First pick
Bois de St Hubert
Wood or forest
207 ha5.3 km of path
1 h 10 minto walk all 5.3 km of path
1.9 km south-westfrom the center
Parcours de Santé
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France — Gallica Identifiant Gallica : btv1b550084719 Date : 1755 · Public domain3.2%woodland
Outdoors in Uckange · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Uckange is within 800 m of a park or wood
3.2% of Uckange is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Uckange; the nearest, Hettange-Grande nature reserve, is 12 km from the town center. 13 km of footpaths cross Uckange (2.3 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, 12 km
Woodland
3.2%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
13 km
2.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.3 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
7
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de St Hubert
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 Uckange 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
Woodland3.2%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
15out of 100
Footpaths2.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
63out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
41out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Uckange has the 16th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,933 to 7,111 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sathonay-Camp (8.3 km per km²) to Saint-Pierre-en-Auge (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sathonay-Camp Rhône | 8.3 | 17% | 0% | 259 km |
| 2 | Guingamp Côtes-d'Armor | 6.8 | 16% | 0% | 16 km |
| 3 | Sainte-Adresse Seine-Maritime | 6.5 | 8.4% | 7.6% | On it |
| 4 | Bailly-Romainvilliers Seine-et-Marne | 4.6 | 10% | 0% | 169 km |
| 5 | Trévoux Ain | 3.9 | 8.3% | 0% | 270 km |
| 6 | Barr Bas-Rhin | 3.8 | 77% | 0% | 450 km |
| 7 | Cognin Savoie | 3.6 | 16% | 44% | 234 km |
| 8 | Luisant Eure-et-Loir | 3.4 | 11% | 6.4% | 139 km |
| 9 | Leforest Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 18% | 0% | 81 km |
| 10 | Binic-Étables-sur-Mer Côtes-d'Armor | 3.3 | 7.5% | 0% | On it |
| 11 | Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville Seine-Maritime | 3.3 | 52% | 0% | 47 km |
| 12 | Fontaines-sur-Saône Rhône | 3 | 14% | 0% | 259 km |
| 13 | Étréchy Essonne | 2.8 | 29% | 0% | 170 km |
| 14 | Auby Nord | 2.8 | 16% | 1.7% | 84 km |
| 15 | Soultz-Haut-Rhin Haut-Rhin | 2.4 | 60% | 100% | 456 km |
| 16 | Uckange Moselle | 2.3 | 3.2% | 0% | 312 km |
| 17 | Saint-Rambert-d'Albon Drôme | 1.8 | 6.2% | 1.6% | 201 km |
| 18 | Houdain Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 7% | 0% | 60 km |
| 19 | Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes Nord | 1.7 | 0.5% | 0% | 108 km |
| 20 | Saint-André-des-Eaux Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 7.8% | 100% | 6.4 km |
| 21 | Castelnau-d'Estrétefonds Haute-Garonne | 1.4 | 16% | 2.6% | 161 km |
| 22 | Pont-Saint-Martin Loire-Atlantique | 1.3 | 17% | 1.7% | 33 km |
| 23 | Saint-Pol-de-Léon Finistère | 1.2 | 2% | 4% | On it |
| 24 | Morteau Doubs | 1.2 | 28% | 100% | 371 km |
| 25 | Brech Morbihan | 1.1 | 18% | 0% | On it |
| 26 | Épône Yvelines | 1.1 | 16% | 0% | 119 km |
| 27 | Plédran Côtes-d'Armor | 1.1 | 8.8% | 0% | 6.7 km |
| 28 | Villemandeur Loiret | 1 | 13% | 0% | 236 km |
| 29 | Jurançon Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 45% | 5.5% | 94 km |
| 30 | Péronne Somme | 1 | 6.5% | 12% | 94 km |
| 31 | Grandchamp-des-Fontaines Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 8.7% | 0% | 43 km |
| 32 | Bétheny Marne | 0.7 | 0% | 0% | 198 km |
| 33 | Saint-Bonnet-de-Mure Rhône | 0.7 | 4.8% | 0% | 249 km |
| 34 | Marsillargues Hérault | 0.6 | 0.5% | 32% | 13 km |
| 35 | Valognes Manche | 0.5 | 4.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 36 | Nérac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.5 | 6.7% | 0.5% | 122 km |
| 37 | Viriat Ain | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 311 km |
| 38 | La Plaine-des-Palmistes Réunion | 0.5 | 64% | 100% | 14 km |
| 39 | Manduel Gard | 0.5 | 0.5% | 63% | 40 km |
| 40 | Chauvigny Vienne | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 140 km |
| 41 | Saint-Pierre-en-Auge Calvados | 0.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 32 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 Uckange
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de St Hubert leads, at 207 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin des Traces
Park or garden
3.8 ha1.4 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.4 km of path
0.6 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square de l'Horloge
Park or garden
1.9 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
Centralin the middle of Uckange
Directionsto a point inside
Place Berlioz
Park or garden
1.5 ha0.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Uckange
Directionsto a point inside
Place Beethoven
Park or garden
1 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Uckange
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, 12 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
12 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
13 km of footpaths cross Uckange
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
13 km
2.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.3 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
3.2%
about 0.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
UckangeMoselle medianFrance median
Footpaths2.3
Hiking routes0.2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
UckangeMoselle medianFrance median
Woodland3.2%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 63% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 85% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 97% of Uckange’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 50114 km
GR 501 passes within 2 km of Uckange.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Uckange: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Metz-Frescaty, 26 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 Uckange →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Uckange
Named gardens in the commune.
Jardin des TracesIn Uckange
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Uckange
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
FlorangeBertrangeFameckGandrangeGuénangeBousseUckange
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Florange, Bertrange and Fameck 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 Uckange
Is Uckange in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Hettange-Grande nature reserve, 12 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Uckange?
OpenStreetMap maps 13 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 1 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Uckange is woodland?
3.2% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Uckange near the sea?
No: the coast is 312 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Uckange?
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.