marne | 3.4 | 9.3% | 0% | 163 km |
| 24 | Allauch Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 28% | 65% | 9.7 km |
| 25 | Nogent-sur-Oise Oise | 3.3 | 19% | 0% | 115 km |
| 26 | Voiron Isère | 3.3 | 28% | 0% | 220 km |
| 27 | Wasquehal Nord | 3.1 | 4.7% | 0% | 60 km |
| 28 | Bourg-la-Reine Hauts-de-Seine | 3.1 | 0% | 0% | 155 km |
| 29 | Mandelieu-la-Napoule Alpes-Maritimes | 2.9 | 48% | 0.1% | On it |
| 30 | Concarneau Finistère | 2.8 | 13% | 0.3% | On it |
| 31 | Plaisance-du-Touch Haute-Garonne | 2.7 | 7.9% | 2.1% | 156 km |
| 32 | Chaumont Haute-Marne | 2.6 | 52% | 0.3% | 342 km |
| 33 | Villeneuve-le-Roi Val-de-Marne | 2.6 | 0.9% | 0% | 164 km |
| 34 | Saint-Genis-Laval Rhône | 2.6 | 6% | 0% | 244 km |
| 35 | Halluin Nord | 2.5 | 4.8% | 0% | 50 km |
| 36 | Carquefou Loire-Atlantique | 2.5 | 14% | 5% | 47 km |
| 37 | Hazebrouck Nord | 1.7 | 0.7% | 0% | 37 km |
| 38 | Givors Rhône | 1.7 | 27% | 0.2% | 232 km |
| 39 | Montaigu-Vendée Vendée | 1.2 | 7.4% | 0% | 51 km |
| 40 | Saint-Mandé Val-de-Marne | 1 | 0% | 0% | 154 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 Saint-Gratien
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: La réserve écologique leads, at 1.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Presqu'ile aux Fleurs
Park or garden · 40 m outside the commune
0.4 ha0.3 km of path
0.9 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Place Gambetta
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Saint-Gratien
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin de la Villa du Lac
Park or garden · 280 m outside the commune
0.2 ha0.3 km of path
1.6 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © 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, 1.8 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
1.8 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 Saint-Gratien
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
16 km
6 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.7%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-GratienVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Footpaths6
Hiking routes0
03.57 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-GratienVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Woodland0.7%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 94% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less 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 Saint-Gratien is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
PR (local walk)Other named walk
PR 11.8 km
Les Parcs (Circuit Sud)1.2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saint-Gratien: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Bourget, 10 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 Saint-Gratien →
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Gratien
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Enghien-les-BainsÉpinay-sur-SeineSannoisSoisy-sous-MontmorencyEaubonneDeuil-la-BarreSaint-Gratien
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Gratien | 0% | 0.7% | 6 |
| Enghien-les-Bains 11,432 · 1.6 km | 0% | 0% | 5.4 |
| Épinay-sur-Seine 52,833 · 2.3 km | 0% | 0.8% | 6.3 |
| Sannois 26,924 · 2.4 km | 0% | 17% | 6 |
| Soisy-sous-Montmorency 18,008 · 2.7 km | 0% | 5% | 2.6 |
| Eaubonne 26,211 · 2.8 km | 0% | 1.9% | 5 |
| Deuil-la-Barre 23,099 · 3 km | 0% | 6.1% | 4.6 |
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 Saint-Gratien
Is Saint-Gratien in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis, 1.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Saint-Gratien?
OpenStreetMap maps 16 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Saint-Gratien is woodland?
0.7% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Gratien near the sea?
No: the coast is 137 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saint-Gratien?
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 8, 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.