First pick
Bois de Saint-Bond
Wood or forest
8.3 ha1.8 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.8 km of path
Centralin the middle of Paron
Sentier Botanique
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: François GOGLINS · CC BY-SA 4.01.2%of the land protected
Outdoors in Paron · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Paron is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 26% of Paron. Paron has 7 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 21 km across Paron (2 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
1.2%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
26%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
21 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.1 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: Bois de Saint-Bond
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 Paron 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 areas1.2%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
56out of 100
Woodland26%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
71out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
58out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
71out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Paron has the 7th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,795 to 4,874 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Rosières-près-Troyes (4 km per km²) to Bonneval (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosières-près-Troyes Aube | 4 | 9.4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 2 | Phalempin Nord | 4 | 32% | 0% | 72 km |
| 3 | Ceyreste Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 42% | 49% | 2.9 km |
| 4 | La Turballe Loire-Atlantique | 2.7 | 13% | 24% | On it |
| 5 | Die Drôme | 2.4 | 60% | 100% | 150 km |
| 6 | Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Haut-Rhin | 2 | 76% | 100% | 450 km |
| 7 | Paron Yonne | 2 | 26% | 1.2% | 249 km |
| 8 | L'Horme Loire | 2 | 3.4% | 0% | 217 km |
| 9 | Plateau d'Hauteville Ain | 1.9 | 65% | 1.2% | 284 km |
| 10 | Robion Vaucluse | 1.8 | 24% | 100% | 48 km |
| 11 | Charly Rhône | 1.7 | 0.2% | 0% | 239 km |
| 12 | Rilhac-Rancon Haute-Vienne | 1.6 | 33% | 0% | 170 km |
| 13 | La Voulte-sur-Rhône Ardèche | 1.5 | 15% | 33% | 149 km |
| 14 | Bourgbarré Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 62 km |
| 15 | Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues Gard | 1.3 | 49% | 0% | 67 km |
| 16 | Montbazon Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 29% | 0% | 178 km |
| 17 | Le Coudray-Montceaux Essonne | 1.2 | 19% | 0% | 182 km |
| 18 | Cléon Seine-Maritime | 1.1 | 16% | 2% | 51 km |
| 19 | Blendecques Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 18% | 84% | 32 km |
| 20 | Pignans Var | 1 | 50% | 43% | 20 km |
| 21 | Desvres Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 56% | 100% | 18 km |
| 22 | Milizac-Guipronvel Finistère | 0.9 | 6.1% | 0% | 9.1 km |
| 23 | Cysoing Nord | 0.8 | 26% | 0% | 74 km |
| 24 | Tinchebray-Bocage Orne | 0.8 | 4.9% | 0% | 48 km |
| 25 | Fagnières Marne | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 235 km |
| 26 | Écommoy Sarthe | 0.5 | 28% | 0.2% | 151 km |
| 27 | La Côte-Saint-André Isère | 0.5 | 10% | 0% | 218 km |
| 28 | Cazères Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 4.1% | 11% | 162 km |
| 29 | Ruy-Montceau Isère | 0.4 | 21% | 12% | 240 km |
| 30 | Conches-en-Ouche Eure | 0.4 | 51% | 0% | 68 km |
| 31 | Billom Puy-de-Dôme | 0.4 | 7.1% | 100% | 247 km |
| 32 | Saint-Jean-de-Bournay Isère | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 229 km |
| 33 | Monnaie Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 197 km |
| 34 | Bornel Oise | 0.3 | 33% | 0.1% | 112 km |
| 35 | Vic-en-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 0.3 | 20% | 2.2% | 125 km |
| 36 | Saverdun Ariège | 0.2 | 13% | 0.7% | 123 km |
| 37 | Bazas Gironde | 0.2 | 30% | 2.9% | 69 km |
| 38 | Legé Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 33 km |
| 39 | Salbris Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 81% | 100% | 256 km |
| 40 | Vitry-en-Artois Pas-de-Calais | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 90 km |
| 41 | Bonneval Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 | 9.3% | 30% | 159 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 Paron
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Saint-Bond leads, at 8.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
1.2% of Paron 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
Pelouses à orchidées et habitats à chauve-souris des vallées de l’Yonne et de la Vanne
1.2% of the commune0.4 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area1.2%
Natura 2000 site1.2%
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.
1.2% of Paron’s land is protected, more than in 56% 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 7 km of hiking routes cross Paron
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
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.1 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
26%
about 2.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ParonYonne medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes0.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ParonYonne medianFrance median
Woodland26%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 58% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more 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 Paron is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
De Provins à Auxerre, Pont s/Yonne - Auxerre14 km
Promenade des Hauts Glaciers8.3 km
Balade des champs captants3.8 km
Circuit sud S3 km
Sur les Chemins de Traverse du Pays Grônois2.6 km
Boucle des Carrelottes - Sentier découverte en Zone Natura 20000.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Paron: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Sens, 3.5 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 | 15.2 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 27 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 48 | 46 | 53 | 60 | 52 | 56 | 48 | 51 | 63 | 56 | 62 |
March is the driest month (46 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 63 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 47 nights a year. The climate in Paron →
Neighbors
Next to Paron
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
SensSaint-ClémentPont-sur-YonneVilleneuve-sur-YonneVilleneuve-la-GuyardCourtenayParon
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paron | 1.2% | 26% | 2 |
| Sens 27,106 · 3.2 km | 0% | 4.6% | 3.1 |
| Saint-Clément 2,849 · 4.7 km | 0% | 1.9% | 0.8 |
| Pont-sur-Yonne 3,391 · 12 km | 0% | 20% | 0.6 |
| Villeneuve-sur-Yonne 5,135 · 12 km | 0% | 34% | 0.6 |
| Villeneuve-la-Guyard 3,455 · 22 km | 0.2% | 18% | 0.2 |
| Courtenay 3,772 · 23 km | 0% | 20% | 0 |
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 Paron
Is Paron in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 1.2% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Paron?
OpenStreetMap maps 21 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Paron is woodland?
26% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Paron near the sea?
No: the coast is 249 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Paron?
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.