First pick
Parc Friedel
Park or garden · 10 m outside the commune
4.9 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
3.6 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Havang(nl) · CC017%woodland
Outdoors in Geispolsheim · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Geispolsheim is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Geispolsheim; the nearest, Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin (Natura 2000), is 2.7 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 25 km across Geispolsheim (1.1 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 17% of Geispolsheim. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.5%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin, 2.7 km
Woodland
17%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
25 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.8 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Friedel
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 Geispolsheim 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 areas0.5%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
54out of 100
Woodland17%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
57out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
36out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
54out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Geispolsheim has the 6th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,808 to 8,031 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Malzéville (6.6 km per km²) to Le Malesherbois (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malzéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.6 | 19% | 32% | 364 km |
| 2 | Jouy-en-Josas Yvelines | 5.9 | 42% | 0% | 151 km |
| 3 | Libercourt Pas-de-Calais | 4.5 | 23% | 0% | 75 km |
| 4 | Langueux Côtes-d'Armor | 3.7 | 8% | 8.6% | On it |
| 5 | Achicourt Pas-de-Calais | 3.6 | 4% | 0% | 78 km |
| 6 | Billy-Montigny Pas-de-Calais | 3.6 | 8.6% | 0% | 79 km |
| 7 | Claix Isère | 3.5 | 55% | 64% | 196 km |
| 8 | Publier Haute-Savoie | 3.4 | 17% | 6.1% | 300 km |
| 9 | Louveciennes Yvelines | 3.3 | 31% | 0% | 140 km |
| 10 | Neuville-sur-Saône Rhône | 3.3 | 18% | 0% | 264 km |
| 11 | Courcelles-lès-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 7.7% | 0% | 82 km |
| 12 | Montreuil-Juigné Maine-et-Loire | 2.9 | 8.8% | 15% | 117 km |
| 13 | Bompas Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.9 | 0.2% | 0% | 8.5 km |
| 14 | Linas Essonne | 2.5 | 32% | 0% | 166 km |
| 15 | Gargenville Yvelines | 2.4 | 16% | 42% | 117 km |
| 16 | Romagnat Puy-de-Dôme | 2.3 | 22% | 3.1% | 252 km |
| 17 | Baillargues Hérault | 2.3 | 1.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 18 | Isle Haute-Vienne | 2.2 | 16% | 0% | 159 km |
| 19 | Le Soler Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 4.9% | 0% | 20 km |
| 20 | Cappelle-la-Grande Nord | 2 | 0.2% | 0% | 4.6 km |
| 21 | Aureilhan Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.8 | 12% | 0.7% | 133 km |
| 22 | Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse Landes | 1.8 | 51% | 0% | 11 km |
| 23 | Vaujours Seine-Saint-Denis | 1.7 | 26% | 0.9% | 152 km |
| 24 | Lège-Cap-Ferret Gironde | 1.6 | 73% | 21% | On it |
| 25 | Houplines Nord | 1.4 | 1.4% | 0% | 51 km |
| 26 | Moirans Isère | 1.4 | 9.7% | 0% | 215 km |
| 27 | Contes Alpes-Maritimes | 1.4 | 37% | 0% | 9.9 km |
| 28 | Beaugency Loiret | 1.4 | 6.8% | 24% | 206 km |
| 29 | Tignieu-Jameyzieu Isère | 1.4 | 11% | 0% | 255 km |
| 30 | Corte Haute-Corse | 1.3 | 22% | 100% | 32 km |
| 31 | Lure Haute-Saône | 1.3 | 47% | 0.1% | 440 km |
| 32 | Sisteron Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.2 | 38% | 7.1% | 106 km |
| 33 | Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny Haute-Savoie | 1.2 | 28% | 0.2% | 269 km |
| 34 | Aussonne Haute-Garonne | 1.2 | 4.8% | 0% | 159 km |
| 35 | Saint-Affrique Aveyron | 1.2 | 37% | 100% | 85 km |
| 36 | Geispolsheim Bas-Rhin | 1.1 | 17% | 0.5% | 451 km |
| 37 | Mordelles Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.1 | 5.4% | 0% | 48 km |
| 38 | Saint-Julien-de-Concelles Loire-Atlantique | 0.9 | 6.1% | 17% | 50 km |
| 39 | Coulounieix-Chamiers Dordogne | 0.7 | 33% | 0% | 102 km |
| 40 | Ustaritz Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.6 | 47% | 28% | 11 km |
| 41 | Le Malesherbois Loiret | 0.3 | 11% | 3.6% | 196 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 Geispolsheim
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Friedel leads, at 4.9 ha. Directions go to 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, 2.7 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
0.5% of the commune2.7 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.5%
Natura 2000 site0.5%
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
25 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Geispolsheim
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
25 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.8 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
17%
about 3.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GeispolsheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GeispolsheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland17%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 64% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 57% 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 Geispolsheim is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Parcours de Hattisheim14 km
Sentier de l'Ill10 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Geispolsheim: April, August and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Strasbourg-Entzheim, 3.7 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 Geispolsheim →
Neighbors
Next to Geispolsheim
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
EntzheimLipsheimFegersheimHoltzheimIllkirch-GraffenstadenLingolsheimGeispolsheim
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geispolsheim | 0.5% | 17% | 1.1 |
| Entzheim 2,544 · 2.2 km | 0% | 1.5% | 1.7 |
| Lipsheim 2,702 · 3.1 km | 0.5% | 15% | 0.8 |
| Fegersheim 5,780 · 4 km | 0% | 8.4% | 2 |
| Holtzheim 3,850 · 4.8 km | 0% | 6.1% | 1 |
| Illkirch-Graffenstaden 27,872 · 4.9 km | 26% | 30% | 3.9 |
| Lingolsheim 20,826 · 5 km | 0% | 4.5% | 3.7 |
Illkirch-Graffenstaden has 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 Geispolsheim
Is Geispolsheim in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin, 2.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Geispolsheim?
OpenStreetMap maps 25 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); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Geispolsheim is woodland?
17% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Geispolsheim near the sea?
No: the coast is 451 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Geispolsheim?
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 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.