First pick
Aéroparc de Yutz
Park or garden
42 ha3.9 km of path
50 minto walk all 3.9 km of path
0.9 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Original uploader was Aimelaime at fr.wikipedia · Public domain18%woodland
Outdoors in Yutz · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Yutz is within 800 m of a park or wood
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 25 km in Yutz. 37 km of footpaths cross Yutz (2.6 km per km²). No protected area reaches Yutz; the nearest, Hettange-Grande nature reserve, is 6.6 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: Hettange-Grande nature reserve, 6.6 km
Woodland
18%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
37 km
2.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
25 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Aéroparc de Yutz
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 Yutz?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes25 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyHettange-Grande nature reserve is 6.6 km from the town center.
What sets Yutz apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Yutz 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
Woodland18%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
60out of 100
Footpaths2.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
68out of 100
Hiking routes1.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
95out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Yutz has the 20th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (16,768 to 18,008 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Jouy-le-Moutier (10.3 km per km²) to Marmande (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jouy-le-Moutier Val-d'Oise | 10.3 | 23% | 0% | 123 km |
| 2 | Viroflay Yvelines | 9.5 | 42% | 0% | 148 km |
| 3 | Les Clayes-sous-Bois Yvelines | 6.3 | 35% | 0% | 137 km |
| 4 | Saint-Égrève Isère | 5.8 | 22% | 30% | 208 km |
| 5 | Le Pré-Saint-Gervais Seine-Saint-Denis | 5.8 | 0% | 0% | 149 km |
| 6 | L'Isle-d'Abeau Isère | 5.2 | 9.8% | 0% | 242 km |
| 7 | Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire Indre-et-Loire | 5 | 9.4% | 1.9% | 184 km |
| 8 | Villeneuve-Loubet Alpes-Maritimes | 5 | 30% | 16% | On it |
| 9 | Boissy-Saint-Léger Val-de-Marne | 4.4 | 50% | 0% | 166 km |
| 10 | Balma Haute-Garonne | 4.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 142 km |
| 11 | Chamalières Puy-de-Dôme | 4.1 | 3.4% | 0.1% | 258 km |
| 12 | Saran Loiret | 3.9 | 24% | 0% | 200 km |
| 13 | Écully Rhône | 3.8 | 14% | 0% | 253 km |
| 14 | Garches Hauts-de-Seine | 3.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 144 km |
| 15 | Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle Loiret | 3.5 | 4.9% | 3% | 203 km |
| 16 | Avion Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 13% | 0% | 77 km |
| 17 | Osny Val-d'Oise | 3.2 | 14% | 0.1% | 119 km |
| 18 | Firminy Loire | 3 | 25% | 0% | 204 km |
| 19 | Cluses Haute-Savoie | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 264 km |
| 20 | Yutz Moselle | 2.6 | 18% | 0% | 310 km |
| 21 | Soisy-sous-Montmorency Val-d'Oise | 2.6 | 5% | 0% | 135 km |
| 22 | Carvin Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 73 km |
| 23 | Digne-les-Bains Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 2.5 | 50% | 4% | 85 km |
| 24 | Annonay Ardèche | 2.3 | 30% | 0.2% | 193 km |
| 25 | Fécamp Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 25% | 2.9% | On it |
| 26 | Lattes Hérault | 2.2 | 0.8% | 22% | 5.5 km |
| 27 | Limay Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 6.1% | 112 km |
| 28 | Sallanches Haute-Savoie | 2 | 32% | 35% | 250 km |
| 29 | Montceau-les-Mines Saône-et-Loire | 1.8 | 6.6% | 0% | 347 km |
| 30 | La Baule-Escoublac Loire-Atlantique | 1.7 | 9.6% | 37% | 0.8 km |
| 31 | Blanquefort Gironde | 1.7 | 15% | 7.6% | 11 km |
| 32 | Guérande Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 7.1% | 76% | On it |
| 33 | Verdun Meuse | 1.4 | 21% | 3.6% | 290 km |
| 34 | Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume Var | 1 | 41% | 34% | 33 km |
| 35 | Brignoles Var | 0.9 | 48% | 17% | 34 km |
| 36 | Lamballe-Armor Côtes-d'Armor | 0.8 | 5% | 2% | On it |
| 37 | Vire Normandie Calvados | 0.6 | 3.9% | 0% | 41 km |
| 38 | Orée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 11% | 12% | 66 km |
| 39 | Segré-en-Anjou Bleu Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 4.6% | 0% | 108 km |
| 40 | Ambarès-et-Lagrave Gironde | 0.4 | 4.8% | 35% | 11 km |
| 41 | Marmande Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 11% | 4% | 82 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 Yutz
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Aéroparc de Yutz leads, at 42 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Berges de la Moselle
Park or garden · 290 m outside the commune
1.3 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
1.4 km north-westfrom the center
Chemin Rémy Kail
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Wilson
Park or garden · 330 m outside the commune
1.3 ha0.4 km of path
2 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin des Ombrières
Park or garden · 350 m outside the commune
0.5 ha0.3 km of path
1.6 km northfrom 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, 6.6 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
6.6 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
37 km of footpaths and 25 km of hiking routes cross Yutz
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
37 km
2.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
25 km
waymarked: 1.8 km per km²
Woodland
18%
about 2.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
YutzMoselle medianFrance median
Footpaths2.6
Hiking routes1.8
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
YutzMoselle medianFrance median
Woodland18%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 68% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 60% 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 Yutz is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 50114 km
GR 501 passes within 2 km of Yutz.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Yutz: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Metz-Frescaty, 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 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.9 | 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 Yutz →
Neighbors
Next to Yutz
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ManomThionvilleTervilleBertrangeFlorangeGuénangeYutz
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Manom and Thionville 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 Yutz
Is Yutz in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Hettange-Grande nature reserve, 6.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Yutz?
OpenStreetMap maps 37 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 25 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Yutz is woodland?
18% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Yutz near the sea?
No: the coast is 310 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Yutz?
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.