Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: VVVCFFrance · CC0Mapped woodland covers 27% of Orgeval. Orgeval has 10 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Orgeval; the nearest, Vexin Français Regional Nature Park, is 8.2 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 (7,183 to 7,337 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Gournay-sur-Marne (6 km per km²) to Lanton (0.2 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gournay-sur-Marne Seine-Saint-Denis | 6 | 4.3% | 0% | 159 km |
| 2 | Colombelles Calvados | 4.9 | 3.1% | 0% | 9.7 km |
| 3 | Villemoisson-sur-Orge Essonne | 4.3 | 13% | 0% | 167 km |
| 4 | Labenne Landes | 4 | 54% | 20% | 2.8 km |
| 5 | Écouen Val-d'Oise | 4 | 16% | 0% | 135 km |
| 6 | Vendargues Hérault | 3.3 | 11% | 0% | 12 km |
| 7 | Roquefort-les-Pins Alpes-Maritimes | 3.3 | 52% | 15% | 8 km |
| 8 | Courdimanche Val-d'Oise | 3 | 17% | 0% | 118 km |
| 9 | Barlin Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 5.8% | 0% | 65 km |
| 10 | Perros-Guirec Côtes-d'Armor | 2.9 | 17% | 7% | On it |
| 11 | Vizille Isère | 2.8 | 48% | 0% | 193 km |
| 12 | Courtry Seine-et-Marne | 2.5 | 19% | 0% | 155 km |
| 13 | Moyeuvre-Grande Moselle | 2.4 | 45% | 0% | 310 km |
| 14 | Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis Yvelines | 2.2 | 13% | 100% | 140 km |
| 15 | Waziers Nord | 2.2 | 4.9% | 0% | 88 km |
| 16 | Chauray Deux-Sèvres | 2 | 2.4% | 0% | 58 km |
| 17 | Nanteuil-lès-Meaux Seine-et-Marne | 1.9 | 26% | 0% | 164 km |
| 18 | La Gaude Alpes-Maritimes | 1.8 | 44% | 2.8% | 7.1 km |
| 19 | Montauroux Var | 1.8 | 61% | 9.8% | 16 km |
| 20 | Bourg-Saint-Maurice Savoie | 1.8 | 15% | 0.4% | 211 km |
| 21 | Le Pian-Médoc Gironde | 1.6 | 60% | 100% | 8.2 km |
| 22 | Kervignac Morbihan | 1.5 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 23 | Templeuve-en-Pévèle Nord | 1.4 | 11% | 0% | 76 km |
| 24 | Caudan Morbihan | 1.2 | 16% | 3.4% | On it |
| 25 | Mably Loire | 1.2 | 6.8% | 4.4% | 279 km |
| 26 | Divatte-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 7.5% | 5.6% | 56 km |
| 27 | Saint-Christol-lez-Alès Gard | 1.2 | 21% | 0% | 57 km |
| 28 | Orgeval Yvelines | 1.1 | 27% | 0% | 129 km |
| 29 | Les Trois-Bassins Réunion | 1 | 20% | 82% | On it |
| 30 | Lodève Hérault | 1 | 51% | 100% | 47 km |
| 31 | Montoir-de-Bretagne Loire-Atlantique | 0.9 | 0.2% | 50% | On it |
| 32 | Salazie Réunion | 0.9 | 63% | 100% | 16 km |
| 33 | Rosny-sur-Seine Yvelines | 0.7 | 60% | 62% | 104 km |
| 34 | Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.6 | 37% | 6.3% | 8.8 km |
| 35 | Aubigny-Les Clouzeaux Vendée | 0.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 24 km |
| 36 | Ensisheim Haut-Rhin | 0.6 | 35% | 21% | 453 km |
| 37 | Sainte-Pazanne Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 4.9% | 0% | 15 km |
| 38 | Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton Eure | 0.4 | 20% | 1.5% | 87 km |
| 39 | La Ferté-Saint-Aubin Loiret | 0.4 | 68% | 100% | 224 km |
| 40 | Herbignac Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 14% | 100% | 7.8 km |
| 41 | Lanton Gironde | 0.2 | 83% | 100% | On it |
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: Bois des Alluets leads, at 1,587 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 less than in 64% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 72% 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 Orgeval is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 26 passes within 2 km of Orgeval.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Maule, 8.8 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 | 15.3 | 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 Orgeval →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orgeval | 0% | 27% | 1.1 |
| Morainvilliers 3,120 · 2.3 km | 0% | 32% | 2.4 |
| Villennes-sur-Seine 5,952 · 2.4 km | 0% | 17% | 3.7 |
| Carrières-sous-Poissy 20,825 · 4.6 km | 0% | 5.6% | 5.3 |
| Ecquevilly 4,279 · 4.9 km | 0% | 26% | 1.4 |
| Poissy 40,983 · 5 km | 0% | 12% | 3 |
| Feucherolles 3,043 · 5.2 km | 0% | 33% | 3.2 |
No. The nearest protected area is Vexin Français Regional Nature Park, 8.2 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 18 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 10 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
27% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 129 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
April 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 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.