First pick
Parc
Park or garden
2.7 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
0.6 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Gzen92 · CC BY-SA 4.047%of the land protected
Outdoors in Marckolsheim · protected areas, woods and footpaths
47% of Marckolsheim’s land is protected for nature
Mapped woodland covers 37% of Marckolsheim. Footpaths add up to 25 km across Marckolsheim (0.8 km per km²). Marckolsheim has 8 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
47%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
37%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
25 km
0.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.8 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
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 Marckolsheim?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside47% of the land lies in protected areas.A wooded commune37% mapped woodland, more than in 84% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Marckolsheim apart: its protected countryside, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Marckolsheim 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 areas47%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
86out of 100
Woodland37%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
84out of 100
Footpaths0.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
24out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
40out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Marckolsheim has the 15th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,363 to 4,432 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Labège (3.9 km per km²) to Bastelicaccia (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Labège Haute-Garonne | 3.9 | 6.5% | 0% | 137 km |
| 2 | Valras-Plage Hérault | 3.8 | 0% | 26% | On it |
| 3 | Château-Renault Indre-et-Loire | 2.9 | 7.9% | 0% | 203 km |
| 4 | Haisnes Pas-de-Calais | 2.7 | 3.2% | 0% | 67 km |
| 5 | Le Tréport Seine-Maritime | 2.6 | 4.9% | 3.1% | On it |
| 6 | Provin Nord | 2.4 | 4.7% | 0% | 69 km |
| 7 | Carignan-de-Bordeaux Gironde | 2.3 | 14% | 3.4% | 23 km |
| 8 | Aime-la-Plagne Savoie | 2.2 | 33% | 2.4% | 209 km |
| 9 | Serres-Castet Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.9 | 8.9% | 0% | 92 km |
| 10 | Pins-Justaret Haute-Garonne | 1.8 | 3% | 2.1% | 145 km |
| 11 | Ornans Doubs | 1.8 | 66% | 92% | 384 km |
| 12 | Le Château-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.5 | 7.5% | 50% | On it |
| 13 | Kaysersberg Vignoble Haut-Rhin | 1.5 | 69% | 100% | 464 km |
| 14 | La Tour-d'Aigues Vaucluse | 1.5 | 24% | 100% | 45 km |
| 15 | Ormes Loiret | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 198 km |
| 16 | Chazay-d'Azergues Rhône | 1.3 | 11% | 0% | 262 km |
| 17 | Cadenet Vaucluse | 1.1 | 28% | 100% | 42 km |
| 18 | Craon Mayenne | 1.1 | 1.4% | 0% | 92 km |
| 19 | La Brède Gironde | 1.1 | 46% | 6.5% | 37 km |
| 20 | Morlaàs Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 20% | 0% | 101 km |
| 21 | Ardres Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 1.9% | 5.1% | 13 km |
| 22 | Morigny-Champigny Essonne | 0.9 | 22% | 0.4% | 173 km |
| 23 | Ham Somme | 0.9 | 6.1% | 0% | 111 km |
| 24 | Sierentz Haut-Rhin | 0.9 | 39% | 36% | 430 km |
| 25 | Villemoustaussou Aude | 0.8 | 4.8% | 0% | 63 km |
| 26 | Truchtersheim Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 1.2% | 0% | 438 km |
| 27 | Marckolsheim Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 37% | 47% | 475 km |
| 28 | Riec-sur-Bélon Finistère | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | On it |
| 29 | Langeais Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 71% | 100% | 163 km |
| 30 | Ghisonaccia Haute-Corse | 0.6 | 11% | 15% | On it |
| 31 | Carnoules Var | 0.6 | 43% | 21% | 21 km |
| 32 | Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 24% | 1.4% | 181 km |
| 33 | Saint-Georges-lès-Baillargeaux Vienne | 0.5 | 35% | 34% | 125 km |
| 34 | Millas Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 3.2% | 0.1% | 28 km |
| 35 | Sarralbe Moselle | 0.5 | 29% | 10% | 381 km |
| 36 | Montbeton Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 8% | 0% | 180 km |
| 37 | Angerville Essonne | 0.3 | 3.4% | 0% | 174 km |
| 38 | Prigonrieux Dordogne | 0.3 | 21% | 1.2% | 80 km |
| 39 | Miniac-Morvan Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.2 | 16% | 100% | 3.2 km |
| 40 | Mesnil-en-Ouche Eure | 0.2 | 13% | 0.4% | 55 km |
| 41 | Bastelicaccia Corse-du-Sud | 0 | 15% | 0.2% | 4.2 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 Marckolsheim
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc leads, at 2.7 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Marckolsheim
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
40% of the commune1.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin
38% of the commune1.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée du Rhin d’Artzenheim à Village-Neuf
4.7 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Haut-Rhin
5.1 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area47%
Natura 2000 site47%
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.
47% of Marckolsheim’s land is protected, more than in 86% 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
25 km of footpaths and 8 km of hiking routes cross Marckolsheim
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
0.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.8 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
37%
about 12.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MarckolsheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths0.8
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MarckolsheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland37%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 76% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 84% 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 Marckolsheim is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
15 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Sentier des Ducs10 km
Parkplatz Sponeck - Kulturwehr Rheinkilometer 237.62 km
Parkplatz Sponeck - Holzacker1.5 km
Kulturwehr Rheinkilometer 237.6 - Beim Segelclub Sasbach1.4 km
Naturlehrpfad Rheinauewald Wyhl1.2 km
Beim Segelclub Sasbach - Parkplatz Zollhäusle1.1 km
Keltenwald - Steinbruch Süd1 km
Keltenwald - Steinbruch Nord0.7 km
Schweißgraben - Schloßkopfgrund0.6 km
Leimengrube - Keltenwald0.5 km
Badische Brücke - Im Auwald0.5 km
Beim Segelclub Sasbach - Sasbach Kirche0.4 km
+3 more
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Marckolsheim: April, August and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Selestat Sa, 13 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) | 8.8 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 16 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 36 | 34 | 36 | 43 | 78 | 67 | 70 | 64 | 51 | 58 | 44 | 42 |
February is the driest month (34 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 78 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 63 nights a year. The climate in Marckolsheim →
Neighbors
Next to Marckolsheim
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
SélestatHilsenheimHorbourg-WihrChâtenoisVolgelsheimScherwillerMarckolsheim
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marckolsheim | 47% | 37% | 0.8 |
| Sélestat 19,589 · 13 km | 56% | 40% | 1 |
| Hilsenheim 2,604 · 14 km | 18% | 28% | 0 |
| Horbourg-Wihr 6,199 · 14 km | 0% | 5% | 0.6 |
| Châtenois 4,294 · 16 km | 0% | 33% | 2 |
| Volgelsheim 2,720 · 16 km | 0.4% | 4.2% | 2.1 |
| Scherwiller 3,099 · 17 km | 0% | 40% | 1.3 |
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 Marckolsheim
Is Marckolsheim in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 47% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Marckolsheim?
OpenStreetMap maps 25 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); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Marckolsheim is woodland?
37% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Marckolsheim near the sea?
No: the coast is 475 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Marckolsheim?
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 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.