First pick
Bois de Terville
Wood or forest · 20 m outside the commune
54 ha4.9 km of path
1 h 5 minto walk all 4.9 km of path
3.2 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Fredamas · CC BY-SA 4.024%woodland
Outdoors in Florange · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Florange
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 15 km in Florange. Mapped woodland covers 24% of Florange. No protected area reaches Florange; the nearest, Hettange-Grande nature reserve, is 10 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: Hettange-Grande nature reserve, 10 km
Woodland
24%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
12 km
0.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
15 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
93%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
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.
Against French towns
How Florange 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
Woodland24%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
69out of 100
Footpaths0.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
29out of 100
Hiking routes1.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
86out of 100
Green space nearby93%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
11out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Florange has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (11,742 to 12,338 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Talant (8 km per km²) to Saint-Gaudens (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Talant Côte-d'Or | 8 | 5.6% | 0% | 399 km |
| 2 | Valbonne Alpes-Maritimes | 6.4 | 53% | 0% | 8.4 km |
| 3 | La Queue-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.3 | 47% | 0% | 165 km |
| 4 | Saint-Cyprien Pyrénées-Orientales | 6.1 | 0.4% | 3% | On it |
| 5 | Ferney-Voltaire Ain | 5.2 | 20% | 0% | 296 km |
| 6 | Le Relecq-Kerhuon Finistère | 4.8 | 7.6% | 0% | On it |
| 7 | Ifs Calvados | 4.6 | 3.9% | 0% | 17 km |
| 8 | Riedisheim Haut-Rhin | 4.4 | 29% | 0% | 440 km |
| 9 | Roquebrune-Cap-Martin Alpes-Maritimes | 4.3 | 23% | 36% | On it |
| 10 | Harnes Pas-de-Calais | 4.2 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 km |
| 11 | Saint-Pierre-du-Perray Essonne | 4.2 | 25% | 0% | 178 km |
| 12 | Hœnheim Bas-Rhin | 3.7 | 0.5% | 0% | 448 km |
| 13 | Beausoleil Alpes-Maritimes | 3.6 | 11% | 2.9% | 0.7 km |
| 14 | Oissel-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 3.5 | 48% | 3.9% | 54 km |
| 15 | Bully-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 3.1% | 0% | 71 km |
| 16 | Raismes Nord | 3.2 | 71% | 100% | 100 km |
| 17 | Triel-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.8 | 34% | 0% | 124 km |
| 18 | Le Chambon-Feugerolles Loire | 2.8 | 43% | 0.1% | 205 km |
| 19 | Cogolin Var | 2.7 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 20 | Craponne Rhône | 2.7 | 12% | 0% | 248 km |
| 21 | Septèmes-les-Vallons Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.5 | 49% | 20% | 5.5 km |
| 22 | Villepreux Yvelines | 2.5 | 8.4% | 0% | 137 km |
| 23 | Creutzwald Moselle | 2.4 | 57% | 0% | 348 km |
| 24 | Vedène Vaucluse | 2.4 | 4% | 0% | 58 km |
| 25 | Marly Nord | 2.3 | 1.5% | 0% | 107 km |
| 26 | Sarrebourg Moselle | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 403 km |
| 27 | Guidel Morbihan | 2.3 | 23% | 7.8% | On it |
| 28 | Barentin Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 11% | 0% | 38 km |
| 29 | La Motte-Servolex Savoie | 2.1 | 41% | 0% | 238 km |
| 30 | Onet-le-Château Aveyron | 1.7 | 2.3% | 1.4% | 137 km |
| 31 | Vernouillet Eure-et-Loir | 1.5 | 9.6% | 0% | 107 km |
| 32 | Châteaubriant Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0% | 76 km |
| 33 | Dammartin-en-Goële Seine-et-Marne | 1.4 | 24% | 0% | 144 km |
| 34 | Somain Nord | 1.4 | 5.2% | 1.3% | 96 km |
| 35 | Cernay Haut-Rhin | 1.4 | 26% | 0.1% | 448 km |
| 36 | Bischwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 443 km |
| 37 | Sablé-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 1 | 12% | 0% | 116 km |
| 38 | Florange Moselle | 0.9 | 24% | 0% | 309 km |
| 39 | Mios Gironde | 0.8 | 81% | 100% | 9.9 km |
| 40 | Castelnaudary Aude | 0.4 | 2% | 0% | 96 km |
| 41 | Saint-Gaudens Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 9.3% | 3.9% | 186 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 Florange
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Terville leads, at 54 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de Veymerange
Park or garden
4.9 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
2.5 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Cabo Verde
Park or garden
2.3 ha0.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Florange
Directionsto a point inside
Esplanade Jean-Marie François
Park or garden
0.7 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Florange
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Bosment
Park or garden · 110 m outside the commune
0.6 ha
1.7 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Florange live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
93% within 800 m6.6% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
FlorangeMoselle medianFrance median
Within 800 m93%
0%50%100%
About 800 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
Hettange-Grande nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 10 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Hettange-Grande nature reserve
10 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 and 15 km of hiking routes cross Florange
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
0.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
15 km
waymarked: 1.1 km per km²
Woodland
24%
about 3.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
FlorangeMoselle medianFrance median
Footpaths0.9
Hiking routes1.1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
FlorangeMoselle medianFrance median
Woodland24%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 71% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 69% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
A named hiking route within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 50111 km
GR 501 passes within 2 km of Florange.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Florange: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Malancourt, 12 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 Florange →
Neighbors
Next to Florange
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
FameckSerémange-ErzangeTervilleUckangeHayangeBertrangeFlorange
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 Florange
Is Florange in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Hettange-Grande nature reserve, 10 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Florange?
OpenStreetMap maps 12 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 15 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Florange is woodland?
24% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Florange near the sea?
No: the coast is 309 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Florange?
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 4, 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.