First pick
Terril 136
Wood or forest · 60 m outside the commune
14 ha1.7 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.7 km of path
2.4 km eastfrom the center
Voie Verte - Ancien Cavalier Minier
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Havang(nl) · CC01.7%of the land protected
Outdoors in Auby · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Auby is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 20 km across Auby (2.8 km per km²). Auby has 2 km of waymarked hiking routes. 16% of Auby is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
1.7%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
16%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
20 km
2.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
2 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: Terril 136
Throughout this page, the Nord 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 Auby 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 areas1.7%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
58out of 100
Woodland16%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
55out of 100
Footpaths2.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
70out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
44out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Auby has the 15th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,986 to 7,183 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 | Saint-Ismier Isère | 4.5 | 40% | 31% | 206 km |
| 5 | Labenne Landes | 4 | 54% | 20% | 2.8 km |
| 6 | Égly Essonne | 3.9 | 13% | 0% | 167 km |
| 7 | Trévoux Ain | 3.9 | 8.3% | 0% | 270 km |
| 8 | Barr Bas-Rhin | 3.8 | 77% | 0% | 450 km |
| 9 | Balaruc-les-Bains Hérault | 3.5 | 0.7% | 33% | 3.8 km |
| 10 | Leforest Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 18% | 0% | 81 km |
| 11 | Binic-Étables-sur-Mer Côtes-d'Armor | 3.3 | 7.5% | 0% | On it |
| 12 | Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville Seine-Maritime | 3.3 | 52% | 0% | 47 km |
| 13 | Eckbolsheim Bas-Rhin | 3.1 | 7.3% | 0% | 448 km |
| 14 | Étréchy Essonne | 2.8 | 29% | 0% | 170 km |
| 15 | Auby Nord | 2.8 | 16% | 1.7% | 84 km |
| 16 | Soultz-Haut-Rhin Haut-Rhin | 2.4 | 60% | 100% | 456 km |
| 17 | Uckange Moselle | 2.3 | 3.2% | 0% | 312 km |
| 18 | Ugine Savoie | 2.2 | 58% | 2.4% | 236 km |
| 19 | Wissous Essonne | 2.1 | 5.8% | 0% | 159 km |
| 20 | Saint-Rambert-d'Albon Drôme | 1.8 | 6.2% | 1.6% | 201 km |
| 21 | Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes Nord | 1.7 | 0.5% | 0% | 108 km |
| 22 | Bagnères-de-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.6 | 30% | 42% | 144 km |
| 23 | Saint-André-des-Eaux Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 7.8% | 100% | 6.4 km |
| 24 | La Talaudière Loire | 1.5 | 6.6% | 0% | 215 km |
| 25 | Castelnau-d'Estrétefonds Haute-Garonne | 1.4 | 16% | 2.6% | 161 km |
| 26 | Eyguières Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.4 | 13% | 100% | 30 km |
| 27 | Pont-Saint-Martin Loire-Atlantique | 1.3 | 17% | 1.7% | 33 km |
| 28 | Pleurtuit Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.2 | 9.8% | 100% | On it |
| 29 | Brech Morbihan | 1.1 | 18% | 0% | On it |
| 30 | Épône Yvelines | 1.1 | 16% | 0% | 119 km |
| 31 | Villemandeur Loiret | 1 | 13% | 0% | 236 km |
| 32 | Jurançon Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 45% | 5.5% | 94 km |
| 33 | Péronne Somme | 1 | 6.5% | 12% | 94 km |
| 34 | Trégunc Finistère | 0.9 | 9.6% | 6.1% | On it |
| 35 | Grandchamp-des-Fontaines Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 8.7% | 0% | 43 km |
| 36 | Marsillargues Hérault | 0.6 | 0.5% | 32% | 13 km |
| 37 | Nérac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.5 | 6.7% | 0.5% | 122 km |
| 38 | Viriat Ain | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 311 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 Auby
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Terril 136 leads, at 14 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Terril 130
Wood or forest · 70 m outside the commune
9.7 ha2.3 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.3 km of path
1.8 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Péru
Park or garden
2.2 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
1.9 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
1.7% of Auby lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park
1.5 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Pelouses métallicoles de la plaine de la Scarpe
1.6% of the commune1.9 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area1.7%
Regional nature park0.1%
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.
1.7% of Auby’s land is protected, more than in 58% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Nord has 0%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
20 km of footpaths cross Auby
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
20 km
2.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
2 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
16%
about 1.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AubyNord medianFrance median
Footpaths2.8
Hiking routes0.3
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AubyNord medianFrance median
Woodland16%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 70% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 55% 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 Auby is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Boucle 4 - Le Douaisis à pas de Géants12 km
Terril 81A - Libercourt11 km
Au fil de la Scarpe3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Auby: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Douai, 2.8 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) | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.4 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 51 | 53 | 42 | 57 | 63 | 68 | 68 | 61 | 64 | 71 | 73 |
April is the driest month (42 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 73 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. The climate in Auby →
Neighbors
Next to Auby
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Flers-en-EscrebieuxLeforestRoost-WarendinCourcelles-lès-LensÉvin-MalmaisonRaimbeaucourtAuby
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auby | 1.7% | 16% | 2.8 |
| Flers-en-Escrebieux 5,424 · 1.6 km | 1% | 12% | 1.5 |
| Leforest 7,060 · 2.6 km | 0% | 18% | 3.4 |
| Roost-Warendin 5,956 · 3.2 km | 7.5% | 22% | 2.9 |
| Courcelles-lès-Lens 7,830 · 3.2 km | 0% | 7.7% | 2.9 |
| Évin-Malmaison 4,628 · 3.4 km | 0% | 19% | 2.9 |
| Raimbeaucourt 4,000 · 3.4 km | 99% | 16% | 0.7 |
Raimbeaucourt has at least twice as much protected land.
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 Auby
Is Auby in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 1.7% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Auby?
OpenStreetMap maps 20 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Auby is woodland?
16% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Auby near the sea?
No: the coast is 84 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Auby?
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.