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
9 km north-eastfrom the center
Sentier DécouverteParcours de santéSentier Sylvicole+1 path
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Hderixh · CC BY-SA 3.023%of the land protected
Outdoors in Rixheim · protected areas, woods and footpaths
41% of Rixheim is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 31 km in Rixheim. 23% of Rixheim’s land lies in protected areas. Footpaths add up to 55 km across Rixheim (2.8 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
23%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
41%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
55 km
2.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
31 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
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 Rixheim?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune41% mapped woodland, more than in 86% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes31 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Rixheim apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Rixheim 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 areas23%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
80out of 100
Woodland41%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
86out of 100
Footpaths2.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
71out of 100
Hiking routes1.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
93out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Rixheim has the 21st fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (14,017 to 14,735 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lieusaint (8.8 km per km²) to Castelsarrasin (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lieusaint Seine-et-Marne | 8.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 178 km |
| 2 | Saint-Maurice Val-de-Marne | 8.8 | 9.4% | 0% | 157 km |
| 3 | Valenton Val-de-Marne | 8.7 | 6.6% | 0% | 164 km |
| 4 | Villers-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 8.4 | 48% | 0% | 365 km |
| 5 | Billère Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 6.7 | 4.2% | 9.2% | 93 km |
| 6 | Chenôve Côte-d'Or | 6.5 | 10% | 17% | 403 km |
| 7 | Audincourt Doubs | 5.3 | 36% | 0% | 414 km |
| 8 | Auray Morbihan | 5 | 8.3% | 100% | On it |
| 9 | Montesson Yvelines | 4.7 | 2.3% | 0% | 136 km |
| 10 | Saint-Genis-Pouilly Ain | 4.5 | 17% | 0.3% | 298 km |
| 11 | Lys-lez-Lannoy Nord | 4.2 | 3.9% | 0% | 64 km |
| 12 | Juvignac Hérault | 4.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 14 km |
| 13 | Canteleu Seine-Maritime | 3.7 | 64% | 100% | 49 km |
| 14 | Bar-le-Duc Meuse | 3.7 | 55% | 0% | 297 km |
| 15 | Douarnenez Finistère | 3.3 | 16% | 3.8% | On it |
| 16 | Saint-Orens-de-Gameville Haute-Garonne | 3.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 138 km |
| 17 | Bois-Guillaume Seine-Maritime | 3 | 3.8% | 0% | 50 km |
| 18 | Montataire Oise | 2.9 | 11% | 0.1% | 116 km |
| 19 | Ollioules Var | 2.9 | 23% | 14% | On it |
| 20 | Plérin Côtes-d'Armor | 2.9 | 14% | 1.8% | On it |
| 21 | Rixheim Haut-Rhin | 2.8 | 41% | 23% | 441 km |
| 22 | Pontivy Morbihan | 2.8 | 14% | 0% | 36 km |
| 23 | L'Étang-Salé Réunion | 2.6 | 52% | 39% | On it |
| 24 | Persan Val-d'Oise | 2.5 | 0.3% | 0.1% | 120 km |
| 25 | Roncq Nord | 2.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 53 km |
| 26 | Bollène Vaucluse | 2.2 | 28% | 9.5% | 93 km |
| 27 | Sainte-Maxime Var | 2.1 | 65% | 19% | On it |
| 28 | Morangis Essonne | 2.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 163 km |
| 29 | Crépy-en-Valois Oise | 2 | 16% | 0% | 137 km |
| 30 | Pont-à-Mousson Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.8 | 31% | 0.4% | 341 km |
| 31 | Flers Orne | 1.6 | 2.5% | 0% | 59 km |
| 32 | Hautmont Nord | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 130 km |
| 33 | Saint-Brevin-les-Pins Loire-Atlantique | 1.6 | 7.3% | 25% | On it |
| 34 | Saint-Paul-lès-Dax Landes | 1.6 | 62% | 5.3% | 29 km |
| 35 | Saint-Omer Pas-de-Calais | 1.6 | 2.8% | 100% | 28 km |
| 36 | Fontenay-le-Comte Vendée | 1.1 | 2% | 100% | 31 km |
| 37 | Le Raincy Seine-Saint-Denis | 0.8 | 0% | 0.1% | 153 km |
| 38 | Bailleul Nord | 0.7 | 0.9% | 0% | 42 km |
| 39 | Saint-Martin-de-Crau Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.4 | 3.6% | 91% | 21 km |
| 40 | Saint-Gilles Gard | 0.4 | 2.5% | 18% | 25 km |
| 41 | Castelsarrasin Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 5.6% | 6.8% | 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 Rixheim
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.
Forêt du Tannenwald
Wood or forest
498 ha28.3 km of path
6 h 15 minto walk all 28.3 km of path
4.6 km south-westfrom the center
Avenue de la 1re Division BlindéeRue Léon EhrhartSentier du Sommet
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Commanderie
Park or garden
1.6 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
0.7 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
23% of Rixheim lies in protected areas
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
4% of the commune1.7 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Forêt domaniale de la Harth
23% of the commune1.7 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Hardt nord
15% of the commune1.7 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area23%
Nature reserve4%
Natura 2000 site23%
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.
23% of Rixheim’s land is protected, more than in 80% 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
55 km of footpaths and 31 km of hiking routes cross Rixheim
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
55 km
2.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
31 km
waymarked: 1.6 km per km²
Woodland
41%
about 8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RixheimHaut-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths2.8
Hiking routes1.6
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RixheimHaut-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland41%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 71% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 86% 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 Rixheim is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
12 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 5326.1 km
Sentier interregio - Wanderweg - Losange rouge15 km
Circuit des 5 quartiers - Rixheim12 km
Variante GR53210 km
Circuit des Collines Rixheim9 km
Circuit du Brunnenberg et de la Bellevue - Habsheim8.4 km
Sentier circulaire René Thomann - Tannenwald7.8 km
Circuit du Rebberg3.5 km
Circuit de Brunstatt2.2 km
Circuit des trois canaux - Mulhouse2.1 km
Circuit de Sausheim0.6 km
Jonction GR532/GR531 - Bruebach/Helfrantzkirch0.5 km
GR 532 passes within 2 km of Rixheim.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Rixheim: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Mulhouse, 8.3 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 Rixheim →
Neighbors
Next to Rixheim
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
RiedisheimHabsheimIllzachSausheimMulhouseBaldersheimRixheim
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rixheim | 23% | 41% | 2.8 |
| Riedisheim 12,200 · 2.4 km | 0% | 29% | 4.4 |
| Habsheim 5,076 · 3 km | 50% | 49% | 0.7 |
| Illzach 14,923 · 4.1 km | 0% | 2.6% | 1.9 |
| Sausheim 5,666 · 4.5 km | 25% | 30% | 1 |
| Mulhouse 104,978 · 5.2 km | 0% | 4.3% | 5.7 |
| Baldersheim 2,596 · 5.7 km | 60% | 63% | 0.4 |
Habsheim and Baldersheim have at least twice as much protected land. Baldersheim 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 Rixheim
Is Rixheim in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 23% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Rixheim?
OpenStreetMap maps 55 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 31 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Rixheim is woodland?
41% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Rixheim near the sea?
No: the coast is 441 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Rixheim?
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.