First pick
Lorenzerwald
Wood or forest
254 ha8.3 km of path
1 h 50 minto walk all 8.3 km of path
2.9 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Cédric Bonhomme · CC BY-SA 3.01.6%of the land protected
Outdoors in Woustviller · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Woustviller
Mapped woodland covers 25% of Woustviller. 14 km of footpaths cross Woustviller (1.3 km per km²). 1.6% of Woustviller’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
1.6%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
25%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
14 km
1.3 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
Green space nearby
90%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
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 Woustviller 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 areas1.6%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
58out of 100
Woodland25%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
70out of 100
Footpaths1.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
40out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Green space nearby90%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
8out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Woustviller has the 14th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,761 to 2,811 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Éleu-dit-Leauwette (5.5 km per km²) to Levroux (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Éleu-dit-Leauwette Pas-de-Calais | 5.5 | 16% | 0% | 76 km |
| 2 | Argelès-Gazost Hautes-Pyrénées | 4.3 | 17% | 100% | 130 km |
| 3 | Pabu Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 22% | 0% | 15 km |
| 4 | Pinsaguel Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 14% | 29% | 146 km |
| 5 | Cosnes-et-Romain Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.6 | 35% | 0% | 273 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 | Saint-Saturnin Sarthe | 1.9 | 8.9% | 0% | 129 km |
| 9 | Candé Maine-et-Loire | 1.9 | 16% | 0% | 91 km |
| 10 | Peyruis Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 53% | 6.2% | 90 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 | L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs Doubs | 1.4 | 50% | 0% | 413 km |
| 14 | Woustviller Moselle | 1.3 | 25% | 1.6% | 373 km |
| 15 | Beaumont-le-Roger Eure | 1.2 | 79% | 2% | 50 km |
| 16 | Charolles Saône-et-Loire | 1.2 | 20% | 0% | 320 km |
| 17 | Mussidan Dordogne | 1.1 | 13% | 1.7% | 75 km |
| 18 | Saint-Aignan Loir-et-Cher | 1 | 31% | 0% | 218 km |
| 19 | La Fère Aisne | 0.9 | 12% | 11% | 134 km |
| 20 | Ducey-Les Chéris Manche | 0.9 | 13% | 7.8% | 5.3 km |
| 21 | Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 100% | 40 km |
| 22 | Amancy Haute-Savoie | 0.8 | 14% | 0% | 271 km |
| 23 | Connerré Sarthe | 0.7 | 23% | 0% | 144 km |
| 24 | Arcis-sur-Aube Aube | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 256 km |
| 25 | Meslay-du-Maine Mayenne | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 96 km |
| 26 | Marigny-Le-Lozon Manche | 0.7 | 0.2% | 46% | 21 km |
| 27 | Bourron-Marlotte Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 42% | 22% | 211 km |
| 28 | Dieuze Moselle | 0.6 | 21% | 24% | 380 km |
| 29 | Montignac-Lascaux Dordogne | 0.5 | 52% | 1.6% | 138 km |
| 30 | Longny les Villages Orne | 0.5 | 35% | 100% | 104 km |
| 31 | Baixas Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0% | 3.9% | 19 km |
| 32 | Wassy Haute-Marne | 0.5 | 61% | 0% | 302 km |
| 33 | Courville-sur-Eure Eure-et-Loir | 0.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 127 km |
| 34 | Grandvilliers Oise | 0.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 60 km |
| 35 | Rosières-aux-Salines Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.3 | 24% | 0% | 381 km |
| 36 | Thuré Vienne | 0.2 | 29% | 0% | 136 km |
| 37 | Rodilhan Gard | 0.2 | 0% | 24% | 40 km |
| 38 | Wignehies Nord | 0.1 | 0.5% | 100% | 156 km |
| 39 | Sérifontaine Oise | 0.1 | 21% | 0% | 80 km |
| 40 | Listrac-Médoc Gironde | 0 | 72% | 100% | 8.3 km |
| 41 | Levroux Indre | 0 | 8.7% | 0% | 222 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 Woustviller
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Lorenzerwald leads, at 254 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Spitzwald
Wood or forest · 60 m outside the commune
76 ha0.5 km of path
2.8 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Woustviller live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
90% within 800 m9.9% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
WoustvillerMoselle medianFrance median
Within 800 m90%
0%50%100%
About 300 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
1.6% of Woustviller lies in protected areas
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
1.6% of the commune2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Marais d’Ippling
1.6% of the commune2 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area1.6%
Natura 2000 site1.6%
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.
1.6% of Woustviller’s land is protected, more than in 58% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Moselle has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
14 km of footpaths cross Woustviller
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
14 km
1.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
25%
about 2.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
WoustvillerMoselle medianFrance median
Footpaths1.3
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
WoustvillerMoselle medianFrance median
Woodland25%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 60% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 70% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 5G Sud2 km
Circuit Buchholz8.4 km
GR 5G Sud passes within 2 km of Woustviller.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Woustviller: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Mouterhouse, 34 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 Woustviller →
Neighbors
Next to Woustviller
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
HambachPuttelange-aux-LacsSarregueminesSarralbeGrosbliederstroffFarébersvillerWoustviller
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woustviller | 1.6% | 25% | 1.3 |
| Hambach 2,766 · 2.9 km | 0% | 30% | 0.6 |
| Puttelange-aux-Lacs 3,016 · 6.2 km | 0% | 30% | 1.1 |
| Sarreguemines 20,143 · 6.6 km | 0.9% | 32% | 2.6 |
| Sarralbe 4,364 · 9.1 km | 10% | 29% | 0.5 |
| Grosbliederstroff 3,346 · 9.2 km | 0% | 44% | 3.8 |
| Farébersviller 5,224 · 10 km | 0% | 1.7% | 1.2 |
Sarralbe has at least twice as much protected land. Grosbliederstroff is 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 Woustviller
Is Woustviller in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 1.6% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Woustviller?
OpenStreetMap maps 14 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).
How much of Woustviller is woodland?
25% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Woustviller near the sea?
No: the coast is 373 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Woustviller?
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.