First pick
Parcours de santé d'Ostwald
Park or garden
33 ha4.4 km of path
1 hto walk all 4.4 km of path
1.2 km south-eastfrom the center
Parcours Sportif d'OstwaldRue de la Nachtweid
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Cayambe · CC BY-SA 4.010%woodland
Outdoors in Ostwald · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Ostwald has more footpaths per km² than 8 in 10 French towns
29 km of footpaths cross Ostwald (4 km per km²). Ostwald has 6 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Ostwald; the nearest, Massif Forestier de Strasbourg-Neuhof/Illkirch-Graffenstaden nature reserve, is 2.7 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: Massif Forestier de Strasbourg-Neuhof/Illkirch-Graffenstaden nature reserve, 2.7 km
Woodland
10%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
29 km
4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.3 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
8
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parcours de santé d'Ostwald
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 Ostwald?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths4 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.On waymarked routes6 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyMassif Forestier de Strasbourg-Neuhof/Illkirch-Graffenstaden nature reserve is 2.7 km from the town center.
What sets Ostwald apart: its footpaths, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Ostwald 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
Woodland10%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
42out of 100
Footpaths4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
85out of 100
Hiking routes0.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
80out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Ostwald has the 13th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (13,527 to 14,382 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lieusaint (8.8 km per km²) to Castelsarrasin (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lieusaint Seine-et-Marne | 8.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 178 km |
| 2 | Vaires-sur-Marne Seine-et-Marne | 7.7 | 21% | 11% | 161 km |
| 3 | Chenôve Côte-d'Or | 6.5 | 10% | 17% | 403 km |
| 4 | Avon Seine-et-Marne | 6.4 | 30% | 27% | 206 km |
| 5 | Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande Ille-et-Vilaine | 5.9 | 8.1% | 0% | 50 km |
| 6 | Audincourt Doubs | 5.3 | 36% | 0% | 414 km |
| 7 | Auray Morbihan | 5 | 8.3% | 100% | On it |
| 8 | Fleury-Mérogis Essonne | 4.2 | 35% | 0% | 170 km |
| 9 | Lys-lez-Lannoy Nord | 4.2 | 3.9% | 0% | 64 km |
| 10 | Juvignac Hérault | 4.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 14 km |
| 11 | Gex Ain | 4.2 | 63% | 72% | 306 km |
| 12 | Lons Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 4.2 | 7.7% | 9% | 92 km |
| 13 | Ostwald Bas-Rhin | 4 | 10% | 0% | 452 km |
| 14 | Andrésy Yvelines | 3.8 | 23% | 0% | 126 km |
| 15 | Fontenay-le-Fleury Yvelines | 3.3 | 8% | 0% | 141 km |
| 16 | Douarnenez Finistère | 3.3 | 16% | 3.8% | On it |
| 17 | Montataire Oise | 2.9 | 11% | 0.1% | 116 km |
| 18 | Rixheim Haut-Rhin | 2.8 | 41% | 23% | 441 km |
| 19 | Caudry Nord | 2.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 123 km |
| 20 | Persan Val-d'Oise | 2.5 | 0.3% | 0.1% | 120 km |
| 21 | Carros Alpes-Maritimes | 2.3 | 25% | 64% | 11 km |
| 22 | Roncq Nord | 2.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 53 km |
| 23 | Bollène Vaucluse | 2.2 | 28% | 9.5% | 93 km |
| 24 | Plouzané Finistère | 2.2 | 8% | 0% | On it |
| 25 | Sainte-Maxime Var | 2.1 | 65% | 19% | On it |
| 26 | Morangis Essonne | 2.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 163 km |
| 27 | Crépy-en-Valois Oise | 2 | 16% | 0% | 137 km |
| 28 | Pont-à-Mousson Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.8 | 31% | 0.4% | 341 km |
| 29 | Argentan Orne | 1.7 | 2.2% | 11% | 62 km |
| 30 | Hautmont Nord | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 130 km |
| 31 | Saint-Omer Pas-de-Calais | 1.6 | 2.8% | 100% | 28 km |
| 32 | Mions Rhône | 1.5 | 1.3% | 0% | 244 km |
| 33 | Berre-l'Étang Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 1.1% | 15% | 16 km |
| 34 | Amilly Loiret | 1.2 | 33% | 0% | 240 km |
| 35 | Belleville-en-Beaujolais Rhône | 1.1 | 5.4% | 7.1% | 288 km |
| 36 | Fontenay-le-Comte Vendée | 1.1 | 2% | 100% | 31 km |
| 37 | Méru Oise | 0.8 | 16% | 0% | 106 km |
| 38 | Pierrelatte Drôme | 0.7 | 2.8% | 4.4% | 103 km |
| 39 | Saint-Martin-de-Crau Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.4 | 3.6% | 91% | 21 km |
| 40 | Thouars Deux-Sèvres | 0.3 | 12% | 0.4% | 102 km |
| 41 | Castelsarrasin Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 5.6% | 6.8% | 173 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 Ostwald
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parcours de santé d'Ostwald leads, at 33 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Niederwald
Wood or forest
28 ha2.9 km of path
40 minto walk all 2.9 km of path
1.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Bonnes Gens
Park or garden · 10 m outside the commune
1.7 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
1.4 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Olympe de Gouges
Park or garden · 140 m outside the commune
0.7 ha0.4 km of path
1.4 km north-westfrom the center
Allée Marie Laurencin
Directionsto a point inside
Square Europa
Park or garden · 40 m outside the commune
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
1.5 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Klinglin
Park or garden · 260 m outside the commune
0.4 ha
1.8 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Place Memling
Park or garden · 110 m outside the commune
0.5 ha
1.9 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square René Laënnec
Park or garden · 30 m outside the commune
0.4 ha
1.2 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Massif Forestier de Strasbourg-Neuhof/Illkirch-Graffenstaden nature reserve 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.
Nature reserve
Massif Forestier de Strasbourg-Neuhof/Illkirch-Graffenstaden nature reserve
2.7 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
Footpaths and woods in Ostwald
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
29 km
4 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.3 km
waymarked: 0.9 km per km²
Woodland
10%
about 0.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
OstwaldBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths4
Hiking routes0.9
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
OstwaldBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland10%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 85% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 58% 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 Ostwald is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 5344.7 km
Sentier de l'Ill13 km
La ceinture verte autour de Strasbourg4.1 km
Parcours Sportif d’Illkirch1.5 km
GR 534 passes within 2 km of Ostwald.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Ostwald: April, August and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Strasbourg-Entzheim, 5.1 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 Ostwald →
Neighbors
Next to Ostwald
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
LingolsheimIllkirch-GraffenstadenEckbolsheimStrasbourgGeispolsheimWolfisheimOstwald
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ostwald | 0% | 10% | 4 |
| Lingolsheim 20,826 · 2 km | 0% | 4.5% | 3.7 |
| Illkirch-Graffenstaden 27,872 · 2.3 km | 26% | 30% | 3.9 |
| Eckbolsheim 7,157 · 3.9 km | 0% | 7.3% | 3.1 |
| Strasbourg 293,771 · 4.2 km | 22% | 17% | 6.4 |
| Geispolsheim 7,919 · 5.1 km | 0.5% | 17% | 1.1 |
| Wolfisheim 4,217 · 5.3 km | 0% | 7.5% | 1.6 |
Illkirch-Graffenstaden and Strasbourg 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 Ostwald
Is Ostwald in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Massif Forestier de Strasbourg-Neuhof/Illkirch-Graffenstaden nature reserve, 2.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Ostwald?
OpenStreetMap maps 29 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Ostwald is woodland?
10% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Ostwald near the sea?
No: the coast is 452 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Ostwald?
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.