First pick
La Peupleraie
Wood or forest
2.5 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Exincourt
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Thomas Bresson · CC BY 3.04%woodland
Outdoors in Exincourt · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Exincourt is within 800 m of a park or wood
12 km of footpaths cross Exincourt (3.3 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 4% of Exincourt. No protected area reaches Exincourt; the nearest, Basse Vallée de la Savoureuse nature reserve, is 3.6 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: Basse Vallée de la Savoureuse nature reserve, 3.6 km
Woodland
4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
12 km
3.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 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: La Peupleraie
Throughout this page, the Doubs 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 Exincourt?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths3.3 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyBasse Vallée de la Savoureuse nature reserve is 3.6 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland4% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Exincourt apart: its footpaths, then protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Exincourt 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
Woodland4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
19out of 100
Footpaths3.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
78out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Exincourt has the most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,240 to 3,315 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Exincourt (3.3 km per km²) to Albias (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exincourt Doubs | 3.3 | 4% | 0% | 416 km |
| 2 | Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie Seine-Maritime | 3.2 | 24% | 3.5% | 56 km |
| 3 | Lavérune Hérault | 3.1 | 6.9% | 0% | 11 km |
| 4 | Volx Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 3.1 | 37% | 100% | 71 km |
| 5 | Les Noës-près-Troyes Aube | 3.1 | 0% | 0% | 270 km |
| 6 | Luc-sur-Mer Calvados | 3 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 7 | Lespinasse Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 1.6% | 0% | 156 km |
| 8 | La Membrolle-sur-Choisille Indre-et-Loire | 2.2 | 19% | 0% | 184 km |
| 9 | Carantec Finistère | 2.2 | 3.6% | 14% | On it |
| 10 | Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon Loire-Atlantique | 2.2 | 18% | 31% | 29 km |
| 11 | Dieulefit Drôme | 2 | 66% | 0% | 120 km |
| 12 | Le Folgoët Finistère | 1.9 | 3.7% | 0% | 8.1 km |
| 13 | Bonne Haute-Savoie | 1.7 | 34% | 3.3% | 281 km |
| 14 | Mireval Hérault | 1.6 | 0.1% | 18% | 4.3 km |
| 15 | La Roche-Blanche Puy-de-Dôme | 1.5 | 12% | 7.8% | 249 km |
| 16 | Pontpoint Oise | 1.5 | 41% | 100% | 120 km |
| 17 | Bernis Gard | 1.4 | 26% | 2.6% | 28 km |
| 18 | Rostrenen Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 18% | 0% | 45 km |
| 19 | La Chapelle-Longueville Eure | 1.3 | 31% | 0% | 86 km |
| 20 | Montmorot Jura | 1.3 | 17% | 0% | 357 km |
| 21 | Magnac-sur-Touvre Charente | 1 | 22% | 3.1% | 82 km |
| 22 | Carling Moselle | 0.9 | 11% | 0% | 351 km |
| 23 | Montanay Rhône | 0.8 | 7.1% | 0% | 265 km |
| 24 | Offranville Seine-Maritime | 0.8 | 4.5% | 0% | 5.3 km |
| 25 | Moussy-le-Neuf Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 26% | 0.2% | 141 km |
| 26 | Frévent Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | 44 km |
| 27 | Podensac Gironde | 0.5 | 14% | 4.6% | 44 km |
| 28 | Gouville-sur-Mer Manche | 0.5 | 2.6% | 0.4% | 2.9 km |
| 29 | Rouans Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 5.5% | 30% | 18 km |
| 30 | Morhange Moselle | 0.5 | 7% | 0% | 367 km |
| 31 | Sainte-Florine Haute-Loire | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 213 km |
| 32 | Bavay Nord | 0.4 | 4% | 100% | 121 km |
| 33 | Dordives Loiret | 0.4 | 30% | 0% | 228 km |
| 34 | Azay-sur-Cher Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 15% | 0% | 189 km |
| 35 | Sarrola-Carcopino Corse-du-Sud | 0.3 | 6.7% | 0% | 6.1 km |
| 36 | Vonnas Ain | 0.3 | 9.9% | 0% | 304 km |
| 37 | Malissard Drôme | 0.3 | 0.3% | 0% | 161 km |
| 38 | Airvault Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 13% | 18% | 95 km |
| 39 | Puiseaux Loiret | 0.2 | 2.6% | 1% | 207 km |
| 40 | Ambès Gironde | 0.1 | 5.4% | 58% | 4.6 km |
| 41 | Albias Tarn-et-Garonne | 0 | 4.8% | 1.4% | 173 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 Exincourt
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: La Peupleraie leads, at 2.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Square de la Voivre
Park or garden
0.6 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Exincourt
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Basse Vallée de la Savoureuse nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 3.6 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Basse Vallée de la Savoureuse nature reserve
3.6 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
12 km of footpaths cross Exincourt
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
12 km
3.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
4%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ExincourtDoubs medianFrance median
Footpaths3.3
Hiking routes0
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ExincourtDoubs medianFrance median
Woodland4%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 78% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 81% 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 Exincourt is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)GR de Pays
GR 5 Vosges, Ballon d'Alsace - Fesches-le-Châtel0.9 km
GRP BF12 km
GR 5 Vosges, Ballon d'Alsace - Fesches-le-Châtel passes within 2 km of Exincourt.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Exincourt: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Joncherey, 13 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) | 8.8 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 15.9 | 15.6 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.2 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 83 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 102 | 93 | 84 | 98 | 83 | 101 | 98 | 109 |
February is the driest month (78 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 109 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 95 nights a year. The climate in Exincourt →
Neighbors
Next to Exincourt
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
SochauxAudincourtÉtupesMontbéliardVieux-CharmontValentigneyExincourt
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exincourt | 0% | 4% | 3.3 |
| Sochaux 3,721 · 2 km | 0% | 6.7% | 5.8 |
| Audincourt 14,071 · 2.2 km | 0% | 36% | 5.3 |
| Étupes 3,689 · 2.5 km | 0% | 54% | 3.5 |
| Montbéliard 24,672 · 2.9 km | 0% | 22% | 4.9 |
| Vieux-Charmont 2,786 · 3.1 km | 0.1% | 15% | 1.8 |
| Valentigney 10,501 · 3.6 km | 0% | 36% | 3.8 |
Audincourt, Étupes and Montbéliard 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 Exincourt
Is Exincourt in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Basse Vallée de la Savoureuse nature reserve, 3.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Exincourt?
OpenStreetMap maps 12 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Exincourt is woodland?
4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Exincourt near the sea?
No: the coast is 416 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Exincourt?
April and June 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.