First pick
Parc Bellevue
Park or garden · 280 m outside the commune
2.3 ha0.4 km of path
3.5 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Didivo67 · CC BY-SA 4.05.4%of the land protected
Outdoors in Schweighouse-sur-Moder · protected areas, woods and footpaths
40% of Schweighouse-sur-Moder is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 20 km across Schweighouse-sur-Moder (2 km per km²). 5.4% of Schweighouse-sur-Moder’s land lies in protected areas. Schweighouse-sur-Moder has 4 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
5.4%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
40%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
20 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.7 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Bellevue
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.
Against French towns
How Schweighouse-sur-Moder 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 areas5.4%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
66out of 100
Woodland40%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
85out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
57out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
52out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Schweighouse-sur-Moder has the 17th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,131 to 5,235 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From L'Étang-la-Ville (8.8 km per km²) to Pauillac (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L'Étang-la-Ville Yvelines | 8.8 | 62% | 0% | 137 km |
| 2 | Saint-Clément-de-Rivière Hérault | 6.3 | 43% | 2.7% | 18 km |
| 3 | Bassens Savoie | 6.2 | 18% | 0.1% | 234 km |
| 4 | Brou-sur-Chantereine Seine-et-Marne | 5.9 | 62% | 0% | 159 km |
| 5 | Vaux-sur-Seine Yvelines | 5.2 | 57% | 63% | 120 km |
| 6 | Coubron Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.9 | 49% | 41% | 154 km |
| 7 | Valdoie Territoire de Belfort | 4.6 | 52% | 0% | 435 km |
| 8 | Vernaison Rhône | 4 | 15% | 0% | 239 km |
| 9 | Le Bourget-du-Lac Savoie | 2.8 | 57% | 13% | 244 km |
| 10 | Loison-sous-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 2.3 | 3.6% | 0% | 75 km |
| 11 | Douvres-la-Délivrande Calvados | 2.3 | 4.4% | 0% | 3.4 km |
| 12 | Saint-Chéron Essonne | 2.2 | 49% | 0% | 162 km |
| 13 | Beynost Ain | 2.2 | 10% | 4.9% | 263 km |
| 14 | Baume-les-Dames Doubs | 2.1 | 61% | 19% | 406 km |
| 15 | Nuits-Saint-Georges Côte-d'Or | 2.1 | 25% | 69% | 403 km |
| 16 | Gauchy Aisne | 2 | 12% | 0% | 121 km |
| 17 | Schweighouse-sur-Moder Bas-Rhin | 2 | 40% | 5.4% | 432 km |
| 18 | Nans-les-Pins Var | 2 | 39% | 100% | 23 km |
| 19 | Seichamps Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.8 | 0.7% | 0% | 367 km |
| 20 | Forcalquier Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 17% | 100% | 76 km |
| 21 | Villerest Loire | 1.7 | 4.2% | 25% | 271 km |
| 22 | L'Hôpital Moselle | 1.6 | 18% | 0.3% | 353 km |
| 23 | Trilport Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 47% | 0% | 164 km |
| 24 | Laillé Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 21% | 0% | 61 km |
| 25 | Pont-l'Évêque Calvados | 1.4 | 3.4% | 0% | 12 km |
| 26 | Farébersviller Moselle | 1.2 | 1.7% | 0% | 363 km |
| 27 | Saint-Vit Doubs | 1.2 | 30% | 0% | 400 km |
| 28 | Gorges Loire-Atlantique | 1.1 | 10% | 0% | 52 km |
| 29 | Saint-Saturnin-lès-Avignon Vaucluse | 1.1 | 1.3% | 9.7% | 56 km |
| 30 | Scaër Finistère | 1 | 8.9% | 0% | 19 km |
| 31 | Le Cannet-des-Maures Var | 1 | 31% | 52% | 23 km |
| 32 | Mignaloux-Beauvoir Vienne | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 121 km |
| 33 | Tourves Var | 0.9 | 44% | 83% | 32 km |
| 34 | Marquise Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 1.2% | 100% | 6.8 km |
| 35 | Surzur Morbihan | 0.7 | 8.8% | 100% | On it |
| 36 | Villars-les-Dombes Ain | 0.7 | 12% | 67% | 281 km |
| 37 | Jonquières Vaucluse | 0.7 | 1.9% | 2.4% | 74 km |
| 38 | Villeneuve-sur-Yonne Yonne | 0.6 | 34% | 0% | 260 km |
| 39 | Ferrière-la-Grande Nord | 0.4 | 8.1% | 100% | 133 km |
| 40 | Longuyon Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.4 | 39% | 0% | 274 km |
| 41 | Pauillac Gironde | 0.2 | 7.2% | 99% | On it |
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 Schweighouse-sur-Moder
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Bellevue leads, at 2.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
5.4% of Schweighouse-sur-Moder lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Massif forestier de Haguenau
5.4% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area5.4%
Natura 2000 site5.4%
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.
5.4% of Schweighouse-sur-Moder’s land is protected, more than in 66% 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
20 km of footpaths cross Schweighouse-sur-Moder
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
20 km
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.7 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
40%
about 4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Schweighouse-sur-ModerBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes0.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Schweighouse-sur-ModerBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland40%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 57% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 85% 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 Schweighouse-sur-Moder is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Sentier de la Moder9.7 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Schweighouse-sur-Moder: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Preuschdorf, 15 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 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 5 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 16 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 77 | 65 | 64 | 51 | 76 | 64 | 69 | 59 | 62 | 75 | 79 | 92 |
April is the driest month (51 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 92 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 66 nights a year. The climate in Schweighouse-sur-Moder →
Neighbors
Next to Schweighouse-sur-Moder
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
HaguenauMertzwillerWeitbruchVal-de-ModerGriesBrumathSchweighouse-sur-Moder
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schweighouse-sur-Moder | 5.4% | 40% | 2 |
| Haguenau 36,391 · 4.5 km | 76% | 81% | 1 |
| Mertzwiller 3,343 · 5.9 km | 8.6% | 11% | 0.7 |
| Weitbruch 2,711 · 8 km | 0% | 42% | 0.4 |
| Val-de-Moder 5,102 · 9 km | 0.1% | 5.9% | 0.5 |
| Gries 2,868 · 9.7 km | 0% | 39% | 0.4 |
| Brumath 10,499 · 10 km | 0% | 32% | 0.8 |
Haguenau has at least twice as much protected land. Haguenau 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 Schweighouse-sur-Moder
Is Schweighouse-sur-Moder in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 5.4% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Schweighouse-sur-Moder?
OpenStreetMap maps 20 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Schweighouse-sur-Moder is woodland?
40% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Schweighouse-sur-Moder near the sea?
No: the coast is 432 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Schweighouse-sur-Moder?
April 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 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.