First pick
Parc Municipal de Forbach
Wood or forest · 240 m outside the commune
239 ha2.9 km of path
40 minto walk all 2.9 km of path
3.3 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Alain meier · CC BY-SA 4.036%woodland
Outdoors in Cocheren · protected areas, woods and footpaths
36% of Cocheren is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 5 km in Cocheren. 15 km of footpaths cross Cocheren (2.6 km per km²). No protected area reaches Cocheren; the nearest, Mines du Warndt (Natura 2000), is 3.1 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: Mines du Warndt, 3.1 km
Woodland
36%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
15 km
2.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.9 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Municipal de Forbach
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 Cocheren?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune36% mapped woodland, more than in 82% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyMines du Warndt (Natura 2000) is 3.1 km from the town center.
What sets Cocheren apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Cocheren 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
Woodland36%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
82out of 100
Footpaths2.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
68out of 100
Hiking routes0.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
79out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Cocheren has the 10th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,328 to 3,388 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Collégien (5.9 km per km²) to La Ville-Dieu-du-Temple (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Collégien Seine-et-Marne | 5.9 | 29% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Champ-sur-Drac Isère | 3.9 | 51% | 24% | 193 km |
| 3 | Bernin Isère | 3.7 | 28% | 14% | 207 km |
| 4 | Briis-sous-Forges Essonne | 3.5 | 22% | 0.1% | 157 km |
| 5 | Renage Isère | 3.1 | 31% | 0% | 215 km |
| 6 | Saint-Maximin Oise | 3 | 54% | 88% | 120 km |
| 7 | Roscoff Finistère | 3 | 0% | 0.4% | On it |
| 8 | Seilh Haute-Garonne | 3 | 15% | 12% | 156 km |
| 9 | Buchelay Yvelines | 2.8 | 7.5% | 0% | 108 km |
| 10 | Cocheren Moselle | 2.6 | 36% | 0% | 360 km |
| 11 | Ceyzériat Ain | 2 | 41% | 0.6% | 305 km |
| 12 | Doubs Doubs | 2 | 37% | 0% | 361 km |
| 13 | Vourles Rhône | 1.8 | 6.6% | 0% | 240 km |
| 14 | Salles-d'Aude Aude | 1.7 | 12% | 19% | 9 km |
| 15 | Saint-Cast-le-Guildo Côtes-d'Armor | 1.7 | 12% | 100% | On it |
| 16 | Porcheville Yvelines | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 115 km |
| 17 | Merlimont Pas-de-Calais | 1.6 | 28% | 63% | On it |
| 18 | Aigues-Vives Gard | 1.3 | 4.2% | 13% | 21 km |
| 19 | Hulluch Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 7.9% | 0% | 69 km |
| 20 | Mareuil-lès-Meaux Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 18% | 0.6% | 163 km |
| 21 | Boissy-le-Châtel Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 20% | 0% | 184 km |
| 22 | Bonifacio Corse-du-Sud | 1.1 | 11% | 18% | On it |
| 23 | Narrosse Landes | 1 | 25% | 10% | 34 km |
| 24 | Précy-sur-Oise Oise | 1 | 14% | 100% | 119 km |
| 25 | Saint-André Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.9 | 1.3% | 0% | 6.3 km |
| 26 | Villelongue-de-la-Salanque Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.8 | 0.1% | 0% | 4.5 km |
| 27 | Étain Meuse | 0.8 | 16% | 0% | 295 km |
| 28 | Vernet Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 4.5% | 1.7% | 141 km |
| 29 | Louvigné-du-Désert Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 4.2% | 0% | 24 km |
| 30 | Mont-près-Chambord Loir-et-Cher | 0.5 | 58% | 23% | 224 km |
| 31 | Veuzain-sur-Loire Loir-et-Cher | 0.5 | 24% | 6.2% | 220 km |
| 32 | Saint-Andiol Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 43 km |
| 33 | Chaumont-en-Vexin Oise | 0.5 | 18% | 0% | 93 km |
| 34 | Saint-André-de-Corcy Ain | 0.3 | 20% | 49% | 272 km |
| 35 | Palau-del-Vidre Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.2 | 1% | 2.8% | 7.1 km |
| 36 | Descartes Indre-et-Loire | 0.2 | 15% | 0% | 158 km |
| 37 | Val-au-Perche Orne | 0.2 | 21% | 100% | 128 km |
| 38 | Durtal Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 34% | 0% | 135 km |
| 39 | Cérans-Foulletourte Sarthe | 0.2 | 34% | 0% | 139 km |
| 40 | Castillon-la-Bataille Gironde | 0.1 | 12% | 1.5% | 47 km |
| 41 | La Ville-Dieu-du-Temple Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.1 | 9% | 0% | 180 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 Cocheren
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Municipal de Forbach leads, at 239 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Ditschweiler
Wood or forest
57 ha2.1 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.1 km of path
1 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Coulée Verte de Cocheren
Park or garden
5.6 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Cocheren
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Mines du Warndt is the nearest protected area, 3.1 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
Mines du Warndt
3.1 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
15 km of footpaths cross Cocheren
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
15 km
2.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.9 km
waymarked: 0.9 km per km²
Woodland
36%
about 2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CocherenMoselle medianFrance median
Footpaths2.6
Hiking routes0.9
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CocherenMoselle medianFrance median
Woodland36%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 68% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 82% 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 Cocheren is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
7 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 5G6.4 km
GR 5G Nord3.9 km
GR 5G Sud3.5 km
Circuit de la Rosselle9.7 km
Circuit de deux villages sur un plateau1.1 km
Circuit de la Carrière0.4 km
Circuit de la collégiale de Hombourg-Haut0.3 km
3 GR routes pass within 2 km of Cocheren: GR 5G, GR 5G Nord and GR 5G Sud.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Cocheren: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Aeroport Metz-Nancy-Lorraine, 48 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 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 5 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 5 |
| Rain (mm) | 53 | 48 | 47 | 40 | 64 | 57 | 64 | 60 | 59 | 61 | 60 | 67 |
April is the driest month (40 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 67 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 62 nights a year. The climate in Cocheren →
Neighbors
Next to Cocheren
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Freyming-MerlebachMorsbachFarébersvillerHombourg-HautŒtingForbachCocheren
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cocheren | 0% | 36% | 2.6 |
| Freyming-Merlebach 13,266 · 2.8 km | 0% | 19% | 4.1 |
| Morsbach 2,635 · 3 km | 0% | 43% | 1.8 |
| Farébersviller 5,224 · 3.9 km | 0% | 1.7% | 1.2 |
| Hombourg-Haut 5,976 · 5.4 km | 0% | 48% | 1.9 |
| Œting 2,599 · 5.5 km | 0% | 31% | 1.8 |
| Forbach 20,493 · 5.7 km | 0% | 32% | 3.5 |
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 Cocheren
Is Cocheren in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Mines du Warndt, 3.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Cocheren?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 5 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Cocheren is woodland?
36% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Cocheren near the sea?
No: the coast is 360 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Cocheren?
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.