First pick
Schollen
Wood or forest · 290 m outside the commune
362 ha2 km of path
25 minto walk all 2 km of path
4.5 km north-eastfrom the center
Schnakenpfad
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · CC BY 4.037%of the land protected
Outdoors in Gerstheim · protected areas, woods and footpaths
37% of Gerstheim’s land is protected for nature
Mapped woodland covers 20% of Gerstheim. Footpaths add up to 23 km across Gerstheim (1.3 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
37%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
20%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
23 km
1.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Schollen
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 Gerstheim 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 areas37%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
84out of 100
Woodland20%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
63out of 100
Footpaths1.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
40out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Gerstheim has the 16th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,462 to 3,519 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sainte-Catherine (3.3 km per km²) to Crèvecœur-le-Grand (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sainte-Catherine Pas-de-Calais | 3.3 | 6.1% | 0% | 78 km |
| 2 | Danjoutin Territoire de Belfort | 3.3 | 33% | 0% | 429 km |
| 3 | Moûtiers Savoie | 3.1 | 52% | 0% | 204 km |
| 4 | Lapugnoy Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 42% | 0% | 60 km |
| 5 | Barbazan-Debat Hautes-Pyrénées | 2.6 | 47% | 0% | 136 km |
| 6 | Hérimoncourt Doubs | 2.5 | 57% | 0% | 409 km |
| 7 | La Buisse Isère | 2.4 | 35% | 61% | 218 km |
| 8 | La Forêt-Fouesnant Finistère | 2.3 | 7.6% | 0% | On it |
| 9 | Haucourt-Moulaine Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2 | 34% | 0% | 278 km |
| 10 | Vals-les-Bains Ardèche | 2 | 73% | 100% | 125 km |
| 11 | Montalieu-Vercieu Isère | 1.9 | 25% | 4.2% | 266 km |
| 12 | Taninges Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 57% | 28% | 268 km |
| 13 | Sorède Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.6 | 68% | 43% | 7.9 km |
| 14 | La Chapelle-Heulin Loire-Atlantique | 1.6 | 15% | 17% | 51 km |
| 15 | Les Belleville Savoie | 1.4 | 15% | 71% | 194 km |
| 16 | Gerstheim Bas-Rhin | 1.3 | 20% | 37% | 464 km |
| 17 | Langeac Haute-Loire | 1.1 | 48% | 100% | 176 km |
| 18 | Issenheim Haut-Rhin | 1 | 14% | 0.2% | 458 km |
| 19 | Artix Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.9 | 15% | 38% | 76 km |
| 20 | Bourcefranc-le-Chapus Charente-Maritime | 0.9 | 7.9% | 46% | On it |
| 21 | Ruaudin Sarthe | 0.9 | 34% | 0% | 142 km |
| 22 | Bréhal Manche | 0.8 | 3.9% | 1.8% | 2.8 km |
| 23 | Marssac-sur-Tarn Tarn | 0.8 | 4.6% | 0% | 124 km |
| 24 | Saint-Cyr-en-Val Loiret | 0.7 | 33% | 36% | 214 km |
| 25 | Rieumes Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 22% | 0% | 164 km |
| 26 | Val-de-Cognac Charente | 0.7 | 23% | 8.1% | 45 km |
| 27 | Vrigne aux Bois Ardennes | 0.7 | 60% | 46% | 215 km |
| 28 | Savigneux Loire | 0.6 | 3% | 66% | 228 km |
| 29 | Chaumes-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 29% | 0.1% | 188 km |
| 30 | Chanceaux-sur-Choisille Indre-et-Loire | 0.6 | 17% | 0% | 190 km |
| 31 | Varilhes Ariège | 0.6 | 17% | 2.6% | 116 km |
| 32 | Capestang Hérault | 0.5 | 0.9% | 18% | 20 km |
| 33 | Saint-Éloy-les-Mines Puy-de-Dôme | 0.5 | 23% | 0% | 290 km |
| 34 | Gramat Lot | 0.4 | 39% | 100% | 185 km |
| 35 | Le Porge Gironde | 0.3 | 89% | 100% | On it |
| 36 | Le Mérévillois Essonne | 0.3 | 8.2% | 0% | 178 km |
| 37 | Sainte-Geneviève Oise | 0.3 | 17% | 0% | 104 km |
| 38 | Hornaing Nord | 0.3 | 8.8% | 99% | 98 km |
| 39 | Sallertaine Vendée | 0.2 | 3.4% | 44% | 13 km |
| 40 | Weyersheim Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 14% | 0% | 444 km |
| 41 | Crèvecœur-le-Grand Oise | 0.1 | 4.3% | 0% | 70 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 Gerstheim
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Schollen leads, at 362 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Forêt d'Erstein
Wood or forest
707 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
5 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Forêt communale de Gerstheim
Wood or forest
16 ha3 km of path
40 minto walk all 3 km of path
1.2 km southfrom the center
Parcours de Santé Le Storchennest
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Gerstheim
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Vallée du Rhin de Strasbourg à Marckolsheim
35% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin
23% of the commune
Nature reserve
Daubensand nature reserve
2.5 km from the town center
Nature reserve
Daubensand nature reserve
2.8 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area37%
Nature reserve0.3%
Natura 2000 site37%
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.
37% of Gerstheim’s land is protected, more than in 84% 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
23 km of footpaths cross Gerstheim
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
23 km
1.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
20%
about 3.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GerstheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths1.3
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GerstheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland20%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 60% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 63% 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 Gerstheim 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
Gasthaus Rheinlust Ottenheim - Grenzübergang Nonnenweier3.8 km
Sentier de l'Ill0.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Gerstheim: April, August and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Strasbourg-Entzheim, 19 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 Gerstheim →
Neighbors
Next to Gerstheim
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ErsteinRhinauBenfeldHuttenheimPlobsheimEschauGerstheim
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Erstein, Rhinau and Huttenheim are 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 Gerstheim
Is Gerstheim in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 37% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Gerstheim?
OpenStreetMap maps 23 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Gerstheim is woodland?
20% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Gerstheim near the sea?
No: the coast is 464 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Gerstheim?
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.