First pick
Parc du Rabbargala
Park or garden
9 ha4 km of path
55 minto walk all 4 km of path
1.1 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Raphaël de Bengy · CC BY-SA 4.032%woodland
Outdoors in Wittenheim · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Wittenheim is within 800 m of a park or wood
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 20 km in Wittenheim. Mapped woodland covers 32% of Wittenheim. No protected area reaches Wittenheim; the nearest, Forêt domaniale de la Harth (Natura 2000), is 5.6 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: Forêt domaniale de la Harth, 5.6 km
Woodland
32%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
30 km
1.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
20 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc du Rabbargala
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 Wittenheim?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes20 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.A wooded commune32% mapped woodland, more than in 78% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyForêt domaniale de la Harth (Natura 2000) is 5.6 km from the town center.
What sets Wittenheim apart: its hiking routes, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Wittenheim 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
Woodland32%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
78out of 100
Footpaths1.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
47out of 100
Hiking routes1.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
85out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Wittenheim has the 10th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (15,078 to 15,974 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 1er (17.1 km per km²) to Montrevault-sur-Èvre (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 1er Paris | 17.1 | 0% | 0% | 148 km |
| 2 | Montévrain Seine-et-Marne | 7.3 | 11% | 0% | 165 km |
| 3 | Ramonville-Saint-Agne Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 9.9% | 0% | 141 km |
| 4 | Fontainebleau Seine-et-Marne | 5.3 | 94% | 94% | 205 km |
| 5 | Castanet-Tolosan Haute-Garonne | 5.1 | 12% | 0% | 138 km |
| 6 | Longwy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.1 | 15% | 0% | 275 km |
| 7 | Avrillé Maine-et-Loire | 4.9 | 9.1% | 0% | 117 km |
| 8 | Le Vésinet Yvelines | 4.9 | 0.1% | 0% | 137 km |
| 9 | Francheville Rhône | 4.6 | 29% | 0% | 248 km |
| 10 | Le Bourget Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.5 | 2.2% | 0% | 145 km |
| 11 | Montmagny Val-d'Oise | 4.4 | 25% | 0% | 139 km |
| 12 | Hennebont Morbihan | 4 | 25% | 0% | On it |
| 13 | Saint-Pierre-des-Corps Indre-et-Loire | 3.8 | 6.9% | 9.3% | 186 km |
| 14 | Wattignies Nord | 3.5 | 1.5% | 0% | 66 km |
| 15 | Bouc-Bel-Air Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.5 | 29% | 0% | 12 km |
| 16 | Marseille 16e Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 8.2% | 0.2% | On it |
| 17 | Ambérieu-en-Bugey Ain | 3.3 | 49% | 0% | 281 km |
| 18 | Vesoul Haute-Saône | 3.1 | 3.3% | 3.6% | 434 km |
| 19 | Vendôme Loir-et-Cher | 3.1 | 32% | 0% | 187 km |
| 20 | Lucé Eure-et-Loir | 3 | 2.6% | 0% | 137 km |
| 21 | Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry Seine-et-Marne | 2.4 | 13% | 100% | 187 km |
| 22 | Roquebrune-sur-Argens Var | 2.4 | 40% | 25% | On it |
| 23 | Morlaix Finistère | 2.3 | 18% | 3.8% | On it |
| 24 | Guipavas Finistère | 2.2 | 11% | 0.4% | On it |
| 25 | Port-de-Bouc Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.1 | 14% | 28% | On it |
| 26 | Senlis Oise | 2.1 | 48% | 100% | 126 km |
| 27 | Montivilliers Seine-Maritime | 2 | 6.9% | 0% | 6.8 km |
| 28 | Château-Thierry Aisne | 1.9 | 18% | 0% | 176 km |
| 29 | Saint-Amand-les-Eaux Nord | 1.9 | 43% | 100% | 93 km |
| 30 | Rive-de-Gier Loire | 1.7 | 13% | 0.1% | 222 km |
| 31 | Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert Loire | 1.7 | 23% | 13% | 216 km |
| 32 | Wittenheim Haut-Rhin | 1.6 | 32% | 0% | 447 km |
| 33 | Toul Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.4 | 20% | 0.5% | 348 km |
| 34 | Issoire Puy-de-Dôme | 1.4 | 8% | 3.4% | 229 km |
| 35 | Hayange Moselle | 1.3 | 35% | 0% | 305 km |
| 36 | Biscarrosse Landes | 1.1 | 65% | 20% | On it |
| 37 | Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 1 | 75% | 0% | 49 km |
| 38 | Tarascon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 16% | 13% | 41 km |
| 39 | Beaucaire Gard | 0.7 | 4.5% | 8.8% | 40 km |
| 40 | Fos-sur-Mer Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0.6% | 15% | On it |
| 41 | Montrevault-sur-Èvre Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 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 Wittenheim
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Rabbargala leads, at 9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Niederer Weiher
Wood or forest
18 ha1.8 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.8 km of path
1.9 km north-eastfrom the center
Parcours Sportif de Wittenheim
Directionsto a point inside
Place Jean Moulin
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.2 km of path
1.8 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Place de Thiers
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
0.7 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Forêt domaniale de la Harth is the nearest protected area, 5.6 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Forêt domaniale de la Harth
5.6 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
30 km of footpaths and 20 km of hiking routes cross Wittenheim
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
30 km
1.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
20 km
waymarked: 1.1 km per km²
Woodland
32%
about 6.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
WittenheimHaut-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths1.6
Hiking routes1.1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
WittenheimHaut-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland32%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 53% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 78% 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 Wittenheim is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
11 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit des Cités13 km
Circuit Wittyru - Wittenheim/Ruelisheim12 km
Circuit du Nonnenbruch - Richwiller8.4 km
Sentier de l'Ill8.2 km
Circuit des tumuli - Ensisheim5.7 km
Circuit de Sausheim5 km
Circuit du Quatelbach - Baldersheim4.7 km
Circuit du Dollerbaechlein4.6 km
Voie de Fessenheim3.8 km
Circuit entre Thur et vignoble3.4 km
Circuit du Muguet - Noennenbruch2.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Wittenheim: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Mulhouse, 7.4 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 Wittenheim →
Neighbors
Next to Wittenheim
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
KingersheimRuelisheimPulversheimSausheimBaldersheimIllzachWittenheim
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wittenheim | 0% | 32% | 1.6 |
| Kingersheim 13,354 · 2.2 km | 0% | 13% | 2.7 |
| Ruelisheim 2,519 · 2.4 km | 0% | 14% | 0.6 |
| Pulversheim 3,069 · 3.4 km | 0% | 42% | 1.5 |
| Sausheim 5,666 · 4.1 km | 25% | 30% | 1 |
| Baldersheim 2,596 · 4.2 km | 60% | 63% | 0.4 |
| Illzach 14,923 · 4.6 km | 0% | 2.6% | 1.9 |
Sausheim 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 Wittenheim
Is Wittenheim in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Forêt domaniale de la Harth, 5.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Wittenheim?
OpenStreetMap maps 30 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 20 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Wittenheim is woodland?
32% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Wittenheim near the sea?
No: the coast is 447 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Wittenheim?
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.