First pick
Forêt d'Othe
Wood or forest
10,669 ha73.5 km of path
16 h 20 minto walk all 73.5 km of path
13 km north-eastfrom the center
Chemin des ChariersChemin de la Ramée aux Étangs de Saint-AngeChemin du Chêne
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Mbzt · CC BY-SA 3.070%woodland
Outdoors in Joigny · protected areas, woods and footpaths
70% of Joigny is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
No protected area reaches Joigny; the nearest, Pelouses à orchidées et habitats à chauve-souris des vallées de l’Yonne et de la Vanne (Natura 2000), is 8.8 km from the town center. 42 km of footpaths cross Joigny (0.9 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 14 km in Joigny. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Pelouses à orchidées et habitats à chauve-souris des vallées de l’Yonne et de la Vanne, 8.8 km
Woodland
70%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
42 km
0.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt d'Othe
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Joigny?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune70% mapped woodland, more than in 98% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyPelouses à orchidées et habitats à chauve-souris des vallées de l’Yonne et de la Vanne (Natura 2000) is 8.8 km from the town center.
What sets Joigny apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Joigny 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 areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland70%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
98out of 100
Footpaths0.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
28out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
45out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Joigny has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,867 to 9,173 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Magny-le-Hongre (6.5 km per km²) to La Fare-les-Oliviers (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magny-le-Hongre Seine-et-Marne | 6.5 | 11% | 0% | 167 km |
| 2 | Grabels Hérault | 6.1 | 9.7% | 0% | 17 km |
| 3 | Les Angles Gard | 5.1 | 27% | 13% | 56 km |
| 4 | Bougival Yvelines | 4.8 | 20% | 0% | 140 km |
| 5 | Bessancourt Val-d'Oise | 4.6 | 29% | 0% | 127 km |
| 6 | Epagny Metz-Tessy Haute-Savoie | 4.4 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 7 | Tomblaine Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.3 | 2.9% | 0% | 368 km |
| 8 | Périgny Charente-Maritime | 4.1 | 3.4% | 0% | 4.1 km |
| 9 | Chartres-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.1 | 5.2% | 0% | 55 km |
| 10 | Quetigny Côte-d'Or | 4 | 0.7% | 0% | 406 km |
| 11 | Meulan-en-Yvelines Yvelines | 3.8 | 11% | 0.4% | 118 km |
| 12 | Gouvieux Oise | 3.5 | 43% | 100% | 122 km |
| 13 | Velaux Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 29% | 25% | 19 km |
| 14 | Longvic Côte-d'Or | 3.1 | 3.4% | 0% | 406 km |
| 15 | Pibrac Haute-Garonne | 3 | 27% | 0% | 159 km |
| 16 | Quéven Morbihan | 2.9 | 26% | 5.9% | On it |
| 17 | Prévessin-Moëns Ain | 2.9 | 17% | 0% | 297 km |
| 18 | Chécy Loiret | 2.9 | 18% | 9.7% | 210 km |
| 19 | Escaudain Nord | 2.9 | 6.3% | 0.2% | 101 km |
| 20 | Breuillet Essonne | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 164 km |
| 21 | Irigny Rhône | 2.8 | 13% | 0% | 242 km |
| 22 | Launaguet Haute-Garonne | 2.7 | 7.2% | 0% | 149 km |
| 23 | Bellerive-sur-Allier Allier | 2.7 | 23% | 2.2% | 289 km |
| 24 | Cébazat Puy-de-Dôme | 2.6 | 5.6% | 0% | 263 km |
| 25 | Lamorlaye Oise | 2.5 | 42% | 100% | 125 km |
| 26 | Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Drôme | 2.3 | 19% | 0% | 100 km |
| 27 | Boucau Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.2 | 26% | 5.8% | 3.1 km |
| 28 | Saint-Jean-de-Monts Vendée | 2.2 | 13% | 73% | On it |
| 29 | Morières-lès-Avignon Vaucluse | 2.1 | 4.7% | 0% | 54 km |
| 30 | Roquevaire Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.1 | 11% | 66% | 15 km |
| 31 | Cornebarrieu Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 13% | 0% | 158 km |
| 32 | Scionzier Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 56% | 9.8% | 264 km |
| 33 | Varennes-Vauzelles Nièvre | 0.9 | 20% | 0% | 336 km |
| 34 | Joigny Yonne | 0.9 | 70% | 0% | 274 km |
| 35 | Gonfreville-l'Orcher Seine-Maritime | 0.9 | 5.2% | 6.1% | On it |
| 36 | Veauche Loire | 0.9 | 1.5% | 3.3% | 223 km |
| 37 | Le Thor Vaucluse | 0.7 | 0.9% | 7.2% | 54 km |
| 38 | Nangis Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 10% | 0% | 205 km |
| 39 | Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue Vaucluse | 0.5 | 2% | 11% | 61 km |
| 40 | Grenade Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 9.5% | 14% | 165 km |
| 41 | La Fare-les-Oliviers Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.2 | 0.8% | 44% | 23 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 Joigny
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt d'Othe leads, at 10,669 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc du Chapeau
Park or garden
1.9 ha0.4 km of path
1 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Pelouses à orchidées et habitats à chauve-souris des vallées de l’Yonne et de la Vanne is the nearest protected area, 8.8 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Pelouses à orchidées et habitats à chauve-souris des vallées de l’Yonne et de la Vanne
8.8 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
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.
Footpaths and woods
42 km of footpaths and 14 km of hiking routes cross Joigny
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
42 km
0.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
70%
about 33.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
JoignyYonne medianFrance median
Footpaths0.9
Hiking routes0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
JoignyYonne medianFrance median
Woodland70%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 72% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 98% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 98% of Joigny’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
De Provins à Auxerre, Pont s/Yonne - Auxerre22 km
Autour de Dixmont, de hameaux en lieux-dits9.1 km
Autour de Dixmont, de la mine au prieuré de l'Enfourchure6.7 km
Circuit de la Résistance entre Les Bordes et Dixmont2.8 km
Circuit du Maquis Bourgogne autour de Dixmont2.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Joigny: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Aillant, 12 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 | 15.7 | 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 Joigny →
Neighbors
Next to Joigny
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MigennesMontholonVilleneuve-sur-YonneAppoignyBrienon-sur-ArmançonMonéteauJoigny
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joigny | 0% | 70% | 0.9 |
| Migennes 6,688 · 8.5 km | 0% | 8.7% | 0.9 |
| Montholon 2,709 · 11 km | 0% | 36% | 0.2 |
| Villeneuve-sur-Yonne 5,135 · 14 km | 0% | 34% | 0.6 |
| Appoigny 3,114 · 15 km | 2.7% | 46% | 1 |
| Brienon-sur-Armançon 3,032 · 16 km | 0% | 10% | 0.3 |
| Monéteau 4,114 · 20 km | 0% | 37% | 1.9 |
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 Joigny
Is Joigny in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Pelouses à orchidées et habitats à chauve-souris des vallées de l’Yonne et de la Vanne, 8.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Joigny?
OpenStreetMap maps 42 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 14 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Joigny is woodland?
70% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Joigny near the sea?
No: the coast is 274 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Joigny?
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.