Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Polymagou · CC BY 4.033 km of footpaths cross Viroflay (9.5 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 42% of Viroflay. Viroflay has 3 km of waymarked hiking routes. 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.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Viroflay apart: its footpaths, then its woods.
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 (16,618 to 17,896 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).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jouy-le-Moutier Val-d'Oise | 10.3 | 23% | 0% | 123 km |
| 2 | Viroflay Yvelines | 9.5 | 42% | 0% | 148 km |
| 3 | Marly-le-Roi Yvelines | 7.6 | 37% | 0% | 138 km |
| 4 | Les Clayes-sous-Bois Yvelines | 6.3 | 35% | 0% | 137 km |
| 5 | Le Pré-Saint-Gervais Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.8 | 0% | 0% | 149 km |
| 6 | L'Isle-d'Abeau Isère | 5.2 | 9.8% | 0% | 242 km |
| 7 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire Indre-et-Loire | 5 | 9.4% | 1.9% | 184 km |
| 8 | Villeneuve-Loubet Alpes-Maritimes | 5 | 30% | 16% | On it |
| 9 | Lons-le-Saunier Jura | 4.9 | 8.8% | 1.8% | 356 km |
| 10 | Boissy-Saint-Léger Val-de-Marne | 4.4 | 50% | 0% | 166 km |
| 11 | Balma Haute-Garonne | 4.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 142 km |
| 12 | Chamalières Puy-de-Dôme | 4.1 | 3.4% | 0.1% | 258 km |
| 13 | Saran Loiret | 3.9 | 24% | 0% | 200 km |
| 14 | Garches Hauts-de-Seine | 3.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 144 km |
| 15 | Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle Loiret | 3.5 | 4.9% | 3% | 203 km |
| 16 | Avion Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 13% | 0% | 77 km |
| 17 | Firminy Loire | 3 | 25% | 0% | 204 km |
| 18 | Cluses Haute-Savoie | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 264 km |
| 19 | Yutz Moselle | 2.6 | 18% | 0% | 310 km |
| 20 | Annonay Ardèche | 2.3 | 30% | 0.2% | 193 km |
| 21 | Fécamp Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 25% | 2.9% | On it |
| 22 | Lattes Hérault | 2.2 | 0.8% | 22% | 5.5 km |
| 23 | Limay Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 6.1% | 112 km |
| 24 | Sedan Ardennes | 2 | 17% | 0% | 222 km |
| 25 | Sallanches Haute-Savoie | 2 | 32% | 35% | 250 km |
| 26 | Montceau-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire | 1.8 | 6.6% | 0% | 347 km |
| 27 | La Baule-Escoublac Loire-Atlantique | 1.7 | 9.6% | 37% | 0.8 km |
| 28 | Valserhône Ain | 1.7 | 59% | 19% | 292 km |
| 29 | Blanquefort Gironde | 1.7 | 15% | 7.6% | 11 km |
| 30 | Guérande Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 7.1% | 76% | On it |
| 31 | Verdun Meuse | 1.4 | 21% | 3.6% | 290 km |
| 32 | Cestas Gironde | 1 | 58% | 0% | 28 km |
| 33 | Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume Var | 1 | 41% | 34% | 33 km |
| 34 | Brignoles Var | 0.9 | 48% | 17% | 34 km |
| 35 | Lamballe-Armor Côtes-d'Armor | 0.8 | 5% | 2% | On it |
| 36 | Vire Normandie Calvados | 0.6 | 3.9% | 0% | 41 km |
| 37 | Orée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 11% | 12% | 66 km |
| 38 | Segré-en-Anjou Bleu Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 4.6% | 0% | 108 km |
| 39 | Loire-Authion Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 10% | 100% | 130 km |
| 40 | Ambarès-et-Lagrave Gironde | 0.4 | 4.8% | 35% | 11 km |
| 41 | Marmande Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 11% | 4% | 82 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: Forêt domaniale de Meudon leads, at 1,100 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 99% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 86% 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 Viroflay is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Viroflay: GR 2 and GR 22.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Toussus le Noble, 7.3 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 | 15.8 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 55 | 47 | 50 | 50 | 68 | 55 | 53 | 58 | 52 | 61 | 61 | 66 |
February is the driest month (47 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 68 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. The climate in Viroflay →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viroflay | 0% | 42% | 9.5 |
| Chaville 20,594 · 1.3 km | 0% | 46% | 8.3 |
| Vélizy-Villacoublay 23,011 · 2.3 km | 0% | 33% | 7.6 |
| Versailles 84,095 · 2.4 km | 0% | 28% | 8.1 |
| Ville-d'Avray 11,089 · 2.7 km | 0% | 60% | 11 |
| Sèvres 22,303 · 3.3 km | 0% | 24% | 8.9 |
| Jouy-en-Josas 7,981 · 4 km | 0% | 42% | 5.9 |
No. The nearest protected area is Haute Vallée de Chevreuse Regional Nature Park, 7 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 33 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 9.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 3 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
42% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 148 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.