First pick
Forêt communale de Branches
Wood or forest · 230 m outside the commune
65 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
3.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Lulucmy · CC BY-SA 4.02.7%of the land protected
Outdoors in Appoigny · protected areas, woods and footpaths
46% of Appoigny is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 21 km across Appoigny (1 km per km²). Protected areas cover 2.7% of Appoigny’s land. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 8 km in Appoigny. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
2.7%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
46%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
21 km
1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt communale de Branches
Throughout this page, the Yonne median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
Against French towns
How Appoigny compares with French towns
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.
Protected areas2.7%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
61out of 100
Woodland46%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
89out of 100
Footpaths1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
30out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
51out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Appoigny has the 20th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,088 to 3,141 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Étiolles (3.7 km per km²) to Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Étiolles Essonne | 3.7 | 72% | 0% | 175 km |
| 2 | Buhl Haut-Rhin | 3.7 | 74% | 100% | 461 km |
| 3 | Sérézin-du-Rhône Rhône | 3.5 | 20% | 0% | 237 km |
| 4 | Villers-Bocage Calvados | 3.1 | 7.7% | 0% | 29 km |
| 5 | Asnières-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 51% | 100% | 125 km |
| 6 | La Tranche-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.8 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Morainvilliers Yvelines | 2.4 | 32% | 0% | 127 km |
| 8 | Saint-Germain-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.3 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 9 | Beaumont Haute-Savoie | 2.2 | 40% | 48% | 280 km |
| 10 | Béthisy-Saint-Pierre Oise | 2.1 | 37% | 21% | 127 km |
| 11 | Custines Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2 | 38% | 0% | 355 km |
| 12 | La Sentinelle Nord | 1.9 | 3.3% | 0.5% | 104 km |
| 13 | Le Touvet Isère | 1.9 | 48% | 58% | 212 km |
| 14 | Éloyes Vosges | 1.8 | 59% | 0% | 428 km |
| 15 | Arbois Jura | 1.4 | 51% | 12% | 373 km |
| 16 | Plancoët Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 13% | 100% | 3.9 km |
| 17 | Besse-sur-Issole Var | 1.3 | 36% | 0.7% | 26 km |
| 18 | Moyenmoutier Vosges | 1.2 | 72% | 2.8% | 426 km |
| 19 | Saint-Genix-les-Villages Savoie | 1.2 | 33% | 4.4% | 247 km |
| 20 | Champcevinel Dordogne | 1.1 | 51% | 0% | 106 km |
| 21 | Le Plan-de-la-Tour Var | 1.1 | 40% | 0% | 7.3 km |
| 22 | Appoigny Yonne | 1 | 46% | 2.7% | 289 km |
| 23 | Vémars Val-d'Oise | 0.9 | 6.8% | 0% | 139 km |
| 24 | Arleux Nord | 0.9 | 7.5% | 0% | 99 km |
| 25 | Boussois Nord | 0.9 | 5.1% | 100% | 131 km |
| 26 | Saint-Thibéry Hérault | 0.8 | 6.2% | 0.2% | 12 km |
| 27 | Anor Nord | 0.8 | 37% | 100% | 162 km |
| 28 | Thézan-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.8 | 0.9% | 0% | 22 km |
| 29 | Colayrac-Saint-Cirq Lot-et-Garonne | 0.7 | 14% | 3.8% | 126 km |
| 30 | Soulac-sur-Mer Gironde | 0.7 | 23% | 100% | On it |
| 31 | Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal Seine-Maritime | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 54 km |
| 32 | Le Molay-Littry Calvados | 0.5 | 10% | 0.1% | 14 km |
| 33 | Montfrin Gard | 0.5 | 3.1% | 14% | 47 km |
| 34 | Valensole Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.4 | 44% | 100% | 75 km |
| 35 | Saint-Hippolyte Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 0% | 68% | 6.1 km |
| 36 | Maringues Puy-de-Dôme | 0.3 | 11% | 40% | 269 km |
| 37 | Merdrignac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 32% | 0% | 39 km |
| 38 | Lapalisse Allier | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 301 km |
| 39 | Dissay Vienne | 0.2 | 34% | 24% | 127 km |
| 40 | Lailly-en-Val Loiret | 0.1 | 52% | 60% | 210 km |
| 41 | Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure Charente | 0.1 | 23% | 0% | 103 km |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Appoigny
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt communale de Branches leads, at 65 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
2.7% of Appoigny lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Landes et tourbière du bois de la Biche
2.7% of the commune1.3 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area2.7%
Natura 2000 site2.7%
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.
2.7% of Appoigny’s land is protected, more than in 61% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Yonne has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
21 km of footpaths and 8 km of hiking routes cross Appoigny
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.
Footpaths
21 km
1 km per km²
Hiking routes
8 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
46%
about 10.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AppoignyYonne medianFrance median
Footpaths1
Hiking routes0.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AppoignyYonne medianFrance median
Woodland46%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 70% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 89% 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 Appoigny is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
De Provins à Auxerre, Pont s/Yonne - Auxerre15 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Appoigny: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Aillant, 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) | 8.8 | 10.2 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 27 | 23 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 63 | 55 | 54 | 57 | 67 | 55 | 55 | 57 | 58 | 70 | 68 | 71 |
March is the driest month (54 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 71 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 72 nights a year. The climate in Appoigny →
Neighbors
Next to Appoigny
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MonéteauSaint-Georges-sur-BaulcheAuxerreMigennesMontholonJoignyAppoigny
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Joigny is more wooded.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Appoigny
Is Appoigny in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 2.7% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Appoigny?
OpenStreetMap maps 21 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Appoigny is woodland?
46% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Appoigny near the sea?
No: the coast is 289 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Appoigny?
April to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
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.