First pick
Bois de Chatonville
Wood or forest · 280 m outside the commune
11 ha
4.9 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Lionel Allorge · CC BY-SA 3.08.6%woodland
Outdoors in Ablis · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Ablis is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 14 km across Ablis (0.5 km per km²). No protected area reaches Ablis; the nearest, Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park, is 3.7 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 8.6% of Ablis. 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: Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park, 3.7 km
Woodland
8.6%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
14 km
0.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.7 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Chatonville
Throughout this page, the Yvelines 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 Ablis?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyHaute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park is 3.7 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.5 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Ablis apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Ablis 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
47out of 100
Woodland8.6%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
36out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
15out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
30out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Ablis has the 6th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,878 to 3,945 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Coye-la-Forêt (6.4 km per km²) to Arvert (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coye-la-Forêt Oise | 6.4 | 60% | 100% | 129 km |
| 2 | La Rochette Seine-et-Marne | 3.6 | 67% | 56% | 193 km |
| 3 | Pagny-sur-Moselle Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.4 | 41% | 100% | 333 km |
| 4 | Ferrières-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 3.3 | 45% | 0% | 168 km |
| 5 | Santeny Val-de-Marne | 3.2 | 51% | 0% | 171 km |
| 6 | Hussigny-Godbrange Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.5 | 62% | 0% | 282 km |
| 7 | Belz Morbihan | 2.4 | 25% | 13% | On it |
| 8 | Pont-de-Roide-Vermondans Doubs | 2.1 | 67% | 4.5% | 405 km |
| 9 | Montry Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 20% | 0% | 166 km |
| 10 | Mézières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 1.9 | 28% | 5.5% | 117 km |
| 11 | Lauris Vaucluse | 1.8 | 41% | 100% | 43 km |
| 12 | Richwiller Haut-Rhin | 1.7 | 25% | 0% | 444 km |
| 13 | Nouvoitou Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 1.6% | 0% | 60 km |
| 14 | Châteaubernard Charente | 1.5 | 1.2% | 1.6% | 44 km |
| 15 | Lexy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.4 | 18% | 0% | 275 km |
| 16 | Oudon Loire-Atlantique | 1.3 | 17% | 27% | 63 km |
| 17 | Aix-Noulette Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 16% | 0% | 73 km |
| 18 | Touques Calvados | 1.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 2.8 km |
| 19 | Saint-Germain-sur-Morin Seine-et-Marne | 1.3 | 15% | 0% | 167 km |
| 20 | Folschviller Moselle | 1.2 | 22% | 0% | 357 km |
| 21 | Mortagne-au-Perche Orne | 1.2 | 6.1% | 100% | 98 km |
| 22 | Boissise-le-Roi Seine-et-Marne | 1.2 | 10% | 100% | 190 km |
| 23 | Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon Essonne | 1.1 | 28% | 0% | 167 km |
| 24 | Pierrevert Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.1 | 36% | 100% | 61 km |
| 25 | Tinténiac Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 3.9% | 2.2% | 22 km |
| 26 | Verberie Oise | 1 | 20% | 8.1% | 123 km |
| 27 | Saint-Chef Isère | 1 | 24% | 12% | 246 km |
| 28 | Tavaux Jura | 0.9 | 10% | 0% | 398 km |
| 29 | Saint-Martin-en-Haut Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 236 km |
| 30 | Le Val-d'Ajol Vosges | 0.8 | 53% | 100% | 431 km |
| 31 | Fay-aux-Loges Loiret | 0.8 | 36% | 12% | 213 km |
| 32 | Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny Manche | 0.7 | 2.5% | 0.6% | 21 km |
| 33 | Blainville-sur-l'Eau Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 388 km |
| 34 | Grosseto-Prugna Corse-du-Sud | 0.6 | 59% | 0.2% | On it |
| 35 | Prunelli-di-Fiumorbo Haute-Corse | 0.5 | 36% | 100% | On it |
| 36 | Ablis Yvelines | 0.5 | 8.6% | 0% | 149 km |
| 37 | Lherm Haute-Garonne | 0.3 | 6.9% | 0% | 156 km |
| 38 | Moreuil Somme | 0.3 | 21% | 1.9% | 73 km |
| 39 | Val d'Anast Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 52 km |
| 40 | Suippes Marne | 0.2 | 24% | 0% | 237 km |
| 41 | Arvert Charente-Maritime | 0.2 | 5.8% | 31% | On it |
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 Ablis
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Chatonville leads, at 11 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de la Castaigne
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Ablis
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 3.7 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park
3.7 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.
A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
14 km of footpaths cross Ablis
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
14 km
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.7 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
8.6%
about 2.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AblisYvelines medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0.1
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AblisYvelines medianFrance median
Woodland8.6%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 85% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 64% 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 Ablis is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
PR829.4 km
Chemin de Trèves, Rambouillet - Chartres6.7 km
PR802.8 km
PR472.3 km
Circuit du Château de Pinceloup1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Ablis: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Sainville, 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) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.1 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 16 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 52 | 48 | 48 | 46 | 64 | 57 | 53 | 51 | 49 | 61 | 60 | 66 |
April is the driest month (46 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 66 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 54 nights a year. The climate in Ablis →
Neighbors
Next to Ablis
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Auneau-Bleury-Saint-SymphorienSaint-Arnoult-en-YvelinesGallardonDourdanRambouilletÉpernonAblis
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ablis | 0% | 8.6% | 0.5 |
| Auneau-Bleury-Saint-Symphorien 6,419 · 7.1 km | 1% | 12% | 0.3 |
| Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines 5,875 · 9.5 km | 0.1% | 50% | 3.7 |
| Gallardon 3,530 · 11 km | 0% | 8.3% | 0.5 |
| Dourdan 11,415 · 13 km | 0% | 58% | 2.8 |
| Rambouillet 27,724 · 14 km | 74% | 48% | 2.6 |
| Épernon 5,715 · 16 km | 0% | 16% | 2.4 |
Rambouillet has at least twice as much protected land. Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, Dourdan and Rambouillet are 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 Ablis
Is Ablis in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park, 3.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Ablis?
OpenStreetMap maps 14 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 3 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Ablis is woodland?
8.6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Ablis near the sea?
No: the coast is 149 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Ablis?
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 8, 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.