Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Benjism89 · CC BY-SA 3.046 km of footpaths cross Valenton (8.7 km per km²). No protected area reaches Valenton; the nearest, Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis (Natura 2000), is 12 km from the town center. 6.6% of Valenton is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Val-de-Marne median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
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 (14,055 to 14,771 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Maurice (8.8 km per km²) to Castelsarrasin (0.3 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Maurice Val-de-Marne | 8.8 | 9.4% | 0% | 157 km |
| 2 | Valenton Val-de-Marne | 8.7 | 6.6% | 0% | 164 km |
| 3 | Villers-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 8.4 | 48% | 0% | 365 km |
| 4 | Laxou Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.9 | 74% | 0% | 364 km |
| 5 | Billère Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 6.7 | 4.2% | 9.2% | 93 km |
| 6 | Chenôve Côte-d'Or | 6.5 | 10% | 17% | 403 km |
| 7 | Audincourt Doubs | 5.3 | 36% | 0% | 414 km |
| 8 | Auray Morbihan | 5 | 8.3% | 100% | On it |
| 9 | Dinan Côtes-d'Armor | 4.7 | 17% | 100% | 5.6 km |
| 10 | Montesson Yvelines | 4.7 | 2.3% | 0% | 136 km |
| 11 | Saint-Genis-Pouilly Ain | 4.5 | 17% | 0.3% | 298 km |
| 12 | Juvignac Hérault | 4.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 14 km |
| 13 | Canteleu Seine-Maritime | 3.7 | 64% | 100% | 49 km |
| 14 | Bar-le-Duc Meuse | 3.7 | 55% | 0% | 297 km |
| 15 | Douarnenez Finistère | 3.3 | 16% | 3.8% | On it |
| 16 | Saint-Orens-de-Gameville Haute-Garonne | 3.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 138 km |
| 17 | Bois-Guillaume Seine-Maritime | 3 | 3.8% | 0% | 50 km |
| 18 | Montataire Oise | 2.9 | 11% | 0.1% | 116 km |
| 19 | Ollioules Var | 2.9 | 23% | 14% | On it |
| 20 | Plérin Côtes-d'Armor | 2.9 | 14% | 1.8% | On it |
| 21 | Rixheim Haut-Rhin | 2.8 | 41% | 23% | 441 km |
| 22 | Pontivy Morbihan | 2.8 | 14% | 0% | 36 km |
| 23 | L'Étang-Salé Réunion | 2.6 | 52% | 39% | On it |
| 24 | Persan Val-d'Oise | 2.5 | 0.3% | 0.1% | 120 km |
| 25 | Saint-Avold Moselle | 2.5 | 53% | 2.9% | 356 km |
| 26 | Roncq Nord | 2.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 53 km |
| 27 | Sainte-Maxime Var | 2.1 | 65% | 19% | On it |
| 28 | Morangis Essonne | 2.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 163 km |
| 29 | Crépy-en-Valois Oise | 2 | 16% | 0% | 137 km |
| 30 | Pont-à-Mousson Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.8 | 31% | 0.4% | 341 km |
| 31 | Flers Orne | 1.6 | 2.5% | 0% | 59 km |
| 32 | Hautmont Nord | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 130 km |
| 33 | Saint-Brevin-les-Pins Loire-Atlantique | 1.6 | 7.3% | 25% | On it |
| 34 | Saint-Paul-lès-Dax Landes | 1.6 | 62% | 5.3% | 29 km |
| 35 | Saint-Omer Pas-de-Calais | 1.6 | 2.8% | 100% | 28 km |
| 36 | Fontenay-le-Comte Vendée | 1.1 | 2% | 100% | 31 km |
| 37 | Le Raincy Seine-Saint-Denis | 0.8 | 0% | 0.1% | 153 km |
| 38 | Bailleul Nord | 0.7 | 0.9% | 0% | 42 km |
| 39 | Saint-Martin-de-Crau Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.4 | 3.6% | 91% | 21 km |
| 40 | Saint-Gilles Gard | 0.4 | 2.5% | 18% | 25 km |
| 41 | Castelsarrasin Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 5.6% | 6.8% | 173 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: Parc Interdépartemental des Sports - Plaine Sud leads, at 101 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 98% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 71% 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 Valenton is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 2 passes within 2 km of Valenton.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Limeil, 1.8 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 | 15.2 | 16.1 | 15.8 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 27 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 50 | 46 | 46 | 48 | 67 | 56 | 55 | 60 | 49 | 56 | 57 | 66 |
February is the driest month (46 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 67 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Valenton →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valenton | 0% | 6.6% | 8.7 |
| Villeneuve-Saint-Georges 36,221 · 1.1 km | 0% | 4.3% | 6.6 |
| Limeil-Brévannes 27,406 · 1.8 km | 0% | 29% | 4.8 |
| Bonneuil-sur-Marne 18,270 · 2.8 km | 0% | 3.6% | 5.8 |
| Crosne 9,610 · 3.4 km | 0% | 12% | 5.8 |
| Villeneuve-le-Roi 21,000 · 3.4 km | 0% | 0.9% | 2.6 |
| Boissy-Saint-Léger 17,325 · 3.6 km | 0% | 50% | 4.4 |
Limeil-Brévannes and Boissy-Saint-Léger are more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis, 12 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 46 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 8.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
6.6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 164 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
April and June 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.