First pick
Roseraie du Neuland
Park or garden
0.4 ha
1 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Gzen92 · CC BY-SA 4.057%woodland
Outdoors in Rosheim · protected areas, woods and footpaths
57% of Rosheim is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Rosheim has 67 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Rosheim; the nearest, Collines sèches du Bischenberg, de l’Immerschenberg et du Holiesel nature reserve, is 0.9 km from the town center. 51 km of footpaths cross Rosheim (1.7 km per km²). 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, 0.9 km
Woodland
57%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
51 km
1.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
67 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: Roseraie du Neuland
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 Rosheim?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune57% mapped woodland, more than in 94% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes67 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 0.9 km from the town center.
What sets Rosheim apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Rosheim 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
Woodland57%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
94out of 100
Footpaths1.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
51out of 100
Hiking routes2.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
97out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Rosheim has the 18th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,400 to 5,513 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Heillecourt (6.1 km per km²) to Noyant-Villages (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heillecourt Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.1 | 1.5% | 0% | 369 km |
| 2 | Marsannay-la-Côte Côte-d'Or | 6 | 47% | 49% | 405 km |
| 3 | Marles-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.6 | 3.7% | 0% | 57 km |
| 4 | Crégy-lès-Meaux Seine-et-Marne | 3.5 | 10% | 0% | 159 km |
| 5 | Le Cendre Puy-de-Dôme | 3.4 | 3.3% | 1.8% | 249 km |
| 6 | Chevreuse Yvelines | 2.9 | 50% | 100% | 147 km |
| 7 | Saint-Genis-les-Ollières Rhône | 2.5 | 14% | 0% | 250 km |
| 8 | Penmarch Finistère | 2.5 | 0% | 18% | On it |
| 9 | Roques Haute-Garonne | 2.4 | 4.3% | 40% | 148 km |
| 10 | Peyrolles-en-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 63% | 69% | 38 km |
| 11 | La Roque-d'Anthéron Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.3 | 36% | 51% | 39 km |
| 12 | Le Boulou Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 19% | 7.4% | 18 km |
| 13 | Plouhinec Morbihan | 2 | 24% | 32% | On it |
| 14 | Guînes Pas-de-Calais | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 10 km |
| 15 | Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours Seine-et-Marne | 1.8 | 45% | 29% | 214 km |
| 16 | Wervicq-Sud Nord | 1.8 | 3% | 0% | 48 km |
| 17 | Ollainville Essonne | 1.7 | 37% | 0% | 165 km |
| 18 | Rosheim Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 57% | 0% | 443 km |
| 19 | Rousset Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 7.1% | 7.7% | 27 km |
| 20 | Arnage Sarthe | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 138 km |
| 21 | Flers-en-Escrebieux Nord | 1.5 | 12% | 1% | 85 km |
| 22 | Foulayronnes Lot-et-Garonne | 1.4 | 9.9% | 0% | 130 km |
| 23 | Lacroix-Saint-Ouen Oise | 1.2 | 73% | 76% | 121 km |
| 24 | Coulogne Pas-de-Calais | 1.2 | 1.1% | 0% | 4.7 km |
| 25 | Grans Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.2 | 13% | 43% | 22 km |
| 26 | Aiffres Deux-Sèvres | 1 | 3.4% | 14% | 54 km |
| 27 | Neuville-de-Poitou Vienne | 1 | 0.3% | 26% | 114 km |
| 28 | Fenain Nord | 1 | 10% | 99% | 97 km |
| 29 | Drap Alpes-Maritimes | 0.8 | 33% | 0% | 4.8 km |
| 30 | Saint-Memmie Marne | 0.7 | 4.7% | 0% | 239 km |
| 31 | La Ferrière Vendée | 0.7 | 9.6% | 0% | 38 km |
| 32 | Boulay-Moselle Moselle | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 339 km |
| 33 | Mouguerre Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.5 | 40% | 7.9% | 11 km |
| 34 | Reichshoffen Bas-Rhin | 0.5 | 27% | 100% | 420 km |
| 35 | Étoile-sur-Rhône Drôme | 0.5 | 8.7% | 1.6% | 154 km |
| 36 | Ploumagoar Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 20% | 0% | 19 km |
| 37 | Châtillon-sur-Seine Côte-d'Or | 0.4 | 12% | 100% | 334 km |
| 38 | Ernée Mayenne | 0.3 | 1.4% | 0.1% | 48 km |
| 39 | Aubigny-sur-Nère Cher | 0.3 | 25% | 24% | 265 km |
| 40 | Nueil-les-Aubiers Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 83 km |
| 41 | Noyant-Villages Maine-et-Loire | 0.1 | 23% | 13% | 164 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 Rosheim
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Roseraie du Neuland leads, at 0.4 ha. Directions go to 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, 0.9 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
0.9 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
51 km of footpaths and 67 km of hiking routes cross Rosheim
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
51 km
1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
67 km
waymarked: 2.2 km per km²
Woodland
57%
about 17.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RosheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths1.7
Hiking routes2.2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RosheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland57%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 51% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 94% 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 Rosheim is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
8 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 53111 km
GR 5326.8 km
Circuit des Balcons12 km
Circuit du Vignoble8.8 km
Le parcours du vigneron7.2 km
Le Sentier des Demoiselles de Pierre3.7 km
Circuit du Bischenberg1.1 km
Circuit des bornes0.5 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Rosheim: GR 531 and GR 532.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Rosheim: April, August and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Strasbourg-Entzheim, 14 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 Rosheim →
Neighbors
Next to Rosheim
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BischoffsheimDorlisheimObernaiMutzigMolsheimDuttlenheimRosheim
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosheim | 0% | 57% | 1.7 |
| Bischoffsheim 3,342 · 2.2 km | 4.5% | 7% | 0.9 |
| Dorlisheim 2,636 · 3.5 km | 0% | 12% | 2.1 |
| Obernai 12,587 · 4 km | 1.9% | 16% | 2 |
| Mutzig 6,087 · 4.7 km | 0% | 44% | 3.4 |
| Molsheim 9,318 · 5.4 km | 0% | 8.8% | 2.5 |
| Duttlenheim 3,011 · 8 km | 0% | 4.2% | 1.2 |
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 Rosheim
Is Rosheim 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, 0.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Rosheim?
OpenStreetMap maps 51 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 67 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Rosheim is woodland?
57% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Rosheim near the sea?
No: the coast is 443 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Rosheim?
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.