Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: CVB · CC BY 4.0Footpaths add up to 29 km across Sannois (6 km per km²). No protected area reaches Sannois; the nearest, Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis (Natura 2000), is 3.8 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 17% of Sannois. 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 Sannois apart: its footpaths, then protected land close by.
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 (25,789 to 28,046 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 4e (12.9 km per km²) to Sèvremoine (0.6 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 4e Paris | 12.9 | 0% | 0% | 150 km |
| 2 | Les Ulis Essonne | 10.9 | 13% | 0.2% | 156 km |
| 3 | Taverny Val-d'Oise | 10.5 | 33% | 0.4% | 129 km |
| 4 | Villeneuve-la-Garenne Hauts-de-Seine | 9.8 | 4.2% | 0% | 141 km |
| 5 | Champs-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 9.6 | 36% | 0.1% | 160 km |
| 6 | Grigny Essonne | 8.7 | 7.2% | 0% | 170 km |
| 7 | Élancourt Yvelines | 8.2 | 26% | 3.5% | 138 km |
| 8 | Cormeilles-en-Parisis Val-d'Oise | 7.2 | 14% | 0% | 133 km |
| 9 | Gradignan Gironde | 6.8 | 17% | 0% | 26 km |
| 10 | Yerres Essonne | 6.6 | 36% | 0% | 169 km |
| 11 | Sannois Val-d'Oise | 6 | 17% | 0% | 135 km |
| 12 | Bussy-Saint-Georges Seine-et-Marne | 5.9 | 31% | 2.3% | 167 km |
| 13 | Armentières Nord | 5.9 | 3.8% | 0% | 50 km |
| 14 | Sucy-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 5.7 | 31% | 0% | 165 km |
| 15 | Blagnac Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 5.4% | 7.5% | 152 km |
| 16 | Cenon Gironde | 5.4 | 8.9% | 0% | 18 km |
| 17 | Eaubonne Val-d'Oise | 5 | 1.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 18 | Limeil-Brévannes Val-de-Marne | 4.8 | 29% | 0% | 165 km |
| 19 | Lambersart Nord | 4.7 | 3.4% | 0% | 59 km |
| 20 | Castelnau-le-Lez Hérault | 4.6 | 4.5% | 1.2% | 11 km |
| 21 | Miramas Bouches-du-Rhône | 4 | 9.2% | 5.7% | 18 km |
| 22 | Illkirch-Graffenstaden Bas-Rhin | 3.9 | 30% | 26% | 454 km |
| 23 | La Garde Var | 3.8 | 7.6% | 25% | On it |
| 24 | Biarritz Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.5 | 11% | 3.5% | On it |
| 25 | Le Grand-Quevilly Seine-Maritime | 3.4 | 4.9% | 0.1% | 50 km |
| 26 | Vertou Loire-Atlantique | 3.1 | 19% | 0% | 41 km |
| 27 | Sens Yonne | 3.1 | 4.6% | 0% | 249 km |
| 28 | Brétigny-sur-Orge Essonne | 3 | 9.5% | 0% | 169 km |
| 29 | Soissons Aisne | 2.7 | 7.5% | 0% | 148 km |
| 30 | Aurillac Cantal | 2.7 | 2.9% | 0.2% | 195 km |
| 31 | Rambouillet Yvelines | 2.6 | 48% | 74% | 139 km |
| 32 | Lunel Hérault | 2.2 | 0.4% | 0.6% | 14 km |
| 33 | Gonesse Val-d'Oise | 2.1 | 4% | 0% | 141 km |
| 34 | Villeparisis Seine-et-Marne | 1.9 | 13% | 0% | 153 km |
| 35 | Les Pavillons-sous-Bois Seine-Saint-Denis | 1.9 | 0% | 0% | 151 km |
| 36 | Saumur Maine-et-Loire | 1.5 | 15% | 100% | 133 km |
| 37 | Muret Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 10% | 3.2% | 150 km |
| 38 | La Teste-de-Buch Gironde | 1.1 | 56% | 46% | On it |
| 39 | Étampes Essonne | 1 | 12% | 0% | 172 km |
| 40 | Bergerac Dordogne | 1 | 14% | 1.9% | 86 km |
| 41 | Sèvremoine Maine-et-Loire | 0.6 | 5.3% | 0% | 70 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 régionale de Cormeilles leads, at 274 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.
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 94% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 57% 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 Sannois is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Bourget, 13 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 Sannois →
Named gardens in the commune.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sannois | 0% | 17% | 6 |
| Ermont 29,489 · 1.8 km | 0% | 0% | 6.9 |
| Saint-Gratien 21,336 · 2.4 km | 0% | 0.7% | 6 |
| Franconville 37,754 · 2.6 km | 0% | 27% | 8.2 |
| Eaubonne 26,211 · 2.7 km | 0% | 1.9% | 5 |
| Argenteuil 106,130 · 2.9 km | 0% | 5.5% | 3.2 |
| Le Plessis-Bouchard 8,518 · 3.3 km | 0% | 1.2% | 5.8 |
Franconville is more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis, 3.8 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 29 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
17% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 135 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 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.