First pick
Forêt domaniale de la Hardt
Wood or forest
13,453 ha65.3 km of path
14 h 30 minto walk all 65.3 km of path
21 km northfrom the center
Sentier DécouverteParcours de santéSentier Sylvicole+1 path
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: ODLG · CC BY-SA 3.029%of the land protected
Outdoors in Bartenheim · protected areas, woods and footpaths
29% of Bartenheim’s land is protected for nature
Mapped woodland covers 30% of Bartenheim. 14 km of footpaths cross Bartenheim (1.1 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 2 km in Bartenheim. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
29%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
30%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
14 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.6 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: Forêt domaniale de la Hardt
Throughout this page, the Haut-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 Bartenheim?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside29% of the land lies in protected areas.A wooded commune30% mapped woodland, more than in 77% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Bartenheim apart: its protected countryside, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Bartenheim 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 areas29%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
82out of 100
Woodland30%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
77out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
34out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
32out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Bartenheim has the 18th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,179 to 4,241 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (5 km per km²) to Redessan (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Touquet-Paris-Plage Pas-de-Calais | 5 | 23% | 9.8% | On it |
| 2 | Mimet Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.9 | 49% | 44% | 16 km |
| 3 | Corenc Isère | 3.8 | 50% | 45% | 206 km |
| 4 | Bray-Dunes Nord | 3.6 | 0% | 41% | On it |
| 5 | Montarnaud Hérault | 3 | 47% | 17% | 22 km |
| 6 | Angoulins Charente-Maritime | 2.7 | 0.3% | 3.8% | On it |
| 7 | Escautpont Nord | 2.6 | 41% | 99% | 100 km |
| 8 | Salouël Somme | 2.6 | 2% | 0% | 54 km |
| 9 | Le Neubourg Eure | 2.3 | 19% | 0% | 51 km |
| 10 | Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny Savoie | 2.2 | 50% | 100% | 225 km |
| 11 | Yvré-l'Évêque Sarthe | 2.2 | 26% | 0% | 138 km |
| 12 | Plomelin Finistère | 2.1 | 19% | 0% | On it |
| 13 | Marlenheim Bas-Rhin | 2 | 9.8% | 0% | 435 km |
| 14 | Rouffach Haut-Rhin | 1.8 | 37% | 10% | 464 km |
| 15 | Carnac Morbihan | 1.7 | 25% | 2.5% | On it |
| 16 | Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 36% | 2.7% | 41 km |
| 17 | Pont-du-Casse Lot-et-Garonne | 1.7 | 8.3% | 0% | 132 km |
| 18 | Pomponne Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 48% | 4% | 161 km |
| 19 | Valgelon-La Rochette Savoie | 1.6 | 31% | 0.6% | 216 km |
| 20 | Wolfisheim Bas-Rhin | 1.6 | 7.5% | 0% | 446 km |
| 21 | Saint-Just-Malmont Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 47% | 0.3% | 199 km |
| 22 | Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse Drôme | 1.1 | 26% | 0% | 186 km |
| 23 | Pluguffan Finistère | 1.1 | 14% | 0% | 4.3 km |
| 24 | Bartenheim Haut-Rhin | 1.1 | 30% | 29% | 428 km |
| 25 | Grisolles Tarn-et-Garonne | 1 | 13% | 19% | 168 km |
| 26 | Rians Var | 0.9 | 70% | 70% | 45 km |
| 27 | Athis-Val de Rouvre Orne | 0.8 | 11% | 2.9% | 56 km |
| 28 | Noues de Sienne Calvados | 0.7 | 20% | 0% | 32 km |
| 29 | Gourdon Lot | 0.7 | 42% | 0% | 158 km |
| 30 | Brionne Eure | 0.6 | 38% | 14% | 38 km |
| 31 | Saint-Laurent-Nouan Loir-et-Cher | 0.6 | 42% | 26% | 213 km |
| 32 | Nailloux Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 5.1% | 0% | 123 km |
| 33 | Le Châtelet-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 18% | 0% | 200 km |
| 34 | Selles-sur-Cher Loir-et-Cher | 0.6 | 20% | 7.9% | 232 km |
| 35 | Porte des Pierres Dorées Rhône | 0.6 | 9.4% | 0% | 271 km |
| 36 | Sanvignes-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 12% | 0% | 345 km |
| 37 | Breteuil Oise | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 75 km |
| 38 | Jouarre Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 175 km |
| 39 | Bollwiller Haut-Rhin | 0.3 | 26% | 0% | 453 km |
| 40 | Betschdorf Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 41% | 49% | 436 km |
| 41 | Redessan Gard | 0.2 | 0% | 66% | 41 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 Bartenheim
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale de la Hardt leads, at 13,453 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Bartenheim
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Petite Camargue Alsacienne nature reserve
3.2% of the commune2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Forêt domaniale de la Harth
20% of the commune0.7 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée du Rhin d’Artzenheim à Village-Neuf
9% of the commune2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Haut-Rhin
8.2% of the commune2 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area29%
Nature reserve3.2%
Natura 2000 site29%
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.
29% of Bartenheim’s land is protected, more than in 82% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Haut-Rhin has 12%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
14 km of footpaths cross Bartenheim
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
14 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.6 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
30%
about 3.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BartenheimHaut-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0.1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BartenheimHaut-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland30%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 66% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 77% 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 Bartenheim is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
10 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit de Kembs5 km
Sur la piste de l'eau4 km
Isteiner Schwellen - Kirchener Schwellen1.4 km
Altrhein Istein - Stockfeld1.1 km
Gutenau - Isteiner Schwellen0.9 km
Hodbach - Stockfeld0.8 km
Isteiner Schwellen - Stockfeld0.8 km
Altrhein Istein - Altrhein Kleinkems0.7 km
Altrhein Istein - Istein Friedhof0.6 km
Istein Stapflehus - Istein Friedhof0.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bartenheim: April, July and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bale-Mulhouse, 2.9 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 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 46 | 44 | 47 | 58 | 87 | 75 | 72 | 80 | 64 | 69 | 61 | 63 |
February is the driest month (44 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 87 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 70 nights a year. The climate in Bartenheim →
Neighbors
Next to Bartenheim
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
SierentzBlotzheimKembsVillage-NeufSaint-LouisHésingueBartenheim
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bartenheim | 29% | 30% | 1.1 |
| Sierentz 4,409 · 3 km | 36% | 39% | 0.9 |
| Blotzheim 5,282 · 3.9 km | 0% | 16% | 0.8 |
| Kembs 5,834 · 3.9 km | 63% | 50% | 1.1 |
| Village-Neuf 4,709 · 7 km | 36% | 9% | 2.2 |
| Saint-Louis 22,805 · 7.1 km | 18% | 8.5% | 2.9 |
| Hésingue 2,972 · 7.1 km | 0% | 17% | 1.2 |
Kembs has at least twice as much protected land. Kembs 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 Bartenheim
Is Bartenheim in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 29% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Bartenheim?
OpenStreetMap maps 14 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Bartenheim is woodland?
30% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bartenheim near the sea?
No: the coast is 428 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bartenheim?
April, July and 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.