Photo: Robin Chubret · CC BY-SA 4.0Almost every home in Brienon-sur-Armançon is within 800 m of a park or wood
8 km of footpaths cross Brienon-sur-Armançon (0.3 km per km²). No protected area reaches Brienon-sur-Armançon; the nearest, Landes et tourbière du bois de la Biche (Natura 2000), is 16 km from the town center. 10% of Brienon-sur-Armançon is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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.
How Brienon-sur-Armançon 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Brienon-sur-Armançon has the 5th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,000 to 3,062 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Margency (7.4 km per km²) to La Roche-Chalais (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Margency Val-d'Oise | 7.4 | 0.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 2 | Montlignon Val-d'Oise | 5.5 | 50% | 0% | 133 km |
| 3 | Albigny-sur-Saône Rhône | 4.8 | 25% | 0% | 263 km |
| 4 | Brax Haute-Garonne | 3.4 | 29% | 0% | 162 km |
| 5 | Feucherolles Yvelines | 3.2 | 33% | 0% | 133 km |
| 6 | La Turbie Alpes-Maritimes | 3.1 | 32% | 18% | 2 km |
| 7 | Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes Isère | 3 | 37% | 30% | 206 km |
| 8 | Pont-à-Vendin Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 13% | 0% | 72 km |
| 9 | Emmerin Nord | 2.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 64 km |
| 10 | Pont-à-Marcq Nord | 2.6 | 1% | 0% | 75 km |
| 11 | Drumettaz-Clarafond Savoie | 2.1 | 42% | 5% | 243 km |
| 12 | Gandrange Moselle | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 313 km |
| 13 | Courcelles-Chaussy Moselle | 1.9 | 37% | 0% | 340 km |
| 14 | Paimbœuf Loire-Atlantique | 1.9 | 0.6% | 70% | 10 km |
| 15 | Agon-Coutainville Manche | 1.7 | 1.1% | 15% | On it |
| 16 | Belleville-sur-Meuse Meuse | 1.6 | 42% | 39% | 288 km |
| 17 | Gruchet-le-Valasse Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 53% | 0% | 16 km |
| 18 | Retournac Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 55% | 85% | 184 km |
| 19 | Valmont Moselle | 1.2 | 28% | 0% | 357 km |
| 20 | Yenne Savoie | 1.2 | 35% | 19% | 252 km |
| 21 | Boën-sur-Lignon Loire | 1.2 | 12% | 4.3% | 243 km |
| 22 | Villeneuve-de-Berg Ardèche | 1.2 | 5.9% | 0% | 116 km |
| 23 | Aubusson Creuse | 1 | 42% | 0% | 235 km |
| 24 | Saint-Ouen Loir-et-Cher | 0.9 | 14% | 0% | 186 km |
| 25 | Gasny Eure | 0.8 | 35% | 9.7% | 98 km |
| 26 | Commelle-Vernay Loire | 0.7 | 6.3% | 34% | 271 km |
| 27 | Nontron Dordogne | 0.7 | 37% | 100% | 110 km |
| 28 | Port-Saint-Père Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 9.5% | 16% | 20 km |
| 29 | Breuillet Charente-Maritime | 0.7 | 20% | 13% | On it |
| 30 | Senonches Eure-et-Loir | 0.7 | 68% | 100% | 109 km |
| 31 | Pommeuse Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 19% | 0% | 179 km |
| 32 | Ailly-sur-Somme Somme | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 46 km |
| 33 | Lapeyrouse-Fossat Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 146 km |
| 34 | Murviel-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 35 | Boisseuil Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 166 km |
| 36 | Crouy Aisne | 0.3 | 23% | 0% | 148 km |
| 37 | Brienon-sur-Armançon Yonne | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | 281 km |
| 38 | Cintegabelle Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 1.4% | 128 km |
| 39 | Gémozac Charente-Maritime | 0.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 13 km |
| 40 | Montesquieu-Volvestre Haute-Garonne | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 151 km |
| 41 | La Roche-Chalais Dordogne | 0.1 | 56% | 6.7% | 50 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Landes et tourbière du bois de la Biche is the nearest protected area, 16 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Landes et tourbière du bois de la Biche
Share of the commune’s land
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.
8 km of footpaths cross Brienon-sur-Armançon
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 94% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 59% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 96% of Brienon-sur-Armançon’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Brienon-sur-Armançon: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Ligny-Le-Chatel, 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) | 8.8 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 63 | 57 | 56 | 64 | 74 | 59 | 60 | 62 | 61 | 75 | 70 | 74 |
March is the driest month (56 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 56 nights a year. The climate in Brienon-sur-Armançon →
Next to Brienon-sur-Armançon
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Appoigny, Joigny and Monéteau are more wooded.
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 Brienon-sur-Armançon
Is Brienon-sur-Armançon in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Landes et tourbière du bois de la Biche, 16 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Brienon-sur-Armançon?
OpenStreetMap maps 8 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Brienon-sur-Armançon is woodland?
10% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Brienon-sur-Armançon near the sea?
No: the coast is 281 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Brienon-sur-Armançon?
April and June 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 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.