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Outdoors in Nilvange · protected areas, woods and footpaths

Almost every home in Nilvange is within 800 m of a park or wood

Waymarked hiking routes add up to 4 km in Nilvange. Footpaths add up to 9 km across Nilvange (3.3 km per km²). 27% of Nilvange is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.

27%woodland 9km of footpaths

Protected areas

of the commune’s land

Nearest: Hettange-Grande nature reserve, 11 km

Woodland

27%

of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap

Compared town: 13%

Footpaths

9.3 km

3.3 km per km²

Compared town: 1.7 km per km²

Hiking routes

4 km

waymarked, GR and others

Compared town: 0.3 km per km²

Parks & woods

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.

Against French towns

How Nilvange 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

Woodland27%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap

72out of 100

Footpaths3.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune

77out of 100

Hiking routes1.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune

91out of 100

Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.

Towns its size

Nilvange has the 5th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size

The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,306 to 4,376 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.

Nilvange 3.3

SevrierBuzançais

02.55 km per km²

From Sevrier (4.3 km per km²) to Buzançais (0.1 km per km²).

Every town in the comparison

	Town	Paths (km/km²)	Woodland	Protected	Coast
1	Sevrier Haute-Savoie	4.3	49%	100%	255 km
2	Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost Ain	4	21%	17%	262 km
3	Tigery Essonne	3.6	41%	0%	176 km
4	Villard-de-Lans Isère	3.4	57%	100%	188 km
5	Nilvange Moselle	3.3	27%	0%	304 km
6	Gattières Alpes-Maritimes	2.7	27%	80%	9.5 km
7	Niederbronn-les-Bains Bas-Rhin	2.6	74%	100%	417 km
8	Poulx Gard	2.5	0.1%	56%	47 km
9	Saulxures-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle	2.3	31%	0%	369 km
10	Coignières Yvelines	2.3	29%	0.1%	137 km
11	Steenvoorde Nord	1.8	1.9%	0%	29 km
12	Villeneuve Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	1.8	34%	100%	74 km
13	Cheval-Blanc Vaucluse	1.7	19%	100%	42 km
14	Hillion Côtes-d'Armor	1.6	6.9%	9%	On it
15	Le Château-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime	1.5	7.5%	50%	On it
16	Le Val Var	1.5	63%	7.3%	37 km
17	Louverné Mayenne	1.5	3.9%	0%	74 km
18	Ormes Loiret	1.4	12%	0%	198 km
19	Cadenet Vaucluse	1.1	28%	100%	42 km
20	Camon Somme	1.1	5.6%	14%	57 km
21	Morlaàs Pyrénées-Atlantiques	1	20%	0%	101 km
22	Beaumont-lès-Valence Drôme	0.8	9.8%	0%	157 km
23	Égletons Corrèze	0.8	51%	0.1%	212 km
24	Chabanière Rhône	0.8	17%	0%	230 km
25	Morestel Isère	0.8	16%	12%	252 km
26	Pons Charente-Maritime	0.8	10%	13%	22 km
27	Riec-sur-Bélon Finistère	0.7	13%	0%	On it
28	Langeais Indre-et-Loire	0.7	71%	100%	163 km
29	Cours Rhône	0.6	46%	0%	283 km
30	Bessières Haute-Garonne	0.6	9.9%	2.4%	145 km
31	Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat Haute-Vienne	0.5	24%	1.4%	181 km
32	Saint-Savin Isère	0.5	17%	15%	244 km
33	Sarralbe Moselle	0.5	29%	10%	381 km
34	Valence-en-Poitou Vienne	0.4	20%	0%	100 km
35	Ussac Corrèze	0.4	24%	0%	167 km
36	Montélier Drôme	0.3	2.2%	0%	165 km
37	Rives de l'Yon Vendée	0.3	7.1%	0%	25 km
38	Prigonrieux Dordogne	0.3	21%	1.2%	80 km
39	Roullet-Saint-Estèphe Charente	0.2	16%	3.1%	65 km
40	Bassillac et Auberoche Dordogne	0.1	49%	0%	116 km
41	Buzançais Indre	0.1	28%	5.7%	206 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 Nilvange

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.

First pick

Forêt domaniale de Moyeuvre

Wood or forest · 100 m outside the commune

7,820 ha146.2 km of path

32 h 30 minto walk all 146.2 km of path

6.6 km southfrom the center

Voie VerteSentier BotaniqueChemin de la Voess+3 paths

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

9 km of footpaths cross Nilvange

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

9.3 km

3.3 km per km²

Hiking routes

4 km

waymarked: 1.4 km per km²

Woodland

27%

about 0.8 km² of mapped woods

Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap

NilvangeMoselle medianFrance median

Footpaths3.3

Hiking routes1.4

024 km per km²

Share of the land · mapped woods and forest

NilvangeMoselle medianFrance median

Woodland27%

0%50%100%

That is more than in 77% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 72% 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 Nilvange is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.

When to get out

The best walking months in Nilvange: April to September

Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Malancourt, 14 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 Nilvange →

Neighbors

Next to Nilvange

The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.

KnutangeHayangeAlgrangeNeufchefSerémange-ErzangeFontoyNilvange

Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+

Town	Protected	Woodland	Paths (km/km²)
Nilvange	0%	27%	3.3
Knutange 3,199 · 1.1 km	0%	64%	1.9
Hayange 15,806 · 1.7 km	0%	35%	1.3
Algrange 5,802 · 2.2 km	0%	48%	3.6
Neufchef 2,650 · 3.4 km	0%	72%	1
Serémange-Erzange 4,251 · 4 km	0%	14%	0.5
Fontoy 3,184 · 4 km	0%	48%	1.5

Knutange, Algrange 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 Nilvange

Is Nilvange 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 Nilvange?

OpenStreetMap maps 9 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.

How much of Nilvange is woodland?

27% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.

Is Nilvange near the sea?

No: the coast is 304 km from the town center, as the crow flies.

When is the best time for walking in Nilvange?

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.