Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Aimelaime · CC BY-SA 3.0Waymarked hiking routes add up to 15 km in Courcelles-Chaussy. No protected area reaches Courcelles-Chaussy; the nearest, Vallée de la Nied Réunie (Natura 2000), is 5.5 km from the town center. 31 km of footpaths cross Courcelles-Chaussy (1.9 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
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.
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Courcelles-Chaussy apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,972 to 3,041 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lezennes (8.6 km per km²) to Rue (0.2 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lezennes Nord | 8.6 | 3.6% | 0% | 66 km |
| 2 | Margency Val-d'Oise | 7.4 | 0.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 3 | Montlignon Val-d'Oise | 5.5 | 50% | 0% | 133 km |
| 4 | Brax Haute-Garonne | 3.4 | 29% | 0% | 162 km |
| 5 | Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes Isère | 3 | 37% | 30% | 206 km |
| 6 | Emmerin Nord | 2.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 64 km |
| 7 | Pont-à-Marcq Nord | 2.6 | 1% | 0% | 75 km |
| 8 | Soues Hautes-Pyrénées | 2.4 | 7.2% | 5.9% | 134 km |
| 9 | Drumettaz-Clarafond Savoie | 2.1 | 42% | 5% | 243 km |
| 10 | Gandrange Moselle | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 313 km |
| 11 | Courcelles-Chaussy Moselle | 1.9 | 37% | 0% | 340 km |
| 12 | Aniane Hérault | 1.7 | 43% | 14% | 31 km |
| 13 | Agon-Coutainville Manche | 1.7 | 1.1% | 15% | On it |
| 14 | Belleville-sur-Meuse Meuse | 1.6 | 42% | 39% | 288 km |
| 15 | Tourrettes Var | 1.5 | 64% | 1.8% | 21 km |
| 16 | Quillan Aude | 1.4 | 49% | 100% | 70 km |
| 17 | Gruchet-le-Valasse Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 53% | 0% | 16 km |
| 18 | Retournac Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 55% | 85% | 184 km |
| 19 | Valmont Moselle | 1.2 | 28% | 0% | 357 km |
| 20 | Yenne Savoie | 1.2 | 35% | 19% | 252 km |
| 21 | Boën-sur-Lignon Loire | 1.2 | 12% | 4.3% | 243 km |
| 22 | Villeneuve-de-Berg Ardèche | 1.2 | 5.9% | 0% | 116 km |
| 23 | Hésingue Haut-Rhin | 1.2 | 17% | 0% | 421 km |
| 24 | Mauléon-Licharre Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.1 | 35% | 2.8% | 62 km |
| 25 | Zonza Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 40% | 75% | On it |
| 26 | Aubusson Creuse | 1 | 42% | 0% | 235 km |
| 27 | Saint-Ouen Loir-et-Cher | 0.9 | 14% | 0% | 186 km |
| 28 | Vimoutiers Orne | 0.9 | 2.2% | 0% | 46 km |
| 29 | Bias Lot-et-Garonne | 0.9 | 2.5% | 0% | 121 km |
| 30 | Saint-Venant Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 2.5% | 0% | 48 km |
| 31 | Venerque Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 13% | 1.4% | 139 km |
| 32 | Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres Gard | 0.6 | 28% | 0% | 68 km |
| 33 | Ailly-sur-Somme Somme | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 46 km |
| 34 | Iteuil Vienne | 0.5 | 23% | 0% | 112 km |
| 35 | Murviel-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 36 | Boisseuil Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 166 km |
| 37 | Lorris Loiret | 0.4 | 54% | 31% | 234 km |
| 38 | Brienon-sur-Armançon Yonne | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | 281 km |
| 39 | Cintegabelle Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 1.4% | 128 km |
| 40 | Barjols Var | 0.2 | 69% | 18% | 49 km |
| 41 | Rue Somme | 0.2 | 7.7% | 100% | 5.7 km |
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt communale de Courcelles-Chaussy leads, at 642 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
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.
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.
That is more than in 55% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 84% 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 Courcelles-Chaussy is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 5G passes within 2 km of Courcelles-Chaussy.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Aeroport Metz-Nancy-Lorraine, 19 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 Courcelles-Chaussy →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Courcelles-Chaussy | 0% | 37% | 1.9 |
| Boulay-Moselle 5,434 · 11 km | 0% | 11% | 0.7 |
| Créhange 3,691 · 14 km | 0% | 5.5% | 0.7 |
| Saint-Julien-lès-Metz 3,554 · 15 km | 0% | 36% | 1.9 |
| Metz 122,572 · 15 km | 0% | 8% | 6.8 |
| Faulquemont 5,109 · 16 km | 0% | 22% | 0.9 |
| Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold 3,572 · 18 km | 4.6% | 52% | 2.5 |
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée de la Nied Réunie, 5.5 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 31 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 15 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
37% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 340 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
April to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
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.