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
11 km northfrom the center
Sentier DécouverteParcours de santéSentier Sylvicole+1 path
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Hderixh · CC BY-SA 3.050%of the land protected
Outdoors in Habsheim · protected areas, woods and footpaths
50% of Habsheim’s land is protected for nature
Mapped woodland covers 49% of Habsheim. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 11 km in Habsheim. 11 km of footpaths cross Habsheim (0.7 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
50%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
49%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
11 km
0.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
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 Habsheim?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside50% of the land lies in protected areas.A wooded commune49% mapped woodland, more than in 92% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Habsheim apart: its protected countryside, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Habsheim 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 areas50%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
87out of 100
Woodland49%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
92out of 100
Footpaths0.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
21out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
72out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Habsheim has the 9th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,027 to 5,124 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 Laventie (0.1 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 | Bezannes Marne | 3.4 | 1.8% | 0.1% | 198 km |
| 6 | Ornex Ain | 3.2 | 22% | 0% | 299 km |
| 7 | Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Pas-de-Calais | 2.8 | 35% | 100% | On it |
| 8 | Sommières Gard | 2.8 | 21% | 1.3% | 25 km |
| 9 | Le Val d'Hazey Eure | 2.6 | 32% | 0.3% | 77 km |
| 10 | Châteaulin Finistère | 2.5 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 11 | Dives-sur-Mer Calvados | 2.5 | 8.8% | 0% | 1.2 km |
| 12 | Gruissan Aude | 2.5 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 13 | Haillicourt Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 63 km |
| 14 | Saint-Georges-de-Didonne Charente-Maritime | 2.3 | 19% | 37% | On it |
| 15 | La Mézière Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.1 | 7.5% | 0% | 36 km |
| 16 | Bonnières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.1 | 45% | 20% | 99 km |
| 17 | Hauts de Bienne Jura | 1.9 | 77% | 100% | 326 km |
| 18 | Champagne-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1.8 | 33% | 54% | 119 km |
| 19 | Baden Morbihan | 1.8 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 20 | Yffiniac Côtes-d'Armor | 1.5 | 4.4% | 0.1% | 1.8 km |
| 21 | La Ferté Macé Orne | 1.4 | 27% | 100% | 73 km |
| 22 | Petite-Forêt Nord | 1.3 | 1.8% | 1.4% | 102 km |
| 23 | Genlis Côte-d'Or | 1.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 418 km |
| 24 | Villefranche-de-Lauragais Haute-Garonne | 1.2 | 0.5% | 0% | 117 km |
| 25 | Cilaos Réunion | 1.1 | 43% | 100% | 18 km |
| 26 | Muzillac Morbihan | 1 | 4.9% | 7.8% | On it |
| 27 | Maen Roch Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 3.9% | 0% | 25 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 | Saint-Sever Landes | 0.6 | 17% | 4.2% | 67 km |
| 35 | Pacy-sur-Eure Eure | 0.6 | 45% | 3.1% | 88 km |
| 36 | Val-de-Moder Bas-Rhin | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0.1% | 424 km |
| 37 | Sully-sur-Loire Loiret | 0.4 | 25% | 40% | 238 km |
| 38 | Villeneuve-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.1% | 36% | 5.1 km |
| 39 | Saint-Pantaléon-de-Larche Corrèze | 0.2 | 25% | 0.3% | 161 km |
| 40 | Moncoutant-sur-Sèvre Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 7% | 0% | 62 km |
| 41 | Laventie Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.7% | 0% | 54 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 Habsheim
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 Habsheim
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Harth nature reserve
1.3% of the commune1.9 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Forêt domaniale de la Harth
48% of the commune1.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Hardt nord
20% of the commune1.3 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area50%
Nature reserve1.3%
Natura 2000 site50%
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.
50% of Habsheim’s land is protected, more than in 87% 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
11 km of footpaths and 11 km of hiking routes cross Habsheim
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
11 km
0.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
49%
about 7.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
HabsheimHaut-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths0.7
Hiking routes0.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
HabsheimHaut-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland49%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 79% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 92% 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 Habsheim is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Variante GR53211 km
Sentier interregio - Wanderweg - Losange rouge10 km
Circuit du Brunnenberg et de la Bellevue - Habsheim8.4 km
Circuit des Collines Rixheim7.7 km
Circuit des 5 quartiers - Rixheim5.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Habsheim: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Mulhouse, 10 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) | 5 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 49 | 50 | 50 | 78 | 68 | 63 | 67 | 61 | 70 | 59 | 75 |
February is the driest month (49 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 78 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 69 nights a year. The climate in Habsheim →
Neighbors
Next to Habsheim
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
RixheimRiedisheimIllzachMulhouseSausheimBrunstatt-DidenheimHabsheim
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habsheim | 50% | 49% | 0.7 |
| Rixheim 14,380 · 3 km | 23% | 41% | 2.8 |
| Riedisheim 12,200 · 4.4 km | 0% | 29% | 4.4 |
| Illzach 14,923 · 6.9 km | 0% | 2.6% | 1.9 |
| Mulhouse 104,978 · 7.1 km | 0% | 4.3% | 5.7 |
| Sausheim 5,666 · 7.4 km | 25% | 30% | 1 |
| Brunstatt-Didenheim 8,259 · 7.6 km | 0% | 25% | 2.7 |
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 Habsheim
Is Habsheim in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 50% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Habsheim?
OpenStreetMap maps 11 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 11 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Habsheim is woodland?
49% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Habsheim near the sea?
No: the coast is 438 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Habsheim?
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 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.