Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Moonik · CC BY-SA 3.013 km of footpaths cross Bougival (4.8 km per km²). Bougival has 4 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Bougival; the nearest, Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park, is 12 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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.
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.
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,975 to 9,292 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 Valréas (0.1 km per km²).
| 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 | Capbreton Landes | 5.9 | 58% | 11% | On it |
| 4 | Le Crès Hérault | 5.2 | 9.9% | 0% | 12 km |
| 5 | Poisy Haute-Savoie | 5 | 33% | 0% | 263 km |
| 6 | Bougival Yvelines | 4.8 | 20% | 0% | 140 km |
| 7 | Évian-les-Bains Haute-Savoie | 4.8 | 11% | 0% | 299 km |
| 8 | Ouistreham Calvados | 4.6 | 3.8% | 8.5% | On it |
| 9 | Tomblaine Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.3 | 2.9% | 0% | 368 km |
| 10 | Vert-Saint-Denis Seine-et-Marne | 3.9 | 23% | 0% | 187 km |
| 11 | Condé-sur-l'Escaut Nord | 3.5 | 44% | 99% | 98 km |
| 12 | Fontaine-lès-Dijon Côte-d'Or | 3.4 | 2.6% | 0% | 400 km |
| 13 | Hagondange Moselle | 3.1 | 11% | 0% | 317 km |
| 14 | Pibrac Haute-Garonne | 3 | 27% | 0% | 159 km |
| 15 | Quéven Morbihan | 2.9 | 26% | 5.9% | On it |
| 16 | Prévessin-Moëns Ain | 2.9 | 17% | 0% | 297 km |
| 17 | Chécy Loiret | 2.9 | 18% | 9.7% | 210 km |
| 18 | Escaudain Nord | 2.9 | 6.3% | 0.2% | 101 km |
| 19 | Breuillet Essonne | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 164 km |
| 20 | Dardilly Rhône | 2.8 | 20% | 0% | 256 km |
| 21 | Irigny Rhône | 2.8 | 13% | 0% | 242 km |
| 22 | Launaguet Haute-Garonne | 2.7 | 7.2% | 0% | 149 km |
| 23 | Lamorlaye Oise | 2.5 | 42% | 100% | 125 km |
| 24 | Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Drôme | 2.3 | 19% | 0% | 100 km |
| 25 | Morières-lès-Avignon Vaucluse | 2.1 | 4.7% | 0% | 54 km |
| 26 | Beuvry Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 14% | 0% | 61 km |
| 27 | Sarzeau Morbihan | 2 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 28 | Les Sorinières Loire-Atlantique | 2 | 9.8% | 0% | 37 km |
| 29 | Cornebarrieu Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 13% | 0% | 158 km |
| 30 | Scionzier Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 56% | 9.8% | 264 km |
| 31 | Paray-le-Monial Saône-et-Loire | 1.3 | 20% | 0% | 321 km |
| 32 | Varennes-Vauzelles Nièvre | 0.9 | 20% | 0% | 336 km |
| 33 | Joigny Yonne | 0.9 | 70% | 0% | 274 km |
| 34 | Veauche Loire | 0.9 | 1.5% | 3.3% | 223 km |
| 35 | Nogent-le-Rotrou Eure-et-Loir | 0.8 | 7.9% | 100% | 127 km |
| 36 | Ussel Corrèze | 0.7 | 38% | 0.1% | 235 km |
| 37 | Le Teich Gironde | 0.6 | 81% | 100% | On it |
| 38 | Rivesaltes Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 13 km |
| 39 | Grenade Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 9.5% | 14% | 165 km |
| 40 | La Fare-les-Oliviers Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.2 | 0.8% | 44% | 23 km |
| 41 | Valréas Vaucluse | 0.1 | 21% | 0% | 104 km |
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Domaine de Beauregard leads, at 111 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
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.
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.
That is more than in 90% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 62% 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 Bougival is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 2 passes within 2 km of Bougival.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bagatelle, 8 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 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 45 | 46 | 45 | 70 | 53 | 51 | 55 | 46 | 55 | 58 | 64 |
February is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 70 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 36 nights a year. The climate in Bougival →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bougival | 0% | 20% | 4.8 |
| Louveciennes 7,990 · 1.2 km | 0% | 31% | 3.3 |
| Croissy-sur-Seine 11,013 · 1.6 km | 0% | 2.5% | 3.3 |
| La Celle-Saint-Cloud 20,460 · 1.8 km | 0% | 29% | 6.6 |
| Le Port-Marly 5,559 · 2.5 km | 0% | 13% | 5.9 |
| Vaucresson 8,432 · 3 km | 0% | 11% | 5.6 |
| Marly-le-Roi 16,756 · 3.4 km | 0% | 37% | 7.6 |
Louveciennes and Marly-le-Roi are more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park, 12 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 13 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 4.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
20% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 140 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
April and June to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
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.