First pick
Forêt domaniale de Phalsbourg
Wood or forest
2,029 ha46.1 km of path
10 h 15 minto walk all 46.1 km of path
8.3 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Paul.schrepfer · CC BY-SA 4.065%woodland
Outdoors in Saverne · protected areas, woods and footpaths
65% of Saverne is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Saverne has 33 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 65 km across Saverne (2.5 km per km²). No protected area reaches Saverne; the nearest, Vosges du Nord Regional Nature Park, is 1.9 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: Vosges du Nord Regional Nature Park, 1.9 km
Woodland
65%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
65 km
2.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
33 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: Forêt domaniale de Phalsbourg
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 Saverne?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune65% mapped woodland, more than in 97% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes33 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyVosges du Nord Regional Nature Park is 1.9 km from the town center.
What sets Saverne apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Saverne 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
46out of 100
Woodland65%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
97out of 100
Footpaths2.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
66out of 100
Hiking routes1.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
89out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saverne has the 20th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (11,271 to 11,658 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Épinay-sous-Sénart (10.3 km per km²) to Pia (0.5 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Épinay-sous-Sénart Essonne | 10.3 | 54% | 0% | 171 km |
| 2 | Villecresnes Val-de-Marne | 6.5 | 27% | 0% | 170 km |
| 3 | Enghien-les-Bains Val-d'Oise | 5.4 | 0% | 0% | 137 km |
| 4 | Sassenage Isère | 4.6 | 48% | 50% | 205 km |
| 5 | Briançon Hautes-Alpes | 4.4 | 62% | 0% | 142 km |
| 6 | Gravelines Nord | 3.9 | 7.7% | 0% | On it |
| 7 | Gaillard Haute-Savoie | 3.9 | 14% | 8% | 286 km |
| 8 | Maizières-lès-Metz Moselle | 3.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 319 km |
| 9 | Plan-de-Cuques Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 0.6% | 59% | 8.8 km |
| 10 | Le Haillan Gironde | 3.2 | 18% | 3.4% | 16 km |
| 11 | Yvetot Seine-Maritime | 3 | 3.5% | 100% | 28 km |
| 12 | Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon Essonne | 3 | 16% | 0% | 167 km |
| 13 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer Var | 2.9 | 30% | 25% | On it |
| 14 | Dourdan Essonne | 2.8 | 58% | 0% | 157 km |
| 15 | Saint-Estève Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.8 | 2.8% | 0.5% | 16 km |
| 16 | Panazol Haute-Vienne | 2.7 | 21% | 0% | 167 km |
| 17 | Tournon-sur-Rhône Ardèche | 2.5 | 41% | 12% | 177 km |
| 18 | Ploufragan Côtes-d'Armor | 2.5 | 13% | 0.2% | 5.7 km |
| 19 | Corbas Rhône | 2.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 243 km |
| 20 | Saverne Bas-Rhin | 2.5 | 65% | 0% | 418 km |
| 21 | Nœux-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 2.4 | 4.6% | 0% | 66 km |
| 22 | Vaux-le-Pénil Seine-et-Marne | 2.4 | 27% | 0% | 194 km |
| 23 | Ancenis-Saint-Géréon Loire-Atlantique | 2.4 | 10% | 27% | 71 km |
| 24 | Castelginest Haute-Garonne | 2.4 | 1.3% | 0% | 151 km |
| 25 | Montlouis-sur-Loire Indre-et-Loire | 2.1 | 15% | 7.6% | 192 km |
| 26 | La Roche-sur-Foron Haute-Savoie | 2.1 | 21% | 0% | 270 km |
| 27 | Bruay-sur-l'Escaut Nord | 2.1 | 14% | 98% | 102 km |
| 28 | Méricourt Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 4.3% | 0% | 79 km |
| 29 | Les Avirons Réunion | 1.7 | 47% | 78% | On it |
| 30 | Fourmies Nord | 1.6 | 48% | 100% | 157 km |
| 31 | Provins Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 6.6% | 0% | 215 km |
| 32 | Bolbec Seine-Maritime | 1.5 | 7.1% | 0% | 17 km |
| 33 | Chauny Aisne | 1.2 | 5.7% | 10% | 127 km |
| 34 | Villefranche-de-Rouergue Aveyron | 1.2 | 30% | 0.5% | 159 km |
| 35 | Biganos Gironde | 1.1 | 71% | 100% | On it |
| 36 | Thiers Puy-de-Dôme | 1 | 43% | 100% | 259 km |
| 37 | La Hague Manche | 1 | 5.5% | 14% | On it |
| 38 | Saint-Junien Haute-Vienne | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 139 km |
| 39 | Pontchâteau Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.4% | 24% | 16 km |
| 40 | Le Luc Var | 0.5 | 19% | 10% | 25 km |
| 41 | Pia Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 10 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 Saverne
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale de Phalsbourg leads, at 2,029 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
La Roseraie
Park or garden
1 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
0.7 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin Botanique de Saverne
Park or garden
2.5 ha
2 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vosges du Nord Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 1.9 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Vosges du Nord Regional Nature Park
1.9 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.
A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
65 km of footpaths and 33 km of hiking routes cross Saverne
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
65 km
2.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
33 km
waymarked: 1.3 km per km²
Woodland
65%
about 17 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
SaverneBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths2.5
Hiking routes1.3
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
SaverneBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland65%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 66% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 97% 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 Saverne is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
21 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 53113 km
GR 5320.6 km
Tres Tabernae trail10 km
Circulaire de Danne7.3 km
Circuit de la Forêt des Dames6.6 km
Circulaire Gustave Hentz5 km
Circulaire anneau rouge4.8 km
Croix bleue4.6 km
Circulaire du Centenaire3.7 km
Circulaire du Bannwald3.6 km
Saverne - Grotte Saint-Vit3.5 km
Sentier sylvicole3.4 km
+9 more
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Saverne: GR 531 and GR 532.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saverne: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Phalsbourg_Sapc, 5.2 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 | 15.8 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 4 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 14 | 8 | 5 |
| Rain (mm) | 68 | 64 | 67 | 54 | 81 | 69 | 72 | 73 | 72 | 83 | 75 | 87 |
April is the driest month (54 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 87 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 65 nights a year. The climate in Saverne →
Gardens
3 gardens to visit in Saverne
Named gardens in the commune.
Jardin Botanique de SaverneIn Saverne
DirectionsJardin botanique du col de SaverneIn Saverne
DirectionsRoseraie de SaverneIn Saverne
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Saverne
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MarmoutierDettwillerPhalsbourgBouxwillerWasselonneHochfeldenSaverne
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saverne | 0% | 65% | 2.5 |
| Marmoutier 2,699 · 5.5 km | 0% | 28% | 1.3 |
| Dettwiller 2,558 · 7.7 km | 0% | 4.9% | 0.4 |
| Phalsbourg 4,688 · 8 km | 25% | 19% | 0.5 |
| Bouxwiller 3,754 · 12 km | 0.3% | 11% | 0.7 |
| Wasselonne 5,780 · 13 km | 0% | 18% | 1 |
| Hochfelden 4,038 · 15 km | 0% | 6.8% | 0.7 |
Phalsbourg has at least twice as much protected land.
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 Saverne
Is Saverne in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vosges du Nord Regional Nature Park, 1.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Saverne?
OpenStreetMap maps 65 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); 33 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saverne is woodland?
65% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saverne near the sea?
No: the coast is 418 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saverne?
May to 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.