First pick
Parc de loisirs de Porcheville
Park or garden · 10 m outside the commune
36 ha4.2 km of path
55 minto walk all 4.2 km of path
2.6 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Spedona · CC BY-SA 3.06.1%of the land protected
Outdoors in Limay · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Limay is within 800 m of a park or wood
Limay has 6 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 24 km across Limay (2.1 km per km²). Protected areas cover 6.1% of Limay’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
6.1%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
16%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
24 km
2.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.9 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
7
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc de loisirs de Porcheville
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 Limay 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 areas6.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
67out of 100
Woodland16%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
54out of 100
Footpaths2.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
60out of 100
Hiking routes0.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
62out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Limay has the 11th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (17,274 to 18,532 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Jouy-le-Moutier (10.3 km per km²) to Marmande (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jouy-le-Moutier Val-d'Oise | 10.3 | 23% | 0% | 123 km |
| 2 | Saint-Égrève Isère | 5.8 | 22% | 30% | 208 km |
| 3 | Bonneuil-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 3.6% | 0% | 163 km |
| 4 | L'Isle-d'Abeau Isère | 5.2 | 9.8% | 0% | 242 km |
| 5 | Floirac Gironde | 5.1 | 16% | 2.6% | 19 km |
| 6 | Villeneuve-Loubet Alpes-Maritimes | 5 | 30% | 16% | On it |
| 7 | Boissy-Saint-Léger Val-de-Marne | 4.4 | 50% | 0% | 166 km |
| 8 | Balma Haute-Garonne | 4.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 142 km |
| 9 | Éragny-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 4.1 | 15% | 0% | 124 km |
| 10 | Chamalières Puy-de-Dôme | 4.1 | 3.4% | 0.1% | 258 km |
| 11 | Moissy-Cramayel Seine-et-Marne | 3.9 | 4.7% | 0% | 180 km |
| 12 | Saran Loiret | 3.9 | 24% | 0% | 200 km |
| 13 | Écully Rhône | 3.8 | 14% | 0% | 253 km |
| 14 | Garches Hauts-de-Seine | 3.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 144 km |
| 15 | Bry-sur-Marne Val-de-Marne | 3.6 | 7% | 0% | 158 km |
| 16 | Cognac Charente | 3.5 | 13% | 17% | 43 km |
| 17 | Avion Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 13% | 0% | 77 km |
| 18 | Hendaye Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 3.4 | 8% | 26% | On it |
| 19 | Osny Val-d'Oise | 3.2 | 14% | 0.1% | 119 km |
| 20 | Le Pontet Vaucluse | 2.9 | 2.8% | 3.4% | 56 km |
| 21 | Cluses Haute-Savoie | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 264 km |
| 22 | Yutz Moselle | 2.6 | 18% | 0% | 310 km |
| 23 | Soisy-sous-Montmorency Val-d'Oise | 2.6 | 5% | 0% | 135 km |
| 24 | Carvin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 73 km |
| 25 | Digne-les-Bains Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 2.5 | 50% | 4% | 85 km |
| 26 | Pontarlier Doubs | 2.4 | 48% | 0% | 359 km |
| 27 | Annonay Ardèche | 2.3 | 30% | 0.2% | 193 km |
| 28 | Fécamp Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 25% | 2.9% | On it |
| 29 | Lattes Hérault | 2.2 | 0.8% | 22% | 5.5 km |
| 30 | Lunéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.1 | 9% | 0.1% | 389 km |
| 31 | Limay Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 6.1% | 112 km |
| 32 | Châteauneuf-les-Martigues Bouches-du-Rhône | 2 | 17% | 27% | 6 km |
| 33 | Sallanches Haute-Savoie | 2 | 32% | 35% | 250 km |
| 34 | Bagnols-sur-Cèze Gard | 1.6 | 27% | 8.2% | 79 km |
| 35 | Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume Var | 1 | 41% | 34% | 33 km |
| 36 | Brignoles Var | 0.9 | 48% | 17% | 34 km |
| 37 | Romorantin-Lanthenay Loir-et-Cher | 0.8 | 30% | 100% | 249 km |
| 38 | Vire Normandie Calvados | 0.6 | 3.9% | 0% | 41 km |
| 39 | Segré-en-Anjou Bleu Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 4.6% | 0% | 108 km |
| 40 | Ambarès-et-Lagrave Gironde | 0.4 | 4.8% | 35% | 11 km |
| 41 | Marmande Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 11% | 4% | 82 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 Limay
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de loisirs de Porcheville leads, at 36 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Château des Moussets
Park or garden
8.1 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
1 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Aire de jeux
Park or garden
1 ha0.2 km of path
0.9 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du château
Park or garden · 210 m outside the commune
0.5 ha0.2 km of path
1.4 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Esplanade Vaucouleurs
Park or garden · 100 m outside the commune
0.4 ha
1.4 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square de la Paix
Park or garden · 350 m outside the commune
0.2 ha
1.5 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
6.1% of Limay lies in protected areas
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
1.6 km from the town center
Nature reserve
Site Géologique de Limay nature reserve
6.1% of the commune1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area6.1%
Nature reserve6.1%
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.
6.1% of Limay’s land is protected, more than in 67% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Yvelines has 0%. 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
24 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Limay
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
24 km
2.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.9 km
waymarked: 0.5 km per km²
Woodland
16%
about 1.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LimayYvelines medianFrance median
Footpaths2.1
Hiking routes0.5
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LimayYvelines medianFrance median
Woodland16%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 60% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 54% 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 Limay is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 27.1 km
Grand Tour de Paris, Mantes-la-Jolie - Magny-en-Vexin4.9 km
Grand Tour de Paris, Courgent - Mantes-la-Jolie4.1 km
GR 2 passes within 2 km of Limay.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Limay: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Magnanville, 5.9 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 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 26 | 25 | 21 | 17 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 49 | 48 | 48 | 43 | 62 | 54 | 52 | 57 | 41 | 65 | 57 | 67 |
September is the driest month (41 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 67 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Limay →
Neighbors
Next to Limay
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Mantes-la-VilleMantes-la-JoliePorchevilleIssouBuchelayMagnanvilleLimay
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limay | 6.1% | 16% | 2.1 |
| Mantes-la-Ville 22,332 · 3 km | 0% | 7.2% | 2.5 |
| Mantes-la-Jolie 43,526 · 3 km | 7.1% | 12% | 3.7 |
| Porcheville 3,382 · 3.7 km | 0% | 11% | 1.6 |
| Issou 4,060 · 4.2 km | 0% | 21% | 1.6 |
| Buchelay 3,360 · 4.5 km | 0% | 7.5% | 2.8 |
| Magnanville 6,383 · 4.6 km | 0% | 17% | 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 Limay
Is Limay in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 6.1% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Limay?
OpenStreetMap maps 24 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Limay is woodland?
16% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Limay near the sea?
No: the coast is 112 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Limay?
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.