First pick
Forêt domaniale de Moyeuvre
Wood or forest
7,820 ha146.2 km of path
32 h 30 minto walk all 146.2 km of path
5.9 km south-westfrom the center
Voie VerteSentier BotaniqueChemin de la Voess+3 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Aimelaime at French Wikipedia · Public domain35%woodland
Outdoors in Hayange · protected areas, woods and footpaths
35% of Hayange is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Hayange has 20 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Hayange; the nearest, Hettange-Grande nature reserve, is 11 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 15 km across Hayange (1.3 km per km²). 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, 11 km
Woodland
35%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
15 km
1.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
20 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: Forêt domaniale de Moyeuvre
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 Hayange?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune35% mapped woodland, more than in 81% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes20 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Hayange apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Hayange 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
Woodland35%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
81out of 100
Footpaths1.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
39out of 100
Hiking routes1.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
94out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Hayange has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (15,317 to 16,280 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vauréal (12.3 km per km²) to Gaillac (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vauréal Val-d'Oise | 12.3 | 19% | 0% | 121 km |
| 2 | Noisiel Seine-et-Marne | 9.5 | 32% | 0.1% | 162 km |
| 3 | Saint-Leu-la-Forêt Val-d'Oise | 8.5 | 36% | 0.5% | 131 km |
| 4 | Montévrain Seine-et-Marne | 7.3 | 11% | 0% | 165 km |
| 5 | Le Pecq Yvelines | 7.1 | 2.7% | 0% | 136 km |
| 6 | Verneuil-sur-Seine Yvelines | 5.4 | 24% | 0% | 123 km |
| 7 | Fontainebleau Seine-et-Marne | 5.3 | 94% | 94% | 205 km |
| 8 | Castanet-Tolosan Haute-Garonne | 5.1 | 12% | 0% | 138 km |
| 9 | Longwy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.1 | 15% | 0% | 275 km |
| 10 | Le Vésinet Yvelines | 4.9 | 0.1% | 0% | 137 km |
| 11 | Francheville Rhône | 4.6 | 29% | 0% | 248 km |
| 12 | Le Bourget Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.5 | 2.2% | 0% | 145 km |
| 13 | Domont Val-d'Oise | 4.5 | 28% | 0% | 133 km |
| 14 | Hennebont Morbihan | 4 | 25% | 0% | On it |
| 15 | Saint-Pierre-des-Corps Indre-et-Loire | 3.8 | 6.9% | 9.3% | 186 km |
| 16 | Wattignies Nord | 3.5 | 1.5% | 0% | 66 km |
| 17 | Bouc-Bel-Air Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.5 | 29% | 0% | 12 km |
| 18 | Marseille 16e Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 8.2% | 0.2% | On it |
| 19 | Ambérieu-en-Bugey Ain | 3.3 | 49% | 0% | 281 km |
| 20 | Saint-Julien-en-Genevois Haute-Savoie | 3.2 | 13% | 0% | 286 km |
| 21 | Vendôme Loir-et-Cher | 3.1 | 32% | 0% | 187 km |
| 22 | Lucé Eure-et-Loir | 3 | 2.6% | 0% | 137 km |
| 23 | Sin-le-Noble Nord | 2.7 | 12% | 0.1% | 90 km |
| 24 | Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry Seine-et-Marne | 2.4 | 13% | 100% | 187 km |
| 25 | Roquebrune-sur-Argens Var | 2.4 | 40% | 25% | On it |
| 26 | Guipavas Finistère | 2.2 | 11% | 0.4% | On it |
| 27 | Port-de-Bouc Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.1 | 14% | 28% | On it |
| 28 | Montivilliers Seine-Maritime | 2 | 6.9% | 0% | 6.8 km |
| 29 | Saint-Amand-les-Eaux Nord | 1.9 | 43% | 100% | 93 km |
| 30 | Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert Loire | 1.7 | 23% | 13% | 216 km |
| 31 | Wittenheim Haut-Rhin | 1.6 | 32% | 0% | 447 km |
| 32 | Toul Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.4 | 20% | 0.5% | 348 km |
| 33 | Montbrison Loire | 1.3 | 5.7% | 4.8% | 227 km |
| 34 | Hayange Moselle | 1.3 | 35% | 0% | 305 km |
| 35 | Biscarrosse Landes | 1.1 | 65% | 20% | On it |
| 36 | Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 1 | 75% | 0% | 49 km |
| 37 | Tarascon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 16% | 13% | 41 km |
| 38 | Beaucaire Gard | 0.7 | 4.5% | 8.8% | 40 km |
| 39 | Fos-sur-Mer Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0.6% | 15% | On it |
| 40 | Montrevault-sur-Èvre Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 km |
| 41 | Gaillac Tarn | 0.2 | 4.9% | 0% | 132 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 Hayange
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.
Domaine de Wendel et Château
Park or garden
7.5 ha0.4 km of path
1 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de morlange
Park or garden · 390 m outside the commune
1.4 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
3.3 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Château de Tournebride
Park or garden
2.6 ha
0.8 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Hettange-Grande nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 11 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
11 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 and 20 km of hiking routes cross Hayange
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
1.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
20 km
waymarked: 1.7 km per km²
Woodland
35%
about 4.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
HayangeMoselle medianFrance median
Footpaths1.3
Hiking routes1.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
HayangeMoselle medianFrance median
Woodland35%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 61% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 81% 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 Hayange is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Hayange: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Malancourt, 13 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 Hayange →
Neighbors
Next to Hayange
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
NilvangeSerémange-ErzangeKnutangeAlgrangeNeufchefFameckHayange
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Knutange and Neufchef are more wooded.
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 Hayange
Is Hayange in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Hettange-Grande nature reserve, 11 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Hayange?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 20 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Hayange is woodland?
35% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Hayange near the sea?
No: the coast is 305 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Hayange?
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.