Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Clicsouris · CC BY-SA 3.0Footpaths add up to 41 km across Sarcelles (4.9 km per km²). No protected area reaches Sarcelles; the nearest, Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis (Natura 2000), is 3 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 6.9% of Sarcelles. 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 Sarcelles 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 (54,306 to 65,064 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 5e (12.9 km per km²) to Saint-André (0.6 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 5e Paris | 12.9 | 1% | 0% | 151 km |
| 2 | Marseille 10e Bouches-du-Rhône | 10.6 | 23% | 37% | 4 km |
| 3 | Maisons-Alfort Val-de-Marne | 10.3 | 2.1% | 0% | 158 km |
| 4 | Ivry-sur-Seine Val-de-Marne | 8.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 155 km |
| 5 | Clamart Hauts-de-Seine | 8.4 | 26% | 0% | 151 km |
| 6 | Pantin Seine-Saint-Denis | 8.3 | 1.9% | 0% | 148 km |
| 7 | Villeneuve-d'Ascq Nord | 7.6 | 8% | 2.3% | 65 km |
| 8 | Villejuif Val-de-Marne | 7.4 | 1% | 0% | 156 km |
| 9 | Bobigny Seine-Saint-Denis | 7.3 | 0.3% | 0% | 149 km |
| 10 | Antony Hauts-de-Seine | 6.2 | 4.8% | 0.6% | 157 km |
| 11 | Chambéry Savoie | 6 | 15% | 1.5% | 235 km |
| 12 | Paris 9e Paris | 5.1 | 0% | 0% | 147 km |
| 13 | Meaux Seine-et-Marne | 5.1 | 7.8% | 5.5% | 162 km |
| 14 | Marseille 3e Bouches-du-Rhône | 5.1 | 0% | 0% | 1.1 km |
| 15 | Chelles Seine-et-Marne | 5 | 9.3% | 0.8% | 158 km |
| 16 | Sarcelles Val-d'Oise | 4.9 | 6.9% | 0% | 139 km |
| 17 | Clichy Hauts-de-Seine | 4.6 | 0.6% | 0% | 143 km |
| 18 | Lorient Morbihan | 4.6 | 1.8% | 0.6% | On it |
| 19 | Le Blanc-Mesnil Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.6 | 2.1% | 0% | 147 km |
| 20 | Vannes Morbihan | 4.6 | 12% | 33% | On it |
| 21 | Neuilly-sur-Seine Hauts-de-Seine | 4.4 | 0.1% | 0% | 143 km |
| 22 | Marseille 14e Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.9 | 1.4% | 23% | 2.7 km |
| 23 | Bayonne Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.9 | 23% | 17% | 5.5 km |
| 24 | Troyes Aube | 3.7 | 1.2% | 0% | 272 km |
| 25 | Marseille 11e Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.3 | 43% | 42% | 7.5 km |
| 26 | Beauvais Oise | 3.3 | 12% | 0.1% | 87 km |
| 27 | Fréjus Var | 3.1 | 48% | 33% | On it |
| 28 | Corbeil-Essonnes Essonne | 3 | 5.5% | 0% | 178 km |
| 29 | Hyères Var | 3 | 25% | 83% | On it |
| 30 | La Seyne-sur-Mer Var | 2.9 | 21% | 15% | On it |
| 31 | Quimper Finistère | 2.9 | 25% | 0% | On it |
| 32 | Marseille 12e Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.7 | 6.8% | 0% | 5.2 km |
| 33 | Bourges Cher | 2.3 | 4.9% | 0.4% | 283 km |
| 34 | La Roche-sur-Yon Vendée | 2.2 | 7.5% | 0% | 30 km |
| 35 | Valence Drôme | 2.1 | 3.3% | 0% | 164 km |
| 36 | Niort Deux-Sèvres | 2 | 6.2% | 100% | 51 km |
| 37 | Cholet Maine-et-Loire | 1.7 | 4.1% | 0% | 84 km |
| 38 | Narbonne Aude | 1.2 | 11% | 63% | On it |
| 39 | Saint-Louis Réunion | 0.8 | 48% | 66% | On it |
| 40 | Montauban Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.8 | 5.4% | 1.3% | 175 km |
| 41 | Saint-André Réunion | 0.6 | 16% | 31% | On it |
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: Espace naturel régional de la Butte Pinson leads, at 83 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 90% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 70% 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 Sarcelles 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, 4 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 Sarcelles →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarcelles | 0% | 6.9% | 4.9 |
| Garges-lès-Gonesse 41,791 · 2 km | 0% | 8.7% | 4 |
| Groslay 8,453 · 2.1 km | 0% | 15% | 4.3 |
| Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt 15,063 · 2.2 km | 0% | 24% | 3.3 |
| Villiers-le-Bel 30,053 · 2.8 km | 0% | 5.1% | 7 |
| Arnouville 15,023 · 3 km | 0% | 4.6% | 1.6 |
| Montmagny 15,105 · 3 km | 0% | 25% | 4.4 |
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt and Montmagny are more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis, 3 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 41 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 4.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
6.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 139 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.