Photo: Gerd Eichmann · CC BY-SA 4.046% of Soufflenheim is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
No protected area reaches Soufflenheim; the nearest, Forêt de Haguenau (Natura 2000), is 0.9 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 24 km across Soufflenheim (1.8 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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 outdoors place is Soufflenheim?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Soufflenheim apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
How Soufflenheim 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Soufflenheim has the 14th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,700 to 4,780 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Pompey (5.3 km per km²) to Sanilhac (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pompey Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.3 | 68% | 0% | 356 km |
| 2 | Munster Haut-Rhin | 3.6 | 55% | 100% | 464 km |
| 3 | Chasseneuil-du-Poitou Vienne | 3.4 | 6.9% | 30% | 121 km |
| 4 | Le Trait Seine-Maritime | 3.1 | 63% | 100% | 33 km |
| 5 | Reichstett Bas-Rhin | 2.9 | 18% | 0% | 446 km |
| 6 | L'Hermitage Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.8 | 4.9% | 0% | 43 km |
| 7 | La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.7 | 3% | 0% | 40 km |
| 8 | Dagneux Ain | 2.5 | 18% | 0% | 266 km |
| 9 | Chavagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.4 | 8% | 0% | 51 km |
| 10 | Village-Neuf Haut-Rhin | 2.2 | 9% | 36% | 424 km |
| 11 | Écouflant Maine-et-Loire | 2.1 | 10% | 46% | 123 km |
| 12 | Clohars-Carnoët Finistère | 2 | 24% | 1.3% | On it |
| 13 | Ingersheim Haut-Rhin | 2 | 17% | 1.3% | 469 km |
| 14 | Soufflenheim Bas-Rhin | 1.8 | 46% | 0.8% | 444 km |
| 15 | La Haie-Fouassière Loire-Atlantique | 1.7 | 12% | 0% | 47 km |
| 16 | Saint-Martin-des-Champs Finistère | 1.7 | 17% | 1.4% | On it |
| 17 | Locminé Morbihan | 1.6 | 7.8% | 0% | 24 km |
| 18 | Marvejols Lozère | 1.6 | 19% | 0.1% | 125 km |
| 19 | Limas Rhône | 1.4 | 8.5% | 0% | 273 km |
| 20 | Sadirac Gironde | 1.4 | 37% | 3.6% | 29 km |
| 21 | Saint-Romain-de-Colbosc Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 3.5% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 22 | Grésy-sur-Aix Savoie | 1.3 | 26% | 1.2% | 248 km |
| 23 | Verneuil-en-Halatte Oise | 1.3 | 49% | 58% | 117 km |
| 24 | Vermelles Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 0.5% | 0% | 67 km |
| 25 | Vittel Vosges | 1.1 | 23% | 0% | 381 km |
| 26 | Mirecourt Vosges | 1 | 20% | 0% | 386 km |
| 27 | La Charité-sur-Loire Nièvre | 0.8 | 9.6% | 13% | 319 km |
| 28 | Casteljaloux Lot-et-Garonne | 0.7 | 49% | 0.8% | 94 km |
| 29 | La Plaine-sur-Mer Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 6% | 0.1% | On it |
| 30 | Sanguinet Landes | 0.6 | 73% | 21% | 14 km |
| 31 | Les Monts d'Aunay Calvados | 0.6 | 23% | 25% | 37 km |
| 32 | Saint-Méloir-des-Ondes Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.5 | 4.3% | 0.1% | On it |
| 33 | Venansault Vendée | 0.5 | 6.2% | 0% | 27 km |
| 34 | Salies-de-Béarn Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.5 | 34% | 27% | 46 km |
| 35 | La Ferté-Gaucher Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 7.6% | 0% | 195 km |
| 36 | Beuzeville Eure | 0.4 | 2.8% | 0% | 10 km |
| 37 | Saint-Germain-du-Puy Cher | 0.4 | 7.4% | 0% | 290 km |
| 38 | Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire Charente | 0.4 | 3.4% | 7.8% | 46 km |
| 39 | Aigondigné Deux-Sèvres | 0.4 | 1.6% | 61% | 66 km |
| 40 | Samer Pas-de-Calais | 0.3 | 20% | 100% | 12 km |
| 41 | Sanilhac Dordogne | 0.1 | 56% | 0% | 105 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Forêt de Haguenau 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.
Forêt de Haguenau
Massif forestier de Haguenau
Share of the commune’s land
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.
24 km of footpaths cross Soufflenheim
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is more than in 53% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 89% 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 Soufflenheim is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Soufflenheim: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Preuschdorf, 17 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 Soufflenheim →
Next to Soufflenheim
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soufflenheim | 0.8% | 46% | 1.8 |
| Drusenheim 5,388 · 7.4 km | 17% | 29% | 0.8 |
| Oberhoffen-sur-Moder 3,992 · 8.6 km | 11% | 25% | 1.7 |
| Betschdorf 4,231 · 8.8 km | 49% | 41% | 0.2 |
| Bischwiller 12,242 · 10 km | 0% | 7.2% | 1.2 |
| Herrlisheim 4,694 · 12 km | 3.3% | 6.9% | 0.3 |
| Haguenau 36,391 · 13 km | 76% | 81% | 1 |
Drusenheim, Oberhoffen-sur-Moder and Betschdorf have at least twice as much protected land. Haguenau is more wooded.
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 Soufflenheim
Is Soufflenheim in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Forêt de Haguenau, 0.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Soufflenheim?
OpenStreetMap maps 24 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Soufflenheim is woodland?
46% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Soufflenheim near the sea?
No: the coast is 444 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Soufflenheim?
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 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.