First pick
Forêt d'Hipsheim
Wood or forest · 390 m outside the commune
114 ha5.2 km of path
1 h 10 minto walk all 5.2 km of path
2.4 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Havang(nl) · CC08.4%woodland
Outdoors in Fegersheim · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Fegersheim is within 800 m of a park or wood
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 5 km in Fegersheim. No protected area reaches Fegersheim; the nearest, Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin (Natura 2000), is 3.4 km from the town center. 8.4% of Fegersheim is mapped woodland. 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: Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin, 3.4 km
Woodland
8.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
12 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.1 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: Forêt d'Hipsheim
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Fegersheim?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes5 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbySecteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin (Natura 2000) is 3.4 km from the town center.
What sets Fegersheim apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Fegersheim 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
Woodland8.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
35out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
58out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
78out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Fegersheim has the 14th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,732 to 5,826 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Buc (5.6 km per km²) to Mazé-Milon (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buc Yvelines | 5.6 | 45% | 0% | 148 km |
| 2 | Canéjan Gironde | 5.5 | 50% | 0% | 28 km |
| 3 | Algrange Moselle | 3.6 | 48% | 0% | 302 km |
| 4 | Roquefort-la-Bédoule Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 50% | 40% | 5.6 km |
| 5 | Le Palais-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 3.2 | 27% | 0% | 169 km |
| 6 | Simiane-Collongue Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 60% | 44% | 12 km |
| 7 | Fenouillet Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 6.2% | 8.1% | 154 km |
| 8 | Sillingy Haute-Savoie | 3.1 | 21% | 0% | 267 km |
| 9 | Ensuès-la-Redonne Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.1 | 15% | 76% | On it |
| 10 | Peypin Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.9 | 34% | 8.5% | 18 km |
| 11 | Vergèze Gard | 2.9 | 17% | 19% | 23 km |
| 12 | Annezin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 10% | 0% | 59 km |
| 13 | Calvi Haute-Corse | 2.2 | 5.6% | 11% | On it |
| 14 | Fegersheim Bas-Rhin | 2 | 8.4% | 0% | 455 km |
| 15 | Orgères Ille-et-Vilaine | 2 | 13% | 0% | 60 km |
| 16 | Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 34% | 0.1% | 242 km |
| 17 | Nieul-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 1.8 | 0.2% | 4.5% | On it |
| 18 | Bédarieux Hérault | 1.6 | 23% | 100% | 41 km |
| 19 | Oye-Plage Pas-de-Calais | 1.5 | 3% | 5% | On it |
| 20 | Plouay Morbihan | 1.3 | 31% | 4% | 10 km |
| 21 | Magny-en-Vexin Val-d'Oise | 1.3 | 13% | 100% | 100 km |
| 22 | Lannemezan Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.2 | 26% | 0% | 160 km |
| 23 | Wasselonne Bas-Rhin | 1 | 18% | 0% | 431 km |
| 24 | Saint-Just-en-Chaussée Oise | 0.8 | 7.8% | 0% | 92 km |
| 25 | Melle Deux-Sèvres | 0.8 | 8.9% | 6.1% | 71 km |
| 26 | Lacanau Gironde | 0.8 | 79% | 100% | On it |
| 27 | Viry Haute-Savoie | 0.7 | 30% | 0% | 284 km |
| 28 | La Cadière-d'Azur Var | 0.7 | 19% | 68% | 4.5 km |
| 29 | Flines-lez-Raches Nord | 0.6 | 21% | 100% | 87 km |
| 30 | Thizy-les-Bourgs Rhône | 0.6 | 22% | 0% | 276 km |
| 31 | Mouroux Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 21% | 0% | 180 km |
| 32 | Erdre-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 107 km |
| 33 | Briec Finistère | 0.5 | 6.1% | 0% | 14 km |
| 34 | Saint-Laurent-de-Mure Rhône | 0.4 | 3.2% | 0% | 248 km |
| 35 | Montmorillon Vienne | 0.4 | 11% | 28% | 152 km |
| 36 | Doullens Somme | 0.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 47 km |
| 37 | Sarrians Vaucluse | 0.4 | 5.2% | 2.5% | 71 km |
| 38 | Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët Manche | 0.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 19 km |
| 39 | Le Barp Gironde | 0.2 | 67% | 100% | 21 km |
| 40 | Coursan Aude | 0.2 | 0% | 12% | 12 km |
| 41 | Mazé-Milon Maine-et-Loire | 0.1 | 11% | 100% | 138 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 Fegersheim
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt d'Hipsheim leads, at 114 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de l'araignée
Park or garden
1.5 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Fegersheim
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin is the nearest protected area, 3.4 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin
3.4 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
12 km of footpaths and 5 km of hiking routes cross Fegersheim
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
12 km
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.1 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
8.4%
about 0.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
FegersheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes0.8
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
FegersheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland8.4%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 58% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 65% 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 Fegersheim 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 l'Ill11 km
Parcours de Hattisheim1.9 km
Sentier Au Fil de l'Eau0.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Fegersheim: April, August and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Strasbourg-Entzheim, 7.6 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 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 5 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 16 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 35 | 34 | 39 | 42 | 77 | 69 | 72 | 61 | 55 | 60 | 48 | 45 |
February is the driest month (34 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 77 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 60 nights a year. The climate in Fegersheim →
Neighbors
Next to Fegersheim
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
LipsheimEschauPlobsheimGeispolsheimIllkirch-GraffenstadenEntzheimFegersheim
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fegersheim | 0% | 8.4% | 2 |
| Lipsheim 2,702 · 1.8 km | 0.5% | 15% | 0.8 |
| Eschau 5,878 · 2.1 km | 19% | 11% | 2 |
| Plobsheim 4,492 · 3.7 km | 31% | 10% | 1.1 |
| Geispolsheim 7,919 · 4 km | 0.5% | 17% | 1.1 |
| Illkirch-Graffenstaden 27,872 · 4.8 km | 26% | 30% | 3.9 |
| Entzheim 2,544 · 6.2 km | 0% | 1.5% | 1.7 |
Eschau, Plobsheim and Illkirch-Graffenstaden have at least twice as much protected land. Illkirch-Graffenstaden 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 Fegersheim
Is Fegersheim in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin, 3.4 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Fegersheim?
OpenStreetMap maps 12 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 5 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Fegersheim is woodland?
8.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Fegersheim near the sea?
No: the coast is 455 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Fegersheim?
April, August and 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.