First pick
Bois de Flines
Wood or forest
275 ha4.4 km of path
1 hto walk all 4.4 km of path
1.8 km south-westfrom the center
Chemin du Petit Bois de Râches
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Codepem · CC BY-SA 3.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Coutiches · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Coutiches lies inside Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Coutiches’ land. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 13 km in Coutiches. Footpaths add up to 9 km across Coutiches (0.5 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
5.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
8.8 km
0.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
13 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Flines
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Coutiches?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.On waymarked routes13 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Few mapped footpaths0.5 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Coutiches apart: the regional nature park around it, then its hiking routes. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Coutiches 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
92out of 100
Woodland5.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
24out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
15out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
77out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Coutiches has the 11th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,409 to 3,462 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Mours-Saint-Eusèbe (3.7 km per km²) to Crèvecœur-le-Grand (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mours-Saint-Eusèbe Drôme | 3.7 | 12% | 0% | 180 km |
| 2 | Nantua Ain | 3 | 71% | 0% | 302 km |
| 3 | Verquin Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 5.5% | 0% | 62 km |
| 4 | Choisy-au-Bac Oise | 2.5 | 62% | 56% | 119 km |
| 5 | Essert Territoire de Belfort | 2.4 | 41% | 0% | 431 km |
| 6 | Hégenheim Haut-Rhin | 2 | 11% | 0% | 420 km |
| 7 | Ligugé Vienne | 1.8 | 38% | 0% | 114 km |
| 8 | Culoz-Béon Ain | 1.8 | 57% | 22% | 267 km |
| 9 | Sainte-Marie-de-Ré Charente-Maritime | 1.7 | 7.5% | 0.4% | On it |
| 10 | Aubin Aveyron | 1.7 | 49% | 2.3% | 166 km |
| 11 | La Boisse Ain | 1.7 | 16% | 0% | 265 km |
| 12 | Plouër-sur-Rance Côtes-d'Armor | 1.6 | 25% | 100% | On it |
| 13 | Lampertheim Bas-Rhin | 1.6 | 1.2% | 0% | 443 km |
| 14 | Saint-Sulpice-de-Royan Charente-Maritime | 1.6 | 16% | 16% | On it |
| 15 | Saint-Céré Lot | 1.6 | 28% | 0% | 196 km |
| 16 | Saint-Martin-du-Var Alpes-Maritimes | 1.5 | 23% | 16% | 15 km |
| 17 | Mauriac Cantal | 1.4 | 22% | 17% | 227 km |
| 18 | Carpiquet Calvados | 1.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 16 km |
| 19 | Saint-Jeoire Haute-Savoie | 1.3 | 64% | 0% | 275 km |
| 20 | Rupt-sur-Moselle Vosges | 1.3 | 67% | 100% | 441 km |
| 21 | Azay-le-Rideau Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 27% | 100% | 162 km |
| 22 | Lespignan Hérault | 1.1 | 0.3% | 69% | 8.7 km |
| 23 | Saint-Ambroix Gard | 1 | 30% | 100% | 78 km |
| 24 | Vic-la-Gardiole Hérault | 1 | 4.8% | 70% | On it |
| 25 | Troarn Calvados | 1 | 19% | 0% | 11 km |
| 26 | Ruffec Charente | 0.9 | 30% | 0% | 91 km |
| 27 | Mirande Gers | 0.8 | 20% | 0% | 150 km |
| 28 | Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs Isère | 0.7 | 12% | 0% | 213 km |
| 29 | Andeville Oise | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 105 km |
| 30 | Vouvray Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 10% | 9.6% | 192 km |
| 31 | Coutiches Nord | 0.5 | 5.4% | 100% | 85 km |
| 32 | Brassac-les-Mines Puy-de-Dôme | 0.5 | 15% | 3.4% | 214 km |
| 33 | Moult-Chicheboville Calvados | 0.5 | 8.3% | 6% | 19 km |
| 34 | Saint-Romain-de-Jalionas Isère | 0.4 | 19% | 18% | 257 km |
| 35 | Bournezeau Vendée | 0.3 | 9.3% | 0% | 35 km |
| 36 | Feillens Ain | 0.3 | 12% | 18% | 315 km |
| 37 | Villeneuve-la-Guyard Yonne | 0.2 | 18% | 0.2% | 227 km |
| 38 | Steenwerck Nord | 0.2 | 0.8% | 0% | 47 km |
| 39 | Bellevigne-les-Châteaux Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 28% | 100% | 128 km |
| 40 | Saint-Médard-d'Eyrans Gironde | 0.2 | 29% | 36% | 33 km |
| 41 | Crèvecœur-le-Grand Oise | 0.1 | 4.3% | 0% | 70 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 Coutiches
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Flines leads, at 275 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Coutiches
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
100% of the commune
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
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.
100% of Coutiches’ land is protected, more than in 92% 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
9 km of footpaths and 13 km of hiking routes cross Coutiches
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
8.8 km
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
13 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
5.4%
about 0.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CoutichesNord medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0.8
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CoutichesNord medianFrance median
Woodland5.4%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 85% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 76% 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 Coutiches is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 121B5.8 km
Les Chapelles de Coutiches15 km
Circuit des Oiseaux3 km
GR 121B passes within 2 km of Coutiches.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Coutiches: April to July and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cappelle-En-Pev, 5.4 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 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 60 | 50 | 53 | 41 | 57 | 66 | 70 | 72 | 58 | 63 | 73 | 75 |
April is the driest month (41 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Coutiches →
Neighbors
Next to Coutiches
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Flines-lez-RachesOrchiesRâchesBeuvry-la-ForêtNomainMarchiennesCoutiches
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coutiches | 100% | 5.4% | 0.5 |
| Flines-lez-Raches 5,745 · 2.9 km | 100% | 21% | 0.6 |
| Orchies 8,396 · 4.3 km | 0.7% | 1.7% | 1.9 |
| Râches 2,672 · 5.7 km | 99% | 25% | 1.5 |
| Beuvry-la-Forêt 2,861 · 5.8 km | 100% | 25% | 1.7 |
| Nomain 2,651 · 6.7 km | 0% | 2% | 0.4 |
| Marchiennes 4,507 · 6.8 km | 100% | 38% | 1.4 |
Flines-lez-Raches, Râches and Beuvry-la-Forêt 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 Coutiches
Is Coutiches in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Coutiches lies in Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Coutiches?
OpenStreetMap maps 9 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 13 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Coutiches is woodland?
5.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Coutiches near the sea?
No: the coast is 85 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Coutiches?
April to July and 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.