First pick
Forêt domaniale de Sarreguemines
Wood or forest
454 ha21.8 km of path
4 h 50 minto walk all 21.8 km of path
3.4 km north-eastfrom the center
Sentier de la GrenouilleN° 4Parcours de Santé+1 path
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Henri Bacher (1890-1934) · Public domain30%woodland
Outdoors in Hambach · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Hambach is within 800 m of a park or wood
30% of Hambach is mapped woodland. 10 km of footpaths cross Hambach (0.6 km per km²). No protected area reaches Hambach; the nearest, Marais d’Ippling (Natura 2000), is 3.7 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: Marais d’Ippling, 3.7 km
Woodland
30%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
10 km
0.6 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
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt domaniale de Sarreguemines
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 Hambach?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune30% mapped woodland, more than in 76% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyMarais d’Ippling (Natura 2000) is 3.7 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.6 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Hambach apart: its woods, then protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Hambach 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
Woodland30%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
76out of 100
Footpaths0.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
16out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Hambach has the 12th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,742 to 2,792 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Andilly (7.1 km per km²) to Sains-du-Nord (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andilly Val-d'Oise | 7.1 | 53% | 0% | 134 km |
| 2 | Argelès-Gazost Hautes-Pyrénées | 4.3 | 17% | 100% | 130 km |
| 3 | Pabu Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 22% | 0% | 15 km |
| 4 | Collioure Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.4 | 6.3% | 4% | On it |
| 5 | Pinsaguel Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 14% | 29% | 146 km |
| 6 | Saint-Lunaire Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.6 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Montfort-l'Amaury Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 100% | 129 km |
| 8 | Malaucène Vaucluse | 2.1 | 57% | 100% | 83 km |
| 9 | Loire-sur-Rhône Rhône | 1.9 | 44% | 84% | 229 km |
| 10 | Saint-Saturnin Sarthe | 1.9 | 8.9% | 0% | 129 km |
| 11 | Ampuis Rhône | 1.7 | 36% | 95% | 222 km |
| 12 | Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel Var | 1.6 | 80% | 0% | 9.2 km |
| 13 | Venarey-les-Laumes Côte-d'Or | 1.5 | 18% | 2.2% | 357 km |
| 14 | Venette Oise | 1.4 | 7.3% | 0% | 117 km |
| 15 | L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs Doubs | 1.4 | 50% | 0% | 413 km |
| 16 | Trieux Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 31% | 0% | 299 km |
| 17 | Beaumont-le-Roger Eure | 1.2 | 79% | 2% | 50 km |
| 18 | Charolles Saône-et-Loire | 1.2 | 20% | 0% | 320 km |
| 19 | Mussidan Dordogne | 1.1 | 13% | 1.7% | 75 km |
| 20 | Saint-Aignan Loir-et-Cher | 1 | 31% | 0% | 218 km |
| 21 | Ducey-Les Chéris Manche | 0.9 | 13% | 7.8% | 5.3 km |
| 22 | Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 100% | 40 km |
| 23 | Amancy Haute-Savoie | 0.8 | 14% | 0% | 271 km |
| 24 | Connerré Sarthe | 0.7 | 23% | 0% | 144 km |
| 25 | Arcis-sur-Aube Aube | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 256 km |
| 26 | Meslay-du-Maine Mayenne | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 96 km |
| 27 | Marigny-Le-Lozon Manche | 0.7 | 0.2% | 46% | 21 km |
| 28 | Bourron-Marlotte Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 42% | 22% | 211 km |
| 29 | Dieuze Moselle | 0.6 | 21% | 24% | 380 km |
| 30 | Hambach Moselle | 0.6 | 30% | 0% | 376 km |
| 31 | Warmeriville Marne | 0.5 | 11% | 0% | 205 km |
| 32 | Montignac-Lascaux Dordogne | 0.5 | 52% | 1.6% | 138 km |
| 33 | Baixas Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0% | 3.9% | 19 km |
| 34 | Wassy Haute-Marne | 0.5 | 61% | 0% | 302 km |
| 35 | Courville-sur-Eure Eure-et-Loir | 0.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 127 km |
| 36 | Montrevel-en-Bresse Ain | 0.4 | 7.8% | 0% | 319 km |
| 37 | Grandvilliers Oise | 0.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 60 km |
| 38 | Thuré Vienne | 0.2 | 29% | 0% | 136 km |
| 39 | Ennezat Puy-de-Dôme | 0.1 | 0.1% | 0% | 268 km |
| 40 | Sérifontaine Oise | 0.1 | 21% | 0% | 80 km |
| 41 | Sains-du-Nord Nord | 0.1 | 34% | 100% | 149 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 Hambach
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale de Sarreguemines leads, at 454 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Forêt du Buchholz
Wood or forest
453 ha21.8 km of path
4 h 50 minto walk all 21.8 km of path
3.4 km north-eastfrom the center
Sentier de la GrenouilleN° 4Parcours de Santé+1 path
Directionsto a point inside
Lorenzerwald
Wood or forest
254 ha8.3 km of path
1 h 50 minto walk all 8.3 km of path
3.3 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Marais d’Ippling is the nearest protected area, 3.7 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
Marais d’Ippling
3.7 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
10 km of footpaths cross Hambach
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
10 km
0.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
30%
about 5.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
HambachMoselle medianFrance median
Footpaths0.6
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
HambachMoselle medianFrance median
Woodland30%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 84% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 76% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 96% of Hambach’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 5G Sud0.7 km
Circuit Buchholz9.8 km
Saarwanderweg / Sentier de la Sarre3.4 km
GR 5G Sud passes within 2 km of Hambach.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Hambach: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Mouterhouse, 32 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 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 5 |
| Rain (mm) | 92 | 80 | 79 | 55 | 78 | 69 | 76 | 69 | 72 | 83 | 89 | 112 |
April is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 112 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 99 nights a year. The climate in Hambach →
Neighbors
Next to Hambach
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
WoustvillerSarregueminesSarralbePuttelange-aux-LacsGrosbliederstroffFarébersvillerHambach
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hambach | 0% | 30% | 0.6 |
| Woustviller 2,786 · 2.9 km | 1.6% | 25% | 1.3 |
| Sarreguemines 20,143 · 5.8 km | 0.9% | 32% | 2.6 |
| Sarralbe 4,364 · 7.9 km | 10% | 29% | 0.5 |
| Puttelange-aux-Lacs 3,016 · 8.4 km | 0% | 30% | 1.1 |
| Grosbliederstroff 3,346 · 10 km | 0% | 44% | 3.8 |
| Farébersviller 5,224 · 13 km | 0% | 1.7% | 1.2 |
Sarralbe has at least twice as much protected land.
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 Hambach
Is Hambach in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais d’Ippling, 3.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Hambach?
OpenStreetMap maps 10 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Hambach is woodland?
30% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Hambach near the sea?
No: the coast is 376 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Hambach?
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.