Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.0Footpaths add up to 110 km across Taverny (10.5 km per km²). 33% of Taverny is mapped woodland. Taverny has 8 km of waymarked hiking routes. 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 Taverny apart: its footpaths, 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 (26,227 to 29,003 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 Bergerac (1 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 4e Paris | 12.9 | 0% | 0% | 150 km |
| 2 | Lyon 1er Rhône | 11.3 | 1.1% | 0% | 253 km |
| 3 | Taverny Val-d'Oise | 10.5 | 33% | 0.4% | 129 km |
| 4 | Champs-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 9.6 | 36% | 0.1% | 160 km |
| 5 | Grigny Essonne | 8.7 | 7.2% | 0% | 170 km |
| 6 | Le Plessis-Robinson Hauts-de-Seine | 8.6 | 13% | 0% | 153 km |
| 7 | Élancourt Yvelines | 8.2 | 26% | 3.5% | 138 km |
| 8 | Vanves Hauts-de-Seine | 7.3 | 3.4% | 0% | 150 km |
| 9 | Cormeilles-en-Parisis Val-d'Oise | 7.2 | 14% | 0% | 133 km |
| 10 | Gradignan Gironde | 6.8 | 17% | 0% | 26 km |
| 11 | Yerres Essonne | 6.6 | 36% | 0% | 169 km |
| 12 | Sannois Val-d'Oise | 6 | 17% | 0% | 135 km |
| 13 | Bussy-Saint-Georges Seine-et-Marne | 5.9 | 31% | 2.3% | 167 km |
| 14 | Charenton-le-Pont Val-de-Marne | 5.9 | 0.7% | 0% | 155 km |
| 15 | Armentières Nord | 5.9 | 3.8% | 0% | 50 km |
| 16 | Sucy-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 5.7 | 31% | 0% | 165 km |
| 17 | Blagnac Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 5.4% | 7.5% | 152 km |
| 18 | Cenon Gironde | 5.4 | 8.9% | 0% | 18 km |
| 19 | Limeil-Brévannes Val-de-Marne | 4.8 | 29% | 0% | 165 km |
| 20 | Lambersart Nord | 4.7 | 3.4% | 0% | 59 km |
| 21 | Bois-Colombes Hauts-de-Seine | 4.6 | 0% | 0% | 141 km |
| 22 | Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 4.5 | 9.9% | 23% | 41 km |
| 23 | Orvault Loire-Atlantique | 3.9 | 17% | 0% | 37 km |
| 24 | Sotteville-lès-Rouen Seine-Maritime | 3.9 | 1.4% | 0% | 53 km |
| 25 | Illkirch-Graffenstaden Bas-Rhin | 3.9 | 30% | 26% | 454 km |
| 26 | La Garde Var | 3.8 | 7.6% | 25% | On it |
| 27 | Dieppe Seine-Maritime | 3.3 | 2.9% | 2.7% | On it |
| 28 | Vertou Loire-Atlantique | 3.1 | 19% | 0% | 41 km |
| 29 | Sens Yonne | 3.1 | 4.6% | 0% | 249 km |
| 30 | Brétigny-sur-Orge Essonne | 3 | 9.5% | 0% | 169 km |
| 31 | Montfermeil Seine-Saint-Denis | 2.9 | 8.2% | 5.5% | 155 km |
| 32 | Soissons Aisne | 2.7 | 7.5% | 0% | 148 km |
| 33 | Rambouillet Yvelines | 2.6 | 48% | 74% | 139 km |
| 34 | Maubeuge Nord | 2.6 | 2.2% | 0.1% | 129 km |
| 35 | Lunel Hérault | 2.2 | 0.4% | 0.6% | 14 km |
| 36 | Gonesse Val-d'Oise | 2.1 | 4% | 0% | 141 km |
| 37 | Villeparisis Seine-et-Marne | 1.9 | 13% | 0% | 153 km |
| 38 | Saumur Maine-et-Loire | 1.5 | 15% | 100% | 133 km |
| 39 | La Teste-de-Buch Gironde | 1.1 | 56% | 46% | On it |
| 40 | Étampes Essonne | 1 | 12% | 0% | 172 km |
| 41 | Bergerac Dordogne | 1 | 14% | 1.9% | 86 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 domaniale de Montmorency leads, at 1,619 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.
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 99% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 79% 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 Taverny 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 Pontoise -Ville, 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 | 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 Taverny →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taverny | 0.4% | 33% | 10.5 |
| Beauchamp 9,849 · 1.9 km | 0% | 12% | 4.2 |
| Bessancourt 8,869 · 2 km | 0% | 29% | 4.6 |
| Saint-Leu-la-Forêt 16,138 · 2.1 km | 0.5% | 36% | 8.5 |
| Le Plessis-Bouchard 8,518 · 2.7 km | 0% | 1.2% | 5.8 |
| Montigny-lès-Cormeilles 22,457 · 3.2 km | 0% | 17% | 7 |
| Frépillon 3,317 · 3.5 km | 0.2% | 19% | 4.3 |
No. The nearest protected area is Tourbière de la Cailleuse nature reserve, 3 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 110 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 10.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
33% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 129 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.