First pick
Rheinwald
Wood or forest · 180 m outside the commune
165 ha0.3 km of path
4.1 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Patrick Nouhailler from Genève, Suisse · CC BY-SA 2.017%of the land protected
Outdoors in Drusenheim · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Drusenheim is within 800 m of a park or wood
29% of Drusenheim is mapped woodland. Protected areas cover 17% of Drusenheim’s land. Footpaths add up to 13 km across Drusenheim (0.8 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
17%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
29%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
13 km
0.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7 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: Rheinwald
Throughout this page, the Bas-Rhin 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 Drusenheim 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 areas17%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
77out of 100
Woodland29%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
75out of 100
Footpaths0.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
27out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
57out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Drusenheim has the 10th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,338 to 5,438 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Cormelles-le-Royal (7.2 km per km²) to Reyrieux (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cormelles-le-Royal Calvados | 7.2 | 2.2% | 0% | 15 km |
| 2 | Heillecourt Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.1 | 1.5% | 0% | 369 km |
| 3 | Mériel Val-d'Oise | 6 | 41% | 9.5% | 124 km |
| 4 | Marsannay-la-Côte Côte-d'Or | 6 | 47% | 49% | 405 km |
| 5 | Marles-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.6 | 3.7% | 0% | 57 km |
| 6 | Le Cendre Puy-de-Dôme | 3.4 | 3.3% | 1.8% | 249 km |
| 7 | Levens Alpes-Maritimes | 3 | 64% | 12% | 17 km |
| 8 | Charbonnières-les-Bains Rhône | 2.8 | 16% | 0% | 252 km |
| 9 | Bretignolles-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.5 | 9.6% | 23% | On it |
| 10 | Roques Haute-Garonne | 2.4 | 4.3% | 40% | 148 km |
| 11 | Peyrolles-en-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 63% | 69% | 38 km |
| 12 | Dechy Nord | 2.3 | 13% | 0% | 92 km |
| 13 | Plouhinec Morbihan | 2 | 24% | 32% | On it |
| 14 | Calonne-Ricouart Pas-de-Calais | 1.8 | 1.5% | 0% | 56 km |
| 15 | Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours Seine-et-Marne | 1.8 | 45% | 29% | 214 km |
| 16 | Wervicq-Sud Nord | 1.8 | 3% | 0% | 48 km |
| 17 | Rousset Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 7.1% | 7.7% | 27 km |
| 18 | Erquinghem-Lys Nord | 1.7 | 2.6% | 0% | 51 km |
| 19 | Cruseilles Haute-Savoie | 1.6 | 40% | 21% | 273 km |
| 20 | Idron Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.6 | 15% | 4.1% | 100 km |
| 21 | Flers-en-Escrebieux Nord | 1.5 | 12% | 1% | 85 km |
| 22 | Gray Haute-Saône | 1.4 | 47% | 28% | 418 km |
| 23 | Bordères-sur-l'Échez Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.4 | 22% | 0% | 128 km |
| 24 | Commercy Meuse | 1.3 | 64% | 5.6% | 324 km |
| 25 | Vic-le-Comte Puy-de-Dôme | 1.2 | 19% | 100% | 241 km |
| 26 | Lacroix-Saint-Ouen Oise | 1.2 | 73% | 76% | 121 km |
| 27 | Coulogne Pas-de-Calais | 1.2 | 1.1% | 0% | 4.7 km |
| 28 | Saint-Astier Dordogne | 1 | 33% | 8% | 89 km |
| 29 | Aiffres Deux-Sèvres | 1 | 3.4% | 14% | 54 km |
| 30 | Trèbes Aude | 1 | 9.6% | 0% | 54 km |
| 31 | Le Lion-d'Angers Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 5.4% | 0.8% | 115 km |
| 32 | Drusenheim Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 29% | 17% | 449 km |
| 33 | Chagny Saône-et-Loire | 0.8 | 38% | 0.8% | 376 km |
| 34 | Boulay-Moselle Moselle | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 339 km |
| 35 | Bléré Indre-et-Loire | 0.6 | 11% | 8.4% | 197 km |
| 36 | Mouguerre Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.5 | 40% | 7.9% | 11 km |
| 37 | Reichshoffen Bas-Rhin | 0.5 | 27% | 100% | 420 km |
| 38 | Garons Gard | 0.5 | 0.1% | 0% | 35 km |
| 39 | Parigné-l'Évêque Sarthe | 0.5 | 49% | 19% | 149 km |
| 40 | Ploumagoar Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 20% | 0% | 19 km |
| 41 | Reyrieux Ain | 0.4 | 11% | 2.2% | 270 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 Drusenheim
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Rheinwald leads, at 165 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Fischergrund
Wood or forest · 180 m outside the commune
38 ha
1.7 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
17% of Drusenheim lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Rossmoerder nature reserve
1.4% of the commune2 km from the center
Nature reserve
Forêt d’Offendorf nature reserve
2.7 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée du Rhin de Lauterbourg à Strasbourg
17% of the commune0.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin
9.7% of the commune0.4 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area17%
Nature reserve1.5%
Natura 2000 site17%
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.
17% of Drusenheim’s land is protected, more than in 77% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Bas-Rhin has 0.1%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
13 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Drusenheim
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
13 km
0.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
7 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
29%
about 4.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
DrusenheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths0.8
Hiking routes0.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
DrusenheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland29%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 73% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 75% 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 Drusenheim is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Sentier de la Moder15 km
DVV Naturpark Helmlingen3.4 km
Wanderweg Bühl-Schwarzach-Rhein0.6 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Drusenheim: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Preuschdorf, 23 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) | 5 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 16 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 77 | 65 | 64 | 51 | 76 | 64 | 69 | 59 | 62 | 75 | 79 | 92 |
April is the driest month (51 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 92 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 66 nights a year. The climate in Drusenheim →
Neighbors
Next to Drusenheim
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
HerrlisheimOberhoffen-sur-ModerSoufflenheimBischwillerGambsheimGriesDrusenheim
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drusenheim | 17% | 29% | 0.8 |
| Herrlisheim 4,694 · 5.4 km | 3.3% | 6.9% | 0.3 |
| Oberhoffen-sur-Moder 3,992 · 7.3 km | 11% | 25% | 1.7 |
| Soufflenheim 4,740 · 7.4 km | 0.8% | 46% | 1.8 |
| Bischwiller 12,242 · 7.6 km | 0% | 7.2% | 1.2 |
| Gambsheim 5,312 · 9.7 km | 13% | 13% | 0.9 |
| Gries 2,868 · 11 km | 0% | 39% | 0.4 |
Soufflenheim is more wooded.
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 Drusenheim
Is Drusenheim in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 17% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Drusenheim?
OpenStreetMap maps 13 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Drusenheim is woodland?
29% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Drusenheim near the sea?
No: the coast is 449 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Drusenheim?
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.