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Photo: Aimelaime at French Wikipedia · Public domainNo protected area reaches Gandrange; the nearest, Pelouses du pays Messin (Natura 2000), is 15 km from the town center. 8 km of footpaths cross Gandrange (1.9 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 12% of Gandrange. 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.
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 (3,000 to 3,062 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Margency (7.4 km per km²) to La Roche-Chalais (0.1 km per km²).
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Margency Val-d'Oise | 7.4 | 0.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 2 | Montlignon Val-d'Oise | 5.5 | 50% | 0% | 133 km |
| 3 | Albigny-sur-Saône Rhône | 4.8 | 25% | 0% | 263 km |
| 4 | Brax Haute-Garonne | 3.4 | 29% | 0% | 162 km |
| 5 | Feucherolles Yvelines | 3.2 | 33% | 0% | 133 km |
| 6 | La Turbie Alpes-Maritimes | 3.1 | 32% | 18% | 2 km |
| 7 | Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes Isère | 3 | 37% | 30% | 206 km |
| 8 | Pont-à-Vendin Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 13% | 0% | 72 km |
| 9 | Emmerin Nord | 2.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 64 km |
| 10 | Pont-à-Marcq Nord | 2.6 | 1% | 0% | 75 km |
| 11 | Drumettaz-Clarafond Savoie | 2.1 | 42% | 5% | 243 km |
| 12 | Gandrange Moselle | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 313 km |
| 13 | Courcelles-Chaussy Moselle | 1.9 | 37% | 0% | 340 km |
| 14 | Paimbœuf Loire-Atlantique | 1.9 | 0.6% | 70% | 10 km |
| 15 | Agon-Coutainville Manche | 1.7 | 1.1% | 15% | On it |
| 16 | Belleville-sur-Meuse Meuse | 1.6 | 42% | 39% | 288 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 | Aubusson Creuse | 1 | 42% | 0% | 235 km |
| 24 | Saint-Ouen Loir-et-Cher | 0.9 | 14% | 0% | 186 km |
| 25 | Gasny Eure | 0.8 | 35% | 9.7% | 98 km |
| 26 | Commelle-Vernay Loire | 0.7 | 6.3% | 34% | 271 km |
| 27 | Nontron Dordogne | 0.7 | 37% | 100% | 110 km |
| 28 | Port-Saint-Père Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 9.5% | 16% | 20 km |
| 29 | Breuillet Charente-Maritime | 0.7 | 20% | 13% | On it |
| 30 | Senonches Eure-et-Loir | 0.7 | 68% | 100% | 109 km |
| 31 | Pommeuse Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 19% | 0% | 179 km |
| 32 | Ailly-sur-Somme Somme | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 46 km |
| 33 | Lapeyrouse-Fossat Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 146 km |
| 34 | Murviel-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 35 | Boisseuil Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 166 km |
| 36 | Crouy Aisne | 0.3 | 23% | 0% | 148 km |
| 37 | Brienon-sur-Armançon Yonne | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | 281 km |
| 38 | Cintegabelle Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 1.4% | 128 km |
| 39 | Gémozac Charente-Maritime | 0.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 13 km |
| 40 | Montesquieu-Volvestre Haute-Garonne | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 151 km |
| 41 | La Roche-Chalais Dordogne | 0.1 | 56% | 6.7% | 50 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 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.
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 56% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 55% 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 Gandrange is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
GR 501 passes within 2 km of Gandrange.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Metz-Frescaty, 23 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) | 5 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 62 | 56 | 51 | 45 | 57 | 56 | 60 | 59 | 62 | 65 | 65 | 77 |
April is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 77 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 61 nights a year. The climate in Gandrange →
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gandrange | 0% | 12% | 1.9 |
| Vitry-sur-Orne 2,884 · 1.5 km | 0% | 63% | 2.2 |
| Amnéville 10,875 · 2.4 km | 0% | 12% | 2.3 |
| Mondelange 5,699 · 2.8 km | 0% | 2% | 1.2 |
| Clouange 3,824 · 2.9 km | 0% | 50% | 3.9 |
| Hagondange 9,278 · 3.6 km | 0% | 11% | 3.1 |
| Uckange 7,021 · 3.6 km | 0% | 3.2% | 2.3 |
Vitry-sur-Orne and Clouange are more wooded.
No. The nearest protected area is Pelouses du pays Messin, 15 km from the town center.
OpenStreetMap maps 8 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).
12% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
No: the coast is 313 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 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.