Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: GFreihalter · CC BY-SA 4.0100% of Viarmes’ land lies in protected areas. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 8 km in Viarmes. 31% of Viarmes is mapped woodland. 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 Viarmes apart: the regional nature park around it, then its hiking routes.
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 (5,487 to 5,623 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Rungis (6.2 km per km²) to Ludon-Médoc (0.2 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rungis Val-de-Marne | 6.2 | 3.6% | 0% | 159 km |
| 2 | Le Port-Marly Yvelines | 5.9 | 13% | 0% | 138 km |
| 3 | Saint-Martin-d'Uriage Isère | 3.8 | 65% | 9.9% | 197 km |
| 4 | Nouzonville Ardennes | 3 | 67% | 100% | 203 km |
| 5 | La Ville-aux-Dames Indre-et-Loire | 2.9 | 19% | 13% | 189 km |
| 6 | Chevreuse Yvelines | 2.9 | 50% | 100% | 147 km |
| 7 | Ternay Rhône | 2.7 | 18% | 0% | 234 km |
| 8 | Lardy Essonne | 2.7 | 46% | 0.1% | 173 km |
| 9 | Coublevie Isère | 2.7 | 18% | 73% | 220 km |
| 10 | Liverdun Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.6 | 72% | 0.1% | 355 km |
| 11 | Penmarch Finistère | 2.5 | 0% | 18% | On it |
| 12 | Beaurains Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 1.1% | 0% | 79 km |
| 13 | Saint-Sébastien-de-Morsent Eure | 2.2 | 35% | 0% | 71 km |
| 14 | Aussillon Tarn | 2 | 41% | 100% | 75 km |
| 15 | Le Boulou Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 19% | 7.4% | 18 km |
| 16 | Delle Territoire de Belfort | 1.8 | 32% | 20% | 416 km |
| 17 | Baisieux Nord | 1.8 | 2.5% | 0% | 70 km |
| 18 | Saint-Gilles Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 6.4% | 0% | 40 km |
| 19 | Nogent-sur-Seine Aube | 1.6 | 18% | 2.5% | 230 km |
| 20 | Wormhout Nord | 1.5 | 0.3% | 0% | 19 km |
| 21 | Ille-sur-Têt Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.4 | 7.9% | 0.1% | 34 km |
| 22 | Pollestres Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.3 | 0.9% | 0% | 14 km |
| 23 | Genay Rhône | 1.2 | 9% | 0% | 266 km |
| 24 | Ambazac Haute-Vienne | 1.2 | 50% | 8.1% | 177 km |
| 25 | Grans Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.2 | 13% | 43% | 22 km |
| 26 | Viarmes Val-d'Oise | 1.1 | 31% | 100% | 126 km |
| 27 | Quincy-Voisins Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 30% | 0% | 166 km |
| 28 | Neuville-de-Poitou Vienne | 1 | 0.3% | 26% | 114 km |
| 29 | Sauvian Hérault | 1 | 0.4% | 0.3% | 6 km |
| 30 | Les Achards Vendée | 0.9 | 4.6% | 0% | 15 km |
| 31 | La Gorgue Nord | 0.8 | 0.8% | 0% | 51 km |
| 32 | Bohain-en-Vermandois Aisne | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 129 km |
| 33 | Gannat Allier | 0.8 | 13% | 0% | 290 km |
| 34 | Carbonne Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 9.8% | 7.6% | 153 km |
| 35 | Chazelles-sur-Lyon Loire | 0.6 | 13% | 0% | 232 km |
| 36 | Roquemaure Gard | 0.3 | 12% | 13% | 66 km |
| 37 | Cloyes-les-Trois-Rivières Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 16% | 1.8% | 173 km |
| 38 | Ernée Mayenne | 0.3 | 1.4% | 0.1% | 48 km |
| 39 | Servian Hérault | 0.3 | 7.4% | 0% | 17 km |
| 40 | La Garnache Vendée | 0.2 | 9.8% | 0% | 18 km |
| 41 | Ludon-Médoc Gironde | 0.2 | 5.6% | 100% | 3.7 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 Viarmes’ land is protected, more than in 99% 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 less than in 66% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 78% 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 Viarmes is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 1A passes within 2 km of Viarmes.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Bourget, 18 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 | 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 Viarmes →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viarmes | 100% | 31% | 1.1 |
| Asnières-sur-Oise 3,127 · 1.2 km | 100% | 51% | 3.1 |
| Saint-Martin-du-Tertre 2,689 · 3.1 km | 100% | 57% | 3.4 |
| Luzarches 5,008 · 3.8 km | 100% | 47% | 2.6 |
| Chaumontel 3,332 · 4.2 km | 100% | 36% | 3.9 |
| Bruyères-sur-Oise 4,921 · 4.4 km | 0.2% | 3.1% | 1 |
| Lamorlaye 9,082 · 5.4 km | 100% | 42% | 2.5 |
Asnières-sur-Oise, Saint-Martin-du-Tertre and Luzarches are more wooded.
Yes: Viarmes lies in Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
OpenStreetMap maps 9 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
31% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 126 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.