First pick
Bois des Alluets
Wood or forest
1,587 ha34.4 km of path
7 h 40 minto walk all 34.4 km of path
5.2 km south-westfrom the center
Chemin des Clos MorinChemin RuralChemin des Genêts d'Albert+5 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: VVVCFFrance · CC026%woodland
Outdoors in Ecquevilly · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Ecquevilly is within 800 m of a park or wood
26% of Ecquevilly is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Ecquevilly; the nearest, Vexin Français Regional Nature Park, is 6.1 km from the town center. 16 km of footpaths cross Ecquevilly (1.4 km per km²). 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: Vexin Français Regional Nature Park, 6.1 km
Woodland
26%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
16 km
1.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.5 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 des Alluets
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.
Against French towns
How Ecquevilly 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
Woodland26%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
71out of 100
Footpaths1.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
43out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
54out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Ecquevilly has the 20th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,238 to 4,322 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Brives-Charensac (4.2 km per km²) to Terres-de-Caux (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brives-Charensac Haute-Loire | 4.2 | 17% | 0% | 166 km |
| 2 | Mimet Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.9 | 49% | 44% | 16 km |
| 3 | Leuville-sur-Orge Essonne | 3.8 | 15% | 0% | 166 km |
| 4 | Agneaux Manche | 3.5 | 10% | 0% | 25 km |
| 5 | Barbentane Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.1 | 36% | 8.1% | 50 km |
| 6 | Roquettes Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 4.1% | 4.3% | 147 km |
| 7 | Courseulles-sur-Mer Calvados | 2.7 | 1% | 0% | On it |
| 8 | Angoulins Charente-Maritime | 2.7 | 0.3% | 3.8% | On it |
| 9 | Pont-Péan Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.3 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 10 | Coignières Yvelines | 2.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 11 | La Norville Essonne | 2.2 | 4% | 0% | 168 km |
| 12 | Combrit Finistère | 2.2 | 20% | 3.3% | On it |
| 13 | Plomelin Finistère | 2.1 | 19% | 0% | On it |
| 14 | Châtenois Bas-Rhin | 2 | 33% | 0% | 458 km |
| 15 | Rouffach Haut-Rhin | 1.8 | 37% | 10% | 464 km |
| 16 | Lanvallay Côtes-d'Armor | 1.8 | 17% | 100% | 4.9 km |
| 17 | Is-sur-Tille Côte-d'Or | 1.6 | 41% | 0% | 388 km |
| 18 | Millery Rhône | 1.6 | 14% | 0% | 237 km |
| 19 | Désertines Allier | 1.5 | 20% | 0% | 281 km |
| 20 | Fleury Aude | 1.5 | 0.7% | 98% | On it |
| 21 | Tonnerre Yonne | 1.5 | 41% | 0% | 308 km |
| 22 | Ecquevilly Yvelines | 1.4 | 26% | 0% | 124 km |
| 23 | Vimy Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 16% | 0% | 80 km |
| 24 | Saint-Just-Malmont Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 47% | 0.3% | 199 km |
| 25 | Maîche Doubs | 1.3 | 31% | 100% | 389 km |
| 26 | Beauvallon Rhône | 1.3 | 18% | 0% | 231 km |
| 27 | Rognonas Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.2 | 0% | 13% | 50 km |
| 28 | Saint-Aubin-d'Aubigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 38 km |
| 29 | Rang-du-Fliers Pas-de-Calais | 0.6 | 23% | 13% | 4.7 km |
| 30 | Nozay Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.7% | 0% | 52 km |
| 31 | Cours Rhône | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 283 km |
| 32 | Bessières Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 9.9% | 2.4% | 145 km |
| 33 | Châteauneuf-sur-Isère Drôme | 0.6 | 6.5% | 2.1% | 173 km |
| 34 | Nanteuil-le-Haudouin Oise | 0.5 | 9.7% | 32% | 142 km |
| 35 | Friville-Escarbotin Somme | 0.5 | 2.1% | 100% | 7.2 km |
| 36 | Eyragues Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 43 km |
| 37 | Serémange-Erzange Moselle | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 307 km |
| 38 | Ussac Corrèze | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 167 km |
| 39 | Pontorson Manche | 0.4 | 0.4% | 6.2% | On it |
| 40 | Breteuil Eure | 0.3 | 31% | 0.2% | 78 km |
| 41 | Terres-de-Caux Seine-Maritime | 0.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 19 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 Ecquevilly
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois des Alluets leads, at 1,587 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc du Moulin de Sautour
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
20 ha3.5 km of path
45 minto walk all 3.5 km of path
2.5 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vexin Français Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 6.1 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
Vexin Français Regional Nature Park
6.1 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
16 km of footpaths cross Ecquevilly
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
16 km
1.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.5 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
26%
about 2.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
EcquevillyYvelines medianFrance median
Footpaths1.4
Hiking routes0.4
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
EcquevillyYvelines medianFrance median
Woodland26%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 57% 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 Ecquevilly is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 2613 km
GR 26 passes within 2 km of Ecquevilly.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Ecquevilly: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Maule, 6.9 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 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 50 | 51 | 47 | 65 | 56 | 53 | 53 | 46 | 65 | 61 | 73 |
September is the driest month (46 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 73 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 52 nights a year. The climate in Ecquevilly →
Neighbors
Next to Ecquevilly
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MorainvilliersLes MureauxVerneuil-sur-SeineVernouilletOrgevalAubergenvilleEcquevilly
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecquevilly | 0% | 26% | 1.4 |
| Morainvilliers 3,120 · 2.7 km | 0% | 32% | 2.4 |
| Les Mureaux 34,632 · 4 km | 0% | 16% | 4.7 |
| Verneuil-sur-Seine 16,280 · 4.8 km | 0% | 24% | 5.4 |
| Vernouillet 9,699 · 4.9 km | 0% | 19% | 3.5 |
| Orgeval 7,252 · 4.9 km | 0% | 27% | 1.1 |
| Aubergenville 12,723 · 5.1 km | 0% | 9.1% | 2.4 |
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 Ecquevilly
Is Ecquevilly in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vexin Français Regional Nature Park, 6.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Ecquevilly?
OpenStreetMap maps 16 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Ecquevilly is woodland?
26% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Ecquevilly near the sea?
No: the coast is 124 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Ecquevilly?
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.