First pick
Parc de la Marseillaise
Park or garden
1.6 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
Centralin the middle of Guebwiller
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Florival fr · CC BY-SA 3.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Guebwiller · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Guebwiller lies inside Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park
100% of Guebwiller’s land lies in protected areas. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 34 km in Guebwiller. 47% of Guebwiller is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
47%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
44 km
4.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
34 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 de la Marseillaise
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 Guebwiller?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.On waymarked routes34 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.A wooded commune47% mapped woodland, more than in 90% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.A place of footpaths4.5 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Guebwiller apart: the regional nature park around it, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Guebwiller 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
92out of 100
Woodland47%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
90out of 100
Footpaths4.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
88out of 100
Hiking routes3.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
99out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Guebwiller has the 6th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (11,004 to 11,484 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Cesson (6.8 km per km²) to Doué-en-Anjou (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cesson Seine-et-Marne | 6.8 | 26% | 0% | 186 km |
| 2 | Enghien-les-Bains Val-d'Oise | 5.4 | 0% | 0% | 137 km |
| 3 | Villeneuve-Tolosane Haute-Garonne | 5.1 | 0.7% | 1.1% | 151 km |
| 4 | Guilherand-Granges Ardèche | 5 | 1.9% | 17% | 164 km |
| 5 | Mouans-Sartoux Alpes-Maritimes | 4.6 | 22% | 0% | 8 km |
| 6 | Guebwiller Haut-Rhin | 4.5 | 47% | 100% | 459 km |
| 7 | Briançon Hautes-Alpes | 4.4 | 62% | 0% | 142 km |
| 8 | Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur Côte-d'Or | 4.2 | 27% | 0% | 408 km |
| 9 | Saint-Jean Haute-Garonne | 4 | 10% | 0% | 145 km |
| 10 | Arcachon Gironde | 4 | 22% | 6.4% | On it |
| 11 | Gravelines Nord | 3.9 | 7.7% | 0% | On it |
| 12 | Gaillard Haute-Savoie | 3.9 | 14% | 8% | 286 km |
| 13 | Chassieu Rhône | 3.3 | 0.5% | 0% | 252 km |
| 14 | Croissy-sur-Seine Yvelines | 3.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 139 km |
| 15 | Le Haillan Gironde | 3.2 | 18% | 3.4% | 16 km |
| 16 | Yvetot Seine-Maritime | 3 | 3.5% | 100% | 28 km |
| 17 | Thouaré-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 2.9 | 9.4% | 25% | 49 km |
| 18 | Dourdan Essonne | 2.8 | 58% | 0% | 157 km |
| 19 | Panazol Haute-Vienne | 2.7 | 21% | 0% | 167 km |
| 20 | Tournon-sur-Rhône Ardèche | 2.5 | 41% | 12% | 177 km |
| 21 | Corbas Rhône | 2.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 243 km |
| 22 | Saverne Bas-Rhin | 2.5 | 65% | 0% | 418 km |
| 23 | Vaux-le-Pénil Seine-et-Marne | 2.4 | 27% | 0% | 194 km |
| 24 | Castelginest Haute-Garonne | 2.4 | 1.3% | 0% | 151 km |
| 25 | Le Taillan-Médoc Gironde | 2.3 | 34% | 13% | 13 km |
| 26 | Montlouis-sur-Loire Indre-et-Loire | 2.1 | 15% | 7.6% | 192 km |
| 27 | La Roche-sur-Foron Haute-Savoie | 2.1 | 21% | 0% | 270 km |
| 28 | La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin Loiret | 2 | 6.2% | 11% | 203 km |
| 29 | Wambrechies Nord | 1.9 | 2.9% | 0% | 57 km |
| 30 | Fourmies Nord | 1.6 | 48% | 100% | 157 km |
| 31 | Riorges Loire | 1.5 | 3% | 0% | 276 km |
| 32 | Villefranche-de-Rouergue Aveyron | 1.2 | 30% | 0.5% | 159 km |
| 33 | Biganos Gironde | 1.1 | 71% | 100% | On it |
| 34 | Pélissanne Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.1 | 4.7% | 57% | 27 km |
| 35 | La Hague Manche | 1 | 5.5% | 14% | On it |
| 36 | Saint-Junien Haute-Vienne | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 139 km |
| 37 | Porto-Vecchio Corse-du-Sud | 0.8 | 26% | 38% | On it |
| 38 | Issoudun Indre | 0.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 250 km |
| 39 | Pontchâteau Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.4% | 24% | 16 km |
| 40 | Le Luc Var | 0.5 | 19% | 10% | 25 km |
| 41 | Doué-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 9.6% | 100% | 118 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 Guebwiller
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Marseillaise leads, at 1.6 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de la Neuenbourg
Park or garden
1.9 ha0.6 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Guebwiller
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Guebwiller
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
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.
100% of Guebwiller’s land is protected, more than in 92% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Haut-Rhin has 12%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
44 km of footpaths and 34 km of hiking routes cross Guebwiller
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
44 km
4.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
34 km
waymarked: 3.6 km per km²
Woodland
47%
about 4.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GuebwillerHaut-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths4.5
Hiking routes3.6
036 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GuebwillerHaut-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland47%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 88% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 90% 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 Guebwiller is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
13 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemins de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle Variante vers le couvent d'Issenheim11 km
Sentier des carrières de Berghotz7 km
Sentier des carrières de Orschwihr5.6 km
Circuit d’Issenheim5 km
Les Menhirs de l'Appenthal4.3 km
Sentier forestier de l'Axwald3.9 km
Les carrières de Buhl3.7 km
Circuit du Lautenbaechlein3.6 km
Circuit des Sorcières3 km
Circuit des Douglas3 km
Circuit des carrières de Guebwiller1.9 km
Circuit des Charbonniers1.4 km
+1 more
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Guebwiller: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Guebwiller, 1.2 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 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 93 | 77 | 72 | 60 | 81 | 74 | 66 | 71 | 60 | 81 | 76 | 111 |
April is the driest month (60 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 111 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 65 nights a year. The climate in Guebwiller →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Guebwiller
Named gardens in the commune.
Parc de la MarseillaiseIn Guebwiller
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Guebwiller
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BuhlSoultz-Haut-RhinIssenheimBollwillerRouffachStaffelfeldenGuebwiller
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guebwiller | 100% | 47% | 4.5 |
| Buhl 3,100 · 2.7 km | 100% | 74% | 3.7 |
| Soultz-Haut-Rhin 7,012 · 2.8 km | 100% | 60% | 2.4 |
| Issenheim 3,502 · 2.9 km | 0.2% | 14% | 1 |
| Bollwiller 4,184 · 6.5 km | 0% | 26% | 0.3 |
| Rouffach 4,238 · 8.7 km | 10% | 37% | 1.8 |
| Staffelfelden 4,072 · 9.7 km | 0% | 34% | 1.5 |
Buhl 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 Guebwiller
Is Guebwiller in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Guebwiller lies in Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Guebwiller?
OpenStreetMap maps 44 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 4.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 34 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Guebwiller is woodland?
47% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Guebwiller near the sea?
No: the coast is 459 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Guebwiller?
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.