First pick
Parc des Jésuites
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
Centralin the middle of Molsheim
Allée de la Petite Sorbonne
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 4.08.8%woodland
Outdoors in Molsheim · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Molsheim is within 800 m of a park or wood
Molsheim has 17 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 27 km across Molsheim (2.5 km per km²). No protected area reaches Molsheim; the nearest, Collines sèches du Bischenberg, de l’Immerschenberg et du Holiesel nature reserve, is 4.7 km from the town center. 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: Collines sèches du Bischenberg, de l’Immerschenberg et du Holiesel nature reserve, 4.7 km
Woodland
8.8%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
27 km
2.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 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: Parc des Jésuites
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 Molsheim?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes17 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyCollines sèches du Bischenberg, de l’Immerschenberg et du Holiesel nature reserve is 4.7 km from the town center.
What sets Molsheim apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Molsheim 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
Woodland8.8%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
36out of 100
Footpaths2.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
66out of 100
Hiking routes1.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
93out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Molsheim has the 21st fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (9,180 to 9,461 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Capbreton (5.9 km per km²) to Valréas (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capbreton Landes | 5.9 | 58% | 11% | On it |
| 2 | La Ravoire Savoie | 5.3 | 14% | 0% | 231 km |
| 3 | Le Crès Hérault | 5.2 | 9.9% | 0% | 12 km |
| 4 | Poisy Haute-Savoie | 5 | 33% | 0% | 263 km |
| 5 | Évian-les-Bains Haute-Savoie | 4.8 | 11% | 0% | 299 km |
| 6 | Ouistreham Calvados | 4.6 | 3.8% | 8.5% | On it |
| 7 | Jarville-la-Malgrange Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 369 km |
| 8 | Magny-les-Hameaux Yvelines | 4.1 | 29% | 100% | 149 km |
| 9 | Carqueiranne Var | 3.9 | 28% | 0.1% | On it |
| 10 | Vert-Saint-Denis Seine-et-Marne | 3.9 | 23% | 0% | 187 km |
| 11 | Condé-sur-l'Escaut Nord | 3.5 | 44% | 99% | 98 km |
| 12 | Fontaine-lès-Dijon Côte-d'Or | 3.4 | 2.6% | 0% | 400 km |
| 13 | Liffré Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.4 | 61% | 20% | 45 km |
| 14 | Arques Pas-de-Calais | 3.3 | 37% | 76% | 31 km |
| 15 | Rombas Moselle | 3.3 | 53% | 0% | 314 km |
| 16 | Le Passage Lot-et-Garonne | 3.2 | 7.8% | 9% | 131 km |
| 17 | Hagondange Moselle | 3.1 | 11% | 0% | 317 km |
| 18 | Mont-Saint-Martin Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.9 | 18% | 0% | 274 km |
| 19 | Dardilly Rhône | 2.8 | 20% | 0% | 256 km |
| 20 | Landivisiau Finistère | 2.8 | 12% | 0.8% | 14 km |
| 21 | Molsheim Bas-Rhin | 2.5 | 8.8% | 0% | 441 km |
| 22 | Sallaumines Pas-de-Calais | 2.4 | 8.1% | 0% | 77 km |
| 23 | Beuvry Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 14% | 0% | 61 km |
| 24 | Clermont-l'Hérault Hérault | 2 | 22% | 46% | 32 km |
| 25 | Sarzeau Morbihan | 2 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 26 | Les Sorinières Loire-Atlantique | 2 | 9.8% | 0% | 37 km |
| 27 | Guichen Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.8 | 11% | 0% | 60 km |
| 28 | Lescar Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.6 | 6.6% | 20% | 89 km |
| 29 | Chaponost Rhône | 1.5 | 12% | 0% | 245 km |
| 30 | Belley Ain | 1.4 | 19% | 0% | 261 km |
| 31 | Paray-le-Monial Saône-et-Loire | 1.3 | 20% | 0% | 321 km |
| 32 | Dombasle-sur-Meurthe Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1 | 17% | 0% | 380 km |
| 33 | Luçon Vendée | 0.9 | 1.1% | 100% | 16 km |
| 34 | Nogent-le-Rotrou Eure-et-Loir | 0.8 | 7.9% | 100% | 127 km |
| 35 | Livron-sur-Drôme Drôme | 0.8 | 11% | 4.3% | 147 km |
| 36 | Ussel Corrèze | 0.7 | 38% | 0.1% | 235 km |
| 37 | Le Teich Gironde | 0.6 | 81% | 100% | On it |
| 38 | Rivesaltes Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 13 km |
| 39 | Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 4.5% | 44% | 26 km |
| 40 | Tonneins Lot-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 2.8% | 3.5% | 99 km |
| 41 | Valréas Vaucluse | 0.1 | 21% | 0% | 104 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 Molsheim
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc des Jésuites leads, at 1.2 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc du Docteur Alfred Eichler
Park or garden
0.6 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
0.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Commanderie
Park or garden
1 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Molsheim
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Collines sèches du Bischenberg, de l’Immerschenberg et du Holiesel nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 4.7 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Collines sèches du Bischenberg, de l’Immerschenberg et du Holiesel nature reserve
4.7 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
27 km of footpaths and 17 km of hiking routes cross Molsheim
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
27 km
2.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked: 1.6 km per km²
Woodland
8.8%
about 0.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MolsheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths2.5
Hiking routes1.6
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MolsheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland8.8%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 66% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 64% 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 Molsheim is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 5347.4 km
Circuit des bornes7 km
GR 534 passes within 2 km of Molsheim.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Molsheim: April, August and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Strasbourg-Entzheim, 11 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 Molsheim →
Neighbors
Next to Molsheim
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
DorlisheimMutzigDuttlenheimRosheimBischoffsheimObernaiMolsheim
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molsheim | 0% | 8.8% | 2.5 |
| Dorlisheim 2,636 · 1.9 km | 0% | 12% | 2.1 |
| Mutzig 6,087 · 3.2 km | 0% | 44% | 3.4 |
| Duttlenheim 3,011 · 5.2 km | 0% | 4.2% | 1.2 |
| Rosheim 5,457 · 5.4 km | 0% | 57% | 1.7 |
| Bischoffsheim 3,342 · 6 km | 4.5% | 7% | 0.9 |
| Obernai 12,587 · 8.7 km | 1.9% | 16% | 2 |
Mutzig and Rosheim 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 Molsheim
Is Molsheim in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Collines sèches du Bischenberg, de l’Immerschenberg et du Holiesel nature reserve, 4.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Molsheim?
OpenStreetMap maps 27 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 17 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Molsheim is woodland?
8.8% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Molsheim near the sea?
No: the coast is 441 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Molsheim?
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.