First pick
Terril du puits Saint-Charles
Wood or forest
13 ha1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
2.3 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: A.BourgeoisP · CC BY 4.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Champagney · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Champagney lies inside Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Champagney’s land. Mapped woodland covers 76% of Champagney. Footpaths add up to 40 km across Champagney (1.1 km per km²). 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
76%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
40 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.5 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: Terril du puits Saint-Charles
Throughout this page, the Haute-Saône 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 Champagney?
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.A wooded commune76% mapped woodland, more than in 99% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Champagney apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Champagney 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
97out of 100
Woodland76%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
99out 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
Champagney has the 20th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,620 to 3,675 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Vaudreuil (3.9 km per km²) to Étrépagny (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Vaudreuil Eure | 3.9 | 43% | 6.2% | 64 km |
| 2 | Champhol Eure-et-Loir | 3.7 | 9.3% | 0% | 137 km |
| 3 | Saint-Erblon Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 58 km |
| 4 | Ézy-sur-Eure Eure | 2.3 | 42% | 8.3% | 100 km |
| 5 | Plestin-les-Grèves Côtes-d'Armor | 2.3 | 16% | 6% | On it |
| 6 | Saint-Léger-du-Bourg-Denis Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 39% | 4.6% | 55 km |
| 7 | Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey Alpes-Maritimes | 2.1 | 64% | 100% | 19 km |
| 8 | Templemars Nord | 2.1 | 0.6% | 0% | 68 km |
| 9 | Fillinges Haute-Savoie | 2 | 45% | 3.2% | 280 km |
| 10 | Saint-Germain-du-Corbéis Orne | 1.8 | 11% | 4.1% | 98 km |
| 11 | Saint-Jean-de-Moirans Isère | 1.8 | 5.5% | 0% | 217 km |
| 12 | Saint-Brès Hérault | 1.8 | 0.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 13 | Forges-les-Eaux Seine-Maritime | 1.7 | 24% | 4.9% | 47 km |
| 14 | Montussan Gironde | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 19 km |
| 15 | Gallargues-le-Montueux Gard | 1.3 | 2% | 2% | 19 km |
| 16 | Viviers Ardèche | 1.3 | 49% | 2.6% | 113 km |
| 17 | Breteil Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.3 | 1.4% | 0% | 39 km |
| 18 | Gelos Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.3 | 37% | 7.4% | 96 km |
| 19 | Bourgueil Indre-et-Loire | 1.1 | 49% | 100% | 148 km |
| 20 | Champagney Haute-Saône | 1.1 | 76% | 100% | 440 km |
| 21 | Châteauneuf-du-Faou Finistère | 1 | 9.4% | 8% | 20 km |
| 22 | Martillac Gironde | 1 | 18% | 0% | 32 km |
| 23 | Arcangues Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 32% | 7.3% | 5.2 km |
| 24 | Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerch Finistère | 1 | 27% | 100% | On it |
| 25 | Estrées-Saint-Denis Oise | 1 | 2% | 0% | 109 km |
| 26 | Belleu Aisne | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 150 km |
| 27 | Penta-di-Casinca Haute-Corse | 0.9 | 40% | 0.2% | On it |
| 28 | Salindres Gard | 0.8 | 4.3% | 0% | 68 km |
| 29 | Saint-Clair-de-la-Tour Isère | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 240 km |
| 30 | Saint-Philbert-de-Bouaine Vendée | 0.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 35 km |
| 31 | Champagné Sarthe | 0.7 | 40% | 3.5% | 142 km |
| 32 | Gouffern en Auge Orne | 0.6 | 25% | 33% | 59 km |
| 33 | Marzy Nièvre | 0.6 | 8.6% | 20% | 332 km |
| 34 | Lizy-sur-Ourcq Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 17% | 0% | 161 km |
| 35 | Rivery Somme | 0.4 | 6.1% | 9.4% | 56 km |
| 36 | Chauffailles Saône-et-Loire | 0.4 | 32% | 0% | 295 km |
| 37 | Lectoure Gers | 0.4 | 10% | 0% | 154 km |
| 38 | Garchizy Nièvre | 0.3 | 9% | 12% | 333 km |
| 39 | Montoire-sur-le-Loir Loir-et-Cher | 0.3 | 14% | 0.4% | 185 km |
| 40 | Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont Seine-Maritime | 0.2 | 14% | 2.4% | 9.8 km |
| 41 | Étrépagny Eure | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 78 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 Champagney
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Terril du puits Saint-Charles leads, at 13 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Manège à chevaux
Park or garden
3.8 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
1.5 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Cyprès
Park or garden · 310 m outside the commune
0.9 ha0.2 km of path
3 km westfrom the center
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 Champagney
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 Champagney’s land is protected, more than in 97% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Haute-Saône has 28%. 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
40 km of footpaths cross Champagney
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
40 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.5 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
76%
about 28.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ChampagneyHaute-Saône medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ChampagneyHaute-Saône medianFrance median
Woodland76%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 66% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 99% 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 Champagney is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 5927 km
Sentier des Ducs13 km
GR 59 passes within 2 km of Champagney.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Champagney: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Giromagny_Sapc, 13 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 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 185 | 144 | 147 | 90 | 128 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 109 | 143 | 161 | 215 |
April is the driest month (90 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 215 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 73 nights a year. The climate in Champagney →
Neighbors
Next to Champagney
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
RonchampGiromagnyValdoieEssertLureBavilliersChampagney
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Champagney
Is Champagney in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Champagney lies in Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Champagney?
OpenStreetMap maps 40 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); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Champagney is woodland?
76% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Champagney near the sea?
No: the coast is 440 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Champagney?
May 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.