First pick
Forêt domaniale de Moyeuvre
Wood or forest
7,820 ha146.2 km of path
32 h 30 minto walk all 146.2 km of path
5.2 km north-westfrom the center
Voie VerteSentier BotaniqueChemin de la Voess+3 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Paul.schrepfer · CC BY-SA 4.050%woodland
Outdoors in Clouange · protected areas, woods and footpaths
50% of Clouange is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
12 km of footpaths cross Clouange (3.9 km per km²). No protected area reaches Clouange; the nearest, Pelouses du pays Messin (Natura 2000), is 13 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: Pelouses du pays Messin, 13 km
Woodland
50%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
12 km
3.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 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 Moyeuvre
Throughout this page, the Moselle 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 Clouange?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune50% mapped woodland, more than in 92% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.A place of footpaths3.9 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Clouange apart: its woods, then its footpaths.
Against French towns
How Clouange 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
Woodland50%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
92out of 100
Footpaths3.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
83out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
25out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Clouange has the 6th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,793 to 3,855 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Argonay (5.1 km per km²) to Val de Virvée (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Argonay Haute-Savoie | 5.1 | 35% | 0% | 263 km |
| 2 | Saint-Palais-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 5.1 | 58% | 55% | On it |
| 3 | Collonges-sous-Salève Haute-Savoie | 5 | 40% | 51% | 283 km |
| 4 | Soorts-Hossegor Landes | 4.9 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 5 | Montgermont Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.8 | 3.2% | 0% | 43 km |
| 6 | Clouange Moselle | 3.9 | 50% | 0% | 312 km |
| 7 | La Bresse Vosges | 3.5 | 58% | 100% | 450 km |
| 8 | La Plagne Tarentaise Savoie | 2.7 | 30% | 2.5% | 208 km |
| 9 | Bouliac Gironde | 2.6 | 13% | 4.7% | 22 km |
| 10 | Les Martres-de-Veyre Puy-de-Dôme | 2.6 | 13% | 15% | 245 km |
| 11 | Châteauneuf-Grasse Alpes-Maritimes | 2.6 | 12% | 0% | 13 km |
| 12 | Trébeurden Côtes-d'Armor | 2.5 | 25% | 24% | On it |
| 13 | Montmerle-sur-Saône Ain | 2.4 | 13% | 20% | 286 km |
| 14 | Pleumeur-Bodou Côtes-d'Armor | 2.2 | 26% | 17% | On it |
| 15 | Bénodet Finistère | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | On it |
| 16 | Vagney Vosges | 1.9 | 59% | 100% | 440 km |
| 17 | Meyrargues Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.8 | 57% | 46% | 35 km |
| 18 | Saint-Valery-en-Caux Seine-Maritime | 1.8 | 4.3% | 3.2% | On it |
| 19 | Callian Var | 1.7 | 59% | 10% | 19 km |
| 20 | Saint-Étienne-lès-Remiremont Vosges | 1.6 | 73% | 22% | 432 km |
| 21 | Saint-Mard Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 12% | 0% | 146 km |
| 22 | La Bazoge Sarthe | 1.6 | 25% | 0% | 126 km |
| 23 | Sargé-lès-le-Mans Sarthe | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 136 km |
| 24 | Le Thuit de l'Oison Eure | 1.5 | 11% | 0% | 46 km |
| 25 | Genilac Loire | 1.3 | 14% | 0% | 223 km |
| 26 | La Croix-Valmer Var | 1.3 | 40% | 95% | On it |
| 27 | Violaines Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 4.8% | 0% | 63 km |
| 28 | Hasnon Nord | 0.8 | 47% | 100% | 94 km |
| 29 | Lavernose-Lacasse Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 2.6% | 0% | 153 km |
| 30 | Mondragon Vaucluse | 0.7 | 30% | 17% | 88 km |
| 31 | Beaumont-de-Lomagne Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.6 | 6.5% | 0% | 177 km |
| 32 | Lapalud Vaucluse | 0.6 | 5% | 6.7% | 96 km |
| 33 | Celles-sur-Belle Deux-Sèvres | 0.5 | 7.6% | 20% | 67 km |
| 34 | Vouziers Ardennes | 0.5 | 14% | 18% | 234 km |
| 35 | Villieu-Loyes-Mollon Ain | 0.4 | 24% | 17% | 276 km |
| 36 | Saint-Georges-sur-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 7.3% | 7.3% | 101 km |
| 37 | Ferrières-en-Gâtinais Loiret | 0.4 | 19% | 0% | 233 km |
| 38 | Mazères Ariège | 0.3 | 2% | 0.5% | 116 km |
| 39 | Saint-André-de-l'Eure Eure | 0.3 | 11% | 0% | 89 km |
| 40 | Gundershoffen Bas-Rhin | 0.3 | 23% | 0.1% | 422 km |
| 41 | Val de Virvée Gironde | 0.1 | 12% | 0% | 16 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 Clouange
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale de Moyeuvre leads, at 7,820 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Pelouses du pays Messin is the nearest protected area, 13 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
Pelouses du pays Messin
13 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
12 km of footpaths cross Clouange
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
12 km
3.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
50%
about 1.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ClouangeMoselle medianFrance median
Footpaths3.9
Hiking routes0
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ClouangeMoselle medianFrance median
Woodland50%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 83% 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 Clouange is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 50114 km
Circuit de Rombas5.1 km
Circuit de la Côte de Drince2 km
GR 501 passes within 2 km of Clouange.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Clouange: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Malancourt, 5.5 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) | 8.6 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 4 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 19 | 14 | 8 | 5 |
| Rain (mm) | 86 | 70 | 68 | 53 | 68 | 68 | 71 | 70 | 70 | 80 | 82 | 100 |
April is the driest month (53 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 100 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 63 nights a year. The climate in Clouange →
Neighbors
Next to Clouange
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
RombasVitry-sur-OrneAmnévilleGandrangeMoyeuvre-GrandeFameckClouange
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clouange | 0% | 50% | 3.9 |
| Rombas 9,371 · 1.4 km | 0% | 53% | 3.3 |
| Vitry-sur-Orne 2,884 · 1.4 km | 0% | 63% | 2.2 |
| Amnéville 10,875 · 2.7 km | 0% | 12% | 2.3 |
| Gandrange 3,031 · 2.9 km | 0% | 12% | 1.9 |
| Moyeuvre-Grande 7,311 · 4 km | 0% | 45% | 2.4 |
| Fameck 14,788 · 4.9 km | 0% | 32% | 2.2 |
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 Clouange
Is Clouange in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Pelouses du pays Messin, 13 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Clouange?
OpenStreetMap maps 12 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Clouange is woodland?
50% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Clouange near the sea?
No: the coast is 312 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Clouange?
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.