First pick
Bois de Zutzendorf
Wood or forest · 170 m outside the commune
82 ha0.4 km of path
3.4 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Tristan Schmurr · CC BY 2.05.9%woodland
Outdoors in Val-de-Moder · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Val-de-Moder
Footpaths add up to 4 km across Val-de-Moder (0.5 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 7 km in Val-de-Moder. No protected area reaches Val-de-Moder; the nearest, Massif forestier de Haguenau (Natura 2000), is 2 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.1%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Massif forestier de Haguenau, 2 km
Woodland
5.9%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
4.3 km
0.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
84%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
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 Val-de-Moder?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes7 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyMassif forestier de Haguenau (Natura 2000) is 2 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.5 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Val-de-Moder apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Val-de-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 areas0.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
50out of 100
Woodland5.9%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
27out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
13out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
75out of 100
Green space nearby84%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
4out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Val-de-Moder has the 7th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,062 to 5,145 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Giberville (5.1 km per km²) to Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giberville Calvados | 5.1 | 3.2% | 0% | 11 km |
| 2 | Pulnoy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.7 | 25% | 0% | 368 km |
| 3 | Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 4.3 | 45% | 17% | 95 km |
| 4 | Billy-Berclau Pas-de-Calais | 4 | 15% | 0% | 67 km |
| 5 | Ornex Ain | 3.2 | 22% | 0% | 299 km |
| 6 | Sommières Gard | 2.8 | 21% | 1.3% | 25 km |
| 7 | Le Val d'Hazey Eure | 2.6 | 32% | 0.3% | 77 km |
| 8 | Châteaulin Finistère | 2.5 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 9 | Dives-sur-Mer Calvados | 2.5 | 8.8% | 0% | 1.2 km |
| 10 | Haillicourt Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 63 km |
| 11 | Douvres-la-Délivrande Calvados | 2.3 | 4.4% | 0% | 3.4 km |
| 12 | Saint-Georges-de-Didonne Charente-Maritime | 2.3 | 19% | 37% | On it |
| 13 | Saint-Chéron Essonne | 2.2 | 49% | 0% | 162 km |
| 14 | Bonnières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.1 | 45% | 20% | 99 km |
| 15 | Baden Morbihan | 1.8 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 16 | Cucq Pas-de-Calais | 1.5 | 2.7% | 8.6% | On it |
| 17 | Yffiniac Côtes-d'Armor | 1.5 | 4.4% | 0.1% | 1.8 km |
| 18 | La Ferté Macé Orne | 1.4 | 27% | 100% | 73 km |
| 19 | Pont-l'Évêque Calvados | 1.4 | 3.4% | 0% | 12 km |
| 20 | Chavanoz Isère | 1.3 | 12% | 0% | 258 km |
| 21 | Genlis Côte-d'Or | 1.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 418 km |
| 22 | Villefranche-de-Lauragais Haute-Garonne | 1.2 | 0.5% | 0% | 117 km |
| 23 | Saint-Vit Doubs | 1.2 | 30% | 0% | 400 km |
| 24 | Muzillac Morbihan | 1 | 4.9% | 7.8% | On it |
| 25 | Villenoy Seine-et-Marne | 1 | 4.7% | 0% | 161 km |
| 26 | Maen Roch Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 3.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 27 | Le Cannet-des-Maures Var | 1 | 31% | 52% | 23 km |
| 28 | Faulquemont Moselle | 0.9 | 22% | 0% | 354 km |
| 29 | Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez Loire | 0.8 | 25% | 1.8% | 215 km |
| 30 | Luynes Indre-et-Loire | 0.8 | 39% | 3.5% | 176 km |
| 31 | Aÿ-Champagne Marne | 0.7 | 16% | 100% | 211 km |
| 32 | Blaye Gironde | 0.7 | 2.7% | 58% | On it |
| 33 | Habsheim Haut-Rhin | 0.7 | 49% | 50% | 438 km |
| 34 | Villeneuve-sur-Yonne Yonne | 0.6 | 34% | 0% | 260 km |
| 35 | Val-de-Moder Bas-Rhin | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0.1% | 424 km |
| 36 | Ferrière-la-Grande Nord | 0.4 | 8.1% | 100% | 133 km |
| 37 | Sully-sur-Loire Loiret | 0.4 | 25% | 40% | 238 km |
| 38 | Longuyon Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.4 | 39% | 0% | 274 km |
| 39 | Villeneuve-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.1% | 36% | 5.1 km |
| 40 | Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche Corrèze | 0.2 | 25% | 0.3% | 161 km |
| 41 | Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 7% | 0% | 62 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 Val-de-Moder
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Zutzendorf leads, at 82 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Sandwald
Wood or forest · 330 m outside the commune
50 ha
3.3 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois de Ringeldorf
Wood or forest
30 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
1.6 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
8 in 10 residents of Val-de-Moder live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
84% within 800 m16% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
Val-de-ModerBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Within 800 m84%
0%50%100%
About 800 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
Massif forestier de Haguenau is the nearest protected area, 2 km away
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
2 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.1%
Natura 2000 site0.1%
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
4 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Val-de-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
4.3 km
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
7 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
5.9%
about 0.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Val-de-ModerBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0.8
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Val-de-ModerBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland5.9%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 87% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 73% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Tour du Pays de la Zorn14 km
Sentier de la Moder12 km
Grand Circuit Du Stocklach8.3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Val-de-Moder: 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 Val-de-Moder →
Neighbors
Next to Val-de-Moder
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MertzwillerGundershoffenSchweighouse-sur-ModerReichshoffenIngwillerHochfeldenVal-de-Moder
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Val-de-Moder | 0.1% | 5.9% | 0.5 |
| Mertzwiller 3,343 · 5.5 km | 8.6% | 11% | 0.7 |
| Gundershoffen 3,834 · 7.4 km | 0.1% | 23% | 0.3 |
| Schweighouse-sur-Moder 5,182 · 9 km | 5.4% | 40% | 2 |
| Reichshoffen 5,418 · 10 km | 100% | 27% | 0.5 |
| Ingwiller 3,995 · 11 km | 100% | 61% | 1.2 |
| Hochfelden 4,038 · 11 km | 0% | 6.8% | 0.7 |
Reichshoffen and Ingwiller have at least twice as much protected land. Gundershoffen, Schweighouse-sur-Moder and Reichshoffen are 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 Val-de-Moder
Is Val-de-Moder in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Massif forestier de Haguenau, 2 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Val-de-Moder?
OpenStreetMap maps 4 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Val-de-Moder is woodland?
5.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Val-de-Moder near the sea?
No: the coast is 424 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Val-de-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 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.